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by zach 16y ago
Ken should totally go for the Bobby Tables response if there's a Daily Double he doesn't know. That or the Star Trek self-destruct sequence.
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by zach 16y ago
There's no provable answer anyhow, because it's an inherently subjective matter. Since circumstance can make a fool or a hero of any of us anyway, as you say, you never know.
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by zach 16y ago
Yeah, I understand. You would think that employers would prize the kind of employee who wants to do the same thing in their spare time as they do at the office, wouldn't you? And yet everywhere they are treated with suspicion.
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by zach 16y ago
Great press notice for Hipmunk, but a shame there's no link. Aargh.
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by zach 16y ago
Maybe, but if you don't actually create IP yourself -- you hire a contractor to do what you do at your day job -- you will stay in the clear and gain valuable experience. Managing a contracted worker in your field of expertise, within the c
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by zach 16y ago
This is basically localizing your app from developerese into clientspeak, right? I would think a highly client-accessible Rails i18n solution might be even more useful. I'm thinking in particular about tr8n, whose lead developer presented
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by zach 16y ago
Aww, you're no fun. The point of the metaphor is how different and crazy the school environment is, after all. So let's just add your argument in! - The customers are given personal gift cards to purchase products, yet few are motivated i
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by zach 16y ago
If you feel like you lost, your initial offer wasn't high enough. I once suggested a salary range from [thrilling for me] to [unbelievable] and was offered the high number. I never felt like I "lost" -- until of course a year later when we
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by zach 16y ago
Wow, it's like a battle of the bands for startups. This would be a great premise for an episode of an as-yet-unproduced TV show about startup founders. However, the people watching would probably think that it was completely contrived.
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by zach 16y ago
I certainly agree. The real problem is what mandatory interstitials (not in this case, I see), AdSense boxes next to content and tiny amounts of content per page do to a site. They exude an aura closer to desperation than success. I'm gu
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by zach 16y ago
Sounds like a good fit for you guys. I really like your service and value in this space. This was a market we were thinking about serving but Prefinery being stalled made us question its value, so we weren't thinking of this kind of focus.
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by zach 16y ago
Very curious to see if this something people are interested in. I started building a platform like this for our own sites and am working on making it into a service app. Basically a hosted version of LaunchSoon with more modern features, bu
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by zach 16y ago
Great point. It looks like the previous-quarter qualification is more complex than I thought. I was on COBRA anyway when I started and stuck with Subchapter C so I didn't encounter these issues. Definitely a strong argument for early incor
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by zach 16y ago
Fortunately for those in California, any small business with two or more employees that's been around for 3-6 months (incorporate early) can get group coverage at fairly normal rates. You just go to an insurance broker or provider, pick y
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by zach 16y ago
Yes, bloggers talk about things they just learned about rather than something they're 360-degree experts about. But that's good. It helps them -- it reinforces their learning and they certainly find out if they got something wrong -- and
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by zach 16y ago
Ah, Translation Party. There goes fifteen minutes of my day. Here is the result, a retranslation of "I heard Google is on a hiring spree for Buzz." http://www.translationparty.com/#8646326
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by zach 16y ago
The difference between metropolitan statistical areas and cities is particularly noticeable with respect to Miami. The city itself is only the 42nd largest in the country (population 450K) but the MSA (which includes Fort Lauderdale and man
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by zach 16y ago
Very interesting. I had the same kind of idea with my site and made some pretty neat maps of pricing, crime and school scores, but I can tell you what I found out -- people don't care that much about digging into data like you think they w
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by zach 16y ago
It's never going to be as entertaining as when your wallet becomes your mobile phone: http://www.merlinmann.com/phoneguy/
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by zach 16y ago
I'm not saying it's a bad idea. It's a good idea but it is from the late-90's playbook of user-acquisition desperation, which is perhaps concerning. It's more expensive than $10 per new user since all existing users also get the deal, thou
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by zach 16y ago
Ah, just like the old days where companies were happy to virtually pay customers to make a purchase. Then again, cost per acquisition via ads is inching up to $10 anyway. That, and with that company they're always in the shadow of having a
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by zach 16y ago
Oh man, there goes all that PageRank from when they mentioned my site!
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by zach 16y ago
If you're interested in playing with selector-based templating in Rails, there's a very interesting library called Effigy which does this. https://github.com/jferris/effigy It seems like a great way to keep design from getting too tightly
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by zach 16y ago
No doubt countless Cuban smokers have said it since Mort Sahl attributed to him, because it's a great line. I can't see Clinton, famously circumspect in such matters, cracking that joke to a reporter , though. I like the Kennedy misattrib
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by zach 16y ago
Actually Reagan's secretary of state Alexander Haig. It totally sounds like something an old conservative ex-army guy would say, doesn't it?
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by zach 16y ago
Wow, there's been a VRML sighting! As an old dude, VRML reminds me of the worst of 90s web hype. Trying to leave that aside, I also don't think it has a lot going for it to keep it around as a format. I prefer the even simpler Wavefront OBJ
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by zach 16y ago
They should have just pulled a Gillette and gone straight to 5G: http://boingboing.net/2005/09/14/gillettes-5blade-raz.html
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by zach 16y ago
This scenario will itself soon become a scene in another movie or TV show, mark my words. Stuff like this is gold for screenwriters.
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by zach 16y ago
That's good to hear. I was intimidated by the patent's existence myself. As an aside, I thought all that's required for that kind of defense is a provisional application. And if you really want it to pass into the public domain, you can s
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by zach 16y ago
This first showed up in Tweetie, whose author filed for a patent on it, so be aware: http://gorumors.com/twitter-patent-drag-to-refresh/2754292 Edit: Since there is curiosity about the claims, here's the application: http://www.google.co

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