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by zach 18y ago
To avoid seeming to beg the question, I'll call late bloomers experimentalists and the early bloomers (pure) conceptualists. Okay. It may be that conceptualists have a very natural peak in their early years because of two factors: a learni
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by zach 18y ago
My advice: hire a sharp game programmer, specifically one who has worked on tools and has 1-5 years in the game industry. The pay is not that great for game programmers in that range of experience, so they can handle a startup salary. And
903.
by zach 18y ago
For as often as my co-founder and I check GA for our medium-traffic site, I'm a little concerned for our productivity if we can see analytics in real-time!
904.
by zach 18y ago
But no Judson Laipply? Really?
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by zach 18y ago
Relax. The Smell is just there for the first few months, and its purpose is merely to stimulate certain nerve centers. In time, The Smell's absence leads you subconsciously to buy another new Apple product. Your mind rationalizes these t
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by zach 18y ago
I often heard interesting stories at college about flunk-outs. Rather than consulting for Arthur Andersen or being a PM at Microsoft, they did interesting things sooner. Like starting a cool company. Or driving a taxi. You could say it
907.
by zach 18y ago
Coming soon: searching the web by page layout.
908.
by zach 18y ago
Obama's quote for "sheriff" is pure fiction, from a bizarre and unfunny satire piece.
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by zach 18y ago
We have PEOs here in North America: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_employer_organizat... I worked for Administaff, a huge PEO, when I was at a startup video game company. They are your employer-in-name on behalf of your employ
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by zach 18y ago
The real use of this kind of site is for new gadgets. If you can compare things to the size of an iPod, deck of cards, etc. it makes for a nice feature on a news story for an upcoming gizmo.
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by zach 18y ago
I thought of that, but it doesn't internationalize well. A USB plug is probably more universal but a little weird.
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by zach 18y ago
No problem. All gains for small businesses are capital gains. Treating capital gains (as opposed to wages) differently is a characteristic of personal income tax. So I think they were referring only to individual investment in small busin
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by zach 18y ago
This is an idea I toyed with but could never bring myself to implement once I realized its most popular probable use. If you want to email (see my profile), I have a suggestion for a domain name that does not involve the word "size" or "bi
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by zach 18y ago
Were the company you founded to be bought out, it would be very helpful. Then again, at that point you would no longer be a small business owner. Bit of a paradox, that.
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The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming on the Web (on AppJet)(appjet.com)
3 points by zach 18y ago|0 comments
916.
by zach 18y ago
That presupposes our knowledge of the course of World War II. It's entirely possible that Arab residents of Palestine buried treasure that their great-grandchildren still cannot dig up. If he had to flee, he presumably could have taken th
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by zach 18y ago
Exactly. Define "beat" for entities such as these. Impossible.
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by zach 18y ago
Thanks! This has a lot of interest to me as well since I'm also not prepared to structure my life around a YC session. I have some interest in a venture to build an app that would be specifically used for promoting products. Half product,
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by zach 18y ago
No doubt, I can as well; quite unexpected that this is public in such a format. Presumably there is also a country of origin in this data -- that would also be interesting to tabulate averages from.
920.
by zach 18y ago
In fact, your H-1B expires ten days after your employment does. Workers on H-1Bs can switch jobs to another sponsor, but it can get tricky. I've told friends with H-1Bs about other sponsoring studios that I could recommend them at... just
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by zach 18y ago
"People who are normally circumspect may, when describing their commutes, be unexpectedly candid in divulging the intimate details of their lives. They have it all worked out, down to the number of minutes it takes them to shave or get stu
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by zach 18y ago
I've been running a real estate startup for two and a half years and wouldn't necessarily recommend it to anyone in this market. Tough business to make inroads into and find profit in, despite the tremendous opportunity to improve the user
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Steve Wozniak Is in the Second Row on Today's The Price Is Right
4 points by zach 18y ago|0 comments
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by zach 18y ago
I have the Mott reprint and workbooks for this but still haven't cracked them. More's the pity. I do enjoy merely studying the system, but they're really meant to be used, not just read. Unfortunately for the left-handed, due to its era
925.
by zach 18y ago
I could totally do the property tax one for LA county (as in, I already have the assessor data in another form on a website). It's a solid idea. Of course, I don't have the time to...
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by zach 18y ago
Cool. I'm being too gruff. If they shake loose one more startup in the area, even if they have to decamp to warmer climes when their lease is up, that's a great thing for Pittsburgh.
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by zach 18y ago
I enrolled in a design class once. I figured graphic design would be a good place to start with as far as artistic fundamentals. Not knowing what I was getting into, I took Design I at ArtCenter at Night, because, of course, I wanted the
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by zach 18y ago
I was not being literal. Pittsburgh has so much talent that they don't need an incubator that attracts it from elsewhere. They need more appeal to the talent that's already there, like the founders of Buxfer. By the way, to all who want t
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by zach 18y ago
AlphaLabs seems to be offering six-month tourist visas to foreigners. The foreigners happen to be startups, but they do get a house to live in and a little walking-around money. If they find further rounds of funding in Pittsburgh, there m
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by zach 18y ago
Wow, 3 points in an hour? Well, since at least three people care, there used to be Dunkin' Donuts in California. At least they were here in LA until about 12 years ago, when they gave up on trying to crack the market. The interesting thin

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