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by zach 13y ago
Wow, what a list. So... if it's the "Private Internet Company Conference" what are companies like Facebook and eBay doing there?
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by zach 13y ago
That's a good find, but when I think about that quote with technology adoption, I remember Joe Kraus's great "Confessions of a Startup Addict" from Startup School, where he said "Being early feels the same as being
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by zach 13y ago
How cool that you met at Harvard SSP, an amazing program that I loved even though I preferred technical college over an Ivy. May I ask if you were you roommates or suitemates (or how you met otherwise), and how you stayed in touch afterward
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by zach 13y ago
The pens are still made by the Fisher family in their factory, which moved from Van Nuys, California to Boulder City, Nevada (as I myself did -- Boulder City is a neat place to grow up). Their current challenge is actually finding American
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by zach 13y ago
The focus in this discussion is on school accreditation. Program accreditation is a different beast of far more narrow interest. School accreditation is essential; program accreditation is a feature. School accreditation is done by a region
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by zach 13y ago
Well, not so fast. There is a certain quality to those who grew up with computers in their home of that era. We could call it being more "hardcore" or talk of The Little Coder's Predicament in today's era. Take John Rome
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by zach 13y ago
It did for my needs. It's super-simple, yet you can choose to use it just via the weekly emails or the web interface. It's open source as well (in Python for App Engine): https://github.com/tedpower/snptz Loo
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by zach 13y ago
FWIW, I've used http://www.snptz.com/ off and on since it debuted on HN some years ago for weekly snippets. I've since developed my own daily forward-looking/backward-looking format, essentially a simple text
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by zach 13y ago
Oh whoops, he does say "as the housing market collapsed" there. Thanks for pointing that out. I guess I skipped a line because the text was all the same color. It does seem like it wasn't as bad for them, seemingly because th
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by zach 13y ago
TEN years of bootstrapping. This just got removed from the title for some reason. Good thing Gabriel García Márquez didn't have the same editor. Wow. This is interesting on its own, as others mentioned, but it's really interesti
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by zach 13y ago
I'd say that's because they're the people who talked to you on the phone, and a major part of their job is to be a liason to walk businesses through their rules. You should look at them as someone who can inquire within the o
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by zach 13y ago
I am glad it does not have 8K support. That would be over-engineering. "Yeah, this hardware will cost more, but it has to support a bandwidth level that won't be in use anywhere in the world in the next two years." Seems tota
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by zach 13y ago
Great postmortem. These kinds of high-altitude narratives, which describe the overall lifecycle and tell the key stories, are utterly fascinating, success or failure. When you're so focused on something, then discover parallel narrativ
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by zach 13y ago
So how do we make a broad cultural impact with examples like these from other cultures? That's the question I think is most essential. There are no doubt a lot of people that know these stories at the top of the hierarchy, like policy-
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by zach 13y ago
Forbes and Quora have an arrangement to republish content from Quora that's interesting to Forbes readers. The authors are asked individually if they want their answers to appear on Forbes and receive no compensation.
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by zach 13y ago
Also, Ken Jennings writes his weekly trivia challenge in Emacs: http://www.ken-jennings.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?p=12... That's maybe not the ideal endorsement, though. Ken is a great guy, but having the tr
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by zach 13y ago
The current leader on angel.co for blended metaphors may still be "Mint for X". It seems like "Uber for X" is destined to replace it, but its popularity is still staggering. AngelList has startups which are primarily described as Mint.com f
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by zach 13y ago
This is very nearly a deal-breaker for me, and the current response is typically "yeah, it's verbose, deal with it": https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/587 I use Rails with rbenv, a common package which adds shell commands to
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by zach 13y ago
The idea that Jobs is reacting against is essentially the "Great Man" theory of history as applied to business: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man_theory This idea states that it is the "great men" who are responsible for making the w
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by zach 14y ago
This must be why hackers never write these kind of polemics. If they take such a strong position on something like this, they end up seeing other perspectives which falsifies that position. They would have to tack on a "...Maybe" at the end
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by zach 14y ago
Sure would make a great feature for a Mac OS X release named Lynx, right? Just saying.
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by zach 14y ago
When you only have a few pieces of information, it's easy to presume that they're the most important ones.
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by zach 14y ago
As someone who has been on that team at Blizzard, those Halo rumors were the kind we laughed over. With the talent and experience in game design, lore and art which the company (and that team in particular) has access to, it seems silly to
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by zach 14y ago
Basically, it seems Edison wanted his executives to have his intense intellectual curiosity (he was a notable autodidact). If he knew the kind of people he felt he could lead effectively, and this was his perhaps-crazy way to identify them,
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Starwood Hotels has filed for trademark on "BNB"(trademarkia.com)
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by zach 14y ago
Definitely seems like Go has led the way here. Not that there wasn't a lot of pain before, but Go's lightning compilation seems to be an impetus for the "let's finally do this" change. I have to think that this is a minor repartee between A
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by zach 14y ago
The first few games to use an exponential XP curve may have copied each other, but by now basic things like this are simply conventional wisdom in game design. Here's Diablo II's incremental XP vs. level graph — essentially identical: http
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by zach 14y ago
Be sure to double-check on whether you can get California's extended COBRA if you were working for a large company. I was lazy about getting my company's own insurance and contacted my former employer (Activision Blizzard) about how to get
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by zach 14y ago
The "you should" formulation is a Dustin Curtis invention from several years back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=704738
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by zach 14y ago
Exactly right. Here's a Facebook help page of interest: "Can I opt out of being featured in Sponsored Stories?" http://www.facebook.com/help/173332702723681/

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