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by 4clicknet 13y ago
The painting and the love affair are interesting, but, as a landlord, I found myself wondering: How does an apartment remain untouched for 70 years? How was the rent paid without interruption? How were rent increases handled (or did the
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by 4clicknet 14y ago
The people who get their coffee to go and the ones who sit at the tables are different segments (although there is some overlap). Also, the sitting customers can be segmented as well: most of them will sit down for 15-30 minutes and leave,
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by 4clicknet 14y ago
Good to hear there's a HN meetup in Toronto! Any idea why it's set up as a private group? All the other HN meetup groups I checked on this page are public.
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by 4clicknet 14y ago
I found the tldr link to be useful. I think that if the content is relevant then there's nothing wrong with self-promotion. I looked at the comment history and he linked to tldr in 7/10 of his last comments over the last week. That doesn't
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UK judge asks Apple to explain 2 week delay to publish Samsung post(oran.ge)
2 points by 4clicknet 14y ago|0 comments
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by 4clicknet 14y ago
I've found MT results quality to be a problem. 95% of the workers are great, but you do have occasions where you get a bot completing the task or someone being deliberately careless in the hope that the HIT will get automatically approved.
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Zumper's Perspective on How to Raise a Seed Round(techcrunch.com)
2 points by 4clicknet 14y ago|0 comments
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by 4clicknet 14y ago
There's an interesting book called After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre that does a good job of going through how these confusions over language arise. I haven't read it for years, but I liked how it explained how and why the language of phi
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by 4clicknet 14y ago
I've been a landlord in Ontario for 10 years and had a sublet request a few months ago. In Ontario, there are 2 stages: a tenant has to make a general request to sublet, and then a specific one. They can break the lease if the landlord refu
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by 4clicknet 14y ago
I had an hour-long chat with a guy from Canada's Federal Economic Development Agency who I met at a startup event and still keep in touch with. I suggested to him that they should copy the Startup Chile program to get entrepreneurs into Can
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Usability Hell: London 2012 Olympics Ticketing Fail(usabilityhell.com)
118 points by 4clicknet 14y ago|41 comments
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by 4clicknet 14y ago
My understanding is that this comment is stating that there is a trend towards products having more or less identical functional features, but at different price points and that they will only be distinguished from each other by marketing.
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by 4clicknet 14y ago
Can you give us some examples of who has done this and how they avoided getting caught on Mechanical Turk? I've had legitimate HITs removed for apparently violating policy recently, so in my experience AWS is fairly vigilant in looking out
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by 4clicknet 14y ago
There's no way to guarantee you won't behave like that (I don't specifically mean you, but anyone in a similar position). People have the best intentions, but things change as time goes on. In fact, charging money might make it all the mor
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Optimizing MySQL Queries: Cheat-Sheet for EXPLAIN
3 points by 4clicknet 14y ago|1 comments
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The Best Cure for a Headache(blog.4click.net)
1 points by 4clicknet 14y ago|0 comments
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Reciprocate. Don't Pump and Dump.(blog.4click.net)
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by 4clicknet 14y ago
My first start-up was a medical tourism company. It's basically an affiliate business model: you get 5-10% of the cost from the doctor, hotel, and airline (depending on your negotiation skills). $500K revenue means $25-50K in true gross r
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Someone is Doing the Same Idea? Rejoice(blog.4click.net)
1 points by 4clicknet 15y ago|0 comments
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by 4clicknet 15y ago
It's possible that instead of going after happy DB users, they'll go after current non-consumers by offering them something that meets an unfulfilled need. I can't provide a specific example of what that use case would be, but the addressa
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by 4clicknet 15y ago
Agreed. The tutsplus series was useful for me because you can watch someone code web pages from a blank editor using jQuery along with HTML/CSS. As a hacker without a programming background, I loved it because it's not too advanced, yet yo
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by 4clicknet 15y ago
What's a typical percentage rejection rate for your tasks? I find that for some classification tasks my rejection rate is around a third (this includes careless/sloppy answers, so the rejection rate of honest answers is lower). Even though
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by 4clicknet 15y ago
In addition to the iterative approach, you can also offer a base rate and accept all the tasks, even if they're not quite perfect, then pay a bonus to the workers who really nailed it. That way you're not rejecting the workers who are makin
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by 4clicknet 15y ago
This article reminds us that you can't just look at historic growth rates and extrapolate economic prospects. Environmental sustainability, the effectiveness of political institutions, and demographics start to matter more and more once yo
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by 4clicknet 15y ago
I think that as consumers our reflex is to send a text when a missed call might be faster/more convenient. For example, if I'm picking up a friend, I'll text "I'm here" or "here", whereas I could simply make a missed call and my friend see