acabrahams

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Move to Vermont. Work from Home. Get $10,000(nytimes.com)
3 points by acabrahams 8y ago|0 comments
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by acabrahams 10y ago
1. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu 2. One L by Scott Turow 3. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu 4. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 5. Believer: My Forty Years in Politics by David Axelrod 6. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells 7. Augustus: First
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Drone firm threatened with $2m fine(bbc.com)
1 points by acabrahams 11y ago|1 comments
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by acabrahams 11y ago
> Nothing that happens between twelfth grade and death decreases the percent of women interested in computer science one whit. Statistics [1]: 56% of women in technology leave their employer mid-career, and 24% of these women take a non-
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Men who harass women online are quite literally losers, new study finds(washingtonpost.com)
53 points by acabrahams 11y ago|27 comments
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by acabrahams 11y ago
This quote caught my eye from the FAQ section of the fellowship page: Can a single person apply for funding? Yes, but the odds of being accepted are lower. A startup is too much work for one person. A statement such as "A startup is to
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by acabrahams 11y ago
I never used the Homejoy service, but I was in the audience for the Startup School Europe talks last year where Adora gave a fantastic speech (Notes: http://theinflexion.com/blog/2014/07/26/notes-from-sta
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It’s 2015 – You’d Think We’d Have Figured Out How to Measure Web Traffic by Now(fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by acabrahams 11y ago|0 comments
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For Startups, How Many Angels Is Too Many?(nytimes.com)
2 points by acabrahams 11y ago|0 comments
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by acabrahams 11y ago
I'm sure this is a stupid question, but after a few minutes of googling I am still unclear on the answer so I thought I'd ask it here. I am about to start studying in the US (college), so I was wondering if the USDS accepts non-A
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by acabrahams 11y ago
Sounds like what EF already do in London (joinef.com) with technical grads.
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by acabrahams 12y ago
"Also, the sooner "pull" payments become a rare exception, the better." Credit card charges that are pull-based are generally a bad thing, but not all pull-based payments are bad for consumers. For example, the Direct De
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by acabrahams 12y ago
I've done a full-time 5 day course at Steer on iOS and a 10-week evening course at General Assembly on Ruby. Both were useful, but IMO not worth the cost. I have friends who have completed the GA full-time bootcamp, and some who have d
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Entrepreneurship as an Ethical Choice(jennybrennan.com)
4 points by acabrahams 12y ago|0 comments
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by acabrahams 12y ago
Yes. You are generalizing. Massively. There is no possible situation in which a VC I had met could ask me out without making me feel extremely uncomfortable, to put it lightly. There are lots of logical reasons for this reaction, and I will
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Venture Capitalists Coddle Entrepreneurs As Royalty(dealbook.nytimes.com)
12 points by acabrahams 12y ago|1 comments
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by acabrahams 12y ago
I've been waiting for something like this to arrive for a while. In Israel and the West Bank, services called sheiruts act as mini-buses; they're taxis that pick up multiple passengers going in the same direction, usually for the
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by acabrahams 12y ago
Good service, I've been looking for something like this. I just hope I don't get spammed for eternity after having to give up my email address to get the mockups.
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by acabrahams 12y ago
A coincidence that sama has published this the same week that a single-feature app like Yo! announced that it raised $1m...?
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by acabrahams 12y ago
I remember seeing some statistical evidence that women in particular are more responsive to ads to 'learn to code' than 'learn to program'[1], which would ring true with my personal experience where I notice I often desc
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Vinod Khosla bans public from the beach(nytimes.com)
1 points by acabrahams 12y ago|0 comments
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by acabrahams 12y ago
I've been using Pop App for a couple of months, but I downloaded Marvel's app today and love it. Just so much smoother and a lot more features.
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by acabrahams 12y ago
I use Treehouse for learning web dev and they have a course on business fundamentals e.g. what type of company to incorporate, accounting fundamentals. Haven't tried it yet myself, but their programming stuff has been good so I reckon
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WSJ: Kids Learning to Code in Hong Kong(blogs.wsj.com)
3 points by acabrahams 12y ago|0 comments