akassover

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by akassover 9y ago
Having this option makes me think that maybe the author is having a tough time being a capitalist. I've come across quite a few people who are uncomfortable making a profit off of someone else and instead provide the option to give thi
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by akassover 9y ago
Great idea, but I get spooked easily. I signed up, figured I'd add GitHub, saw "This application will be able to delete any repository to which you have admin rights," and ran away.
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by akassover 10y ago
Interesting idea. My wife and I joined something similar but specifically for new parents in Seattle called "PEPS" ( http://www.peps.org ) when we had kids. We got together once a week for twelve weeks. We had a facilita
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by akassover 10y ago
Consider an insurance agent who sells to small businesses. They have zero software people in-house and perhaps 1.5 people who do marketing. You tell those people "Write about the businesses you work with. Write about the kind or risks
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41st Annual List of Banished Words(lssu.edu)
2 points by akassover 11y ago|0 comments
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A cautionary tale for exits with earn-outs(lexology.com)
7 points by akassover 11y ago|0 comments
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by akassover 11y ago
The 15" Macbook Pros were updated in May (to include the Force Touch trackpad).
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by akassover 11y ago
There's another type of hybridized consultancy/product business to consider: have a product and provide value-added consulting around the product. This tends to work best with B2B products that require implementation legwork, cust
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by akassover 11y ago
Anybody found any good spots to work from in Machida? I'm out that way and have a hard time making the 1 hour trip to go into Toyko to work.
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by akassover 12y ago
Why is that better? (Not trying to pick a fight, just curious how this would lead to a better outcome.)
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by akassover 12y ago
"What if he doesn't take the garbage out in the correct manner?" Funny example. We stayed at a place rented through airbnb last weekend in Tokyo that had a three ring binder containing only a 10 page guide on how to properly
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by akassover 12y ago
You mean like last Friday (closed for training) and yesterday (closed for Columbus Day)? Well, one thing I don't do during those days is read hacker news (sorry for the delay getting back to you). I take full advantage of my flexibilit
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by akassover 12y ago
I'm a work from home dad. One thing I've learned is that no work gets done when the kids are at home (well, awake and at home). I start work super early and we still send the kids to daycare, but I do have tons of flexibility to b
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by akassover 12y ago
Funny to read that today. Some of the pontificating experts really do look silly. I'm not sure the Google founders had a much clearer grasp of the future, though. Legend has it they had tried to sell the company for $750k a few month
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by akassover 12y ago
My company maintains no hardware (everything is "in the cloud"). No server grade stuff or gaming rigs here - I did a purge of some desktop PCs over the summer. The closest thing I have is an xbox 360 in a closet. I've got a 4
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by akassover 12y ago
Can you be a little more specific about the scope of who "you" is? Startups, small businesses, freelancers, etc. I can answer this question, but I'm not sure I'd be polluting your data or not.
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by akassover 12y ago
I like the term "playing house". Seems like there are a lot of similar activities. I don't make it to many "startup" type events, but when I do, I always wonder why everyone there is spending so much time hanging ou
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by akassover 12y ago
I went to Grinnell College in the 90's while Grant Gale was still walking the halls of the physics building. He ran the school's "physics museum" - wish I could go back in time and take another look at his displays. Bob
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by akassover 12y ago
Thanks for sharing your experiences. I'm sorry to hear it didn't go the way you wanted. I'm going to tell my wife about your site - she actively practices yoga and we're about to move, so I'm sure she'll be hap
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by akassover 12y ago
I've been working from home for 10 years now and love it. It's not for everybody, though. To add to the points from the article, here are a few things I've learned over the years: - Your office chair is the most important pie
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by akassover 12y ago
The biggest thing we did was remove our dependency to a single IP (this was a unique requirement of our business). We also improved our firewall and upped our managed service level. We're not 100% bullet proof now, but definitely bette
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by akassover 12y ago
It's worth adding that when we got hit, we were relying on "security through obscurity". I slept well at night because I thought nobody would be interested in DDoS'ing little ol' us when there are plenty of big fish
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by akassover 12y ago
We got hit by a DDoS about a year ago. Rackspace (who normally has amazing support) quietly null routed us and went about their day. No heads-up, trouble ticket, or any other form of notification. They didn't even put a note in our acc
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by akassover 13y ago
Oh jeez... seeing Rich's name made my heart jump. I worked with him in the late 90's. He's a great guy, smart dude, and he wrote some hilarious poetry about Microsoft in his code comments during his late night coding sessions
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Content Marketing From a Cold Start(guidearama.com)
2 points by akassover 13y ago|0 comments
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by akassover 13y ago
Here in Amazon.com's home town of Seattle, Prime works flawlessly (no surprise there). Sometimes things arrive by USPS, but most often it's via UPS. Occasionally Amazon will even deliver package themselves. In fact, they once deli
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by akassover 13y ago
I'm curious how this goes (so please post a write-up when you have data). We (www.agentmethods.com) collect credit cards up front exactly to avoid that "create the account and forget about it" situation. The clock is ticking
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by akassover 13y ago
I probably should have pointed out that that was two years ago... but I do tell friends about the site!
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by akassover 13y ago
We used your wife's site when prepping for the arrival of our twins. It was great. Hope she made some good $$$ off of our purchases - we bought double of everything.
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by akassover 14y ago
Very cool idea! So simple... I probably should be sitting on a ball instead of my chair.

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