albedo

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Wheredoidrive.com tells rideshare drivers where to go(wheredoidrive.com)
1 points by albedo 10y ago|0 comments
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by albedo 11y ago
Not just trust, but also social proof. Humans are hard-wired to find interesting what other humans seem to be interested in, regardless of whether it's a positive or negative interest.
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by albedo 12y ago
The size of the pool is the total number of people you expect to evaluate for a given decision.
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Submarine communication cables(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by albedo 12y ago|0 comments
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by albedo 13y ago
Yes, we're US-only for the moment, although we can work with anyone who has a US corporation.
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by albedo 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCERS - NYC area Lambda is a talent agency for freelance developers and designers. We help you find clients, negotiate for higher rates, and take care of the business side of freelancing. - Exceptional talent only: $100&#x
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by albedo 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCERS - NYC area Lambda is a talent agency for freelance developers and designers. We help you find clients, negotiate for higher rates, and take care of the business side of freelancing. - Exceptional talent only: $100&#x
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by albedo 13y ago
Hi, this is Ken. Sorry we didn't get back to you -- we've been getting a lot of interest and it's been difficult getting back to everyone promptly. I can't tell who you are from your HN handle, but I'd be happy to g
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by albedo 13y ago
The proportion spent on fundraising isn't a good indicator of effectiveness either. Generally, the metrics tracked by Charity Navigator are easy to measure, and aren't very useful. GiveWell is a much better evaluator of charity qu
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by albedo 13y ago
The overhead ratio is a pretty poor indicator of a charity's effectiveness. http://overheadmyth.com/
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by albedo 13y ago
Yes, we're currently looking for Rails, Django, js, and iOS.
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by albedo 13y ago
We get about 15 qualified leads a month (on average, each project is worth about $25k). We're focused on the US and Canada only for the moment.
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by albedo 13y ago
We posted on this thread already, so I hope this isn't spammy, but we're http://getlambda.com and we personally screen all devs for quality.
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by albedo 13y ago
Our company Lambda ( http://getlambda.com ) helps negotiate contract work for our freelancers. We often set up the following arrangement: the client pays in advance for a week or two of work, and we agree that "a week" c
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by albedo 13y ago
Sorry about that. We'll cut back and be more relevant next time.
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by albedo 13y ago
College is also a really good place to meet and work with people who could eventually become your technical cofounders, the scarcest ingredient for most startups.
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by albedo 13y ago
Agreed, and this is basically what we do for devs who want to do contract work -- help find clients that pay well and don't suck. ( http://getlambda.com )
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by albedo 13y ago
We'll certainly have conversations with devs who are interested in the concept. Our clients are primarily located in SF and NYC. I'd say about 20% of our clients are okay with remote work though.
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by albedo 13y ago
Our current thesis is that job boards are painful to wade through, especially for experienced devs looking to freelance. Our current model involves connecting devs to good clients (i.e. people who've done this sort of thing before), wh
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by albedo 13y ago
Check out the Center for Applied Rationality ( http://rationality.org/ ) for workshops on overcoming cognitive biases, building habits, achieving your goals, making better decisions, etc. It's a non-profit that my friend
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by albedo 13y ago
Almost all of our clients are based in the US, and we already have a lot of devs who are willing to do remote work.
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by albedo 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCERS - NYC or Bay Area preferred - Remote is okay Lambda is a talent agency for freelance developers and designers. We help you find clients, negotiate for higher rates, and take care of the business side of freelancing.
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by albedo 13y ago
Yes, freelancing is very lucrative, if you're a good developer with the right skillset. People are generally willing to give up a lot of money in exchange for a steady income guarantee.
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by albedo 13y ago
This is part of what we were trying to avoid while starting Lambda ( http://getlambda.com ). Do contract work to bootstrap your company, especially for technical founders. It's very much worth it to take 1-3 months off to fre
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by albedo 13y ago
We just launched a talent agency for startup founders who aren't interested in full-time office positions, but are willing to take on contract work that can be done part-time and remotely. We got over 400 signups in the first 5 weeks.
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by albedo 13y ago
GS doesn't use it for applications that require massive scaling, they already have their own infrastructure in place for that.
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by albedo 13y ago
The way that adaptation works (warning: simplifying a bit here) is that your brain wants you to get restful sleep when you aren't allowing it to. In this situation, its default strategy is to cause you to feel the effects of sleep depr
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by albedo 13y ago
I think a lot of people think about this the wrong way. The way I see it, if you're able to successfully adapt to Uberman, you get an additional ~6 hours a day. Any negative effects you would experience from being on Uberman need to be
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Chrome plugin: Share tweets on Facebook(chrome.google.com)
1 points by albedo 13y ago|0 comments
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Chrome plugin: share hacker news articles/comments on Facebook(chrome.google.com)
2 points by albedo 13y ago|1 comments

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