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Computer Programmers Learn Tough Lesson in Sharing(online.wsj.com)
8 points by kariatx 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple is the world's most valuable company, ever.(hosted.ap.org)
1 points by kariatx 14y ago|0 comments
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Can We Fix Computer Science Education in America?(techland.time.com)
4 points by kariatx 14y ago|0 comments
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The Cost of Free Doughnuts(npr.org)
95 points by kariatx 14y ago|34 comments
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What the fuck is an entrepreneur(garann.com)
8 points by kariatx 14y ago|0 comments
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by kariatx 15y ago
No, it's sexist in Austin too. For sure.
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by kariatx 15y ago
I'm still trying to figure out why there aren't more women in tech.
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by kariatx 15y ago
I think a more interesting question is what sort of responsibility Gowalla founders had to its employees. I've noticed that a good number of employees aren't staying on with the Facebook transition (by my count, only a small minority are go
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by kariatx 15y ago
I use Facebook to administer our business page on there. We have 70K+ users, and we get a lot of spam that is not automatically filtered out. I'm on there a lot cleaning things up. Otherwise, I don't really add any content to Facebook much
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by kariatx 15y ago
Thanks! I write them all myself, but I use a lot self-written software at this point to streamline the writing process. And yes, 100% ad based. Adsense actually probably pays us the most we could get for our traffic with the least amount of
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by kariatx 15y ago
Or just not care enough about Facebook to keep track of the number - which is the case for me.
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by kariatx 15y ago
Exactly. If I look at the recommended friends page, people who defriended me are often near the top (probably because of the high number of mutual friends). In this case, "he" is a "she", btw :-)
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by kariatx 15y ago
I've found that Facebook's friend recommendations are a good way of being able to tell who has defriended you. For years now, in fact.
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by kariatx 15y ago
I started Blogthings.com (a personality quiz site) in 2004 by myself, and I've never had a job while working in it. It makes enough money for both my husband and I to live off of, and we split the work on it, which ends up just being a few
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by kariatx 15y ago
Maybe they should have considered who already has the Twitter handle before they settled on the name: http://twitter.com/#!/Qwikster
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Google Testing New Celebrity Endorsement Advertising Program(searchengineland.com)
2 points by kariatx 15y ago|0 comments
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by kariatx 15y ago
I totally agree about the increased noise making discoverability worse. In fact, I have spent very little time on any of the new sites we're talking about just due to sheer exhaustion from market oversaturation. And that's crazy, because I'
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by kariatx 15y ago
"In fashion, trust me, that are MANY problems that need to be solved: a highly antiquated supply chain, non-standard, un-linked computer systems, non-standard sizing that varies even within the same line, inefficient pricing methods." I don
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by kariatx 15y ago
See? Bump doesn't suck!
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by kariatx 15y ago
I haven't gotten my hands on this book yet, but his talk was probably the best thing I saw at SXSW this year. I personally find design to be a hard nut to crack, but the way he thinks is appealing to my very logic-y brain.
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by kariatx 15y ago
I agree, but I don't think that the original poster was claiming to have a conclusive picture. He had a few observations from the first two weeks, and I'm arguing that they were valid. Was it a good idea to act on them so quickly? Possibly.
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by kariatx 15y ago
I disagree. The most successful entrepreneurs learn quickly and iterate quickly. You usually can learn something in two weeks - even if it's just that certain language you use is unclear or a turn off. And that's a start.
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by kariatx 15y ago
Wow! Impressive first two weeks. It seems to me that you're doing a lot right here. I like how you sum up your business ("We let nonprofits setup a good-looking, donation-enabled website in about 1-2 minutes."), and if I were a website-less
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Gowalla CEO: We Never Aimed to Be Like Foursquare(clickz.com)
1 points by kariatx 15y ago|0 comments
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by kariatx 15y ago
I understand that people get nervous when the pressure is on, but I can't believe how many times I thought to myself, "Answer the damn question!" This whole video served as a reminder to me to slow down, listen to what people are asking you
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by kariatx 15y ago
Seeing that they probably would have never beat Foursquare, I'm glad that they are continuing to iterate. I have to say that I'm a bit skeptical about this new product. It seems a bit murky conceptually, and I'm not sure if travel is the ri
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by kariatx 15y ago
My story is just like your story except that each time something didn't work, I took a few days or weeks off and then tried another site. And another. And another. It took dozens of ideas until I found a business that worked for me. Take th
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Facebook’s Cut From Deal Partners: Nothing(allfacebook.com)
2 points by kariatx 15y ago|0 comments
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by kariatx 15y ago
I've done some research on this since Groupon doesn't release the redemption statistics. 20-30% breakage (non-redemption) seems to be the estimate, but some people go as low as 10% and as high as 40% in their estimates.
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by kariatx 15y ago
I am probably the last person on HN to realize this. I've been working at home for ages (like since Hanson was still a popular band), and I'm really finding out how wacky the long term psychological effects are. Spending too much time at ho

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