omarseyal

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CEO Coaching - cause you don’t know what you don’t know(medium.com)
17 points by omarseyal 13y ago|0 comments
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"I Can Say What I Want" – that's not an argument(medium.com)
18 points by omarseyal 13y ago|3 comments
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FWD.us Breaks Its First Promise: To Be Different(medium.com)
3 points by omarseyal 13y ago|0 comments
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by omarseyal 13y ago
what's the killer use case for this api?
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LaunchBit Is Ready To Grade Your Email Newsletters(techcrunch.com)
7 points by omarseyal 14y ago|0 comments
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Let’s send better emails this year(launchbit.com)
6 points by omarseyal 14y ago|0 comments
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by omarseyal 14y ago
Yeah, you could say that. Lots of the features are simply writing uris that trigger intents. That said, they're selling passive tags for $3 each. The user who buys that is likely not going to know how that placing a uri on a tag is easy
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by omarseyal 15y ago
love sahil and ajay.
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Good Advice For Pitching to Investors(fastcompany.com)
5 points by omarseyal 15y ago|0 comments
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Four tips for startup survival(geekwire.com)
6 points by omarseyal 15y ago|0 comments
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by omarseyal 15y ago
re: square -- consider the source. it makes sense that the square coo would be "anti nfc." the notion of "nfc payments" as the way of the future detracts from the vision he's pitching -- that is "square payments" are the way of the future.
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How Startups Will Benefit if the SEC Relaxes Funding Regulations(mashable.com)
7 points by omarseyal 15y ago|0 comments
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by omarseyal 18y ago
My one recommendation would be to have a plan. Don't quit your job or start a startup just to do so - just because you feel like that's what people on HN do. Do it for a reason - an organic solution you've derived form a problem you see i
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Fun CS Quiz(sporcle.com)
16 points by omarseyal 18y ago|7 comments
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by omarseyal 18y ago
Interesting niche. One comment on the front page - I think it's great and clean, but I think it undersells what you're doing. The "highlights" that you have (linked form the pale buttons at the bottom) are very compelling arguments to try
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by omarseyal 18y ago
is spam morally questionable? or is it just frowned upon by social norms
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Ask YC: Publicity
2 points by omarseyal 18y ago|0 comments
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by omarseyal 18y ago
I've been in this "business" for a short time, and I've met several. Which goes to show you, your personal experience is generally a bad foundation for making sweeping generalizations. I just consider dev-shops that are female dominated to
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by omarseyal 18y ago
taproot should have a new york branch. they're not the most "hacker-focused" outfit, but i've enjoyed my work with them. (fyi - this is not a teaching organization, it's more of a mechanism for lending your hacker skills to non-profits et
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Game Changing Android Application(enkin.net)
57 points by omarseyal 18y ago|26 comments
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Humor: Worst Captcha Ever(depressedprogrammer.wordpress.com)
9 points by omarseyal 18y ago|5 comments
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by omarseyal 18y ago
I've thought about this before... Wikipedia covers unstructured data, but we need something to be its analog for structured data. Others have pointed out freebase (which kicks ass IMO), but there's also swivel ( http://www.swivel.com/ ).
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by omarseyal 18y ago
for anyone who cares here's the tumblr for one of the authors of the article - http://caffeinated.tumblr.com/
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by omarseyal 19y ago
Honestly, Black Swan is not Taleb's best book. I would recommend you read Fooled By Randomness first if you have the chance... http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Market...
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by omarseyal 19y ago
not a quote, but i like the poem "if" by rudyard kipling. it kind of describes the sort of evenness and perseverance that is required of an entrepreneur... http://www.swarthmore.edu/~apreset1/docs/if.html
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by omarseyal 19y ago
1. google (gmail / search) 2. localhost:3000 (or some other port) 3. wikipedia
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by omarseyal 19y ago
isn't this part of what what open source is for? you have the interest in an idea being completed, but you don't have the resources to tackle it ... or necessarily the expertise ... so you start an open source project, you rally some contr
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by omarseyal 19y ago
So the Apple Design Process doesn't involve _external_ usability testing? I guess I kind of already knew that ... since they're so secretive and all...
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by omarseyal 19y ago
dojo has this too ... [ http://dojotoolkit.org/demos/fisheye-demo ]
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by omarseyal 19y ago
Ironically, one of the best places for Rails right now, lies in a place you rarely see innovation -- the big-company-internal-portal market. Most of these sites are built on old J2EE, STRUTS, or worse ASP stacks. They've got complex config

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