phjohnst

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Gmail dropping support for third party accounts(support.google.com)
3 points by phjohnst 1mo ago|3 comments
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1Password acquires Passage(axios.com)
8 points by phjohnst 4y ago|0 comments
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How to Build a Scalable Minimum Viable Product(medium.com)
6 points by phjohnst 7y ago|0 comments
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A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri(nytimes.com)
4 points by phjohnst 10y ago|0 comments
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar(nytimes.com)
1 points by phjohnst 11y ago|0 comments
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Optimizing HTTPS on Nginx(bjornjohansen.no)
2 points by phjohnst 11y ago|0 comments
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NASA’s Messenger probe is giving up on life this afternoon(fusion.net)
3 points by phjohnst 11y ago|0 comments
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Demystifying the MOOC(nytimes.com)
51 points by phjohnst 12y ago|28 comments
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What if things don’t work out for you?(pandodaily.com)
5 points by phjohnst 13y ago|2 comments
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by phjohnst 14y ago
I think that's less the issue here than CBS likely holding the commercial rights to Kaley Cuoco and Melissa Rauch being used together in anything that would look like an ad. Presumably it will be in violation of Instagram's TOS to post the
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by phjohnst 14y ago
Don't forget the up-front fee of $275, so max savings are more like $300. Break-even is $10k per month. It's a nice idea, though I don't know how many companies are in the $10k-$21k/month revenue bucket that would see a benefit. All compa
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In Silicon Valley, Finding the Next Big Thing in the Ordinary(dealbook.nytimes.com)
6 points by phjohnst 14y ago|0 comments
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Groupon shares open up 40%(techcrunch.com)
54 points by phjohnst 15y ago|58 comments
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Data Insecurity is a Systemic Threat(americanbanker.com)
1 points by phjohnst 15y ago|0 comments
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by phjohnst 16y ago
Yeah, I can't believe that more people above aren't asking this question. From my experience in the Canadian system, if you're really sick (ie badly injured, have cancer, whatever) you actually get pretty quick service. Sure, if you walk i
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by phjohnst 16y ago
Risk/reward. If you got into China 15 years ago, you had no idea how things were going to pan out (and you deserve compensation for holding that risk). If you get in now, there's a more likely chance (I'd argue) that you'll do well, so the
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by phjohnst 16y ago
Try stews, chilis, etc. Also, homemade chicken stock is one of my favourite things (boil a chicken carcass from the butcher with a halved onion, roughly chopped carrot, celery, some herbs, a little salt and pepper, bit of garlic, for a bit
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by phjohnst 16y ago
Yes, K2 is is much more technically demanding climb (See the Black Pyramid, and basically any of the other less popular routes) and more unpredictable (falling seracs above the Bottleneck killed several climbers in 2008). It's usually only
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by phjohnst 16y ago
You raise an interesting point. PG: Do you find that you're encountering 'stage' creep in YC applications? Are the groups that you're funding (or even just interviewing) steadily becoming more fully developed businesses, or are lots (most
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by phjohnst 16y ago
I totally agree. I'm sure that it would screw with their pricing, but I really just dont need 50GB, and can get by with the 3GB that I have now. Sure I'd like a little more (and frankly, would happily pay $5/mo for what I have now), but I
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by phjohnst 16y ago
I was certainly expecting that the workload would be high going in, and I have no issues with working that much (and in fact, I work less than I was expecting to when I signed up). The bait and switch would suck and probably happens to a l
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by phjohnst 16y ago
Thats just how salary works. I've never looked at it as "You're getting paid to do N hours of work", but rather, "You're getting paid get X work done." In the UK your employer cannot force you to work more than 48 hours a week, but written
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by phjohnst 16y ago
I think you're absolutely right: if you take it to mean anything, then it has no meaning. However, as mechanical_fish touches on below, the definition of what a 'hacker' is (I think) is pretty misunderstood. Hacking is a creative process;
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by phjohnst 16y ago
I always took PG's Hacker-centric culture to mean one of hacking in a broader sense, and not strictly applied to coding. I believe that a hacker-centric culture is one that promotes innovation and is purely meritocratic, with a constant dri
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by phjohnst 16y ago
I've always seen this policy as a way to lubricate the quitting process, rather than implicitly instil commitment from those that don't take it (like they're giving up something, so they must like what they're doing). By paying people that
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by phjohnst 16y ago
I just tacked a list to my wall of varying levels of things to do to pick things up a little. Just that process feels good. Can't help but think, too, that simply making a conscious effort to incorporate one/some of those things into every
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by phjohnst 16y ago
I wish I could upvote this more than once. It really picked up my day. I always find a cognitive approach far more effective than trying to internalize some inspirational BS. Thanks!
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by phjohnst 16y ago
Totally agree with your security theatre point, even all of this does nothing. However, to keep in mind with the police, they must have a reasonable suspicion in order to search your person. They cannot simply stop everyone walking down th
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by phjohnst 16y ago
I would definitely have a problem with this. I'd argue that they have no more right to do a gynecological exam on a patient under anesthesia than they do to do any other procedure completely unrelated to the primary one. Absurd: could you
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by phjohnst 16y ago
Arbitrary rules are clear, yet, but also blunt. If you were building a capital intensive product (see most of the alternative energy/biotech space - to get a prototype built costs millions and millions of dollars in most cases), 250k inves

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