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by prpon 7y ago
I am so sorry you have to go through this. I hope you hang in there, one moment, one breath at a time. I will hold you in my thoughts tonight.
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by prpon 15y ago
If you loved the book Selfish Gene, I recommend listening to the story of George Price. http://www.radiolab.org/2010/dec/14/ It is both depressing and enlightening.
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by prpon 15y ago
I just transferred the last few of my godaddy domains to Namecheap. I've used namecheap as dns host for a while without problems. Transfers are $6.99 with SOPASucks coupon code. SOPA finally made me get off my lazy ass and do something abou
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by prpon 15y ago
The quote from the article The reality is that there seems to be a significant deficit of modern, high quality, software solutions in many, if not most, markets and furthermore, there is also a deficit of talented developers and designers
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by prpon 15y ago
Peldi has been a long time HN user(balsamiq). Most at HN (including me) have nothing but great things to say about him and his company.
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by prpon 15y ago
Cause is usually defined as willful failure or refusal to perform duties that continues after notice and an opportunity to cure, misappropriation or misuse of company trade secrets, commission of a felony or other action involving moral tu
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by prpon 15y ago
More often, startups fire employees under the disguise of performance. I am not sure what constitutes non-performance but it has been used countless times as an excuse for getting back the unvested stock options.
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by prpon 15y ago
You hit the nail on the head. In a bad economy/tech market like 2001, the recruiters were rude, unreachable and acted like Gods. After 9/11 2001, a recruiter sent me resume of few other candidates vying for the same job and asked me to wri
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by prpon 15y ago
I've read the chapter in the book lean startup and again here. I fail to grasp the Minimum viability in that chapter. Drew built a product with considerable reverse engineering before he got any feedback, tried explaining to the vcs and i
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by prpon 15y ago
I can only guess but you definitely are not in your 30's yet. I held the same exact sentiments in my 20's. Then I got to my 30s and I realized I haven't done all that I wanted to do. I can slowly see time slipping away and 50 is not too far
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by prpon 15y ago
You sir, are an inspiration.
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by prpon 15y ago
I've never been impressed by any of the startups that are released in the last few years (YC or other wise). Including my own products. I find them run of the mill, meh kind. The last product that I thought was cool, was Dropbox and that w
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by prpon 15y ago
I ain't no SEO expert but patio11 who is an expert mentioned it as the reason for picking 'appointmentreminder.org' for his project.
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by prpon 15y ago
That article is a great example on a startup providing a compelling story for coverage by media. I don't doubt that they used the 400$ given by YC for Grouper but the 400$ probably was not the limiting factor.
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by prpon 15y ago
I have read 2 entries on your blog. I don't know the details of how bad things went but I can tell you this, Boy, can you write well. Keep writing regularly and good luck.
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by prpon 15y ago
In the circle that I move around, everyone wants an ecommerce store for their business that can generate sales even when they are sleeping. I tell them I am busy with my own stuff but I take time to meet and listen to them. After the meetin
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by prpon 15y ago
For those of us who are not aware of lokpal or what the bill contains to reduce corruption in India, can someone provide a brief summary?
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by prpon 15y ago
Are you really set on keeping it a single page site? I can understand the simplicity of it but if you know small business men, they want ease of use and a lot of control too. I can see some scenarios like showing decor, pictures for each me
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by prpon 15y ago
Quite a few of the companies mentioned have traction and that is pretty impressive. I haven't seen anyone else say it but kicksend looks a lot like getcrate from sahil lavingia with facebook integration added to it.
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by prpon 15y ago
May be I've become cynical but 90% of the email I get in my personal account is from people/startups/companies selling me stuff. 90% of the twitter stream is people pimping their wares (either blog posts or products they endorse). 90% of my
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by prpon 15y ago
A cousin passed away few years back with cancer. It wasn't sudden but wasn't expected either. (He was 37 and responding well to treatment). His wife was completely uninterested with regards to finances and bills. He was quite meticulous and
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by prpon 15y ago
Thanks for the info. Any tools you use for animating the dots and displaying the stats? Or is it plain javascript?
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by prpon 15y ago
Looking at the source, it seems to be built with jquery isotope plugin. I couldn't see any similar examples at isotope site. Any one else know more details on the implementation? Also, the job growth numbers for each city look suspicious. W
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by prpon 15y ago
The best answer so far is at quora: http://www.quora.com/How-is-Color-doing-since-launch
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by prpon 15y ago
Anyone else interested in running or keeping commitments should definitely read Haruki Murakami's book 'What I talk about when I talk about running. http://www.amazon.com/What-Talk-About-When-Running/dp/030726... Something about Murakami'
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by prpon 15y ago
By scrollable categories, I mean that you have categories mentioned below in long list. I don't know if anyone would have patience to go through them. Certainly not me. A scrollable categories list would show different categories in a nicer
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by prpon 15y ago
Seriously my friend, that site needs some design love. I am no design guru here but that site desperately needs a designer. Here are a few things I would suggest: 1. Search box at the top to search images. 2. slide show of random images fro
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by prpon 15y ago
Absolutely actionable advice for Airbnb. Screw business, if this happened to my clients, I would go spend a week with her, try and help restore her life back, be on the phone for her with credit agencies, police, lawyers, anyone. Isn't that
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by prpon 15y ago
Awesome. This is the first time seeing a JS object move with my laptop. Wouldn't have noticed if you had not pointed it out. Thanks.
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by prpon 15y ago
I wonder how many of these talent acquisitions happen because of being related to YC? There are many startups out there with strong talent. Not many of them get acquired for talent reasons. How do talent acquisitions happen? Do they usually

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