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Rental startup Flightcar (YC W13) lands in Boston, eyes more airports(bizjournals.com)
3 points by scheff 13y ago|0 comments
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by scheff 13y ago
I remember reading that Richard Branson does much the same. When a team gets above 20 people, he splits the team up. Similar reasons - so that the culture kept within a team was better because everyone knew each other well.
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LulzSec hacker arrested in Australia(theage.com.au)
2 points by scheff 13y ago|0 comments
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by scheff 13y ago
For anybody who is interested in the concept of verifiable voting protocols, and a real life election applying them, I am currently working on the front end of such an application, with the election to be held in November 2014 for our state
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ANZ pledges $1 billion for start-ups(theage.com.au)
1 points by scheff 13y ago|0 comments
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by scheff 13y ago
Mis-naming your app can have benefits. see http://www.macgasm.net/2013/03/27/mans-map-app-blows-up-afte...
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by scheff 14y ago
Missing is - 1. Wall of death. 2. Collapse of the mosh when one person trips over. 3. Crowd surfers and the effects of a boot to the head.
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by scheff 14y ago
2 reasons I can think of. 1 - nobody would get a pay rise because "If I give you a pay rise, then I have to give everyone a pay rise" would be the mantra of managers in an established organisation. Anything less would create arguments. 2 -
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by scheff 14y ago
This is good. I apply these to ALL aspects of my life, not just the work place - "something here sucks. what is it? how do I fix it?" I fixed my sucky job by identifying the main factors, then finding a job that doesn't have those. I identi
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by scheff 14y ago
tl;dr - "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade!" I disagree with just about everything in that article and my rejoinder would be "when life gives you lemons, realize that you don't have to accept them. then go and plant a tree for somet
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by scheff 14y ago
I did a HN search and nothing came up originally, I must have done it as one word. I'm wondering if anyone has any knowledge/experience of it, other than media hype. I hear 'the next big thing' and immediately think 'what makes you think t
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Urban Compass. Heard of it?(smh.com.au)
2 points by scheff 14y ago|2 comments
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Larry Page: "Facebook is doing a bad job"(mashable.com)
11 points by scheff 14y ago|5 comments
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by scheff 14y ago
Am I the only person who was disappointed that this article was not about "Taking an engineering approach to pornography"? Wouldn't it be interesting to hear someone's lessons learned from using Lean Startup and A/B testing when entering th
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by scheff 14y ago
Maciej Ceglowski is the Flounder of Pinboard.in - http://idlewords.com/resume.htm We all flounder sometimes, but it's good to admit upfront that it's your full time (pre)occupation.
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by scheff 14y ago
I have installed Bump twice now, 1 year apart - on my iPhone, then on my Android. Both times it failed to bump files. I wonder if it has inherent issues. That would account for "100 million downloads!" but not actual active users. Just no
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PeopleBrowsr has restraining order over Twitter data(theage.com.au)
1 points by scheff 14y ago|0 comments
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by scheff 14y ago
I would guess Facebook because they would be changing it on a daily basis to keep it consistent with their web version, and adding dedicated functionality unique to the mobile platform.
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by scheff 14y ago
The last thing they ask you to enter is your postcode, which if you did enter it, vastly reduces the number of people that you are being compared with. That, and most people here would be on a high income for their age compared to the rest
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by scheff 14y ago
Re: "Your brain finishes forming in your 20′s" See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity Specifically: "During most of the 20th century, the general consensus among neuroscientists was that brain structure is relatively immutable
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by scheff 14y ago
A FAQ/Resource of the knowledge that gets submitted via our blogs, our code, our recommendations, our solutions. While many submissions are news, a lot is also problem solving and solution sharing. Think about it - the people contributing
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Ask HN: Has there been any attempt to Wikify HN?‏
4 points by scheff 14y ago|4 comments
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by scheff 14y ago
'As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions".' http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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Tell HN: How to see a web page that just got crushed by HN traffic
4 points by scheff 14y ago|2 comments
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Are any of HTML5 Dev Conf sessions available in video/text?
1 points by scheff 14y ago|1 comments
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by scheff 14y ago
It's good to be skeptical. I have seen people get fleeced by get rich quick schemes, and have concentrated on not being one of those victims. Just to be clear - the strategy I'm proposing is NOT a get rich quick scheme. It's "create a pass
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by scheff 14y ago
I'm about to write a book on precisely this topic. I have been looking hard at addressing this issue over the past 10 years so that I can focus on what's important (Startups!). And I believe that I have finally found the best passive inco
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by scheff 14y ago
I've been through this myself. I realised that the problem was me, and the projects that I was working on. I was fortunate enough to be able to step away, then go and find work that IS rewarding (for me it's playing with the front end, wh
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by scheff 14y ago
2 cups per day. I find it sharpens my attention and problem solving, both in traffic (on a motorbike) and when programming. The longer I can spend away from it, the more effective it is when I take it up again. Not essential part of work l
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by scheff 14y ago
It appears to have been reclaimed as SEO bait.

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