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by zumbojo 13y ago
pg's "Ramen Profitable" essay contains an excellent Rice and Beans recipe: http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html#f1n
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by zumbojo 13y ago
The "Siracusa County" reference refers to this Hypercritical episode: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/15
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by zumbojo 13y ago
The Walmarts you mentioned: Lush: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=walmart++Hilton+Head+Island,+... Fully paved: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=walmart++Hilton+Head+Island,+...
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by zumbojo 14y ago
Stack Exchange (including Stack Overflow, etc.): http://stackexchange.com/ One of Jeff Atwood's blog posts on the topic: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/10/the-gamification.ht...
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by zumbojo 14y ago
The most recent Freakonomics on Marketplace segment focused on this study: http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/08/23/there%E2%80%99s-cake-...
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by zumbojo 14y ago
In the case of Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange, see Jeff Atwood's (slightly dated - IIRC job candidates are no longer charged) answer to "What is Stack Overflow's business model?": http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/79435/what-is-stack-
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by zumbojo 14y ago
Did you apply to YC, or were you invited to YC? (I am curious how the process works for startups that already have significant traction before joining YC. Humble Bundle comes to mind.)
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by zumbojo 14y ago
E-ink Kindles write a "Your battery is empty" message to the screen shortly before the battery becomes completely discharged. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickbilton/3636447946/
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by zumbojo 15y ago
Xbox 360 (mostly for Netflix and YouTube)
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by zumbojo 15y ago
Sencha - http://www.sencha.com/
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by zumbojo 15y ago
A NYT article during development in 2009: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/business/10novel.html
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by zumbojo 15y ago
There was an excellent discussion on this same salary negotiation tactic in a recent episode of "Build and Analyze": http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/19 (Salary discussion was at some point after discussing VC but before Android market share.)
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by zumbojo 15y ago
I believe it ends up getting enforced at the retailer level; most major chains will refuse to purchase Christmas lights that are not UL listed, so you can be reasonably sure that the cheaply manufactured lights you purchase at Walmart don't
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by zumbojo 15y ago
I believe Underwriters Laboratories and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety would be US examples of similar private agencies.
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by zumbojo 15y ago
37signals Podcast, This Developer's Life, Freakonomics Radio, Hanselminutes (in addition to several already mentioned by others).
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by zumbojo 15y ago
I am a fan of both Top Gear (seen every episode, save for the most recent series) and Tesla (would kill for a Roadster or Model S). The Tesla Roadster review seemed to be fairly typical of Top Gear; with Jeremy Clarkson pointing out his lik
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by zumbojo 16y ago
I have yet to give Evernote a full test drive but personally ever since Google implemented two-factor authentication Google Docs seems to have a profound aura of safety that makes notes feel super-private and nigh-unloseable. It’s hard to
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by zumbojo 16y ago
A barebones, 30-minute (5 minutes if you're good) FizzBuzz-esque puzzle given to candidates up front has drastically reduced the number phone interviews that leave me paralytically depressed at the state of CS education.
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by zumbojo 16y ago
I pop the SIM out of my iPhone and put it into one of these whenever I go biking or camping. Mine cost $15 as a GoPhone (not unlocked). Couldn't be happier.
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by zumbojo 16y ago
Jeff Atwood did an excellent piece on exactly this issue: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/05/on-working-remotely...
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by zumbojo 16y ago
Same here; I think cable companies’ complacency in customer service issues isn’t receiving due consideration when discussing this “cord-cutting” trend. When I purchased my house in 2008, I proceeded to call Comcast (intending to sign up for
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by zumbojo 16y ago
The upgrade is practically automatic. iTunes nags you every time you plug in an out-of-date iPhone and only requires a single click. That and the jump from 3.3.1 to 4.x is an absolute night-and-day excruciating difference in speed and u
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by zumbojo 16y ago
Companies that have vast numbers of adjustable desks (e.g. Fog Creek [1]): How many developers use them in standing mode vs. sitting mode? Do many pick a mode and stick with it forever, or do they change it up throughout the day? And how
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by zumbojo 16y ago
The founders of Instructables seem to have a reasonably good treadmill desk + code setup (though I personally couldn't tolerate his monitor configuration). http://www.instructables.com/id/Treadmill-Desk/
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by zumbojo 16y ago
I haven't been to BK in a while, but during grad school the back of every receipt asked you to call a number, complete a survey, write down a code, and redeem the receipt for a free Whopper. The code consisted of two letters corresponding
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by zumbojo 16y ago
Nova did an excellent (and surprisingly technical) episode [1] on the 2005 race mentioned in this piece, including Thrun's Stanford team. It was especially impressive as a triumph of Thurn's software-based approach over several of the othe
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by zumbojo 16y ago
During a talk [1] at Stanford, Loren Brichter mentioned that he was living off income from Tweetie (this was before Twitter's acquisition of Atebits and the rebranding of Tweetie to be Twitter for iPhone). [1] http://itunes.apple.com/WebOb
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by zumbojo 16y ago
Netflix, Flickr, GitHub
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by zumbojo 16y ago
Netflix's streaming is reasonably efficient; one forum user mentions that HD streaming consumes 3.8 Mb/s ( http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1115352 ), which is comparable to what I see on my Tomato bandwidth graphs (~4.0 Mb/s
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"Ten Seconds": A useful iPhone app with almost no UI in ~500 lines of Obj-C.(itunes.apple.com)
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