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Mongooseon If e-mail had a baby: notification messages

Sounds like an abstraction and extension of Twimailer (http://twimailer.com/). I for one would love a service like this.

Mongooseon Ask HN: Things you wish you'd learned about programming in college?

Will your talk be recorded? I'd be interested in seeing it.

Mongooseon Apple's Mistake

The goal would be to have that kind of developer-friendly functionality in a much more powerful and usable form. Imagine having a "phone" with a robust and developer-friendly OS that could wirelessly connect to external displays and peripherals. You'd have a single, compact brick of computing power in your pocket at all times. And if the oft-projected future of cloud services comes to fruition, the device itself wouldn't necessarily have to have ultra high-end computing power or storage.

That's a mobile experience that I'd get excited for.

Mongooseon Ask HN: How can a Web Developer get into Bioinformatics?

There are a lot of bioinformatics positions out there that don't require much biology out of the box. Many universities have bioinformatics departments with lots of programming positions. I worked for the past year as a student programmer helping develop and maintain the data entry website for a set of international clinical trials. My superior was a seasoned Unix/Perl hacker who found a niche coordinating the development of clinical studies websites.

Mongooseon Lee's Random Thoughts on YC Interviews

Between the CSS-less format and Lee's writing style, that was a much more enjoyable read than many of the other YC interview recaps that have been floating around. A good application of the List of N Things template.

Mongooseon What I Wish Someone Had Told Me (about starting a company)

Never implement a feature for a “potential” customer

That's a gem. It's common to hear the mantra "avoid feature creep," but this is a much clearer way of saying it.

I was at the Seattle Tech Startups meeting that the author mentions, and his dislike of public speaking wasn't apparent at all. Kudos to him.

Mongooseon Entrepreneurs Don't Need Degrees like lawyers and ...

This is one step away from linking to a tweet. Great quote, but the original article is more fitting for HN.

Mongooseon New Dropbox Features

You clearly took my analogy too far. I was referring to the concept of a closely-knit system of user feedback and voting, not a clone of the site directed toward the purpose of meta-discussion.

Mongooseon New Dropbox Features

It's sort of a sparse, more formal takeoff on meta.stackoverflow.com.

Mongooseon The Nerd Handbook

An oldie, but a goodie. Rands is great. Following his blog and tweets proves that there can be managerial whimsy.

His site's glossary is worth a skim: http://www.randsinrepose.com/glossary_alpha.html

Collaboration: A word used to convince you to work with people you'd rather avoid.

Office: The square box where you live. Some models come with windows.

Mongooseon Ask HN: How long to grow organically?

Explain why you were absent, and be honest about it. However, don't leave the investors feeling that your involvement in the company is waning as you both adjust to new family situations. Come up with a solid pitch that conveys your continued enthusiasm and commitment toward organic growth.

Mongooseon Ask HN: What tool makes you most productitive?

Not to shamelessly plug a YC-funded startup, but with regard to source control, I've found Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/) a good solution. Granted, it's more GUI-inclined than SVN, Git, et al. I've read there are CLI interfaces with it, but haven't looked into any myself.

Mongooseon Experiment HN: Idea day

What? I'm not affiliated with 1001 rules for my unborn son.

Mongooseon Experiment HN: Idea day

It'll drive you miserable and grouchy if you think of them as petty annoyances. Thinking of them as opportunities for improvement is more healthy.

Mongooseon Experiment HN: Idea day

http://idea-ne.ws/

Mongooseon Symptoms of Successful Entrepreneurs

This is a great example of how the comments on HN are often more useful than the articles themselves. Thanks, everyone.

Mongooseon Ask HN: Share your resume

My current resume: http://evanmeagher.net/resume.pdf

Bear in mind that I'm a student and it's targeted toward internship opportunities.

Mongooseon Shit My Dad Says Gets a TV Deal after 72 tweets

They should make a Don Draper spinoff version.

Mongooseon Shit My Dad Says Gets a TV Deal after 72 tweets

Poor 1001 Rules for My Unborn Son. 406 updates and all I got was this lousy book deal. http://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/

Mongooseon [dead]

That's a valid argument. If your blog post had mentioned anything nearly as reasonable as what you just typed, this comment thread wouldn't be here.

Mongooseon [dead]

A bit of an overreaction, I'd say.

Mongooseon I’m Paul Graham

I'm not sure you can mimic pg's ability to inspire, even in a theatrical setting. That being said, I'm sure it's an enjoyable show, for those who know who he is.

Mongooseon Hacker news, but for ideas

I got a 502 also, but it seems to actually create the accounts. Try logging in with the credentials you entered.

Mongooseon The Nemesis hypothesis

Asimov's Nemesis doesn't really have anything to do with the topic of this article.

Mongooseon You and Your Research

And for all the pg-lovers out there... http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html

Mongooseon Tools we use for running our startup

That's odd. It runs just fine for me on Snow Leopard. I still miss Gnome Do + Docky on Linux, though. It's the one instance where an open source Linux app outdoes anything UX- and design-wise on OS X.

Mongooseon Tools we use for running our startup

That's quite a comprehensive list. Cool to see Screenr on there in addition to Screenflow.

Have you tried Google Quick Search Box? (http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/) It does all the same things as Quicksilver, but has always seemed snappier to me.

Mongooseon Less Everything - Taking Risks

More of an interesting anecdote than evidence of a trend. Between name-dropping Seth Godin and mentioning how he eschewed football, this comes off as a linkbait appeal to the internet design crowd.

Mongooseon Cottage Computer Programming

Good point. Luddite is the wrong word. I meant to say that there should be some minimum assumed level of expertise of your target market. "Intuitive" is often synonymous with "familiar," and an interface should be able to make some assumptions about the experience and abilities of the user.

Mongooseon Cottage Computer Programming

What they should have said was, "Press down the key marked CTRL. While holding it down, press the B key. Now release these keys and press the key marked RETURN."

I understand the "where's the 'any key'?" argument, but we shouldn't all be designing for recluse luddites.