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it's a ruse to get some HN airtime so that you'll learn (and maybe even remember) the name of the guy who wrote it...just like 2/3rds of the rest of what gets posted on here...don't hate the player. we're the suckers up-voting it so he can get some tech scene name-recognition.

I once headed up content marketing for a small online publisher. It's a horrible job. You spend half your day trying to come up with clever headlines of an article you've at-best skimmed and the other half trying to game traffic sources like reddit or fark or harassing other sites for a back-link. Content is too cheap. Supply is enormous (huf po alone does 1000 posts a day!). So, it's a race to the bottom with everyone producing crap. It'll eventually get so bad that a larger market will open up for for-pay content like the nytimes where you're guaranteed some level of quality. I think the traditional pubs who can weather the storm will do just fine once we reach this point.

can someone explain the 'woo' reference? k thx.

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because they need pageviews to stay alive and someone over there figured, 'huh, i bet we can get this on the front page of hacker news'

reminds me a bit of zazu

just make it work, as simply as possible.

apartment hunting doesn't suck because you have to use craigslist. apartment hunting sucks because you have to deal with real estate agents.

'...web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness...' says it all right there, doesn't it? You know what makes me a happy programmer? Building things, not mucking about with setting up a new dev environment (and filling my machine with crap) every time I hop on a new client project. Make the 'trivial' shit go away so I can focus on the fun/interesting/creative/productive stuff...sounds good to me. I'm very interested in a product like this where I can configure on the fly and keep my machine uncluttered. (seriously, it just feels gross to have 6 different versions of rails and 4 different rubies installed on my machine, even if RVM makes it kinda easy)

posted a domain but i don't see it in the list? :(

edit: the timestamp on my entry on http://friendsdomains.com/istanb4u says '3 hours ago' but i just posted it...double sad face

it's not a new point but it's a good one: for most teenagers the least 'cool' people in the world are their parents. if the parents are really into facebook the kids are going to be turned off and looking around for something else.

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Boston has a great bar scene. Our bars and restaurants are regularly recognized as some of the best in the country. We also have many, many bars for such a small geographic area. IMO the bar scene in Boston is superior to SF.

These are the real pain points for living in Boston as a 20-something:

The T is miserable, always. The weather is miserable, 9 months per year. The attitude is cynical, usually. Massholes are real. Prices are high. We spend too much time comparing ourselves with NYC.

Otherwise, Boston is excellent. The city is clean. People are educated. Some are even attractive. The bike sharing is great.

Bar closing time is not a real issue. It's just a symptom of an old-fashioned, stuck in its ways, puritanical city.

they should advertise on yelp where people are, you know, looking to buy pizza.

Make friends with a writer. Particularly one of the opposite sex. Ask them to write about you. Works every time.

I've had the opposite experience with working at home vs working in a shared space. I was much, much more productive working at home (having a 'home office', aka a room with a desk and no tv was key) but I am far happier working out of a shared space where I have other humans to bond with (and whom I have become close friends with). On balance, moving into a shared space has been a great decision but I do sometimes miss the ruthless productivity that came from having absolutely zero distractions.

Lack of demonstrable skills followed by lack of initiative amplified by poor economy.

tl;dr The world needs ditch-diggers, too

Thanks, Ty (or was it smails?).

take an evening and go have drinks with some current med students / residents - here's what you'll hear (not from all, but from many): "Obamacare is killing my profession!"..."i should've gone to b-school instead"..."i could be working at GS but now i'm busting my ass for $50k"..."i'm getting screwed! this is sooooo unfair! how am i going to survive this debt?!"...so, the problem isn't that they don't make a great living - because they do. the problem is that they feel they're entitled to make as much as other 'smart people' (aka, their former undergrad classmates at princeton) in other professional careers like corporate law or banking - which they don't. they still make way more than 99% of the population, but those people don't matter as a basis of comparison. if you counter with, "...but, you're a doctor. you're not in it for the money - you want to help people, right?" you'll get an extremely exaggerated eye-roll and the conversation will end...so, in short - it doesn't surprise me at all that a doc is leaving medicine to chase $ in tech now that it's no longer cool to tell your cronies you work in finance... (there are many exceptions and God bless them but, I've personally run into too many self-righteous, woe-is-me med students to know what to do with...) - why do you think dermatology is such a competitive field? $$$$$$

you wouldn't believe what many of the students in top-10 MBA programs paid to "admissions consultants" to get in. we're talking several thousand dollars per application. you can't go through the process without bumping into 'experts' and 'consultants' who will make you sick to your stomach. MBA applicants are an uber-competitive, wealthy population eager to "invest in the future"...in other words, you're onto something. do it.

I have a product in the local restaurant space. As a result I talk to lots of restaurant people - staff, primarily. It is overwhelming the vitriol I hear from them toward Yelp. Many people downright despise it.

it is entirely about brand name. add to your example the strengthening of ties within the old-boys ivy league network. it's perfectly rational - if you're them do you take the smart kid from the university of connecticut who comes from a modest background and is on in-state tuition or the smart kid from yale who, chances are, is related to a congressman, corp executive, or, if you're lucky, a saudi prince. kind of a no-brainer if your business is based largely on relationships and protected largely by class barriers.

come to think of it, why is everyone on here so concerned with 'killing hollywood' lately? we should be killing the too-big-to-fail financial institutions.

Machine learning for bakers and chefs? Wow, you've managed to take everything that is fun, interesting, and compelling out of making great food. I'll pass on your future world of Oreos and Heinz Ketchup.

In fact, the food and bev industry is going in the exact opposite direction of this form of commoditization with small, craft shops popping up all over the place.

Do the companies pay you for this distribution? They should. It's advertising for them, after all

He's been there a year and can put in print that this is the 'best decision of his life' ? Seems a bit premature, doesn't it?

certainly the experience is very different if you live in, say, New York City, than if you live in Istanbul and sometimes travel to New York City.

Though the 'cool kids' aren't using it, Yelp has basically cloned the 4sq product within it's mobile app (baron instead of mayor...). They come from a very strong position already having all that review content to support it. They seem like more a threat to 4sq than fb is.

Thought she handled the, "well, this is news to me! i don't know anything about the recent IPOs!" response pretty well.

anything they can do to limit the frequency of coach challenges and replay reviews is a good thing in my book. i'm blown away that we still use three or four oft-poor camera angles to try and determine whether or not a ball crossed a straight line.

other than that, i still think football should be played on a grass (preferably muddy) field with the outcome determined by grit, determination, chance, and physical ability - not robots picking from a statistically optimal playbook. That being said, it will be pretty funny to see the geeks take over the NFL.

the left to right scrolling content is really disorienting for me -- it forces my eyes to go right to left to find new content, which is the opposite of how english speakers read. This makes me feel as if i'm going backward rather than forward. i think if you were to flip the direction of the scroll it would be a far, far more pleasurable reading experience. Looks nice, regardless.

it's a niche app but it is also a very crowded niche. I've seen dozens and dozens of cocktail recipe apps. I pay pretty close attention to this market b/c i'm in it but have gone at it from an entirely different angle (if interested, see http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bostonflip/id451503483 which i believe passes the 'fugly' test?). we're only servicing boston metro area at the moment.