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Can you provide more detail on where the NYC-startup scene is ? (Where could one meet people working in these startups ?)

I am new to the whole NYC startup scene. Which, according to you, are some of the cool startups in NYC ? Also, are there any NYC-startup specific news sources ?

Search engines couldn't run Javascript but I don't that's the case anymore : http://www.labnol.org/internet/search/googlebot-executes-jav...

+1 I have realized that having an overview of what's on the agenda aka the bullet points is the most helpful thing. Just talking about those bullet points instead of reading from a…

Humor is a great strategy. Once you have people laughing, you can get away with a few minor hiccups. It reminds me of a rafting trip I took. The buses being used to transport us fr…

I second that. I have found that I learn things faster (and they 'stick' better) when I work on something that I find interesting/cool. The other benefit of working on it is that y…

I agree that it's all keyword based. I think it's because machines can only capture the objective factors of a job search. Things like : "will you get along with the team", do you …

HN "Who's hiring", linkedin jobs, even craigslist. My personal experience with recruiters has not been as good as I would have liked. The recruiters I dealt with mostly did keyword…

I had thought about a variation of #2 at some point but I've been too busy to implement anything.

They used to. Yahoo! used to be a great company for an engineer to work for. Given what they have been doing lately, it seems the focus has changed from being a tech company to a m…

It depends. Ben horowitz wrote a blog post recently on why they prefer founding CEOs : http://bhorowitz.com/2010/04/28/why-we-prefer-founding-ceos/

I think it's a great idea. Are you sure you want to give up on it ? Why do you call it a failure ? I wouldn't call having 7000 users a failure. You have plenty of room to grow. Let…

Well, of all the jobs I could like, I narrowed it down to two. And of those two, only one of them made the offer. So even though I liked the position at first, I wasn't so sure aft…

Funny you say that. pg used an inverse-inverse title for his 2007 Startup School talk. It was titled :"Why to Not Not start a startup" http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html

I agree it's all about priorities. Once you live in the city and get used to the hustle-bustle and the fast paced life where most things are close-by and you can walk to most place…

I once worked for a well-oiled corporate team. It was actually a startup team acquired by the big company. That was the best work experience I have had so far. The team members got…

Can you elaborate ? I have been in similar situations before where the organization didn't have a purpose and the strictly top-down management didn't have that much experience to k…

This product could have had a lot of potential had Yahoo! realized what it was worth. For starters, an analytics package could have benefited a lot from this service. It seems to m…

The google tech talk on CouchDB talks about this problem : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESDBM9-U804 54:14 in, someone asks a similar question

You can permute the capitalization of the words in the dictionary, and the random characters as well ..

A better approach might be to define overriding classes and include different stylesheets. I coul have a .sidebar class styled one way in one stylesheet (say base-stylesheet) and t…