paolomaffei

This can also apply to the business world: As soon as some other company tries to damage you in an unfair way you are supposed to fight.

But like for kids, the other guy can be just too big for you to fight back.

I didn't like him at the beginning too. But with time passing I began to admire him not because of his entrepreneurship skills but because of his exceptional personal branding

How exactly do I contact you?

I don't know, what exactly can you do during 8 * 30 minutes interruptions a day? My leisure time is mostly browsing the internet (which is usually work related) being it HN, Facebook, Reddit, or just Googlish site

Going to repost without affiliate code in url (that anyway wasn't mine but from tim ferriss site, i just didn't notice)

oh, crap, I copy/pasted it from a page of tim ferriss site:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/04/13/stoicism-101...

Please please when articles are this long can someone provide a tl;dr?

You're probably talking about COMPANIES buying back their stock, not directors or founders.

Of course companies act for the well being of the company itself, while directors only for theirs, so yeah, insider buying by a company or a director is totally different.

I don't understand. Am I not supposed to say that I found this article pointless and everyone is upvoting it just because it has "Paul Graham" in the title? Sometimes HN really surprises me.

Paul Graham has a screen smaller then mine and uses two software I didn't know existed which I will now check out, that's everything vaguely "interesting" I found in this.

I still think the pricing page should point out better what a data point is.

That's the same trick as "you're not paying more for using a credit card, the SELLER is paying for it", except of course the seller will have higher prices because of this.

Pro tip: if you read a business book like you would with a novel (when in a busy commuting, before going to sleep and generally when you attention is low) it's still better than not reading it at all

"On GAE Mail just works. At the time of writing, Azure doesn't offer SMTP out so you need a 3rd party server. "

Eh, not really, since GAE IP addresses were abused by spammers, mails go out but how many of them hit the inbox?

Anyone else thinking this is a bit sad?

# Once with an ugly partner it is unlikely that anyone will try and take them from you meaning you can let yourself go completely once you’re together.

# In these straightened times TUBB is cheaper as a) We don’t charge much as the pretty sites and b) Ugly people have lower expectations – for a first date A Family Bucket will usually do the trick.

Does this really need to be said to someone that wants to manage a lot of money on PPC spending?

What if you have a cushy job that earns you $100k / year working 4 hour a week? (lifestyle business like Ferris like)

Facebook? What about Youtube then? http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=715&#...

Reality is Yahoo wasn't going to make revenue after time, FB and YT probably will.

It was already suggested often that people should "pay" karma to post and maybe even to comment

Users should be encouraged to comment LESS, only if they have something useful to say.

That's what I'm doing anyway, because I really don't care about karma and speak only when I have something worth to say, would be cool if anyone was acting like this since we have no shortage of users.

I sometimes love humanity :)

I recall I loved IRC so much when I was young I learned all the protocol even if I didn't want to actually use it.

I see you're talking of A/B tests for BIG and medium sites then.

If you only do let's say < 10.000 Unique Visits a month you're probably gonna do 1, 2, heck even 5 A/B tests, not more, so that wouldn't be a big time tax, would it?

Also I'm not sure about other opensource CMSes but this one for wordpress you just have to copy the javascripts on a page and create the test on GWO.

Can't edit anymore: this is the plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-website-optimizer...

I don't understand people using a CMS thinking that Google Website Optimizer (GWO) for A/B tests is hard

I got myself a plugin for WordPress that lets you insert in any page the GWO javascripts I created a variation page on WordPress, identified the original one and the conversion page. On the site i created the test, started it and it's just working.

But even if you're not using a CMS, copy/paste some code at the beginning and end of a HTML page? how is that so hard?

Edit: clarified

Yes, Italy did it! Last in Western Europe and highly developed countries (a part from Greece).

Isn't everything you ever made a byproduct of ruby on rails anyway?

http://personalmba.com/best-business-books/ ?

Will they now stop with gossip or do even more?

"The cost of an accident, should one occur, could be extremely high in terms of human life and the risk is completely avoidable in that no one absolutely needs to use their mobile phone in flight."

compare it to:

"The cost of an accident, should one occur, could be extremely high in terms of human life and the risk is completely avoidable in that no one absolutely needs to eat meat to survive, they can eat vegetables."

wait, why his post is +8 while mine is -3?

is it because I was only wondering if it was a good or not? Oh, HN...