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Blog Essay: 5 Reasons Why Recent Graduates Should NOT Found Startups

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Blog Essay: 5 Reasons Why Recent Graduates Should NOT Found Startups
Visit the link for the full essay - definitely food for thought, and the comments about marketing being an important part are particularly relevant and troubling..

Mike writes consistently well and on important subjects.  Here he is responding to an essay by Paul Graham.

http://mikeomatic.net/?p=95


Online Cover Browser for Comic Books

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During the last week I created Cover Browser, a website to explore & search comic book covers. You’ll find everything from Superman to Spider-Man to independent comics, and I plan to add more titles if feedback is good.
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http://www.coverbrowser.com

Fun nostalgia if you were a comic book reader..

Cool Parent Gadget - Hipseat Baby Carrier

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The Hipseat baby carrier has been developed to allow adults to carry their children naturally on their hip without the usual strains on the back. Specifically designed to address one of the root causes of adult back pain, the seat provides a firm shelf for the child to sit on and supports their increasingly heavy weight from underneath.


http://www.hippychick.com


Simple but clever.
posted by mouser donate to mouser
discovered on http://www.babygadget.net/ (cool site for parents)
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Blog Article: Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute

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"Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute"

Summary:
In most online systems, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.
All large-scale, multi-user communities and online social networks that rely on users to contribute content or build services share one property: most users don't participate very much. Often, they simply lurk in the background.
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When you plot the amount of activity for each user, the result is a Zipf curve, which shows as a straight line in a log-log diagram.
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http://www.useit.com...tion_inequality.html

nice article and relevant to this site.

dirtsimple.org Self-improvement blog

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Recent Blog Essay:
Why Time Management Doesn't Work

For many years, I would try every new time management or personal organization system that came out.  And while some were better than others, I have to say that, overall, none of them really "worked", in the sense that they didn't make me become the "organized person" that I desperately wanted to be.

http://dirtsimple.org/index.html

Phillip Eby writes an interesting blog on self improvement.  A bit unusual but worth checking out.

UnxUtils - gnu commandline tools compiled for Windows

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[for those of you who like cygwin] uou might also check out UnxUtils (http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/). 

The UnxUtils package gas many of the same GNU command line utilties compiled directly to the Win32 API instead of to the cygwin posix API DLL.

The advantages are:
1) you don't need to have the cygwin.dll somewhere on the path (admittedly, this is a pretty minor item)
2) the cygwin API has differences in how drives & paths are specfied on the command line (at least it did years ago when I last tried the Cygwin tools), so you have to learn to use /c/somedir/myfile.txt (or something similar) instead of c:\somedir\myfile.txt.  The cygwin method is much more natural for Unix die-hards, while the UnxUtils syntax is more natural for someone like me who's more used to Windows.

The disadvantages are:
1) the UnxUtils package is not as continuously maintained as cygwin and the utilities provided are somewhat older than you'll find in a current cygwin package.  The UnxUtils package has not been updated in a long while (since 2003), but then again, how often does 'grep' need updating?


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