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andrewhy.de
Personal blog · andrewhy.de · on HN as andrewhydestartupsproductivityculture
andrewhy.de is a personal blog at andrewhy.de about startups, productivity and culture. Since 2009, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000%”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Andrew Hyde's blog covers startup and career topics, including resumes for startups, US passport statistics, Mechanical Turk for generating ideas, and living cheaply. Comments mostly cite it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000%2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-11
- /percent-of-americans-with-passports/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-19
- /minimalism-project-update-39-things/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-16
- Extreme Minimalism: this guy owns just 15 things2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-05
What Hacker News says?
>The major flaw there is that most americans will never want a visa anyway, so it ends up being a largely invisible protest on the part of the other countries. Most Americans don't even have passports! [1] By punishing the tiny fraction of Americans visiting Brazil or China, these countries are simply shooting themselves in the foot. It's a mostly invisible protest - and the only people witnessing said protest are t…
Comment linking /percent-of-americans-with-passports/
on “Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States”Submitted Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000% as a story · 241 points
HN discussionLots of sales offices in Melb (Google, LinkedIn...) Losing Startcon to Sydney was one of my top reasons other than that international startups (particularly fintech) seem to gravitate towards Sydney. Melbourne does have some noticeable startups - Carsales.com.au, realestate.com.au, envato, seek but I think there isn't enough done to phrase them. If you are in Melbourne however I'd recommend coming a Inspire9 pitch n…
Comment linking /why-your-startup-should-visit-melbourne/
on “Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the most expensive cities?”Submitted Extreme Minimalism: this guy owns just 15 things as a story · 184 points
HN discussionOP here. I've updated the items I own list (now 39!) and written a bit more about it here. http://andrewhy.de/minimalism-project-update-39-things/ The linked post up top is from May. Lots has changed since then. Great discussion here. Always interesting how people look at the project.
Comment linking /minimalism-project-update-39-things/
on “Extreme Minimalism: this guy owns just 15 things”Submitted Committing Location Based Service Suicide as a story · 44 points
HN discussionI may not own many things but I am sure a digital hoarder. http://andrewhy.de/im-a-physical-minimalist-but-a-digital-ho...
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on “Extreme Minimalism: this guy owns just 15 things”Submitted Why do Kindle images look so bad? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAndy Baio did this last year with the additional task of including "why do you turk?" http://waxy.org/2008/11/the_faces_of_mechanical_turk/ Interesting to see how the demographic has shifted in that time period. Regarding the bit about crowd-sourcing ideas; Andrew Hyde used Turk to solicit startup-ideas: http://andrewhy.de/using-mechanical-turk-for-ideas/
Comment linking /using-mechanical-turk-for-ideas/
on “I hired 50 people today. This is what they look like”Submitted Washington Post Style Guide Now Includes “Startup” as A Word as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAmericans rarely left the country until very recently. "Valid U.S. Passports in 2012 is 113,431,943 (36%). In 2002 it was 55,169,571 (19%). In 1992 it was 17,950,578 (7%). " ( http://andrewhy.de/percent-of-americans-with-passports/ )
Comment linking /percent-of-americans-with-passports/
on “Best, Brightest – and Saddest?”Submitted Posterous Lets You Import Data from Dying Network Posterous as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAlso worth reading: http://andrewhy.de/resumes-for-startups/
Comment linking /resumes-for-startups/
on “The Startup Resume”Submitted Owning 15 things: 7 months in as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> How does Amazon accomplish their free 3G with the Kindle and why aren't they selling this service? It's not "free 3G", it's "free ebook shop browsing and delivery via 3G" - relatively small files, and Amazon directly profits from each one. Thus they can afford to pay for it, and they're big enough to negotiate reasonable prices. But note that it's very limited: audio books are not delivered via 3G, nor are files s…
Comment linking /amazons-markup-of-digital-delivery-to-indie-authors-is-129000/
on “Ukko Mobile From Helsinki Eliminates Data Roaming”Submitted How to Live (Comfortably) on $36 a Month for Food as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think it's about Andrew Hyde: http://andrewhy.de/minimalism-project-update-39-things/
Comment linking /minimalism-project-update-39-things/
on “The Few Things I Own”Submitted iPad can be your only computer - until things go wrong as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou didn't mention your specific skills, but no matter what, start building a decent profile on linkedin and a portfolio ( take projects on upwork, fiverr, toptal, crossover... whatever ) right now. Heck, write a "how to" tutorial on medium.... Also look for a roommate, to decrease your fixed costs without breaking the lease. This could give you some ideas too: https://andrewhy.de/how-to-live-comfortably-on-36-a-mon…
Comment linking /how-to-live-comfortably-on-36-a-month-for-food/
on “Ask HN: Laid off after 2 months. What exactly should I be doing?”Submitted Resumes for Startups (2010) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boulder Is For Startups as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I don’t organize many tech events as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extreme Minimalism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10th Anniversary of Boulder Startup Week as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup weekend turns 8 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Full Circle ( Startup Weekend, Startup Week and TechStars) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Little to no CGI to create a human kaleidoscope as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Women In Tech as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The New Tech Conference Model: "Community Driven." as a story · 0 points
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