BenSchaechter

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   by BenSchaechter 16y ago

   Actually, your location is determined automatically based off of your IP address. The map displays the majority votes for their respective regions. I'll email you about the misspelling, though. Thanks.
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   by BenSchaechter 16y ago

   Yup. Once we actually are public and people are making polls, I think "take another poll!" will be very interesting. We actually do infer location based off of IP address and a few other things. Grok.io is cool. I like the look and feel
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   by BenSchaechter 16y ago

   We should chat. Feel free to shoot me an email listed on my profile.
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   by BenSchaechter 16y ago

   Yes, this mouseover problem has been confusing me as of late. I'm using JQuery + Raphael to interact with the SVG map objects. I need to figure out this bug (which I believe is something particular to Raphael) by diving into some docs a b
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   by BenSchaechter 16y ago

   So right now there are 3 polls I think. And I have very odd polls that I've made. So that is part of the problem. I hope to make something in the future where you can follow topics and get emailed polls that interest you. But I think you
6. 96.▲
   by BenSchaechter 16y ago

   Ah, awesome. Nice find. I'll get this fixed. Thanks!
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   by BenSchaechter 16y ago

   We track where users voting come from so you can segment by particular referrers. For example, you could segment votes by Facebook users or Twitter users. Mostly, we aim to work with larger websites/companies with large amounts of website
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   by BenSchaechter 16y ago

   We're adding support for other countries currently. I believe Germany and France are in there right now...but that is something that is definitely on the list. The maps are made with SVG and I make them on my own so they suck up a good amo
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   by BenSchaechter 16y ago

   I believe I just fixed this. Sorry about that. But just to be sure, which browser are you using?
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    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    Good suggestion. I'll add that in.
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    Ask HN: Please Test my New Project by Voting(gopollgo.com)

    20 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|30 comments
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    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    I graduated in May and got a job with a startup merely because I spent my spare time building a fairly cool product built in Ruby on Rails. I would argue if you've shipped a product and can show it off, thats more valuable than having a de
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    On Assimilation(bensign.com)

    1 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|0 comments
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    The Game Mechanics Of Programming a Web-Based Business(bensign.com)

    4 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|0 comments
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    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    I'm borderline addicted to Crystal Light.
16. 106.▲
    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    That was one of the most well-written, to-the-point explanations I have read in a long time.
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    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    I'm interested to hear other peoples' thoughts on comet versus polling. I've done polling solutions before and am in the process of setting up a comet based solution. In my opinion, having fewer requests to the server is better. But if so
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    Can we trust Michael Arrington? (AngelGate)(derekandersen.me)

    101 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|40 comments
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    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    Maybe. But Steve Jobs is currently a lot more liquid than Zuckerberg.
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    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    Now, playing devil's advocate and judging by the number of upvotes this comment got -- couldn't the idea behind evercookie be used for good and not evil in some instances? I'm curious more than anything else. For example, using this persis
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    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    Heh, after a quick look at some of the source code for storing the "cookie" in the browser history: // sorry google. var url = ' http://www.google.com/evercookie/cache/ + this.getHost() + '/' + name;
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    Ok Go's New Music Video: White Knuckles(youtube.com)

    2 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|0 comments
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    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    I've been doing quite a bit of work with SVG maps in Raphael and I have to say that relative to that, building maps is dead simple with this (and renders amazingly quickly). However, I'm having a pretty tough time getting this stuff to inte
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    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    Just a few off the top of my head: Any major blog (TechCrunch, Mashable, Gizmodo) or media website, Stackoverflow's entire network. Most well-trafficked websites take advantage of advertising in some form and support a number of employees.
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    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    Many very successful sites/businesses are able to monetize just fine off of advertisements. I'm pretty positive people wouldn't pay to use Quora when it launched -- or at least Quora wouldn't have had nearly the same rate of growth had the
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    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    I completely agree on the Startup School piece of advice. I flew out from Nebraska last year and met more entrepreneurial/like-minded people than I ever knew existed. That event was one of the main motivations for me to move out to the Va
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    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    I'll start off: Calvin and Hobbes. We had to add a third...so it was named Locke.
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    Ask HN: Nifty Server Naming Conventions?

    2 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|5 comments
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    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    Yup, TechCrunch has three Disrupt conferences per year. The next one is slated for September 27th-29th. URL: http://disrupt.techcrunch.com/2010-sf/
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    by BenSchaechter 16y ago

    I think #8 (BE YOURSELF) should really be the first thing on the list. As someone who is now working at a startup straight out of [a really random, lesser well-known, liberal-arts focused] college, the single most important thing is to see