GavinB

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by GavinB 19y ago
In bulk. Through a pipe. Cheap. Advertise that it never touches plastic.
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by GavinB 19y ago
Once it can overcorrect the pitch, add extreme compression/limiting, and a harmonizer, then I'll be really scared. Still, I'd love to play with this thing.
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by GavinB 19y ago
Thanks. Wish I could give credit to the place I first found it, but I can't remember. Lately I stick it in every page I make.
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by GavinB 19y ago
It's available in my network. I couldn't find it at first, it fits in at the bottom of the screen like a browser toolbar. It acts very much like gchat in gmail.
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by GavinB 19y ago
The "looking cheap" bit can be important for many products. Many consumers would rather not pay for expensive advertising and design on products, and go for a products that appears ths most "no-frills."
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by GavinB 19y ago
Many of the design tips here are right on, it could use a bit of tightening. One very specific suggestion--try adding this to the style-sheet: html { overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical; } It will keep the scroll bars in Firefox from a
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by GavinB 19y ago
It seems to me that it was a marketing ploy to generate blogger and media buzz in advance of the actual premier. And it seems to have worked fairly well.
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by GavinB 19y ago
"This will all stop when the average VC can’t get any of his/her companies to scale because there is just too much VC sponsored free stuff out there." Markets don't disappear because they're too crowded. When they're too crowded, some peop
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by GavinB 19y ago
This looks like it could be great -- it breaks it down to gameplay without fancy 3d engines. You should put an email signup on the site so that people who want to play the game when it's really playable can keep it in mind. Otherwise we mi
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by GavinB 19y ago
groupingtogether.com is available if you want to go in a more real word direction. SiteForYour.Org is also available. Overall it looks good. You might want to put a live admin demo up so that a site visitor is one click away from seeing wh
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by GavinB 19y ago
I wrote a great blog post explaining all about this site and how to block their spam with no false positives, but I when I try to submit it I get blocked! [/lame joke]
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by GavinB 19y ago
This is why his point about judgment is right on. The challenge is not having good ideas but knowing which of your ideas are good. When Paul Graham says that all that what they care about is having good people, there's an underlying assum
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by GavinB 19y ago
Could it be that the "cheating experts" are actually the students who get away with cheating? They're the ones who are doing the cheating, after all.
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by GavinB 19y ago
I believe most honor codes have the prevention of cheating and plagiarism as their prime function -- which is why this is the perfect example of irony for your high school freshmen. That said, you're addressing broader issues of intellectua
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Irony of the day: Student honor code turns out to be plagiarized.(nytimes.com)
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by GavinB 19y ago
If he renamed it "Why Most Things Fail -- and 10 Easy Things You Can Do To Avoid It Happening to YOU," it would be on the front page of every social media site . . . I need to read less about copywriting.
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by GavinB 19y ago
"Sun, for instance, has created many important technologies in-house, including ...the Java language, popular with programmers." Something about that sentence is disturbing, but I can't quite pin it down. Certainly Java is widely used and
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by GavinB 19y ago
Another good one is sxc.hu. http://www.sxc.hu/advanced_search Just select "no" under the restricted ok button. You'll need to sign in- just use a bugmenot account - http://www.bugmenot.com/view/sxc.hu
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by GavinB 19y ago
Choose something that you want to make, even if it's just a clone of an existing site or service. Then figure out what database, language, CMS etc you need and start hacking it together. You'll be much more motivated with a goal in mind t