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by SurfScore 13y ago
I wonder if people would be so opposed to the monetization strategy if he wasn't targeting low-income families? If he was targeting programmer parents to teach their kids, and charging them, would it be bad? I think it's safe to say most ga
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by SurfScore 13y ago
In "how much I pay to eat out" money, no. (It is like...50 Chicken McNuggets tho) In "how much apps typically cost" money, yeah. It could be really useful, but in the end its still just a collection of stuff you can find somewhere else. Yo
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by SurfScore 13y ago
It looks great, but its pretty cost-prohibitive. After all the problems with Coda 2, I'm hesitant to fork out money up front for something from Panic that looks fancy, but I have no idea how reliably it performs.
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Before Jobs agreed to go back to Apple, he made sure he could pretty much do anything he wanted and never get fired. A lot of the changes he made were just as disruptive, if not more so, than the ones Johnson made. Johnson tried to do that,
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by SurfScore 13y ago
At the end of the day it's just not one size fits all. Kobe Bryant sleeps 4 hours a night (he just tweeted that a couple weeks ago), and plays a ridiculous amount of basketball every day. If I tried to do that I would end up in the hospital
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by SurfScore 14y ago
Just to clarify, we initially decided to work together because she's an excellent designer and I can't design for shit. I just thought it might help our case.
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by SurfScore 14y ago
This wasn't an apology, it was an excuse.
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I've been rejected from Y Combinator 3 times. Here's why(jon.surfscore.com)
53 points by SurfScore 14y ago|66 comments
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by SurfScore 14y ago
I can understand the utility of vim, but I've never understood the argument about being able to churn out code so much faster. Sure there are times when I'm head down hacking away like some movie, but so much of my time is spent thinking, r
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Freelancers - Copy/Paste NDA Refusal(jon.surfscore.com)
4 points by SurfScore 14y ago|0 comments
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by SurfScore 14y ago
It's not a website, but we created an iPad game called Kodable that teaches kids programming concepts. As an added bonus, its pretty damn cute! We target 5-7, but most young kids tend to enjoy it. We're also creating a curriculum to integra
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by SurfScore 14y ago
inserts random, out of place positive comment
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by SurfScore 14y ago
Ironic, someone known as being so helpful within YC is known as the Doombringer outside of it
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by SurfScore 14y ago
If we're applying with an app already in the App Store, should we include a link to iTunes or make a demo video?
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Kodable teaches kids 5+ the basics of programming(surfscore.com)
1 points by SurfScore 14y ago|0 comments
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by SurfScore 14y ago
Life isn't fair
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by SurfScore 14y ago
good thing i bet 50 cajillion dollars on it happening...now I'm gonna go buy Mercury
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by SurfScore 14y ago
but the real question is if this is the one that will make the front page or not...
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by SurfScore 14y ago
I do love how a guy from box added this link....
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by SurfScore 14y ago
I guess you couldn't go wrong with theBoom... http://www.theboom.com/v/military/index.asp Bose does make some commercial-grade noise canceling headphones. They're like 1k but I'd be willing to bet they would work too
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by SurfScore 14y ago
Apple is rather polarizing in this regard. For every one of these nightmare stories that you hear, there's always one about someone getting their 5-year-old laptop replaced for a brand new one for free. I guess the human element comes into
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by SurfScore 14y ago
When I was 14, I walked uphill to school at 4 AM, in the snow, both ways, while carrying an IBM mainframe in my backpack!
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Ask PG: Preferred method of demoing iPad apps for YC Application?
4 points by SurfScore 14y ago|3 comments
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by SurfScore 14y ago
It seems to me that this isn't the first YC interview story that ended with rejection, and being too set on a certain idea being cited as a possible reason why...
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by SurfScore 14y ago
(Dennis Ritchie > Steve Jobs) == (Nikola Tesla > Thomas Edison) That might be better
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by SurfScore 14y ago
Dennis Ritchie > Steve Jobs == Nikola Tesla > Thomas Edison
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by SurfScore 15y ago
You know, I think Microsoft may actually be getting their shit together (gasp). IE9 definitely isn't a bad browser, and 10 better than 9. I think they might be learning finally that they can't get away with putting out supbar products anymo
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by SurfScore 15y ago
It always comes down to price. The vast majority of people in the world aren't so self-righteous that they'll pay $10 more for something that was produced "the right way." This has always been the nature of these kinds of businesses, and un
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by SurfScore 15y ago
Could you be more specific? Is the whole design offputting or certain aspects? Any suggestions would be appreciated
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Ask HN: SurfScore incentivizes user conversion, what do you think?
6 points by SurfScore 15y ago|4 comments

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