TooMuchNick

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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
In college, where I majored in English, I thought I'd have an adventure and take a class in programming. They taught us C++. I never tried programming again. Say I was foolish enough to try again on my own. Say I wanted to write my own vers
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
(Context: I'm the cofounder of a pre-launch site called Boffery, a visual private diary of a user's sex life.) Everyone tells me that, and everyone is right. There's one service I'd love to partner with if I ever got the chance. Hopefully y
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
This is why it helps to have one or two colleagues you really respect, who really respect you. If you're confident that they're very good, then if they think you're good too, you must be good, right? I find this satisfies my need for the ap
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
And so began the thread that everyone was a little afraid to post "hooray!" in.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
No, you're right. They've only been stalked, threatened, had pictures taken of them every time they go to the beach, been the butt of jokes on TV every single night, sometimes been assaulted, kidnapped, or shot. But thankfully I can't remem
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
A million bucks to make Internet users nicer? I think Flickr got paid a lot more for that.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
"This spontaneous reaction was in response to a blog that attempted to be humorous by using the word 'fucking' multiple times in reference to Adobe’s UIs which were perceived as lacking a native look and feel." I assume he means this hilari
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
So you're saying this is a bad job posting because Craigslist must die?
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
I could make a better cheeseburger than McDonald's but I'm damn well not gonna get billions and billions served.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Writing freelance from San Francisco is pretty satisfying for me when I have clients in New York. I can at least get a lot of the busywork of answering email out of the way by 9 AM.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Then watch the commenters divide into two camps: 1. "X affected me. The world is scary and random." 2. "X did not affect me. You should have voted for Ron Paul."
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
This just in: A lot of people in the tech industry have a harder time dealing with criticism (both fair and unfair) than their counterparts in the entertainment industry. When asked for help, Hollywood said "get over it, nerds."
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Maybe he's tried referrals and sites like Match.com, which launched a free version, turned him down or paid too little because they want to take over the vertical too.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Has anyone ever examined how TED became so damn watchable? You could learn more by watching their free online videos than by watching the presentations of a dozen other conferences.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Po Bronson's book "The Nudist on the Late Shift" says that CitySearch cold-called all kinds of businesses in every city it launched in. Have you read enough articles about Yelp to see if they did the same? Incidentally, how do you plan to w
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
If I'm not already excited to join the site, would I be excited about volunteering for it?
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Ask HN: iPhones are mundane. What's the new grail?
1 points by TooMuchNick 18y ago|4 comments
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
About one in ten of my tech-industry friends (and because I edited Valleywag.com for a year I made a lot of them -- more enemies, but that's another story) have at some point told me they wanted a longterm cafe, something like a cozy shared
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Wow. You haven't rented a storefront or an office, have you. Or paid water bills, or gotten permits to serve food and drink for a profit, or dealt with a zoning board, or...
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Yeah, I heard all about how laws killed P2P on the latest episode of Law & Order I torrented.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
I'm a co-founder at a startup called Boffery, a visual diary for people's sex lives. (Think Geni.com for sex.) The sex angle alone doesn't sound terribly important, but our long-term plan is to license the technology to other social network