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by Travis 17y ago
If you want to turn it into an app, ever, go with drupal. You're more familiar with WP, so use that as the default unless the "friend" can give you a list of concrete reasons to go with drupal. When it all comes down to brass tacks, use wh
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Have you just been looking passively, or have companies told you that you're unqualified for postings? I went through a similar situation at work, and decided to interview for a few positions. The "senior" position listings were definitel
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by Travis 17y ago
I use a hybrid, depending on where I'm working. Sometimes I use Gmail Tasks, for high level "don't want to forget about this thing.." tasks. At home I generally use paper / pen. At work I use notepad.
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by Travis 17y ago
My (bootstrapping) startup took a smallish f&f round. We took the money in the form of a convertible loan, which means that it can be converted to stock or repaid (as a normal loan would) at a certain date. This got us the money easily
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I'd always assumed this was a common teaching. I saw it repeatedly in my undergrad CS days, and even saw it in some AP high school classes.
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I think the opposite. Data is just raw, information is one level abstracted, and knowledge is the next step (information + expertise). Data technologies -> information technologies -> knowledge technologies. In the music example, d
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by Travis 17y ago
It's not going to help you solve any underlying problems, but it will at least lead you to one big conclusion: sex doesn't have to be a big deal. You'll do it, realize, "hey, that was fun... but not as big of a deal as I thought." That isn
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by Travis 17y ago
Salesforce has never particularly impressed me. But by far the worst UI has to be the Authorize.net one. It is absolutely miserable. And they're HUGE, and super high profile. Why can't they have a decent site? Godaddy's upselling isn't r
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I've actually got a manuscript at a journal right now. I'm a CS guy, but I work in public health, so my paper is going to be in an epi journal. It was some work (2 years worth) on analyzing open ended text responses (you know, at the end
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by Travis 17y ago
Seems like most comments here talk about the "intuitive" aspects of the design. Which I agree with -- an app should ideally be intuitive. That said, being intuitive really only is an issue during the user's learning curve. As every vi/ema
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by Travis 17y ago
Yup, there is a labs item to customize your shortcuts. I couldn't use Gmail without them, for the most part. It's not a great visual UI, but the workflows behind it are amazing. It's kinda like emacs in that aspect, I suppose...
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by Travis 17y ago
Replying to myself with a clarification: there are cases where people have allergies to the flu shot. But that's going to be about the limit of negative reactions. It's safe.
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by Travis 17y ago
There is no reason to not get the shot. I work in public health, with a lot of really smart folks who are both educated and well meaning. Don't trust me -- there is no science of a convincing magnitude that says flu shots are bad. The on
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by Travis 17y ago
same here. I organize tags by priority as well, so that gives me some meta groupings with which to judiciously apply the Mark All As Read action to.
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by Travis 17y ago
I also use the header() call to send an HTTP response code. Most of the time, I want my users to be able to retrieve the information on that page later (say it's an order number / summary / etc.) Lots of people will copy the URL in their
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by Travis 17y ago
There is some research to show that a "real world feel" is a critical component of a website (from the "What makes a website credible" study from a few years back. Having a picture of you will go some ways towards doing that. I put my pic
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by Travis 17y ago
My startup has used twitter really effectively the past few months to do a few things. 1) Drive traffic to our blog, 2) drive people with a need for our service, to our service Of course, we're a b2b targeted at engineers / sales guys, so
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by Travis 17y ago
I understand where everybody is coming from when they say that salary + 5% is very generous. Really, I do. However, I would caution OP to consider the following two (which it sounds like he has, at least for item 2 below). First, biggest
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by Travis 17y ago
My plate is so full these days that I won't use a new site / service unless I can consume via RSS. Didn't seem to find a feed on the page, which makes it effectively inaccessible for me.
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by Travis 17y ago
#4 is most applicable to me. I'm always one bug fix away from releasing a new version, but don't manage to release often enough. IMVU runs a great blog (startup lessons learned) that you should read regularly if you operate a web startup.
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I agree with the OP, but want to make sure that everybody realizes each market is unique. My startup is in the b2b sphere (specifically, industrial research, design, and manufacturing). Our product is slowly growing and getting traction, b
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by Travis 17y ago
I'd also like an invite. If anyone has gotten one through the HN community, please pass along the invites. http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01KGNgbDpPbB2bWjFN4IRSww==... Thanks!
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by Travis 17y ago
You also need to evaluate how good your data is. Do you have confidence that people "recommending" teachers will input their names correctly, and not put in "John McPeebrain Doe". If you scrape data, be careful of that as well. You can ea
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by Travis 17y ago
Don't know how good it is, but a quick google returned http://www.mechanicratingz.com/ The fact that ratings endz with a Zed makes me doubt it's any good. I've seen one or two others, one was a web2.0 type. Can't find it now, though.
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haha I did something like this for a friend of mine a few years back. Primed it with about 50 pics of him, 50 randoms. Allowed people to upload their own images which were then included. Passed the URL on to all friends. Hilarity ensued
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by Travis 17y ago
... and, no offense intended to pg (who has done a great job building this community!), but if HN became the kind of place with a monopoly on job postings... it will lose its spot as my favorite / most useful website. Seriously, that kind
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by Travis 17y ago
Weekends are when I'm able to work on my startup. Compressed work schedule for paying job, 4 days x 10 hrs / day. 3 day weekends mean I can relax and put some solid hours in on my startup.
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+1 for leaderboard!
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Thanks! I'm excited to check out your product, regardless of your time frame. As I'm sure you know, I'll be doing more user testing down the road. This is just testing for our MVP.
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by Travis 17y ago
Rob, I really like your app. I'm actually about ready to do some user testing on my own startup, and I've planned on using usertesting.com. I'd like to try out your product as well, if you'd like some addt'l users. I just filled out the

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