Travis

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Malcolm Gladwell discussion with Page2's Bill Simmons(sports.espn.go.com)
2 points by Travis 17y ago|0 comments
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by Travis 17y ago
What kind of app are you building that this is a concern?
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by Travis 17y ago
Experts Exchange is notorious for being a bait-and-switch website. They cram organic search with their results, then force you to sign up for an account before you can view the answers. For a while there was a hack where you could piece to
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Ask HN: Listing customer logo on "Who uses this site" page
4 points by Travis 17y ago|4 comments
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by Travis 17y ago
Agreed. I use CakePHP (used the dart-against-a-wall method of picking it from the major frameworks). Now very familiar with it, enough so to understand its limitations, and especially its strengths. Probably going to switch to Zend soon,
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by Travis 17y ago
My only comment here is that people (even "reasonably objective peers") will almost never tell you anything other than how great your product is. Marketers put the "success test" on most market research as something called the "top two box"
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by Travis 17y ago
For my startup, we had 5 people in on it from the beginning. The workload is split evenly, except the President is def. putting more time in than the other guys. We spoke with some funding groups, who said they like to see the President h
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by Travis 18y ago
My company went through this recently. We listened to the advice of experts (PG, Venturehacks, VCs, etc.) who told us that nobody cared about your idea. Seriously. Nobody is going to steal your idea, for the simple reason that it's not or
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by Travis 18y ago
Second the posts here. It's computationally cheap to issue a certificate. Godaddy figured, hey, why not try to take some business away from the other players? Minimal cost to them, once they got the issuing authority credentials from FF/I
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by Travis 18y ago
I suspect the paywall protected articles that Google runs across aren't protected by IP address, but by User-Agent string. I've seen a few hacks for this (look at the NYT User Agent hack), and the FF plugin that allows you to alter your UA
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by Travis 18y ago
DavidSJ, The courses all teach you the same kinds of things. It's not exactly snake oil, but it's not something that's easy. I took one of these years ago, as a kid, and got little out of it. Why? Because I didn't practice. Here are the
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by Travis 18y ago
PG - any chance that you guys are planning on releasing quarterly high level reports from HN? I did some searching for it, but couldn't find anything in the past (I'm a fairly recent user, but couldn't find any references). It'd be intere