TravisLS

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by TravisLS 8y ago
On the flip side, the market prices for most of these tracked data are not very high. It's only lucrative to sell this data if you have a very large user base. For paid apps with smaller user bases, the incremental revenue is likely ne
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by TravisLS 10y ago
Ha, I grew up in Atlanta but left 12 years ago and haven't been back. I immediately knew exactly the spot you were talking about.
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by TravisLS 10y ago
Why not a bet on http://longbets.org/ Plenty of people are bullish on VC and Silicon Valley, and almost by definition have plenty of money to bet against you.
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by TravisLS 11y ago
In the analogy (and online), the newspaper with blank spaces (aka the ad-supported site) is a small and insignificant data player. It's mostly advertisers that are collecting and retaining the data, and not just on websites but in all
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by TravisLS 12y ago
Wow, I don't have anything useful to add, but I have to compliment the author. Every single one of these is spot on, and almost perfectly mirrors my experience. Great post.
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by TravisLS 12y ago
Well, this post read my mind. Literally my first thought waking up this morning was "why don't I have some way to use my .vimrc over ssh?" I open up Hacker News and voila! Very nice - clean and simple.
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by TravisLS 12y ago
What's the evidence for the link between west coast droughts in recent years and global warming? (I'm not trying to start a debate, just genuinely asking).
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by TravisLS 12y ago
Wow, this is incredibly useful for planning touring routes. I often ride 100+ mile trips to areas I don't know very well and the hardest part is knowing what roads are more-or-less bikeable to plan a route. Google Maps bike directions
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by TravisLS 13y ago
What's the perceived benefit of not allowing the spouse to work? Is this a "they took our jobs" situation, or is there something substantive behind that policy?
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by TravisLS 13y ago
UPDATE: In case anyone stumbles across this thread. I emailed them and they will ship to the US.
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by TravisLS 13y ago
Just what I was looking for! I have a silicon phone mount now that I use and love, but the silicon straps cover part of the screen, which is annoying at best. I'm definitely buying this right away. Oh, they don't deliver to the US
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The Gift of Doubt(newyorker.com)
1 points by TravisLS 13y ago|1 comments
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by TravisLS 13y ago
That's one of my favorite things about the famous Earthrise photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise The frame contains every living human, and every human who has ever lived - except for three of them.
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by TravisLS 13y ago
Not a designer here, but this comment reminded me of the movie "Helvetica", which describes the same pendulum effect happening in font design over the years. Couldn't agree more that a swing the other way would be a great dev
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by TravisLS 13y ago
I LOVE this idea, and it's totally fine if it becomes "a vast wasteland of garbage" as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Technically, so is YouTube, but you probably don't look at all the garbage. You look at the good
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by TravisLS 13y ago
I'm surprised to see the attitude of this thread as so optimistic about this potential future. Even ignoring the government / police state possibilities, I found this terribly dystopian, and I imagine many others outside of the most optimis
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by TravisLS 13y ago
I thought this was going to be a post about customer development, where the issue is not generally the formatting of the questions, but asking the wrong questions in the first place, or misinterpreting the answers. Surveys can be a useful t
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by TravisLS 14y ago
Mozilla has a submission process for Firefox extensions wherein the extension is manually reviewed by a Mozilla developer before being allowed in the add-on marketplace. I know from experience that extensions with XSS vulnerabilities fail i
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The Coming Water Wars(globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com)
1 points by TravisLS 14y ago|1 comments
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by TravisLS 14y ago
This is a false analogy. Kodak's revenue stream was not protected, but people were prohibited from stealing their film. The film business disappeared because of alternatives that the market preferred. The case of content is different. Free
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by TravisLS 14y ago
I don't think it's a given that this model is inherently bad, obsolete, or evil. Unlike say, horses and buggies, it's not clear that there's a superior alternative here. In the case of video in particular, high quality content is still very
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by TravisLS 14y ago
Shameless plug: If you're a snip.it user looking for an alternative, my app https://annotary.com is a similar replacement, which also includes highlight and annotation features. We're also bootstrapped and have a revenue model, so we're n
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by TravisLS 14y ago
You should be able to see other users' highlights and notes on pages even without signing up. We made sure to include this in case you'd like to share your annotated pages on Facebook, email, etc. Click on a few of the bookmarks in this col
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by TravisLS 14y ago
We're differentiating through our focus on social and collaborative features. Groups, collections, following users, and a personal bookmark feed all make it easy to share research with a group, or discover bookmarks and highlights from othe
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by TravisLS 14y ago
https://annotary.com It's a social bookmarking / annotation service for the web. Highlight web pages, take notes, share with colleagues and friends. We're just about to launch a collaboration toolset for businesses and organizations. Happ
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by TravisLS 14y ago
Ah, I remember those days - or the days right after those days (I was at NYU and got Facebook in late '04). It was so much fun to friend someone you met, see where they were from, all their interests (some real, some comical), what crazy co
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by TravisLS 14y ago
This is great. Thanks for posting it. I had some trouble with the syllable counts, but this is really useful for, well, quickly writing rhyming poetry. Good work.
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Understanding and Beating the Odds of Startup Failure(annotary.com)
3 points by TravisLS 14y ago|1 comments
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by TravisLS 14y ago
I think it's useful to think of ideas you could pursue in kind of a 2x2 matrix. You have revolutionary ideas and evolutionary ideas. You have high-capital ideas and low-capital ideas. If you're Elon Musk, have virtually unlimited resources,
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by TravisLS 14y ago
I've also noticed this negative trend and was thinking of writing about it. I was going to try and quantify it, but never got around to it. I don't post on HN very frequently, but I've read it several times a day for the last 4+ years. Late

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