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by aculver 15y ago
If they've identified a new approach to project collaboration that is superior to their existing product, it makes sense to develop it. If they don't, someone else will, and their prize will be a portion of 37signal's market share. Basecamp
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by aculver 15y ago
Great idea, however one of the things I most dislike about ThemeForest that is still present here are the marketing images for each theme. I'd rather just see a picture of what the template looks like.
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by aculver 15y ago
Check out Pieceable Viewer at https://www.pieceable.com/ . It allows your friends to try the app out in their browser, which avoids the complexity with devices IDs and makes it manageable to get as many people as you want involved in the
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by aculver 15y ago
This is great, but rather than making a resolution to learn programming for the sake of programming, I'd recommend newcomers to programming to have (or come up with) a particular app they want to build right from the beginning and just lear
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by aculver 15y ago
This is useful. They look great. I recently used SWFUpload to allow customers to upload large files directly to S3 and it works great. However, it provides no UI for keeping users informed about the status of their uploads out of the box. T
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by aculver 15y ago
I think he's done the greater service to everyone reading by not naming names. The likelihood that anyone on HN will end up doing business with these three is very unlikely. However, there is a good chance one of us would run into someone e
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by aculver 15y ago
Pleasant surprise waking up to see this as the top story on HN. I work with We Are Titans (the company that developed Aeir Talk in exchange for equity) and did most of the technical development (along with @nickmjones) on what became the fi
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by aculver 15y ago
Stumbled on your landing page at http://kingoftrivia.com/ as well. Looks great! How long did that take to put together?
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by aculver 15y ago
This shutdown happens every year and has at least one awesome effect for consumers: Price schedules are determined before the holiday and locked down from any changes until after the holiday. Since many game publishers are providing deep
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by aculver 15y ago
In the later part of the interview she asks some questions about the recent discussions regarding minorities in the startup community. I thought his response was insightful: "Well, I think the problem is upstream from us. I don't think it's
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by aculver 15y ago
This proposal isn't coming from the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, it's coming from the community. For example, the Italian Wikipedia came down recently in protest of something political. That was implemented by the community of volunteer
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by aculver 15y ago
Yeah, I agree. I'm really happy for the author to launch his product. It's an amazing feeling. However, I think it's important to stress that quitting your job to do this is not the only way for us to do this (as he says in the article.
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by aculver 15y ago
The solution is to pair Zencoder up with something like Amazon S3. We run on Heroku, so we must allow our customers to bypass our server when uploading videos. (Heroku has a 10 MB upload limit.) In Rails I use the s3_swf_upload gem to all
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by aculver 15y ago
I absolutely love Zencoder! Highly recommended. I wanted to encourage our customers to upload screencast style video demos of their apps to be presented within a product shot of an iPhone or iPad on their website (e.g. http://aeirtalk.com/
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by aculver 15y ago
I've got one you can add: iPad applications don't have to support all four orientations. However, whichever orientation you do support (in our instance, portrait) you must support the top-up and bottom-up variations unless some special
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by aculver 15y ago
Uploaded my favorite photo of our 12 week old daughter in the hopes that I could stuff it into the repo of some new project. When attempting to adjust the line width, Chrome went "Aw, Snap!" Would love to see this again when all the kinks a
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by aculver 15y ago
Agreed. I randomly tried イ, ア, 月, 四, and 行. It pulled back tons of results for each of them, but not a single list contained the correct result.
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Memories of Steve(benrosen.com)
9 points by aculver 15y ago|0 comments
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by aculver 15y ago
Thanks so much. I had the same thought on ショーケースサイト but ultimately left it up to the translator. (He'll see the feedback here.) I'll update the pricing to be the rough equivalent and address the other concerns, too. Please do follow us on T
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by aculver 15y ago
Thanks so much for the feedback. The translation was written by a native-Japanese friend who was born, raised, and currently lives in Japan. (I'm sure he'll see the feedback here.) If you've got more specific feedback on the translation or
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by aculver 15y ago
Not sure if this is interesting to others here, but I've been studying Japanese as a hobby for years and have visited a couple of times. Having the chance to launch a product there is really a bit of a dream come true. :) This was possible
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Show HN: Launching my product in Japan(blog.limelightapp.com)
17 points by aculver 15y ago|8 comments
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by aculver 15y ago
My iPhone 4 does. "What time is it?" "The time is 9:14 PM."
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by aculver 15y ago
Not concerned at all. One of the team members there mentioned in an earlier thread that some big customers are already using it. Furthermore, the pricing model is very similar to what Square did in the point-of-service credit card space, an
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by aculver 15y ago
And in many cases the workers won't have to worry about pesky working visas, since they're likely to be working remotely for a company in another country.
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by aculver 15y ago
My bare minimum recurring expense with Braintree is $130/mo. That's our largest recurring expense. What's wonderful about Stripe is that there is no "minimum" service charge. If you don't do a lot of transactions, you don't pay a lot of fee
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by aculver 15y ago
I really like the design of this landing page a lot. Very clean. It's a subtle touch, but the reflection on the iPad is more muted than you typically see for this sort of display (including what you'll see from Apple at http://www.apple.c
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by aculver 15y ago
I did not have this experience at all.
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by aculver 15y ago
This is really awesome. Just an hour ago my wife and I were scanning through an extensive collection of tile-able background images she stumbled onto ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/webtreatsetc/ ). While I really liked a lot of the backgrou
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by aculver 15y ago
If you put the right team together in the right environment, you can launch something valuable (MVP, prototype) in a weekend. My main experience with this was a corporate hackathon where a bunch of developers just decided they wanted to bui

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