apdinin

9 ms·

1.
The Programmer Who Could Have Bought Google for $1M(entrepreneurshandbook.co)
2 points by apdinin 6y ago|0 comments
2.
by apdinin 7y ago
A company or individual putting “Facebook” or “Instagram” in their domain name without Facebook’s authorization would constitute trademark infringement. Pretty sure this lawsuit is just Facebook doing what they’re supposed to do to “protect
3.
What's a Unicorn Saddle?(instagram.com)
3 points by apdinin 9y ago|0 comments
4.
Give People Erections, You're the Devil. Give People Cancer, You're a Hero(medium.com)
5 points by apdinin 10y ago|6 comments
5.
by apdinin 11y ago
Devil's advocate here... and I'm adding the caveat that I still use my iPad 1 daily (with the grandfathered, unlimited data plan). A lot of this is about generating revenues. At the end of the day, Apple is a public corporation. I
6.
by apdinin 11y ago
I can make it work on SMTP/IMAP, but, right now, it requires a custom setup. I've got a couple accounts that pay to do this... but they also have lots of team members using it.
7.
by apdinin 11y ago
Thanks! Fixed... and an extra upvote to you for the trouble.
8.
by apdinin 11y ago
That's actually my next big update. I've got a Gmail plugin about 80% complete that will auto-stop the messages, too. I still kind of count it as "passive" work because I had to learn to develop Gmail plugins for my star
9.
by apdinin 11y ago
Dang... maybe I'll get that fixed in a couple months :)
10.
by apdinin 11y ago
During my day job I run a full-time startup, but, as a weekend hack a couple years ago, I built an automated email sales tool called Autopest ( https://autopest.com ). I've never done any promotion for it, but it keeps growin
11.
by apdinin 11y ago
@jklein - just seeing this... sorry. Happy to chat. What's the best way to get in touch?
12.
by apdinin 11y ago
I'm an adjunct. No... adjuncting does not pay well. But anyone getting a degree with the expectation of being a professional academic should know this going in. I certainly did so I approached the job marketing accordingly. I've n
13.
by apdinin 11y ago
TLDR: Submit a post titled "How you can rank on the first page of HackerNews and GrowthHackers."
14.
by apdinin 11y ago
I can obviously only speak for my students in terms of willingness to do legwork, but I don't find this to be the case at all. And just because they ask me something in an email that they could figure out themselves, I don't neces
15.
by apdinin 11y ago
This article seems more reflective of a generational technology gap than an actual loss of student interest in building relationships with professors. The author doesn't seem to want to bother leveraging all the wonderful tools current
16.
by apdinin 12y ago
I'm not convinced the accelerated growth in administrative positions is entirely a result of corporatization. FWIW - I'm commenting as someone who has served on a few committees at a top 50 public, Research I institution. Not a si
17.
by apdinin 12y ago
I have trouble accepting the general premise of the question. Not the $100m part... even a $100k job or a $10k job... doesn't matter. It implies that the program being developed has a definitive "done" moment. But software (a
18.
by apdinin 12y ago
Since you're a developer, you already have the most important asset, which is the ability to basically create anything (web services related, obviously). From there, it's "just" a matter of finding something to build tha
19.
Bitcoin to sponsor bowl game in December(sports.yahoo.com)
2 points by apdinin 12y ago|0 comments
20.
by apdinin 12y ago
This article wrongly implies that people getting English PhDs are only doing so in order to become tenure-track English professors. But I just completed my PhD in English two weeks ago, and I'm also the TECH co-founder of a VC-backed s
21.
by apdinin 13y ago
I can agree with the seeming intention of the OP, but the analogy of adding labels to wires in an electrical box is problematic. How does having blank labels on wires equate to poor commenting? Good or bad, a comment says something about th
22.
by apdinin 13y ago
As the author, I should probably take my own advice and do what I always tell my students. If the structure of the sentence causes so much controversy that it distracts from the meaning, change the sentence. Allow me to offer an alternative
23.
Reminding Starbucks that Beautiful Code Should Make Beautiful Language(aarondinin.com)
15 points by apdinin 13y ago|41 comments
24.
Edward Snowden is a PR Manager Working for Google and Facebook(aarondinin.com)
5 points by apdinin 13y ago|1 comments
25.
by apdinin 14y ago
Legal Disclaimer: Don't forget about the possibility of a child falling off the rope bridge because of poor construction and the builder getting charged with involuntary manslaughter as a result of product negligence.
26.
by apdinin 14y ago
We actually ended up rolling our own, but that's because the specifics of our model required us to be able to track things that a) no other analytics platform was going to be able to handle; and b) we wanted to retain our own data. So I'd j
27.
by apdinin 14y ago
Good point. I'll pass that along. And what about all those poor folks with 1024 x 768 monitors?
28.
by apdinin 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback, Paul. We kind of figured we'd need to add custom options, so it's good to hear people would like to see that sooner rather than later. We'll get it implemented as soon as possible!
29.
by apdinin 14y ago
Yeah, guess I should have scaled the servers before posting. Good lesson for next time. Thanks for the feedback. I guess I'll be lucky to get a cubicle in the same building as him (though to be fair... I never called myself a server admin).
30.
by apdinin 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback, Fuzzwah. Yeah... we're still in a closed beta. Probably should have mentioned that in the post. Err... and on the site. Umm... clearly it's a very early beta.

More ›