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by apsurd 15y ago
Good comment. I smiled at the sheer simplicity of injecting randomness to mitigate the >95% in order to deter exploitation. Of course it would be an interesting experiment to conduct and compare results against. Also regarding your race
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by apsurd 15y ago
I just found http://www.cloudsurfing.com/ which uses crowd sourcing to build a pretty good dataset of related companies, recommendations and metadata. In fact looks like their monetization strategy is to sell a premium service that lets y
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by apsurd 15y ago
thanks man, I had never heard of catchfree.com before. exactly the type of help I am looking for! I share your reasoning that in-network referrals are likely the most highly considered. Though researching in general is a time-sink and certa
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by apsurd 15y ago
I'd say go where your motivation takes you. Let's say you are burning to do idea 1 - so do it! Then you may get burnt out for the weekend and not want to do idea 1, so start idea 2. Mainly keep it very focused, don't over-engineer, use the
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Ask HN: How do you find the best web-services for your startup?
6 points by apsurd 15y ago|3 comments
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by apsurd 15y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a total n00b on this topic. I'm trying to learn how to classify items as related within a dataset. I know http://directedge.com does this (funded by yc, run by #wheels) so I had a look at their articles which are a helpfu
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by apsurd 15y ago
Thank you for taking my criticism as constructive. I don't mind the downvotes as its great to see feedback being handled positively! All the best to you and fwiw as someone else mentioned, I specifically clicked on this post because i was i
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by apsurd 15y ago
I did an eye roll after I saw the title. Mentioning that you were rejected comes off as an intention to "prove PG wrong". You should build a great app to do yourself and your customers justice, not to one-up somebody. The pitch needs to be
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by apsurd 15y ago
I say this all the time: the best advice I was given about going out in the working world is "the bar is lower than you think". Any person genuinely interested in their work will ALWAYS think they are less capable than they actually are. It
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by apsurd 15y ago
That's actually a good point. But you can say that about all things. It's pretty depressing to feel like I am not in control of my life, though I know at any second the will of the Universe can dictate what it wants to me ; I'm hardly in co
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by apsurd 15y ago
CDN = content delivery network. If you used one server it would be a static asset server not a CDN. CDN's have the benefit of being all throughout the world so you get the benefit that the CDN will serve the asset from the closest physical
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by apsurd 15y ago
yelp
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by apsurd 15y ago
Genuinely curious: why don't you just make all your apps public on github? Note that you can still explicitly state your license terms so why wouldn't that be a reasonable choice?
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by apsurd 15y ago
At first glance it would seem like github is "leaving money on the table". But if Patrick is right then their time is better spent strategizing maximum value from the high end rather than devote time to getting your $10 dollars. 30+ repos
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by apsurd 15y ago
Agreed and regarding not having info about FeeFighters: Marketing 101 : It's all about ME (audience), not you (author). What can you do for me, why should I care, what do I get, why am I reading this? This resume is an outline of this guy's
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by apsurd 15y ago
If everyone believed what you are saying then nothing would get built. It's easy to think creating/inventing things was so much easier back then . Think of how famous I could be if I lived hundreds of years ago. I could easily invent the l
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by apsurd 15y ago
+1 for getting GOOD at SQL. Regarding PHP I'm a little mixed. I started my programming career on LAMP so I wouldn't be where I am today without it. But looking back, I sure wish I would have started "properly". A good MVC framework, an intr
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by apsurd 15y ago
Put your email in your profile. It's great that you are sufficiently motivated, willing, and ready to learn. Important: You need to iron what kinds of things you really want to create. There are a ton of spaces you can venture into via pr
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by apsurd 15y ago
Take with grain of salt. I'm all for supporting but these guys already tried this http://stomp.io/ I signed up and did not receive so much as an email. If the founders are on here: Great work, I hope it happens and I get where you are com
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by apsurd 16y ago
I use dreamhost which sells domains at 10 bucks with automatic private registration. But dreamhost only sells .com, .net, and .us I believe. For the others I use name.com Honestly I haven't done enough research, but I completely agree with
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by apsurd 16y ago
1. Discipline. 2. Motivation. 3. Humility. Explained: 1. Logical thinking. Adherence to a scientific understanding of things. Ability to troubleshoot. These things require a disciplined mind. 2. Technology moves fast. It's not what you know
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by apsurd 16y ago
Right about the tv. I was just thinking "what if it had been in the night?" People will be asleep so if there's any window of warning available, how can they get the message? On CNN the newscaster is repeatedly mentioning how people on the
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by apsurd 16y ago
Thanks Patrick, that's refreshing to hear.
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by apsurd 16y ago
Is there any system currently able to mass-call all cellphones from any/all carriers within a given geo-location radius? Or any type of push notification service for natural disasters. Seems like this happened during the day but watching th
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by apsurd 16y ago
fwiw, just read your updates. I think your post came off as confrontational so naturally people get defensive. Since rereading it, I think you mean well; people should know their worth and work toward maximizing that worth. So recognizing
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by apsurd 16y ago
Just want to chime in real quick re: all that's required to earn that much is show up on time and be good at your job. I liked the "all thats required" bit, because as it were, I am fully employed remotely, and while I don't make $100k, I
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by apsurd 16y ago
ah the benefits of humility. Well said.
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by apsurd 16y ago
I would not support a business of which I had these sentiments: It is a shameless, low class, money grab. (twice) It’s another tasteless scam formulated by a greedy, customer hostile executive tool. Surely there are competitors in the m
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by apsurd 16y ago
wait ... so why did you buy it then?
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by apsurd 16y ago
The lightbulbs are not readily apparent "like" indicators to me. I accidently clicked on one. Nicely done, as I'm using the site I'm finding a lot of nice touches. I like the tagging UI. As stated the site is a bit text heavy. Overall very

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