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by apsurd 16y ago
most of the words ending in "er" pretty much boil down to effort . Simple as that. Stronger, faster, smarter, wiser, happier, etc. But the problem with the advice "put in more effort" is that it isn't really that helpful. But such is life.
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by apsurd 16y ago
... I simply do not equate it with stealing something tangible. Kind of like how that one guy that one time stole my web startup idea!!!
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God, Stephen Wolfram, and Everything Else [2000](forbes.com)
1 points by apsurd 16y ago|0 comments
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by apsurd 16y ago
Hi Joel, thanks for replying. The part about the marketing copy is surely correct. But for many HN'ers including myself, I would need to be good at marketing copy if I want my business to become in any way sustainable. Many people on here
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by apsurd 16y ago
I love having ajax requests show up in the console too. Chrome used to do it like you said but doesn't seem to show up anymore. You can still see the requests though if you go to the "resources" tab. On the left pane you'll find the url to
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by apsurd 16y ago
As a programmer I'm finding out it's best not to code anything immediately. Think [first] about the idea, conceptualize it, let it soak in your brain. Take some time to let it refine itself a bit. [Next] would be a marketing website. Grab a
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by apsurd 16y ago
http://biggestmenu.com/
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Ask HN: Learning Ruby/RoR -- Which open source projects should I learn from?
11 points by apsurd 16y ago|6 comments
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by apsurd 16y ago
Honestly, just buy a theme from http://themeforest.net for $20 bucks and edit it. The designs are pretty much on par, if not better (simply because there's more to look through) than what is being displayed in this post. I am not bashing
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by apsurd 16y ago
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx / Google Chrome 5.0.375.38 beta - works like a charm so far. Music plays well, I can start/stop and navigate to other songs. No issues. Btw huge fan of mugasha! I used you guys everyday when you were in beta, b
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The New Tech Conference Model: "Community Driven."(andrewhy.de)
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by apsurd 16y ago
Recently Andrew Hyde from techstars dropped us a line at HN about boulder startup week, which just passed. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283461 (details here: http://boulderstartupweek.com/ ) Techstars, courtesy of pivotal labs ma
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by apsurd 16y ago
Just a thought: don't people love google. I mean in the sense that even non-techy users can look at google and say "wow these guys have changed the world". Or even at the very least, "hey cool, I found it". Doesn't that brand affection co
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by apsurd 16y ago
Honest question: how is this 15 year old girl going to search the web using facebook? Do you search the web using facebook? How is this possible? Does anyone search the web without ever once querying a big-time search engine?
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by apsurd 16y ago
people opt-in to google when they use it to search - they want to find something, and if an ad helps them do that, ok! people opt-in to using gmail, gdocs, gchat, because they want to be more productive, and if an ad eventually leads th
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by apsurd 16y ago
http://pluspanda.com Just click on the big green button. A real account is created. If you don't claim it, it gets deleted. Pretty simple, and nearly everyone who is vaguely interested always clicks on the green button...
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by apsurd 16y ago
[tldr; "a girl"] I deactivated my fb because I didn't really use it. I'm not mr. social and I felt that if anyone needed to reach me and really wanted to reach me the extra effort was worth it. I especially didn't like this idea of mass f
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by apsurd 16y ago
This advice is correct, but you can still learn good programming technique via php by using http://kohanaphp.com OOP, strict php 5, mvc, with a some nice ORM inspired by active record. If you are looking for super easy docs to get you sta
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by apsurd 16y ago
I never got why its standard practice to put it after the "too long" part? Shouldn't it be before? I guess semantically using "didn't" is past tense, implying some type of initial attempt to read it and then because it's too long, you di
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by apsurd 16y ago
I get that things should be well presented and that campaign monitor is a designer facing service, but am I the only one that uses and likes gmail's default "never load images" feature? I like pure text emails because pure text emails ten
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by apsurd 17y ago
Cool. Building a read-only API is actually pretty straightforward. Looks like you're using php, any framework? Feel free to email me personally if you'd like some help on the matter. Depending on how much of your codebase you'd be willing t
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by apsurd 17y ago
I think this is pretty good. You should focus on simplicity. I'm thinking about signing up (haven't yet). It's a nice reminder and a cute way to motivate oneself. An API is vital imo. This whole concept rests on simplicity and friendly moti
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by apsurd 17y ago
Javascript, like html, is all client side so its easy enough to code in with a simple text editor and refresh. Chrome is now my default browser so I use the js console for all my debugging. I just code changes, hit refresh and watch the con
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by apsurd 17y ago
I'm curious if you did any google search term research? How many people are searching for things like "ad banner templates" etc. Once you find those you can more directly provide a solution for what people want. For example if there are lot
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by apsurd 17y ago
people like people
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by apsurd 17y ago
That's cute but nowhere in the linked article does it accuse facebook of being evil. The article simply provides helpful information about how to go about getting a task done that some may want to have done. edit: heh, just realized the p
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by apsurd 17y ago
These are good points to consider when building out your MVP. But the title is called "pragmatic startup gold". I would argue that a startup's initial push should be on customer development not product development. The author touches on
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by apsurd 17y ago
godaddy is ridiculous. I'm sorry to say that I actually defended them in a post a while back. It was primarily because they were very cheap, but when you consider that other providers charge ~$10 which includes automatic private registrat
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by apsurd 17y ago
strange, it allowed me to vote you down to -5, so i voted your other comment to 8. I reload the page. You're at -4 again but the 8 remains 8.
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by apsurd 17y ago
Good god I certainly don't worship the napkin P.G. uses to wipe dirt from his shoe, but even I know HN is the anti-social network (in a philosophical sense). It has almost zero features but a feature it does have is no-procast! HN has a f

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