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by arfrank 17y ago
Theoretically you could use any headphone extension cord to ease this problem considering it most likely uses an audio signal to pass the information. This would in turn let you attach the reader elsewhere on the phone. Although it seems li
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by arfrank 17y ago
Add in $2500 per month sponsorships and thats another 30K on top.
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Sparkfun giving away $100 per person in free electronics+S/H on 1/7/10(sparkfun.com)
86 points by arfrank 17y ago|19 comments
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by arfrank 17y ago
Paypal has a small value transaction system I believe. I think it takes 8% rather than a standard per trasaction fee + ~2%. It makes it reasonable up to about 10$
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by arfrank 17y ago
I believe it is for everyone. They are investing in both people and ideas and want to know how all founders function.
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by arfrank 17y ago
It's very seasonal. There is a lot of money it, considering that parents usually just pay for it, but me and my cofounder decided are taking a humane approach to it and trying to not rip off students. A bunch of the big companies charge upw
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by arfrank 17y ago
A quick link to the PDF in the document: http://www.scribd.com/full/21397763?access_key=key-2hixg48wt... It has a bunch of graphs that the CDC put together.
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by arfrank 17y ago
While in college I started and still run a summer storage company for college students. The problems associated with it were primarily customer service and logistic based for dealing with people stuff. I can't imagine it was much different
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Loopt acquires GraffitiGeo(techcrunch.com)
52 points by arfrank 17y ago|12 comments
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by arfrank 17y ago
This goes right along with what I was thinking yesterday. Just by eyeing the balloon from the newscasts it was hard to figure out its actual size, until it landed, at which point it became pretty obvious how large it was and how unlikely it
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by arfrank 17y ago
Maybe not for beginners but what Ive been told is the holy grail for data viz is: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
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by arfrank 17y ago
Theres a wikipedia article that might have better sounds to loop, although they are shorter I believe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise Also this seems like a perfect excuse to program a solution, if you are so inclined. I've
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by arfrank 17y ago
If I really need to block out everything I use http://simplynoise.com/ and turn the brownian noise all the way up and turn on oscillation. It both calms me and lets me focus on what I need to do for extended periods.
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by arfrank 17y ago
Any reason for choosing abebooks per se? or for why people seem to like this comment so much?
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by arfrank 17y ago
My process as of late has to use a site called bigwords.com. It is a comparison engine for a bunch of the online book sellers, but it doesn't allow you to keep any data stored with them so its not really useful except for the final buying
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Ask HN: How do you go about buying books?
5 points by arfrank 17y ago|4 comments
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by arfrank 17y ago
If you would like to read a fantastic book about the history of Fiber Optics, what Charles Kao worked on, I would suggest this book: http://www.amazon.com/City-Light-Story-Optics-Technology/dp/... I found it fascinating and shows the deve
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The Cohort Analysis(avc.com)
16 points by arfrank 17y ago|4 comments
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PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage - Composite photos from multiple sources(cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn)
29 points by arfrank 17y ago|4 comments
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by arfrank 17y ago
It seems to me that they could have pretty easily hidden their location/who was carrying out the tweets with a few changes to how they setup the whole situation. That being said it was likely they were either being watched beforehand or we
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by arfrank 17y ago
Just to note that PG is not on this list. I believe it is because he intentionally keeps himself off the leaders page. I recall reading something a while back.
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by arfrank 17y ago
The article that this article references was posted earlier today. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=855389 actual article: http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/amazons-ec2-gen...
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by arfrank 17y ago
It was delightfully playful, yet very concise and informative, which is how I imagined it would be based upon the writeup posted yesterday. I wonder if this will be a catalyst for people to be more informal with their videos, just speaking
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by arfrank 17y ago
I've been noticing based on the questions from my less technical friends, that the lead up to this product is mimicking the lead up to the original iPhone. Apple seems to have gotten the formula right for this sort of product and is going t
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by arfrank 17y ago
While it was certainly an interesting list, it seems that they could have grouped all members of one company into one number rather than having each founder separate. Rather its only 17 companies, which kind of limits the interesting aspec
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by arfrank 17y ago
I would think what would be better would be to video conference and record that. It would include both of you and practically be the same as if you were just sitting next to each other minus the actual physical proximity.
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by arfrank 17y ago
For $100 I could see this gaining greater adoption. I think one thing that would be beneficial, that they probably have considered, is making the dev platform easier. I'd love to have one and hack with it and even use it as a learning tool
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by arfrank 17y ago
Much Appreciated: username@gmail
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by arfrank 17y ago
Where shall we email you at?
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by arfrank 17y ago
I had built this over the weekend to relearn python and to get familiar with Google App Engine. No cross browser testing was really done, besides that I know it doesn't work in IE. The javascript drawing widget was taken from Rafael Robayn

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