augustflanagan

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   by augustflanagan 14y ago

   BabyList launched here on HN almost two years ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175757 Disclaimer: I'm married to the founder.
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   by augustflanagan 14y ago

   I think that it's really a shame to see people slamming aseemk here. He had an idea, worked on it, and released it. That's fantastic. There are a few constructive comments here explaining why his idea might not actually be that great, but t
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   by augustflanagan 15y ago

   About a year ago my wife and I were working on a project together and we had a complete miscommunication about some feature that I was supposed to build. At the time I was doing all of our UI design, so I was the only one who had a copy of
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   by augustflanagan 15y ago

   Am I missing something obvious? What would you do with this Dropbox button that is going to be everywhere? OK, I can think of a few instances when I would want to send something directly from the web to my Dropbox, but I can't actually imag
5. 65.▲
   by augustflanagan 15y ago

   I'll take one too.
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   by augustflanagan 15y ago

   Isn't most of the US debt also financed by its own citizens?
7. 67.▲
   by augustflanagan 15y ago

   I really don't feel like it is my place to mention the name. I wasn't involved. I know one of the other developers who didn't get paid took it to the investors (he happened to be friends with one of the better known ones). What the outcome
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   by augustflanagan 15y ago

   No advice here, but an interesting story. A friend of mine was owed about $10K on a contract. He had been working for the company for a couple of months and they had already paid him $15,000 more or less on time, so when a month finished an
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   by augustflanagan 15y ago

   I built a similar site in 2009 focusing on Spanish/English exchange only ( http://lenguajero.com ). I learned a lot of lessons from the whole experience (like it's really hard to get people to pay for language learning on the web). We have
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    by augustflanagan 15y ago

    I do the same thing. Not sure that it has ever saved me from a disaster, but I do like the sneak peak and am DELETE FROM disaster free. knocking on my desk
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    by augustflanagan 15y ago

    You're right, unrealistic is not the right way to describe it. I don't doubt that quite a few people are able to make a couple thousand off adsense and 150,000 pageviews or less per month. However, the article is saying it is incredibly ea
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    by augustflanagan 15y ago

    On 150,000 pageviews a month I make about $50.00 from adsense. "1.6% CTR with 0.85c CPC" seems pretty unrealistic to me.
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    by augustflanagan 15y ago

    My wife and I have a 3 month old and are both trying to work from home part-time and take care of him (I also go to school part-time so that get's me out of the house a bit). Obviously a 3 month old is much different than an 18 month old, b
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    My one year crash course in computer science: Semester 1(aflanagan.com)

    4 points by augustflanagan 15y ago|0 comments
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    A baby is like a startup (or a pragmatic approach to parenthood)(aflanagan.com)

    2 points by augustflanagan 16y ago|0 comments
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    by augustflanagan 16y ago

    The first thing I thought of was apoptosis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoptosis
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    Can AOL reinvent itself as a content network?(newyorker.com)

    1 points by augustflanagan 16y ago|0 comments
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    Google Analytics Referrer Spam(techhacking.com)

    3 points by augustflanagan 16y ago|0 comments
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    by augustflanagan 16y ago

    I'm also seeing that. Anyone know what it's about?
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    Ask HN: Any great Java tutorials out there?

    1 points by augustflanagan 16y ago|0 comments
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    by augustflanagan 16y ago

    My college roommate's parents did this (he's from the Philippines) 24 years ago. Once he was born they went back to the Philippines and his first experience in America was at age 18 when he came to the U.S. by himself for school. It worked
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    How I got back to working on my startup(aflanagan.com)

    5 points by augustflanagan 16y ago|0 comments
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    Newest This American Life is all about Toxie, NPR's toxic asset(thisamericanlife.org)

    26 points by augustflanagan 16y ago|2 comments
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    Ask HN: Any good tips for writing/sending surveys?

    6 points by augustflanagan 16y ago|5 comments
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    What's wrong with oDesk search?(aflanagan.com)

    1 points by augustflanagan 16y ago|0 comments
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    by augustflanagan 16y ago

    Oaxaca, Mexico 1 bedroom apartment in very nice building with weekly cleaning - $450/mo (all bills + wifi included). Food: $200-400 Beer: $1/bottle
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    by augustflanagan 16y ago

    Thanks a lot for the feedback. I like the idea of having some sort of scheduling/reminder feature. I was wondering if I could set up a simple way to do SMS reminders. There could be a special code to set an SMS reminder (like * SMS 7pm) to
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    by augustflanagan 16y ago

    Thanks, I had never noticed that before.
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    by augustflanagan 16y ago

    Yes, I completely agree! I had that planned, and just decided to launch this before completing that. It will happen soon.
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    by augustflanagan 16y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't thought about letting other people add stuff to your list, but it's a great idea.