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by bhousel 16y ago
Yes, both Amazon and Barnes & Noble have the same restrictions on lending: You can lend a book one time for 14 days. You can't access the book while it is out on loan. Also, the book's publisher gets to decide whether or not the boo
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by bhousel 16y ago
That's one of the first things I want to fix when I get time. I actually want to use the 'fancy buttons' gem ( https://github.com/imathis/fancy-buttons ) but I would have to switch the site over to using compass for my stylesheets. Which is
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by bhousel 16y ago
haha yes, you killed it :) It's back up now on a more powerful VPS, thanks for being patient.. Edit: By the way, if you get the "We're sorry but something went wrong" 500 message, that's just because Amazon's API isn't responding. It's l
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by bhousel 16y ago
Thanks! Yeah I learned lots working on this project. I've got a bunch of other things planned too. There's nothing intentionally different about my site from the other ebook lending sites. I did try to make it as simple as possible. I h
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by bhousel 16y ago
Before people ask, yes I do know about the other sites that are very similar to this. I got the idea around New Years and have been building it in my spare time. Even after other Kindle book lending sites launched, I figured I may as well
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Ask HN: Looking for feedback on my spare time project, Booklends.com(booklends.com)
27 points by bhousel 16y ago|15 comments
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by bhousel 16y ago
Is this a joke? Autodidacts are self-directed, by definition. They don't ask others what to study.
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by bhousel 16y ago
That would only work if the most highly upvoted stories on both sites were the best ones.
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by bhousel 16y ago
> "Naming things, or preventing things from being improperly named, does not build stuff or sell stuff to customers" I'm not so sure about that. Politicians and marketers have long known that the name that we assign to a thing can be
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by bhousel 16y ago
Wow, from 2 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436058 The comments back then were.. different somehow.
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by bhousel 16y ago
RiderOfGiraffes doesn't need you to tell him how Hacker News works.
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by bhousel 16y ago
Corporations generally hire outside counsel to handle most of their legal practice. So Sony (or their subordinate companies) would hire megafirms that employ lawyers allowed to practice law anywhere in the world.
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by bhousel 16y ago
Maybe you're asking the candidates boring questions?. Try asking them moderately probing, but non-boring questions like: "What made you want to go into software development?" "If you weren't a developer, what other job would you want
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by bhousel 16y ago
And what if that fails to fix the problem?
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by bhousel 16y ago
Not sure if this is an issue with your site or a limitation of MeCard, but having a single name field (instead of first/last) doesn't seem to work right. I just created a contact for myself, and tried scanning it into my Android phone, and
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by bhousel 16y ago
Agreed.. Furthermore I think the whole purpose of this company is to get acquired by Facebook prior to their 2012 IPO (possibly trying to get Microsoft, Apple, Google into a bidding war). We'll see if I'm right. These are smart and well-co
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by bhousel 16y ago
And I'm saying, the acquisition is already planned and these investors aren't investing in Color, they're essentially investing in Facebook pre-IPO without going through Goldman's special investment vehicle. None of the investors mentioned
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by bhousel 16y ago
I don't think this investment is bullshit at all, and here's why: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2363943
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by bhousel 16y ago
True, but I just gave it a new acronym :) Edit: I'd like to clarify that the business model I'm suggesting feels different somehow. Yes people have built companies to flip before, but their valuation was still based on what they do as a
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by bhousel 16y ago
You don't think the investors would be happy with $400MM in pre-ipo Facebook shares?
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by bhousel 16y ago
Perhaps we're seeing the start of something new.. B2C = Business to consumer B2B = Business to business B2A = Business to acquisition?
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by bhousel 16y ago
What is far more likely is for Color to try to get themselves acquired by Facebook. If this is their real company strategy, the $41M investment actually makes sense.
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by bhousel 16y ago
I've built something almost exactly the same as Lendle in my spare time, but I haven't opened it up to a wider audience just yet. I'm starting to wonder if it might be best to just keep it invite-only for now.
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by bhousel 16y ago
Very interesting.. I've built something almost exactly the same as Lendle in my spare time, but I haven't opened it up to a wider audience just yet. I'm starting to wonder if it might be best to just keep it invite-only for now.
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by bhousel 16y ago
That's actually a pretty good rule. But I checked the list on Stack Overflow and we might also need to include: Kazzafi - K210 Qadhdhafi - Q331 K210 a bit more problematic, since it matches names like 'KOSOFF'.
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1 points by bhousel 16y ago|0 comments
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by bhousel 16y ago
Haha, I was in this exact situation once and it worked out awesomely. "I hate my clothes and I could really use your help" can be great first date conversation. Besides, it shows that you're clued in. She will definitely recognize that
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by bhousel 16y ago
I've got to say, I used to think this too, but I've found that Swype is really good for entering data. Try it out sometime, you will be surprised. I bought an Epic 4G thinking that I absolutely needed the keyboard, and now I barely use i
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by bhousel 16y ago
Yeah the Sensorly data isn't perfect, but it's crowdsourced from actual people's phones, so I trust it slightly more than the official carriers' coverage maps. Their Sprint 4G data is pretty good. Sensorly is always updating their app and
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by bhousel 16y ago
You've set up a false dilemma between "build what the customer wants" and "build what I want to build". Entrepreneurship can be both those things and more. It depends on the business, the team, the customers, the market, and luck. As to y

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