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   Showing Appreciation for your most loyal Users(help.grooveshark.com)

   3 points by biggitybones 17y ago|0 comments
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   by biggitybones 17y ago

   This is at it's core the classic government vs. personal responsibility issue. This is already required in NYC for chains. It's kind of nice to know that the Five Guys burger and fries I'm about to throw down for lunch satisfies all of the
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   by biggitybones 17y ago

   Sadly I see this mentality with my peers, particularly among those that go to what are considered good private universities and have affluent parents. A sense of entitlement bred throughout their lives from being told things like "you're s
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   Startl Announces Participants for Mobile Design Boost(startl.org)

   3 points by biggitybones 17y ago|0 comments
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   by biggitybones 17y ago

   There's nothing I love more than having fun with something most companies try to convolute and make impossible. Great, honest mechanisms that in some cases reverse the negative process.
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   by biggitybones 17y ago

   If you're an incredibly self-motivated and intelligent person when your 17 or 18 and you are passionate about learning and excelling, then sure, skip university if that's what you want. I'd venture to say it's more rare than not to find som
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   by biggitybones 17y ago

   Great questions srik.. 1. Mobile is a huge item on our to-do list. 2. Students will always have access to a free version of the site to manage their assignments, courses, files, and other aspects of their classes. 3. This is another big tas
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   by biggitybones 17y ago

   That's a good point and definitely going on the to-do list.
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   by biggitybones 17y ago

   Thanks mrduncan.. all valid points. Probably best to separate into 'advanced settings' and 'basic', with good defaults selected. As the feature-set grows, the amount of settings will probably grow as well but we'll keep this advice in min
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    by biggitybones 17y ago

    Thanks so much for going through the site in so much detail! Can't find your email in your profile, would you mind shooting us an email at jason@mygrademate.com?
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    by biggitybones 17y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! Right now the site is completely free and will remain that way for students. The next release will include a variety of improvements aimed at teachers, and we plan to incorporate a freemium model of sorts that allo
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    Ask HN: Please review our redesigned Web App, GradeMate(mygrademate.com)

    38 points by biggitybones 17y ago|45 comments
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    by biggitybones 17y ago

    Everytime I come across this I have to go to the wikipedia page to check the grammar. I find these types of sentences incredibly creative (and confusing). A similar thing, inspired by buffalo and illustrated: http://myapokalips.com/show/15
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    by biggitybones 17y ago

    All the flash (or lack there of) got me excited, but there are a few glaring questions left unanswered: 1) Support for multi-tasking? This is a must on something like this. Perhaps they want to ensure performance of single applications by
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    by biggitybones 17y ago

    Volunteer Match is great.. I worked with a non-profit to redesign their web site and it was a great experience.
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    by biggitybones 17y ago

    Thanks for this link - I'm usually leery of simple domains that have a link to retail, so I probably would have ignored it in a google search. It seems like a great starting point.
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    Ask HN: Beginning Photography

    3 points by biggitybones 17y ago|6 comments
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    by biggitybones 17y ago

    I've been struggling with this one for a while, and finally realized that it's just an easy way of avoiding getting my hands dirty and a form of procrastination. There's really nothing bad that can come out of designing and building an app
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    by biggitybones 17y ago

    Didn't mean to come off too negatively about it. While I stand by my point about the feasibility of these things, this is the type of creativity necessary to encourage better behavior with respect to the environment.
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    by biggitybones 17y ago

    Entertaining and something that may be popular at first, but unfortunately something like this isn't scalable (the novelty would wear off, not to mention cost needs to be taken into account). The concept that fun encourages more participati
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    by biggitybones 17y ago

    This is another example of a company trying to price software like its a physical product. The justification for the price is laughable; just because it contains more features than an unrelated product (for which it is not even a feasible r