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by bl4k 16y ago
Step 1. Take all the deals from Facebook deals Step 2. Build an iPhone app or web page that lets a user pick a location and prints out a deal to look like a Facebook deal Step 3. Get your user to show the deal to the counter Step 4. WIN! (
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by bl4k 16y ago
ye dude, 'modern switched networks' can still be sniffed. see arp-flooding etc.
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by bl4k 16y ago
it is incorporated into HN, as an opt-in option (see the script above)
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by bl4k 16y ago
"You are fucking up your photo." 500,000 users disagree
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by bl4k 16y ago
The 59 people who upvoted it do. The process of promoting stories on HN is democratic, if you don't like it then get your news elsewhere - don't bitch about it.
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by bl4k 16y ago
What happen to FOWA? I might go to this
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by bl4k 16y ago
invite code doesn't work at all now
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by bl4k 16y ago
If you just want to read the articles online, if you go to the magazine homepage the table of contents has clickable links: http://hackermonthly.com/
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by bl4k 16y ago
better than rounded corners, drop-shadows, over-sized fonts and large buttons with shadows, I guess. But I am noticing this new design style (more a layout) - and I am not one to really focus on that.
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by bl4k 16y ago
screenshot/blurb/feature boxes is becoming far too common
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by bl4k 16y ago
would ppl pay for a good solution here, like $10 a month, or a % of money saved? I imagine that with a good implementation they might.
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by bl4k 16y ago
Great that is it open source and liberally licensed. Auto updating desktop software is a difficult problem to solve, esp with supporting Win95+ and even more difficult once you attempt to support Mac, Linux etc. There were solid open source
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by bl4k 16y ago
Is there a service that will switch off adwords campaigns if your site is down or in maintenance mode? If not, there should be.
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by bl4k 16y ago
it is not a fair review of the performance diff between a pro and an air for somebody who runs a traditional dev stack (eclipse/netbeans + 2+ browsers + compiler/vm + httpd + photoshop + database +++), or a gamer, or a student, a 10 or even
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by bl4k 16y ago
"But for pretty much everything I’ve done this past week — basically, my regular work and play habits" browsing Twitter and writing blog posts?
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by bl4k 16y ago
He is so fixated and focused on Apple that off course they are responsible for everything. No other tech company exists, or is worthy, in his mind. He demonstrates ignorance in that article, by first mistaking his personal experience with t
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by bl4k 16y ago
yep then you extend it to something as simple as having a second ID in localStorage or a flash cookie then the next version of this plugin just spoofs all of those parameters as well the only solution[1] is SSL and client certificates [1] i
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by bl4k 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeLorean#Entrapment (If you are not familiar with the story, in a last-ditched effort to save his car company, De Lorean attempted to traffic a large amount of cocaine. Turned out the seller was a federal
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by bl4k 16y ago
I personally know of two teams who were rejected from YC and ended up not working on the startup because of it. I know of one other that probably would have fallen apart had they not been accepted. It is really disingenuous on their part. T
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by bl4k 16y ago
Have a plan B, C and D ie. you should still be out raising money and doing everything else you need to do to grow your company.
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by bl4k 16y ago
The only difference between Cowan and the other top VCs is that he is honest about his mistakes and approaches them with a sense of humor - while others attempt to uphold an image of being perfect (eg. by removing failed portfolio companies
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by bl4k 16y ago
Oh ye I am definitely into the single malts. Macallan is what I meant :) Thanks for the other recommendations, will have to check them out.
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by bl4k 16y ago
* Coffee - short Italian espresso (always when out) or Turkish * Red Bull - too much, a lot less than previously * Beers - again a lot less alcohol than previously, because I prefer being in a productive mode, but Guinness, London Pride and
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BVP Anti-Portfolio(bvp.com)
162 points by bl4k 16y ago|16 comments
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by bl4k 16y ago
This question comes up often, the answer should probably be in the FAQ. Here are some links with lists of YC funded companies: * An old version of the Wikipedia entry contained a list of YC funded companies. It was removed. It should probab
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by bl4k 16y ago
I wouldn't. My response was totally about a better way of doing it, otherwise I would have mocked this up and published it. My own opinion is that the lack of consistency in registration and signup forms across the web is a real problem for
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Twitter may raise another $200M(businessinsider.com)
3 points by bl4k 16y ago|0 comments
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by bl4k 16y ago
A better way to do this: * Have a text input and password input HTML entities next to each other with CSS that removed the right/left border and spacing (dynamically resize the input boxes if you like) * Capture a space keyprees event to sh
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by bl4k 16y ago
That is a crazy price for anywhere in the valley. San Jose (not really SV) and further down have some cheap options, but I have yet to see anything at $1200. Silicon Valley is actually comparable to the rest of the USA Except anywhere i
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by bl4k 16y ago
"until relatively recently" if by recently you mean 6 years. almost everything else you said is also wrong. op - use what you are most comfortable with and don't force yourself into whatever is cool or latest groupthink (Edit: ok you got

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