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by brd 13y ago
Woah, great point. I'm amazed that we never realized how terrible the back button experience is for the discovery process. Definitely something that needs immediately attention. I'm really disappointed in that miss since we put in effort to
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by brd 13y ago
Wow, thanks for the thorough review! Excellent points about the title bar, will look into making those changes. Our font choices definitely need to be revisited and made more consistent. I absolutely see your point about the buttons/colorin
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by brd 13y ago
from the NYT article: "The bill would allow states to require all Internet sellers to collect sales taxes for the state and local governments of the buyers. State governments would be required to provide software free to Internet retailers
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by brd 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback, harsh but totally fair. Like I said, we tried to keep it as vanilla as possible to cultivate a sense of familiarity. We actually did look into getting a better logo but have yet to see a designer produce something w
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by brd 13y ago
We curate the initial set of gifts, the father's day set isn't quite done yet but will be in the next few days. Thanks for the feedback! edit: Fixed that popup. We rushed to rip out some bootstrap transition code recently, missed that medi
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by brd 13y ago
Clickable link: http://www.giftwell.com/discover/ We've seen ok numbers of "more suggestions" but we've seen virtually no users "star" gifts. Our tool gets smarter as you star gifts and it will get smarter with use but with no interaction
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Ask HN: What is wrong with our UX?
5 points by brd 13y ago|18 comments
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by brd 13y ago
For anyone interested, heres a list of additional things that may help you sleep: http://www.favemaven.com/themaven/tips-and-tricks-better-sle... I'm also a big fan of flux which lowers the amount of blue light emitted by your monitor: h
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Meet 31 year old Ashish Thakkar – Africa’s Youngest Billionaire(cp-africa.com)
1 points by brd 13y ago|1 comments
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by brd 13y ago
The dollar borders don't seem quite right. The Connected States of American seems pretty spot on to me though. Having lived in North Jersey, Vermont, and Mississippi I can attest to cohesion of "New England", the LA/MS link, the blur of Nor
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by brd 14y ago
"In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats" - Warren Buffett I completely agree that its in Google's interest to have faster pipes. But I think Google Fiber may just be another moat for Google, another way for
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Google is building a moat and scorching the earth (2011)(abovethecrowd.com)
2 points by brd 14y ago|0 comments
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The Secret Behind Oreo's Social Media Marketing(shopify.com)
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Loevinger's 9 stages of ego development(en.wikipedia.org)
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by brd 14y ago
If you take a very black and white approach to it I'd concede that you are correct and that there is a genuine argument being presented that you should eat like a caveman and that Zuk has a point. However, what you are copying/pasting here
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by brd 14y ago
The biggest problem I have with Zuk is that the entire premise of this book is based on a straw man argument. The "Paleo" in paleo diet comes from the fact that there was a clear dip in human health once we entered the neolithic era (i.e. s
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by brd 14y ago
I'd be surprised if Silicon Valley wasn't leading the charge on contraband use of nootropics. I'd imagine that the only populations with a higher frequency of use would be students at top tier law schools and other rigorous academic program
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President Obama Admits That Patent Trolls Just Try To ‘Extort’ Money(abovethelaw.com)
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For anyone interested in this sort of stuff, The Spirit Molecule was a great read. http://www.amazon.com/DMT-Molecule-Revolutionary-Near-Death-...
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Facebook's Graph Search: Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye(slashdot.org)
2 points by brd 14y ago|0 comments
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by brd 14y ago
In school I had done a little research project to see if there were opportunities to map out these cameras and use them for disaster response scenarios. It seemed like a promising approach but I don't believe my prof ever took it past my pr
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Fossil Diatoms in a New Carbonaceous Meteorite(buckingham.ac.uk)
45 points by brd 14y ago|26 comments
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by brd 14y ago
After reading this response and then reading your profile all I would like to say is thank you for contributing to HN. I certainly appreciate it, your karma count leads me to believe many others appreciate it, and I hope you don't let the v
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Source code that powers Spaun the virtual brain(github.com)
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NRC Report Links Climate Change To National Security(news.slashdot.org)
3 points by brd 14y ago|1 comments
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by brd 14y ago
Absolutely. Its unfortunate that corporate environments seem so ill equipped to to acknowledge and respect, let alone foster, good team dynamics. In our case the powers that be decided to it was smart to spread us out throughout the organiz
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by brd 14y ago
Most Thursdays, yes. The age range was roughly 21-35. We all liked the 3 day weekend enough to do it regularly but I agree that physically it probably wasn't the healthiest of choices. Interestingly enough, on slower weeks even when we coul
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by brd 14y ago
I worked at a very large, boring, and bureaucratic fortune 500. Our little team got into the tradition of "hack nights" which happened every Thursday. We'd come in at a regular time, work until somewhere between 4-10am the next day (yes, 20
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Why Eric Schmidt is wrong about Apple-Android being the defining fight(androidanalyse.com)
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Ask HN: Where do you get your stock images?
2 points by brd 14y ago|1 comments

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