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by callmeed 12y ago
That's awesome. I wish Chase had that.
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by callmeed 12y ago
I was inspired by Marc Andreessen's post this weekend about news/journalism [1]. So, here's my idea for an editorial news site: The site would be called "5 ON 5" and every post would be based on a current news topic
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by callmeed 12y ago
I am located in a town called "Not New York or San Francisco" (it's a really big place, check the map). It takes me 10 minutes to get to my storage unit and back. If I didn't own a car (like the other 5% of Americans who
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by callmeed 12y ago
I live 10 miles from the last operating one in California (Diablo Canyon, just south of San Luis Obispo, run by PG&E). I have several friends and parents of friends who work there. It's the #5 employer in our county behind only the
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by callmeed 12y ago
focused on disrupting what Rosen considers to be an archaic $24 billion storage industry Lol. Overpriced storage isn't disruptive just because you offer delivery, take some photos and use buzzwords. I pay $60/mo for an actual 5x
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by callmeed 12y ago
> - If you don't pay for the service after 30 days they WILL sell all of your stuff. This is normal among traditional storage unit businesses.
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by callmeed 12y ago
READY 10 PRINT "My parents bought me an Atari 400 with Basic in the early 80s" 20 PRINT "It had a cassette drive and a membrane keyboard" 30 PRINT "You kids these days" 40 GOTO 30
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by callmeed 12y ago
Interesting to see a YC company pick on other YC people (LikeALittle and Andrew Mason), and I don't mean that in a bad way.
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by callmeed 12y ago
Awesome. Thanks for doing this. I started a little example project too. So far, I have some sliders that let you play with the decay animation. https://github.com/callmeed/pop-playground If anyone wants to help, drop m
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by callmeed 12y ago
I don't have a good one off the top of my head. But you have to understand, school administrators are going to be under pressure to do something soon. Solutions like spamming such apps with spoilers aren't going satisfy them (IMO)
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by callmeed 12y ago
I think the Online Disinhibition Effect [1] and Greater Internet F *wad Theory should have some kind of multiplier based on age. Online anonymity–while necessary IMO–has a dark side. You can say "don't blame the medium" all
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by callmeed 12y ago
Great article. I'm curious how people are deploying Go apps in production. Is it nginx+some app server? (In other words what's to Go equivalent of nginx+unicorn or apache+passenger in the RoR world?)
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by callmeed 13y ago
You might not be missing anything (hey, it's "Idea Sunday" not "Great Idea Sunday" ). I still haven't working out the numbers enough to know if it could work. To your points, however, any time I try to print a
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by callmeed 13y ago
This is a good idea and I've thought about it in the past. I think http://snapterms.com/ is doing something along these lines, although I think the price is still too high. Ideally, I'd like to see the service kee
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by callmeed 13y ago
"Pixel Bar" or a brick and mortar photo/print studio for a new generation. Working in the photo industry, things have changed so fast but I still think there's value in physical, printed products. I haven't worked o
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by callmeed 13y ago
You can get a Dell PowerEdge starting at $299 (no HDD). I have an older PowerEdge running Ubuntu and it's still humming along nicely. http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-tower-servers
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by callmeed 13y ago
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7010clm7smjfxs/_20140426_145022_2... I'm working on an iOS app that lets you run Apache Bench (and dig & ping) from your phone. It has a Rails back-end that actually performs th
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by callmeed 13y ago
Looks like Netflix has some seasons: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/190535
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by callmeed 13y ago
This is one of the reasons community colleges exist. I went to a community college for 3 years before transferring (had a kid @ 19), ended up working there, and had my first startup born out of that job. Almost all of my comp sci courses we
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by callmeed 13y ago
They raised $40M last week [1] ... $78M in total [2] Almost 300 employees, spending a ton on ad/marketing, and raising that much money–I can't see how they're profitable. I could be way wrong though. [1] http://blo
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by callmeed 13y ago
I have a small, niche website business so I know a little about this (we aren't on the scale of these guys but do low 7-figures). Wix and Squarespace at least are spending a ton on PPC customer acquisition. One analysis we saw put th
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by callmeed 13y ago
"This guy keeps quoting his own tweets - bgschiller" - callmeed
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by callmeed 13y ago
> Unless, of course, laws prevent a free market, in which case there would already be people kicking up a fuss. It's funny you say that because it was the Democrats who clung on to SOPA even after all the public outcry [1] (whic
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by callmeed 13y ago
If it was an RNC fundraiser, there would already be a protest website up and a hashtag to boycott YC.
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by callmeed 13y ago
I meant to put you in there too ... sorry :/
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by callmeed 13y ago
Here are a few of the software/startup people I follow. (I don't know any of them personally but I've met/emailed a few) @patio11 @asmartbear @raganwald @hnshah @MikeIsaac @shanley @hunterwalk @steveklabnik @paulg @pmarc
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by callmeed 13y ago
How certain is everyone that Apple will launch a wearable? I just don't see it personally.
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by callmeed 13y ago
Have you checked out Intercom.io? It does a lot of what you are asking ... https://www.intercom.io/
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by callmeed 13y ago
Doesn't Zapier have to act on some outside event? Or are you saying combine Zapier w/ Google Calendar to solve the webhooks problem?
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by callmeed 13y ago
I haven't looked that deep into the most recent version of G's calendar API. I don't think they have webhooks though.

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