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by callmeed 13y ago
There was a wood sunglasses company on Shark Tank a while back. IIRC they already had decent sales. I don't see any reason it wouldn't work for prescription glasses.
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by callmeed 13y ago
I started 2 Coursera courses this year and completed neither. I went into them almost like a software "trial". It cost me nothing so I lost nothing. Both courses were interesting but it came down to time and opportunity cost.
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by callmeed 13y ago
>> I don't know why people swipe debit cards My guess is there's a significant chunk of the population who, like me, simply don't own any credit cards . A quick search puts it around 25-30% of the US population. Peo
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by callmeed 13y ago
I lived in Bend from '07 to '10. It's a great city and I miss it but I don't think it has any shot at being the next Boulder. The weather is better than Eugene but there's no university, its a fairly isolated city,
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by callmeed 13y ago
Personal anecdote and tips: I had my debit card skimmed at a local gas station in October. Within a couple hours, it was being used at stores in Los Angeles. I live a 3+ hour drive from LA so there's no way the skimmer/data was ph
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by callmeed 13y ago
Ok, just added one ... this actually kinda fun
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by callmeed 13y ago
Pierre, thanks for the great post. I have one question for you: I've heard that the download:rating ratio for iOS apps is around 30:1 and you can, therefore, estimate an app's downloads by multiplying ratings by 30. Do you have an
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by callmeed 13y ago
I've been recently looking to build a theme or have one built. It's been a bit of a pain trying to track down the best practices and tools to use for theme development. Can anyone offer some guidance? Does a framework like Genesis
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by callmeed 13y ago
Not surprised. Also, why single out private presidents? FYI most California Community College presidents (and there are over 100 of them) make $200-300K per year. The UC system president gets a $570K salary, a $10K/month housing stip
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by callmeed 13y ago
I agree but I think it could morph (dare I say pivot ) into something cool–possibly on mobile. I could see letting someone blog from their iphone while the camera on the back is capturing the environment.
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by callmeed 13y ago
>> The combination of Russian Doll-caching, Turbolinks, and SJR is an incredibly powerful cocktail for making fast, modern, and beautifully coded web applications. * I'm personally not against SJR and I haven't really gone
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by callmeed 13y ago
If you like sports, I made a sports trivia app http://playhattrick.com We have been getting some slow and steady usage despite being overshadowed by QuizUp which launched a week after us (also a great game)
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Ask HN: Resources for teaching kids robotics?
1 points by callmeed 13y ago|1 comments
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by callmeed 13y ago
Did you pass?
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by callmeed 13y ago
First of all, avoid WordPress because (a) it wasn't designed for subscriptions and datasets and (b) it has a history of security issues [1] As bmelton said, Rails is a good option. If you're going to use Rails, my advice wrt secur
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by callmeed 13y ago
Seriously, what is it with "Agencies" lately? Who the F--k are these people? I have heard/experienced a dozen similar stories recently. I have a friend who left a huge agency to freelance–only to have another small agency wor
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by callmeed 13y ago
Makes me wonder if said troll slipped up when targeting FindTheBest. I'm assuming a troll wants to go after someone who is big enough to pay some money but not so big that they can afford to fight . FindTheBest's founder was fo
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by callmeed 13y ago
I thought this was a really good post, especially considering the term "growth hacking" is bordering on "buzzwordy skill people claim to know but don't actually understand" At the very least, you've got me wa
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by callmeed 13y ago
I don't agree and I don't understand their dichotomy. That whole paragraph is very confusing and lacks context. Did they have good test coverage from the get go or not? If they did, why was so much support caused by failing code?
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by callmeed 13y ago
This is so cool. I'd really like to do a drone services startup focusing on municipal govt's and agriculture. It seems like you could solve a lot of surveying/permitting issues for cities. With ag, special cameras can give fa
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by callmeed 13y ago
I smell a little bit of design snobbery along with a false premise or two. I've never seen anyone advocate that an MVP can/should be "broken". Only that it should have very few features ("minimum"). That it sho
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Show HN: iPhone Sports Trivia Game We Built for a Hackathon(itunes.apple.com)
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by callmeed 13y ago
Haven't had a chance to play yet–BUT it looks great and I'm excited to try it later today. Multi-player, single-screen iPad apps are a favorite for me and the kids. For the record, our favorite such apps are: Stratosphere, King of
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by callmeed 13y ago
While it's easy to get shocked at some of the author's behavior, I personally don't think it's out of the ordinary. People lie to save money or avoid blame. Examples: - I have a friend who works at an LA Wal-Mart doing r
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by callmeed 13y ago
This is really awesome, I'm glad you're doing it. I have a business I'm interested in selling–possibly in a similar manner. I assume you'll be doing a detailed follow-up post?
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by callmeed 13y ago
Don't forget there is also Loop, which reached it's Kickstarter goal already: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/loop/pay-with-loop Personally, I like the idea of using my phone over the coin thingy. Al
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by callmeed 13y ago
That's a very self-centered rant–"stupid" and "useless" are subjective. I find Instagram extremely useful and would say it improves my life to some degree. I could care less about Facebook and SnapChat. I also think
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by callmeed 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - California (Remote OK) Android Prototype/MVP Myself and a couple colleagues have an iOS sports trivia app at ( http://playhattrick.com ). We're getting some good download and usage numbers. People ar
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by callmeed 13y ago
So, I just signed up. I have a trivia game I just launched and I'm trying to boost downloads and IAPs (downloads are actually pretty good). I really like what I see but I'm trying to understand where I get my $35+/mo of value
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by callmeed 13y ago
Sorry, I didn't see the city dropdown. I was just using the 2.99 persons per household to estimate based on 3M people. I can't edit anymore unfortunately.

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