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by ccollins 17y ago
http://www.airbnb.com/jobs (We have 9 job openings. Front-end/Back-end devs in particular!)
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by ccollins 17y ago
This is a fun idea! Here is a quick design suggestion. The actual voting page ( http://shouldget.com/questions/17/votes/new ) is the most important page so you should spend some more time on it. The design should guide users along a path. R
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Ask HN: Reliable International SMS gateway with API (other than Clickatell)?
4 points by ccollins 17y ago|2 comments
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by ccollins 17y ago
Linux, BSD, OSX ports of PNGOut: http://www.jonof.id.au/kenutils
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by ccollins 17y ago
A food processor! I can't wait to use it! http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-DFP-14BCN-Processor-Brushed-...
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by ccollins 17y ago
~13MB, 448,358 line text file of messages from 2001-09-11 03:00:00 - 2001-09-12 02:59:59 http://911.wikileaks.org/release/messages.zip
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by ccollins 17y ago
"The DNS hosting service typically thrown in for free by domain registrars is not very good. For most sites, solid DNS hosting costs about $USD 50 per year. It's worth the effort. Heck, set up with two different services for failover." Can
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by ccollins 17y ago
FYI: If you ever wondered if being on the homepage of the New York Times increases your server load, it does. -Chris, Airbnb engineer
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by ccollins 17y ago
Relevance for tweets / status updates is pretty simple: Newer = more relevant. For example: http://www.google.com/search?q=san+francisco+halloween gives me a bunch of halloween stores http://twitter.com/#search?q=san%20francisco%20hallo
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by ccollins 17y ago
It's definitely a point of contention, but one that can be solved easily by paying for utilities for a month & buying a 6-pack or two.
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by ccollins 17y ago
When you read this, keep in mind I work at Airbnb :) I think this failed because it was so contrived. Here is a more realistic and reproducible example of how my girlfriend is living variably in NYC. She currently has a lease in Brooklyn fo
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by ccollins 17y ago
Sorry about how long this is!! This is the culmination of about 1.5 years using VIM as my exclusive text editor for web development. When I started I was using PHP and now I'm using Ruby on Rails. If you have any general questions about VIM
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by ccollins 17y ago
Don't worry, invitations have not gone out yet. We posted this early so hackers in the bay area can list their extra rooms ahead of time.
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by ccollins 17y ago
Just an FYI - this is old news from July 29, 2009. YHOO stock tumbled 16% by July 31, but has subsequently recovered to within 1% of its July 29 value.