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The worst part about fast food: It's legal(stephencorwin.com)
6 points by corwinstephen 14y ago|6 comments
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
Instago does the same thing for iphone and has been out many months. http://www.instagoapp.com/
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
In the time I've spent as an entrepreneur, I learned that I actually much prefer the "Your idea sucks and here's why" approach than the polite and encouraging response, mainly because if they try to keep things positive, you're likely to co
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
Agreed. It seems like pg's gripe with the comment is purely that it isn't 100% supportive. If that's the case, we're at odds here, because I prefer honesty over feigned support any day. At the end of the day, this t-shirt design was selecte
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
Did the exact same thing over a year ago. I can't believe they haven't changed that workflow yet.
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Ask HN: Ever feel your skills are judged based on your appearance?
15 points by corwinstephen 14y ago|12 comments
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
Ever been quoted before? ^^ Worth quoting.
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
PERFECT
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
You'd think I would have figured that out. Somehow I completely missed that part. Amazing. Thanks for the help!
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
It just showed up when I went to manage my app. Weird right?
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Ask HN: know any Japan-based startups?
10 points by corwinstephen 14y ago|8 comments
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Bad assumptions new tech entrepreneurs tend to make(stephencorwin.com)
25 points by corwinstephen 14y ago|5 comments
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Show HN: I built an urban development tracker for Los Angeles(citygro.ws)
2 points by corwinstephen 14y ago|0 comments
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
Wnadering around skid row here in Los Angeles, I can certainly tell you I've never seen an Asian person pitching a sidewalk tent.
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
I would venture to guess it has something to do with blacks having historically been isolated from the opportunities that other races have had, and that even though things have improved, we're still seeing the lasting effects of centuries o
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
Random question I know, but I've never been to Detroit so everything I know about it is hearsay. Can I ask what part you live in, and what it's like?
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
It's very possible I'm off base here. I'm going purely on observation and anecdotal things. Do you happen to have any hard stats off hand? Edit: I looked it up. You're right in that Latinos hold the second highest percentage of homelessness
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Ask HN:What is the future of Detroit?
1 points by corwinstephen 14y ago|3 comments
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
I used to believe this based purely on having heard it all my life. But a friend of mine recently made an interesting point: he asked me what race homeless people are. My answer (at least here in LA) was that they're almost unanimously blac
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
In your opinion, are you being fired from these companies as a result of your depressed mood, or simply because you weren't delivering on the work you were being asked to do? If it's the former, take a break! Read, travel, and give your min
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Has anyone else noticed a change in Heroku's pricing structure?
11 points by corwinstephen 14y ago|2 comments
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
Really? I've never heard that complaint before. I didn't do much of anything outside of pick a standard Wordpress template, so I can't imagine it would use a font that isn't pretty universal. It's supposed to look like this: http://www.des
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
A brilliant way to display poetry, I'll definitely give you that. I think the overarching message here is that it works a lot better for art than anything else. Cool idea. And a four letter domain name. Impressive!
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Why Pinterest-style layouts are worthless to everyone except Pinterest(stephencorwin.com)
78 points by corwinstephen 14y ago|37 comments
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
Have you by any chance taken a look at the Wilson score? It's a modification of the typical Bayesian ranking that functions much better with small samples.
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
It's never what you think it is. One time, I had a memory leak in a Rails app that took me TWO WEEKS to find. In the end, it came down to me putting a line of config code in the wrong section of the config file, which for some reason create
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
I don't much have a solution to the rabbit hole syndrome, but at the very least I can point out that your rating system could be solved by a confidence interval made using a Bernoulli random variable, which is a useful and (fortunately for
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
I think in this day and age, people who take the high road often get squashed. The "nice guys finish last" adage has never been more applicable.
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Why I don't care about Lance Armstrong(stephencorwin.com)
7 points by corwinstephen 14y ago|3 comments
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by corwinstephen 14y ago
Of course, but I was working under the assumption that this guy's theory was to replace ALL democratic votes, whether on laws or legislature, would take place asynchronously and through the internet. Either way, the point stands.

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