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by darrennix 13y ago
Good point. I just added this note to the end of the article: Our criteria for picking the winner came down to one number: tour request rate. In other words, what percentage of users found a listing they liked and contacted it using a par
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by darrennix 13y ago
We used to expose the raw email address of the underlying user. Now it's a two-way email proxy, which is why the domain is "Floors.me" e.g. rich.farmey.31719@42floors.me We do get spammed but we've been able to keep a h
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by darrennix 13y ago
We left the fake sites up for 3 weeks. The parts of the design that required a DB connection, like sorting, pagination, contacting a listing, would just redirect to the matching operation on the live site on click.
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AT&T has a clever tactic for monetizing disconnected phone numbers(darrennix.com)
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by darrennix 13y ago
A 60 mile ride on flat roads at a leisurely pace of 12mph would take about 5 hours. College cyclists ride at 20-25 mph. Pros ride at 30+. On my weekend rides were I average 19mph on the flats I regularly get passed by some very old rider
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Going to work from home today – our office is too loud(blog.42floors.com)
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Domain generator for stem + noun/adjective/verb combos: AppSumo, HomeJoy(impossibility.org)
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Run user acquisition at 42Floors – we need an Online Marketing Director(42floors.com)
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Don't send me a message to tell me I have a message(darrennix.com)
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Fake it. Trash it. Build it.(42floors.com)
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by darrennix 14y ago
I'll be very interested in findings on the terseness of code and its effects on readability by experienced coders. For example, the ternary operator is consider by many to be an elegant solution to simple if statements but from a comprehens
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by darrennix 14y ago
According to the sales rep, their tracking capability goes far beyond ip lookup. It explicitly involves saving form data from site A and sharing that personal information with site B.
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Every startup idea I've had in the last 5 years(darrennix.com)
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by darrennix 14y ago
Loopnet's revenue is largely from subscription fees to be able to search listings. 42Floors is entirely free to search.
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by darrennix 14y ago
If you decide to try to sublease, we can help you find a tenant... we list subleases. Send me an email: darren@
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42Floors Raises $5M, Expands Office Search Site To New York(techcrunch.com)
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by darrennix 14y ago
I wonder what the market effect will be if AMD exits the picture entirely. Once Intel has near-total market share for PC chips, wouldn't they become a prime antitrust target?
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by darrennix 14y ago
The best hackathons I've been to had no required APIs but did have sponsored APIs with nice prizes for the best implementations. They also had experts on the APIs running around helping reduce the learning curve. Those guys help a lot when
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44% of Facebook users will never click an ad(venturebeat.com)
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Hackathon project: An extension that auto-tweets your Google searches(overshareme.com)
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Skyrim needs an auto-scaling off switch(darrennix.com)
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by darrennix 15y ago
The basic premise of this article is suspect. The US would still issue enough T-Bills to provide stability even in a zero-debt scenario... it would simply buy other safe, long-term assets to hold. If, for example, the US were borrowing mon
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by darrennix 15y ago
I think this is a great concept. I've half-started at least a dozen projects that never made it off localhost. I want to finish some of the better ones if only to stick them up on Github and a Hostgator account as a living portfolio.
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by darrennix 15y ago
I was previously using 960GS as my starting point and Bootstrap is a significant improvement because it comes with better default theming and the LESS layout is robust so I can churn out better looking designs quicker. It's also more flexi
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by darrennix 15y ago
Try codecademy.com; they've taken the pain out of learning introductory programming.
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Ask HN: How much would it cost to build the ultimate VR hardware system?
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by darrennix 15y ago
Cloud. Turns out it was an issue with whether you landed on http://www.leaky.com or http://leaky.com . 302 Redirect has now fixed some of the errors.
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by darrennix 15y ago
The information is transmitted via HTTPS to the carrier. Once your session on Leaky ends, the data is gone -- there is no data store.
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by darrennix 15y ago
Our database servers aren't able to handle the traffic. We're working on increasing space.
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by darrennix 15y ago
I looking for suggestions on how to get a can of dr pepper down to the temperature where it just starts to get slushy but not freeze and then stay there. My current approach is to stick it in a bucket filled with ice and salt wAter, stick

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