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It's absolutely necessary; it should, in fact, be illegal to omit a volume control on any audio-playing control, embed, device, or otherwise. This is a bit of a tangent, but stay with me: Much like with playing audio without asking for an o
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It's not really clear when you're providing the e-mail address that it's going to be used as an index for you later. That might need to be better stated.
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Sounds like a job for an outside developer using their API...
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A company called Microsystems used to have a product named D3: http://www.microsystems.com/pdfs/d3-success-stories.pdf Unfortunately, they had to discontinue the product, in part due to a patent dispute Microsoft lost about how it uses XM
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15y ago
It's so nice when people don't respect things like this.
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Frankly, I'd wonder why you want to be a customer of AirBNB, then. Not because they're asking for this, but because it seems like a pretty valid piece of information for a company that banks on authenticity and trust between its buyers and
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15y ago
San Francisco, CA (SOMA) Klout ( http://www.klout.com ) is looking for engineers, and lots of them. http://klout.com/corp/careers We have lots of data and are growing wildly. Great perks in the office, fun people, and lots of opportuni
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This turned out really well; better than the screenshots let on!
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San Francisco, CA Klout We're looking for Engineers! A few of them! Great ones who are cool and get stuff done and want to be part of a fast growing company. We are the standard for influence. We have a lot of technical problems to solve.
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Just want to add that when consuming an API like this, it's always good to make sure you're adhering to the Terms of Service.
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The Object-Oriented Thought Process ( http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Thought-Process-3rd/dp... ) isn't a perfect book, but it's not a bad one. It refers too much to other books, but combine that with a language text and you should
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I'm in their WebsiteSpark program, through StartupToDo.com The service is great, they're really trying to build a sense of community, and obviously, you're getting the whole suite of development tools. However! I've been concurrently (okay
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16y ago
I get the point the guy was making, but it seemed a little dickish. Thanks.
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16y ago
One point not being made here is that nearly every wireless carrier requires you to add an Enterprise Data Plan to your service in order to use an Exchange connector. AT&T requires this with the iPhone. Verizon, T-Mobile, etc. all req
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My guess is that the existing software is too cumbersome for a smaller business to use? I've been looking at this problem, too. Law firms tend to use this software, but it really should be adaptable to anything that has these requirements.
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I think URL shorteners are cool, and all the rage, but: - I remember when del.icio.us/ came out. Not that it's a shortener, but they all have this clever naming crap. When you're not able to click the link, it's awfully hard to remember-
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Did anyone else get invites to apply for some yc startups, but didn't get accepted for the Work At A Startup event?
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Freshbooks does sound like it fits the bill. What I see a market for are SaaS accounting apps that are tailored to the domain language of particular industries: accounting for bands, accounting for programmers and consultants, accounting