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by ericmsimons 13y ago
I've been thinking about building a twitter bot for many of the reasons outlined in this post. I worry about the detrimental effect that this could have on the twitter ecosystem though; it will be difficult for twitter to block chrome
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
The video of this working on the smartwatch is crazy. I've always wondered how smart watches would deal with text input, looks like there's finally a solution. Is it possible to run this on the Pebble or Samsung watches right now?
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
This is my BIGGEST problem. I have 1000+ people in my professional network and I find it impossible to manage all of those relationships. Really cool how you can filter your contacts based on the last time you emailed them (<30 days, 30-
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
What a shame, I was really excited to try out their service. I never considered that USPS would ban them from providing their service, but I'm sure it has something to do with all the revenue that the USPS makes from spam mail.
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
Clear your cache.
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
Author of the article here. I don't think many people enjoy doing their laundry or cleaning their apartment. I also think most people enjoy free food, as it saves them money. The dog walking perk I can understand, but beyond that, are
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
Great point. Perks that only startups can provide + parity with big co's perks = super attractive job offers.
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How startups can compete with big company perks(esft.com)
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
From the front page of the website: Starting with Windows, we let you access any file on any provider, all with a single login. Support for Mac, mobile and the web coming soon!
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. If there was an automatic way to have my wallet reloaded after I spend some bitcoins, I wouldn't think twice about using bitcoin for regular purchases.
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
Yup, totally agree. If there was a seamless way to ensure my bitcoin wallet always auto-reloaded after I spend, I'd have no problem using bitcoin as an actual currency. This seems like a pretty simple & awesome feature for coinbase
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
I'm aware that bitcoin will have trouble succeeding if people don't start using it for normal transactions, but I wouldn't spend any bitcoins right now due to the price volatility. That $10 I use to buy a domain name could tu
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
That's an interesting analogy. However, I don't think that Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, etc are as easy to replicate as a TV show. Empirically, social products are exceptionally difficult to 'manufacture' and are usual
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
Okay, so with all of the talk about how China is buying more bitcoin than anyone else, why is the transaction volume not increasing accordingly? You can see it on the coinbase graph - https://coinbase.com/charts - it's
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
Sounds like an amazing breakthrough; I'd love to know more about this. How closely do the effects mimic that of alcohol? Can you overdose? Is there reason to believe that this could be similarly priced to alcohol?
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
What happened to the original HN submission of the vice article?
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
While you may have some valid points to share about the value of this chair, you didn't actually state any of them. Instead, you insulted the creator and made a sarcastic attempt to correlate this chair to a (potentially) failed produc
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
From the kickstarter page, they have a picture collage of people sitting in the chair (link to image: https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/001/213/229/3b559aca5e03... ) I originally posted this to HN
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
Originally stated by Elon Musk: 1. Build sports car 2. Use that money to build an affordable car 3. Use that money to build an even more affordable car 4. While doing above, also provide zero emission electric power generation options Tes
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
Agreed - I wouldn't be surprised if this is the creator's grand strategy though. Sell the first premium version at a high price to help cover the initial costs, then build more affordable versions once the majority of R&D has
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The FreedMan Chair - A better way to sit.(kickstarter.com)
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Ask HN: Looking to chat with small-mid startups that are hiring
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
Yeah - OP, change your title to the one provided in the article.
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
And we structured all of the videos into one place to learn from here - http://www.thinkster.io/pick/GtaQ0oMGIl/a-better-way-to-lear...
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
Once the tutorial is complete (within the next week or two) we'll be posting the demo :)
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
Thanks for the detailed info - I'm going to look into this. Our HTML/CSS structure is a little funky in order to make our sidebar drawer work smoothly, so it probably has something to do with that.
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
We are giving you free access to the ebook online. If you want to take it offline, we've made a nice PDF version that you can purchase to support our ongoing efforts. If you don't want to support our ongoing efforts to make the tu
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
No - what platform/browser are you using?
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
Hey all - we'd love to hear any questions, criticism, or ideas you have. Also, we have a pdf version of the ebook available for $25 on the site, but we'd like to give all of you on HN a 20% discount. You can go to this URL to get
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by ericmsimons 13y ago
It's super simple to set up. We're actually thinking of doing a Firebase version of our tutorial, as there would be no local set up (other than hosting the static files).

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