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by garrettgillas 16y ago
Yeah, this article really doesn't mention too many hard and fast promises but I am optimistic about the Portland seed fund. I got to talk to the two fund managers in charge and they seem to have the right idea about how to bet their chips.
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
I generally consider that most advice that people give is either incomplete or fundamentally wrong.
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
I agree with #5 highly. I've found that doing charity/service work to be a great way to regain focus on who I want to be when I start slipping towards self-absorption. Genuinely helping other people out basically keeps you from becoming a d
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
What you said pretty accurately described my high school experience. I'm 28 now. After HS I bummed around 2 different colleges over 6 semesters and 4 different majors. I never liked what I was learning very much so eventually I just left be
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
We are launching our private beta for http://eyeclash.com/ this month. Eyeclash is a video-chat based social network where users can play games, watch videos, and run applications alongside video chat. It is 100% browser-based. The produc
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
Voodoo Doughnuts Ground Control PDX Japanese Gardens OMSI
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
I would definitely like some link love. We're still working on our MVP so most of the on-site issues are up in the air. Sending an email now.
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
I could really use some help with the design of the user profile pages of the social network I'm working on. Sending an email...
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
Me too. I kind of went through a "buy domains like crazy" phase a couple years ago but have since kicked the habit. Now I won't let myself buy a domain unless I have some other work done for it first. Although it only costs me $7.50 a year,
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
Yeah, using that hack in college might be a little more shady. I have always subscribed to the belief of "you ask a stupid question, you get a stupid answer" so my actions were usually fueled by my opinion that the writing assignments that
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
Heck yes did I take them. At the time I had little interest in biology and I felt that it was interfering with my real education, which it was. Nothing against biology, but most of the things that I learned in college that I would call "val
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
Ok, one more hack from college although it probably won't work these days. All of the professors in the science department at my university would tape lists of their student's IDs and their test grades outside their office through out the s
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
When I was in 6th grade ('94) I scanned articles from our encyclopedias onto our 386 and then used OCR software to make it usable as a class research paper. You can imagine what happened the following year when I got dial up. ______________
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
To questions 1 and 2 the answer is yes. The only real way for most people to fight back is to report them to google: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/paidlinks?pli=1
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
This is a really old conversation and it has steadily become less and less relevant over the past 5 years. The most effective SEO practices these days involve off-page and off site linking and on-page optimization is gets slightly less and
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
Well, when you say link farm you can be talking about ones used for either positive or negative purposes. Link farms used to improve a sites results are always setup in a pyramid format so that any penalties that occur from the practice are
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
Wow, that article kinda missed the better half of search engine reputation management by not touching base at all on google bowling. http://seoblackhat.com/2009/07/22/google-bowling-what-is-it-...
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
Maybe I should be more specific. All mainstream desktop browsers do this not just chrome. In Chrome it pops up, in Firefox/Safari/IE they call it the "Status Bar" and this is what I'm referring to. On my mobile browser (Android) It highligh
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
I rely on the hover ability heavily on virtually every website on every device I use. The reason is that I always look at the link's url that pops up at the bottom before I click on a link. Notice that this is a browser feature & not a
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
I guess I have also built about a half dozen html/CSS frameworks for different large scale projects but never bothered to put them out into the public. Also, I've built a couple wordpress plugins and hacks that I use extensively personally
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
Know n' Show - knownshow.com was a startup weekend prototype that myself and a ColdFusion developer built in 2 days at the Microsoft campus during SW Redmond. It was a HR management web app that wasn't really going to be much better than an
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
Very good summary of my opinion as well. The keyword here is 'net'.
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
I've started flagging any articles behind a paywall because I assume that it's the correct course of action. Please tell me if this is wrong.
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
Good infographic. It might have been helpful to explain a little more of what astroturfing is to the uninformed though (examples).
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
Touché. I didn't figure the ads into my assessment.
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Ask HN: How Much Spam is Acceptable? - A Spam Report Card
1 points by garrettgillas 16y ago|2 comments
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
@vwadhwa "Does anyone think that Mike would have been able to build TechCrunch if he was a college dropout?" - I do. So would @petecashmore. http://twitter.com/garrettgillas/status/25568001071
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
I develop on a windows platform and try to use IE as much as possible because my job involves being in charge of all of the cross-compatibility issues with different browsers. The only way to truly be an expert on this is to actually use th
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
Honestly, I think of a company like a F1 racing team and the developers as the drivers. It's OK to have policies and processes in place but the devs/drivers are the ones who have to use the equipment the most and will be most in-tune with t
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by garrettgillas 16y ago
I usually get around 7 unless I'm "on" for a big side project which will have me getting around 3 a night weekdays and about 11 on the weekends.

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