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by gregcohn 14y ago
Facebook always seems to take an "apologize later" approach to things like this, but if they think they get to do this forever, they are wrong. Users are already starting to vote with their time online.
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by gregcohn 14y ago
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that what this discussion needs is a "Hey - thanks for making this."
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by gregcohn 14y ago
have you tried Lumatic?
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by gregcohn 14y ago
It's a good idea to play with. I've been using Streak, which merges CRM with gmail inbox. Google's own task integration (as with Apple's, Yahoo, et al) have been poor. But I agree with previous commenters that a speculative mobile app is
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by gregcohn 14y ago
it's creepy. if you didn't have a form-fill inviting people to give you their first names, you missed the opportunity to address your followers by name. lesson learned for consideration next time. you should also be thoughtful about how m
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by gregcohn 14y ago
A sensor of some kind seems like a natural and not very hard-to-do thing. Similar to the tags workers with potential radiation exposure wear to capture & monitor exposure over time, a sensor could capture heat, motion, etc and be retri
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by gregcohn 14y ago
There's an important difference between a fundraise actually taking 6 months, and a fundraise that you started several months before you were ready (ie, before your company has a "market-clearing" offer). If, in parallel to fundraising, you
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by gregcohn 14y ago
nifty. though it's basically a mathematical function, and i'd rather keep my data on my own server. is there a way to flip it around so I can call it as a function and run it locally? is there a platform for such functions? seems like an i
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by gregcohn 14y ago
build this as a plug-in and we'll all use it.
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Instapaper adds another accessibility font(blog.instapaper.com)
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Google to be blocked in Iran (twitter.com)
2 points by gregcohn 14y ago|0 comments
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by gregcohn 14y ago
Anyone brewing any kind of volume would want successful variances (mishaps or otherwise) to be replicable. Thus they would need to have a highly consistent baseline (or at least be able to see and measure the variances) in order to experim
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by gregcohn 14y ago
This is amazing.
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by gregcohn 14y ago
My understanding is that most water pumping and sewage systems are vacuum and pressure driven and reversible -- ie there aren't closing one-way valves between your toilet and the sewer pipe; it's more a system where the 'pressure in' provid
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by gregcohn 14y ago
This was exactly my question/concern in posing the link. And, of course, I'd love to understand what the consequences of such a failure would be.
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Zimbabwe residents synchronize toilet flush(hosted.ap.org)
37 points by gregcohn 14y ago|51 comments
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The corn's too short for a labyrinth, so farmer makes a "drought maze"(delmarvanow.com)
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by gregcohn 14y ago
...in purely financial terms, there is probably at most one company in each YC batch that will have a significant effect on our returns, and the rest are just a cost of doing business. Clearly you don't look at YC in purely financial term
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by gregcohn 14y ago
The premise that accelerators exist to help people "take the leap" is flawed. No one quits a lucrative job for a few thousand dollars in stipend, and health insurance wouldn't change this. People quit their jobs because the opportunity is
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This dude just pwned a thief and got his bike back with Burner(reddit.com)
4 points by gregcohn 14y ago|2 comments
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by gregcohn 14y ago
Making outbound calls via a Burner number requires knowing where the call is originating.
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by gregcohn 14y ago
Per above, we considered that but didn't want to create bad will with a "free" app that didn't do anything until you added more money. (It's also against Apple TOS, though widely flouted.) In the future we may consider something more along
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by gregcohn 14y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. We will make pricing more clear on our site -- though it's pretty clear in the iTunes store (we think).
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by gregcohn 14y ago
Not to be overly recursive, but here's an Ars Technica writeup that digs into some of these issues wrt Burner (and points to this thread): http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/burner-wants-to-help...
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by gregcohn 14y ago
:-)
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by gregcohn 14y ago
nice! what happened with it?
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by gregcohn 14y ago
We've been happy all around with Twilio -- specifically to this point on the quality of the numbers, but also the general ease of use and the responsiveness of their team.
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by gregcohn 14y ago
Thanks for sharing that feedback. We can work on making it more obvious, at least. (It's meant to be and our SKU's are also made visible by apple in the app store, but I'm sure there's more we could do.)
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by gregcohn 14y ago
you could always tilt the screen? ;-) (there was a brief outage as we switched video hosts)
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by gregcohn 14y ago
It is certainly a fair question, one that deserves a clear answer. Our first principle in thinking about privacy is to be clear to our users in what we are and are not doing with their information. We designed Burner explicitly and thought

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