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by harper 16y ago
I built something similar to this awhile back: http://www.awesomeupdater.com/ I think telling people they are awesome is a great idea. I agree that the website needs work. I like the charging for real people to do it.
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by harper 16y ago
threadless was founded in 2000ish. they didn't take money until around 2007ish. 37signals is about the same (time period and what not)
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by harper 17y ago
i love those dudes. ;)
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by harper 17y ago
Just wanted to remind people to come tonight.
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by harper 17y ago
sounds good. don't you owe me an email?
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by harper 17y ago
no problem. ;)
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Hacker News Chicago meetup Thursday (1/21) at 7pm
23 points by harper 17y ago|17 comments
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by harper 17y ago
anytime ;)
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by harper 17y ago
There are a bunch of people talking about this. The most promising stuff seems to be coming from Sandbox industries (i have spent a lot of time with them - so i may be biased). There are also a bundle of VCs that are talking about this as w
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by harper 17y ago
he is also a really nice guy.
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by harper 17y ago
I had just finished reading "This is not a game" about crowdsourcing crime solving using ARG techniques. It was a decent read. When i heard that something terrible had happened to the threadless tech dept. It seemed like a great way to poss
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by harper 17y ago
whoops ;)
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by harper 17y ago
This guy reverse engineered the google tasks ajax calls and created a perl module interface for it: http://github.com/nickspacek/Net-Google-Tasks/ Works decently. Could easily be replicated in any language.
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by harper 17y ago
I will be there.
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by harper 17y ago
It is certainly an amazing situation. it took a long time and a lot of work. but when i was there it was clarity. i felt like i could see forever. ;)
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by harper 17y ago
I think it was a bit of coincidence and a bit how we grew up doing threadless and needed to graduate to move on. it was hilariously timed though.
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by harper 17y ago
i am a bit late to the game here. but i have used FDC for a year or two and have been very happy. Have one dedicated unmetered 100mbit box. it owns. They also have GREAT support.
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by harper 18y ago
Cumulate Labs (cumulatelabs.com) was probably the first vector graphics app. It was purchased by autodesk and is now project draw ( http://draw.labs.autodesk.com ).