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by hornbaker 10y ago
"Don't be evil if someone explicitly asks you to not be evil."
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by hornbaker 10y ago
Last I saw, Nintendo's market cap was up $9B since the launch of PG.
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by hornbaker 10y ago
Busy devs aren't going to do a competitive services search... they're going to use the first tool they find / hear about. Focus on SEO, SEM, offer a free demo mode with watermarks, then charge around $5-10/mo recurring f
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by hornbaker 10y ago
To be fair, the JS world has changed considerably since 2009.
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by hornbaker 10y ago
Big +1 from me, as I'm working on a large Web app with Firebase and continually hit blocks where I need server logic/events. Read the announcement full of hope, then felt let down. What's the point of BaaS if you still need a
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by hornbaker 10y ago
Someone should build a Patreon for Monks.
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by hornbaker 10y ago
Holmes was a family friend of the Drapers, and his investment was a token amount. I doubt whether he did ANY due dili on that one, and find it hard to hold that against him.
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by hornbaker 11y ago
This would be interesting to run on the HN community, or any popular forum.
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by hornbaker 11y ago
Traction trumps almost everything.
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by hornbaker 11y ago
dnsmadeeasy for around 8 years now
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Yahoo announces plans to kill off Games, Livetext, Boss, and more regional sites(venturebeat.com)
46 points by hornbaker 11y ago|38 comments
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by hornbaker 11y ago
The Tin Cup(tm).
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by hornbaker 11y ago
iPhone 6+ here. Facebook isn't in my top 15 battery users for last 7 days (lowest 5 on the list take 1% each), even though it's been open in the background the whole time and I check in there on average once daily. In short, not a
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by hornbaker 11y ago
He's laying out the strategy of what will kill Github - the Psychopath Code. It could have been made clearer, so I suspect many will read it the wrong way.
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by hornbaker 11y ago
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bubble
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A Yahoo Employee-Ranking System Is Challenged in Court(nytimes.com)
2 points by hornbaker 11y ago|0 comments
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Fake Online Locksmiths May Be Out to Pick Your Pocket, Too(nytimes.com)
6 points by hornbaker 11y ago|0 comments
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by hornbaker 11y ago
I gave up on Meteor because of 10-20 sec build times. They have to fix that.
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by hornbaker 11y ago
It's already a feature of gmail. Just add "+whatever" to the username and it will still route to you, e.g. use "john+sketchysite.com@gmail.com" when you sign up at sketchysite.com. Occasionally you'll run into
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by hornbaker 11y ago
And owned by PayPal.
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by hornbaker 11y ago
Caveat emptor: http://www.thestreet.com/story/10457663/1/the-perils-of-the-...
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by hornbaker 11y ago
Good read, but pretty dense (or perhaps I'm just dense). Personally, I get more practical value from http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/ .
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by hornbaker 12y ago
This one needs more attention than I have time for: https://resumejoy.com
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by hornbaker 12y ago
Not sure how Creddle is doing it, but on my weekend project https://resumejoy.com (basic service is free), I use wkhtmltopdf. It's a little fiddly, but handles webfonts and most any CSS you throw at it.
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Scientists learn secret of how geckos cling to vertical walls(sciencerecorder.com)
5 points by hornbaker 12y ago|0 comments
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by hornbaker 12y ago
Wow. If that round closes, they'll have a bigger market cap than Zynga (currently only $2.7B).
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by hornbaker 12y ago
Any company which has sold equity, whether on the private or public markets, has a "market" valuation based on the per-share price. Private companies may also get a market valuation with a 409A valuation, but those are typically k
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by hornbaker 12y ago
Yep.
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by hornbaker 12y ago
Bummer, but thanks for the reply. FWIW, I'd prefer compression of nested comments over having to scroll horizontally, back-and-forth, to read anything on the site.
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by hornbaker 12y ago
Clickable link to before/after pics: http://imgur.com/rMYfqwN,mwPDMvB#0

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