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by jgilliam 18y ago
Make Me Dinner - a match making service that would connect people who need meals with people who can make them, presumably in their neighborhood. So a single working person indicates what kind of food they like, and mom who cooks for a fami
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by jgilliam 18y ago
I just went through this process myself. It can be tempting to structure some kind of part-time agreement, to continue to consult with your old company, but I didn't do it. It took me 5 months to extract myself from my old company, I plann
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by jgilliam 18y ago
You can support it at White House 2. http://whitehouse2.org/priorities/1948-visas-for-startup-fou...
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by jgilliam 18y ago
Has anyone used AdWords like this, and how did it work out?
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by jgilliam 18y ago
Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" was very influential with me. http://craphound.com/down/download.php
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by jgilliam 18y ago
I think the question is about what people are using for user input of html content in a web app. Not what hackers are using to write html.
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by jgilliam 18y ago
http://www.google.com/
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by jgilliam 18y ago
I was working as a developer at Lycos at the time (1998-1999), and we were constantly being pressured by sales to put bigger banner ads all over the place. We set up one of the first (maybe the first? i don't know) web usability labs with e
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by jgilliam 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
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by jgilliam 18y ago
Ev admits he has a hard time staying focused, so it makes total sense that he built two of the biggest attention suckers of the last decade while he was supposed to be working on something else. Makes total sense.
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by jgilliam 18y ago
Just don't go.
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by jgilliam 18y ago
you mean like two bouts with cancer, radiation fibrosis, a bone marrow transplant, and a double lung transplant? http://checkonjim.com/
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by jgilliam 18y ago
Screw privacy, I'd rather the whole world know what's wrong with me... maybe they can fix it! Make it searchable and put my email address at the bottom.
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Ask HN: What if we open-sourced our medical records, anonymously?
4 points by jgilliam 18y ago|3 comments
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by jgilliam 18y ago
At this point, I could care less if it was all owned by Microsoft or even Dick Cheney, someone's just gotta fix this problem. Jim Clark failed to fix it with Healtheon. Steve Case blew it with Revolution Health, and everyone else who has
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Best translation service for a web app?
1 points by jgilliam 18y ago|0 comments
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by jgilliam 18y ago
I went to both sites for the first time just now. I was instantly drawn into ticketstumbler with the events happening this weekend in my neighborhood front and center. My first reaction was to subscribe to the RSS feed (but I haven't fou
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by jgilliam 18y ago
one simple idea: put a big number in the header or on the homepage with how many terms you have.
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by jgilliam 18y ago
Anyone who builds a twitter following that large and isn't actually famous clearly has major issues... as evidenced by this total meltdown over something as silly as a caching bug.
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by jgilliam 18y ago
The biggest problem with one vote per IP is that you block pretty much all AOL users.
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by jgilliam 18y ago
It seems like the 1 hour to build the web app is sort of irrelevant compared to the hours and hours of emailing and promotion you have to do.
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by jgilliam 18y ago
Seems like there would be a market for colleges that make it very difficult to get good grades because those degrees/grades would then be more prestigious.
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by jgilliam 18y ago
It's called Kindle
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by jgilliam 18y ago
I can't imagine regular people using this.
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by jgilliam 18y ago
Go read Gladwell's Outliers. It explains all this.
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by jgilliam 18y ago
This is completely nuts.
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by jgilliam 18y ago
"Hot cocoa and coding" -- such a great idea
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White House 2: Crowdsourcing priorities for the next President(whitehouse2.org)
2 points by jgilliam 18y ago|0 comments
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by jgilliam 18y ago
I'm guessing you are using wikipedia to vet the query and determine the type of things to display, and then have some mappings from that into other data sets. I'm sure there's more to it than that, but very clever. The fact that everyone is