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by jsdalton 18y ago
Lawyers doing something useful with their time, for a change.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Meh, canceling it was probably more about employee time/focus than it was about out-of-pocket expenses. I'd bet the monetary value of the combined time of everyone in that room (e.g. Eric Schmidt!) probably exceeded $50,000 for that one mee
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Does anyone here use checklists in a similar manner for application development?
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I think the problem is there is no great answer to your question. Here are a few possibilities though: TipJoy ( http://tipjoy.com/ ) is making a play as a micropayment platform I believe. I think they're a YC company as well. Amazon Flexibl
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by jsdalton 18y ago
The gist of the conclusion (from my super brief skimming) seemed to be that users hate long pauses as you get close to the end of a progress bar, and are much more tolerant of them in the beginning. If possible, you should optimize the prog
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I say this as an iPhone lover, but I think you might be jumping to conclusions prematurely. Granted, the fact that that iPhone already has an awesome product in the market (version 2.0 at that) puts them light years ahead of the product dem
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Lighthouse ( http://lighthouseapp.com/ ) is great.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Well, except that Twitter is a private company and its API is proprietary in that sense, unlike http or email. (Maybe a better analogy would be people building MS Outlook plugins, way back when.) I'm just not convinced that it's more than a
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Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps?
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Go read Shakespeare...it's filled with fart jokes and much worse. Society isn't going anywhere.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I don't think he was making the point you think he was making. Or rather, I read it that he was in particular focusing on the visual interface side rather than the functionality and application mechanics. I clicked on your profile and I ass
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I like the way Reddit does this -- when someone replies to a comment you made, your mailbox icon at the top right glows red. Doesn't solve the question of following whole threads, but it's great for dialogue (not just because I notice when
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by jsdalton 18y ago
> Unless you're sending over 10K emails a day, hosted is the way to go. I might make a writeup on the process once I get some free time... let me know if anyone's interested. We're considering rolling our own email server setup. We send
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Where do you get free from? http://www.campaignmonitor.com/pricing/ I do enjoy the API. I actually just spent all day working on implementing part of it in a Wordpress plugin. It's SOAP as opposed to REST, but I guess you can't have every
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I read the blog post that was cited in this article yesterday. I mean no offense (particularly if the author hangs out here on HN), but it sounded an awful lot like whining to me. Why does it come as any surprise that consumers are flocking
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I thought it was cool that the author mentioned Hemingway. He linked through to an article, "Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well" ( http://www.copyblogger.com/ernest-hemingway-top-5-tips-for-w... ), which contained this little ge
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Don't know about anyone else, but http://nytimes.com/timesextra returns a 404 for me (7:20 a.m. PT).
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Not to be rude or anything, but what exactly is Truemors now? I guess it got acquired, because when you visit the URL you get redirected here. http://truemors.nowpublic.com/ A cursory review of the content shows a moderate number of submi
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by jsdalton 18y ago
You can build one with Slinkset in 10 minutes. You're right though -- getting people to USE it is the challenge.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I shied away from that only because I wasn't sure about adding custom attributes and making my xhtml invalid, e.g. to a div block which doesn't have a show attribute in the spec. Getting the argument itself is actually easy enough, I more e
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Nice tips. I definitely did not know about the data() method previously. On a related issue, does anyone have a nice way for passing "arguments" to a jquery function from the html, while still using jquery selectors (i.e. not calling the fu
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by jsdalton 18y ago
You're totally right, and I appreciate the encouragement actually. I'm really not the world's most phenomenal marketer or community organizer. It takes a lot of those two competencies to be successful in a social application endeavor. :/
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I do think getting the communities to form is a challenge, and I think the challenge is even more difficult amongst non-nerd demographics. I actually set up a slinkset site, http://www.bababase.com , a few months ago based on the very prem
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I'll give you my opinion here: It's not so much about the content, as it is about the community that evolved around the content. For me, Hacker News is a great example of this. Why do we need Hacker News when we've already got Proggit (i.e.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
My personal definition would be "anything you wouldn't be comfortable seeing splashed across the masthead of The Drudge Report."
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Neither the article nor the policy mention anything about speaking up against the status quo. They appear instead to be looking for "conflicts of interest" and "possible sources of embarrassment." There's a difference.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Threaded commenting is coming to Wordpress 2.7: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7635
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by jsdalton 18y ago
hey unalone, i take it THIS is the site you were referring to on reddit earlier today ;)
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Here's one of my favorite reasons to vote: Your vote does have an impact on the vote count. I like to check out the vote tallies when the election is over -- and when it says "324,879" instead of "324,878" or whatever, I think, "Hey, that's
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Can't wait for someone to port this to jQuery! :)

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