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Lumi (YC W15) is hiring a front-end developer in Los Angeles
1 points by kepano 12y ago
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by kepano 12y ago
Co-founder of Lumi here! We're still working up better detail pages for each product, so feel free to ask any questions. From a technical perspective the site is all React & Hapi JS. We've also had a lot of fun playing with SV
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by kepano 12y ago
Great news. As a 2x Kickstarter creator and having backed dozens of projects the Amazon payment process has always been the worst part of the experience.
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by kepano 12y ago
Lumi - Mountain View / Los Angeles / Remote Backend / platform architect engineer. Lumi makes tools that enable anyone to print on any object or surface. We just started a big new platform project (similar to Shapeways but fo
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Lumi 3.0: Print your own T-shirts with solar-powered inks(lumi.co)
1 points by kepano 12y ago|0 comments
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by kepano 12y ago
I believe the fact that current displays glow all the time will seem like a temporary aberration when we look back in a couple hundred years. I just wrote a couple short pieces about it. [1][2] That said, I don't think we'll go ba
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by kepano 12y ago
Fun fact: decimal time was the official timekeeping system of France for about 6 months during the revolution, but was abolished because it never caught on. However, there are still some decimal watches and clocks in existence from that tim
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The Unglowing(edgemade.com)
1 points by kepano 12y ago|0 comments
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by kepano 12y ago
Worth noting that these photos are in the public domain. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/378_kubr.html
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by kepano 12y ago
It depends on the type of plastic. Legos are made of ABS which is one of the most durable plastics, especially when it comes to outdoor conditions.
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by kepano 12y ago
Along the same vein: http://appicns.com
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by kepano 12y ago
Not sure the rebrand is what will attract new customers to OpenERP. A couple months ago, I evaluated ERPs for our business. OpenERP was one of the main contenders but ultimately the manufacturing module failed to meet our requirements and c
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by kepano 12y ago
Fun fact: Beats' industrial design lead is Robert Brunner, Jony Ive's predecessor as Director of Industrial Design at Apple.
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by kepano 13y ago
This is a short book I recommend to everyone. 70 pages, 1909 and it still feels futuristic. He predicts commercial flight, the internet (Spotify, Skype, podcasting). Remember that this is before the popularization of radio. The beauty of hi
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by kepano 13y ago
Along the same vein, I recently started a podcast about building hardware and physical products. While it's not specifically about bootstrapping, many of the guests so far have are bootstrappers or Kickstarter-backed. The first episode
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by kepano 13y ago
Seems like SXSW has been pronounced dead every year for the past 5+ years. Somehow it keeps getting bigger. It's the old Yogi Berra quote: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
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by kepano 13y ago
I believe that segment refers to all generations alive today, not generations born in the last 25 years.
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4.4 Billion-Year-Old Zircon Crystal Points to a Cool Early Earth(news.wisc.edu)
1 points by kepano 13y ago|0 comments
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by kepano 13y ago
These guys are crowd-sourcing street views in a way that could someday complement OpenStreetMap: http://mapillary.com/
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by kepano 13y ago
Before I knew the word “UI” even existed, I loved making skins for Winamp and various other applications (my 2004 skin, Impulse[1], still shows up on their site). It was a fun, approachable way to create functional pieces of art, and in ret
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by kepano 13y ago
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6905817/every-tech-commerc...
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by kepano 13y ago
So the bait-and-switch begins. There are a number of startups including Nitrogram, Olapic and Pixlee who seem to be doing well selling analytics, user-generated content, customer service tools and branded contests based on Instagram. Those
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by kepano 13y ago
Lumi - http://lumi.co - Los Angeles, CA Lumi is a Kickstarter-backed company located in downtown Los Angeles, at the heart of the Arts District. We're pioneering a new DIY alternative to screen printing. We believe self-exp
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by kepano 13y ago
This is the right move. Great brands have a logo that can be reduced to one color, not only for faxing (as the blog post mentions) but for embossing, stationery, signage, and many applications that would be overly costly when printed in mul
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by kepano 13y ago
It's a great app. I've been using it every day for the past 2-3 years. The transition to Feedly was fairly seamless. Happy to to throw in 5 bucks to help keep the updates coming.
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by kepano 13y ago
One could make the argument that Forstall's iOS was post-modern. The choice of using real-word textures such as leather and notepaper were not just about helping novice computer users, they also seemed like an aesthetic choice, decorat
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by kepano 13y ago
In design the word "modern" has a specific meaning. Modernism is a movement, a school of thought that emerged in the early 20th century with Bauhaus and designers such as Mies van der Rohe who famously said "Less is more&quot
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by kepano 13y ago
Lumi - Los Angeles, CA http://lumi.co Textile printing for the Maker generation. * Lead Backend Engineer - Developing new marketplace and web-based tools on Ruby on Rails, Heroku, AWS S3, Javascript. Lumi makes it easy to print
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by kepano 13y ago
I had the same experience. After hearing friends rave about mechanical keyboards I ordered a custom one from WASD. Great build quality though custom engravings are less sharp than I expected. It's a lot of fun to click clack away on, b
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by kepano 13y ago
> "What discourages me here is that the overall tone of the HN commenters is: Get with the program. Instead of acknowledging that it is an open question and saying something like, “Interesting hypothesis, my own thoughts are that

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