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by localhost3000 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - boston. remote OK. backend: ruby on rails; frontend: js/jQuery/sencha, haml/html5/sass/css/bootstrap; db: postgres/mongo/mysql; misc: ux/ui design, location-based mobile apps, have worked with all major social apis (fb, tw, 4
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by localhost3000 14y ago
Here's the bit i never understood with this 'growth hacker' meme: if you're working on or for an early stage startup then everyone is a 'growth hacker', right? if your people aren't working to grow your product/service/community then what
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How to avoid horribly sneaky spotify commercials(monkian.com)
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by localhost3000 14y ago
never considered that. is this true? were banks giving mortgages using stock as collateral / proof of credit-worthiness? how widespread is this?
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by localhost3000 14y ago
i think the uber service is great. that said, we (collectively, the startup community) can't keep using this "we're an innovative tech company and the laws we're breaking weren't written with our great innovations in mind" argument. it does
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by localhost3000 14y ago
still unclear to me why i would/should pay to publish my runkeeper data into the ether or why i would pay to consume yours...will every user of app.net pay for the service? or is it only some subset who opt-in as donors? if the later, doesn
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by localhost3000 14y ago
anyone else have this experience: reading this article on an iphone only to notice that the thing in my hand - perhaps the most successful consumer electronic device in the world - was as close to jet black as anything else I'd seen today?
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by localhost3000 14y ago
if you freelance and do remote work no one need know how old you are. the surest way to get started freelancing is to build something of your own and just start showing it off. If it's good people will ask you to build things for them. So a
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by localhost3000 14y ago
kind of adorable... whatever we imagine life to be like in the year 2100, chances are we'll look just as silly in retrospect as these illustrations edit: gracias
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by localhost3000 14y ago
it's a ruse to get some HN airtime so that you'll learn (and maybe even remember) the name of the guy who wrote it...just like 2/3rds of the rest of what gets posted on here...don't hate the player. we're the suckers up-voting it so he can
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by localhost3000 14y ago
I once headed up content marketing for a small online publisher. It's a horrible job. You spend half your day trying to come up with clever headlines of an article you've at-best skimmed and the other half trying to game traffic sources lik
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by localhost3000 14y ago
can someone explain the 'woo' reference? k thx.
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by localhost3000 14y ago
SEEKING WORK Boston. Remote OK. Ruby on rails, js/jquery/coffee, haml/html5/css/sass, phonegap/sencha touch mobile apps, ux design, mongo/sql, have built upon all major social apis (fb, twitter, 4sq) contact: ian.stanczyk at gmail
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by localhost3000 14y ago
because they need pageviews to stay alive and someone over there figured, 'huh, i bet we can get this on the front page of hacker news'
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by localhost3000 14y ago
reminds me a bit of zazu
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by localhost3000 14y ago
just make it work, as simply as possible.
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by localhost3000 14y ago
apartment hunting doesn't suck because you have to use craigslist. apartment hunting sucks because you have to deal with real estate agents.
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by localhost3000 14y ago
'...web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness...' says it all right there, doesn't it? You know what makes me a happy programmer? Building things, not mucking about with setting up a new dev environment (and filling my machine
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by localhost3000 14y ago
posted a domain but i don't see it in the list? :( edit: the timestamp on my entry on http://friendsdomains.com/istanb4u says '3 hours ago' but i just posted it...double sad face
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by localhost3000 14y ago
it's not a new point but it's a good one: for most teenagers the least 'cool' people in the world are their parents. if the parents are really into facebook the kids are going to be turned off and looking around for something else.
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by localhost3000 14y ago
SEEKING WORK boston. remote ok. skill set in no particular order: Rails, JQuery/JS/coffee, html5/haml/sass/css, Phonegap/Sencha, sql, mongo, all major social APIs (fb, tw, 4sq), geolocation, product/ux design gmail: ian.stanczyk
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by localhost3000 14y ago
Boston has a great bar scene. Our bars and restaurants are regularly recognized as some of the best in the country. We also have many, many bars for such a small geographic area. IMO the bar scene in Boston is superior to SF. These are the
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by localhost3000 14y ago
they should advertise on yelp where people are, you know, looking to buy pizza.
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by localhost3000 14y ago
Make friends with a writer. Particularly one of the opposite sex. Ask them to write about you. Works every time.
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by localhost3000 14y ago
I've had the opposite experience with working at home vs working in a shared space. I was much, much more productive working at home (having a 'home office', aka a room with a desk and no tv was key) but I am far happier working out of a sh
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by localhost3000 14y ago
Lack of demonstrable skills followed by lack of initiative amplified by poor economy.
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by localhost3000 14y ago
tl;dr The world needs ditch-diggers, too Thanks, Ty (or was it smails?).
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by localhost3000 15y ago
take an evening and go have drinks with some current med students / residents - here's what you'll hear (not from all, but from many): "Obamacare is killing my profession!"..."i should've gone to b-school instead"..."i could be working at G
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by localhost3000 15y ago
you wouldn't believe what many of the students in top-10 MBA programs paid to "admissions consultants" to get in. we're talking several thousand dollars per application. you can't go through the process without bumping into 'experts' and 'c
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by localhost3000 15y ago
I have a product in the local restaurant space. As a result I talk to lots of restaurant people - staff, primarily. It is overwhelming the vitriol I hear from them toward Yelp. Many people downright despise it.

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