mikegioia

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   by mikegioia 14y ago

   Yea but Facebook is relying on their massive userbase as justification for the additional reach cost per post. I guess the $3k is the "price" for having access to all of those subscribers in FB. They're welcome to take their posts to Twitte
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   by mikegioia 14y ago

   I still don't understand why they don't take pre-orders. Even if it's just a "pledge" and not a transfer of money it would serve the double purpose of demand-sizing and wait-listing.
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   by mikegioia 14y ago

   I think you're within your right to ditch IE6. I don't even support IE7, users just get a chromeframe prompt.
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   by mikegioia 14y ago

   Cigarette taxes? Please, in NY a pack of cigarettes costs $11. Say for argument's sake that's a $10 tax. 2.5g of marijuana on the street costs anywhere from $50 - $60! That would equate to a $50 tax on half a pack of marijuana cigs. That's
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   by mikegioia 14y ago

   That took me way too long to catch.
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   by mikegioia 14y ago

   I have yet to experience downtime with RackspaceCloud and I've been using them for like 3 years.
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   by mikegioia 15y ago

   Interesting, what do/would you recommend? I'm really curious because I honestly can't think of ONE email service that does email better than Gmail.
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   by mikegioia 16y ago

   Why wouldn't I just make a Facebook event?
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   by mikegioia 17y ago

   Could you PM me the name of their website? We figured as much that writing the application conversion stuff would be needed but those are interesting points. And you're right. additional data entry on assignments would be needed to more gra
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    Thanks _Lemon_. We designed this to be used both ways - teachers can use it for their classrooms, but students can use it to manage their own grades as well. They even work in tandem, so you could be subscribed to a few courses your teacher
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    The help function uses the osx plugin for simplemodal (jquery plugin). You can get it here: http://www.ericmmartin.com/projects/simplemodal/ Reminders are really just like post it notes right now but we're planning to make them more like
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    Thanks Max. Right now it's completely free and not designed to be used as a school wide system. The main purpose is for individual teachers to use it in their classrooms. We wanted to make something that teachers could use to manage all of
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    You can access the demo here: http://www.mygrademate.com/demo username/password: demo/demo
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    I think this sums it up best. It comes down to trust and you either trust YC or not. If anything, this is a good litmus test for them.
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    Yea true, but I mean, just hearing him speak about that wurlitzer you can tell he just loves making music.
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    What a collection of drum machines he has. My level of respect for Moby just went up. Electronic artists have software like ableton, fruity loops etc that takes you so far away from analog. It's nice to see this level of dedication and love
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    I thought this was fantastic. In that vid it looked like it might have been some new way to create fonts. I think that would be an interesting thing to research or develop. Something where you can, through mechanical devices "feel out" a ne
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    Hmm I wonder how they're gonna manage the "lending to friends" part. I'm all for it but it should be interesting.
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    I think this is true even with classical art forms, like painting and photography. If your intention when creating is artistic, then what you're doing is art. If it's strictly business or for money, then it's turned into a trade, imo. I thi
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    I have to agree with you on JQuery. It runs on multiple browsers too and performs exceptionally well. It's gotta be one of my all time favorite pieces of software.
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    I see his gripe with it. There's nothing more irritating then seeing a whole bunch of spam comments on one of your sites. The worst is the compliment spam that is so hard to filter. But what it's taught me is to be a better developer, and t
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    original: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6286...
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    I don't know. I just see $120 - $180 men's pants as too high to shake up the market or even be on zappo's level. I dig what these guys are doing, but I feel "niche online retailer" is their ultimate evolution.
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    Ahh I gotcha, I'm unfamiliar with rails dev. Thanks.
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    This is so great. I've been looking for a place just to get work done after my day job. At roughly $200/person/month this would be perfect. Question: how is security and leaving computers and documents at this place? My biggest concern woul
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    I never even really thought of this until you mentioned it. There's probably a ton of unused elements in my css. Just found a firefox tool that helps with this: http://www.sitepoint.com/dustmeselectors/
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    by mikegioia 17y ago

    What an excellent article. This should be required reading for anyone looking to get into web application development or marketing. I can't tell you how many half-baked ideas I've listened to where all they need is a "developer".