mikehawkins

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by mikehawkins 11y ago
"Fascinating" indeed... I've no problem with the general practice of selling lost or mis-directed packages that are reasonably never going to be claimed, but if the facts are as the columnist writes - with one box of 88 books
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Reallllly basic UI, and a horrible name - but I'm a big fan of the end result. :)
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Finally – animated GIF screen capture (for all of us help desk folks everywhere)(cockos.com)
1 points by mikehawkins 11y ago|1 comments
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Sounds promising - anything that can improve on our current use of the frankly non-intuitive Google Analytics in providing clear metrics is worth a shot.
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Sigh. I just got back from Zion and had absolutely no problem with this policy... worst case - you buy one round of sodas drinks, then refill with water for the rest of the trip. No brainer.
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
He was ahead of the curve. APIs are definitely the way forward but there are still some hold outs - and increasingly, many of the social platforms such as Twitter and LinkedIn are putting limits on the type of data they share.
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Yup - this has really been a humbling learning experience for us... shame as well, because we ended up missing out on the sort of feedback HN community often provides.
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“We posted on Hacker News – and messed up.” (We're sorry)(blog.riddle.com)
8 points by mikehawkins 11y ago|4 comments
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Well - it sounds like all these comments are from actual users... but TBH - the positive comments are great, but we’re much more interested in the constructive (and blunt) feedback HN is known for… any thoughts?
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Thanks - we'd love to get any ideas on what you think we could improve if you've got a sec to share? :)
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Woohoo! We like to hear that... any features you'd suggest or things we could do better?
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Thanks so much - we really appreciate it! And any feedback - about the good, the bad, and (hopefully very little of) the ugly - we'd love to hear about it. Mike Co-founder
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Show HN: Riddle.com – create Buzzfeed-like content in 60 seconds(riddle.com)
20 points by mikehawkins 11y ago|18 comments
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Great recommendation - I immediately spotted the point about blue light, but wasn't aware of high quality sleep apps that help address the problem. Looking forward to trying your guys' suggested apps.
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Absolutely - thanks for sharing; you were far more concise than how I was going to explain my solution. :)
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Fair enough - equity valuations and markets are enough of a Wild, Wild West without adding all of this pre-IPO share shenanigans.
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Definitely agree on the science side - but I'd have to differ on the sexism argument. True, Pixar and Disney have recently taken small steps to balance the almost overwhelmingly boy/male as hero model with Brave and Frozen, but we
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Sheesh. I feel like we should just create a script to auto-post 'Tube strike' every 24.5 days or so; it certainly seems like they threaten to strike enough.
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Agreed - and echoes a similar case I read about when the folks behind the Ordnance Survey (government agency and makers of truly exceptional maps for outdoor enthusiasts in the UK) proudly showed how they made their data online for a licens
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
I agree... especially with the comment about terse and unclear error messages. I recently got lured into the customer-facing side of things, and nothing annoys me (or our new users) than a message like "Incorrect syntax" when I us
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Good point... a key problem though is self-inflicted. Taxi driver unions have a vested interest in keeping the number of licenses in operation low (so keeping rates high). That only pushes the value of each license up - and you have to spen
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Great article - cars are an old idea that are dramatically in need of a fundamental reboot. Google's self-driving cars are a huge start - as combined with the rise of the sharing economy, could signal that the car industry's appro
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Sorry dsego - this was already posted yesterday. :(
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
It's far too early to know what's going on - but Reddit will need to get way out in front of this to defuse things. When there's an information vacuum, and a community of passionate users involved... things can only snowball.
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
My knee-jerk reaction was 'ah, jeez - there's going to be a big percentage of lazy people just gaming the system'. But on reflection, as some other posters have already said, these folks would probably not being looking for w
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Thanks for including the source - that was my question as well.
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Same here - I was also guilty of feeling a bit clever and avoiding the obvious "oh, the numbers double every time" answer. So, when I found out that if the spelling of each number was one letter longer (4 = four letters, 8 = five
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Yup. I can imagine also the ease of having to only deal with a limited pool of private funders - all of whom are known quantities vs. faceless public funds - would be also be a key benefit.
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
My friend is a prosecutor and said basically the same thing. She recommended that any time the police read your rights and just want to ask you questions - immediately ask for a lawyer. Just keeps things much, much simpler for you.
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by mikehawkins 11y ago
Well put - and I had to chuckle at your use of the term 'rageviews'... I hadn't read that one before.

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