mikeyur

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by mikeyur 16y ago
The primary reason is so we can have a lot of the space. Most tenants of the space will clear out Friday and be back Tuesday (which also gives us time to clean up after the event). We wanted to do it the week before but the schedules didn't
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by mikeyur 16y ago
Based on the feedback we've gotten so far, a lot of people are interested in this kind of event. If everything goes well we will definitely be doing something similar again in the future.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I look forward to seeing you there :) Do you mind passing this around to other Vancouver hackers you know? I posted this at a terrible time and it fell the off the homepage already (huge fail on my part).
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by mikeyur 16y ago
Clickable link: http://verev.com/vancouver-hackathon/ If you're not from Vancouver, please pass on the link to any friends you may have up here.
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Tell HN: Vancouver, Canada Startup Hackathon Oct 8-10th
52 points by mikeyur 16y ago|14 comments
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by mikeyur 16y ago
If I play them side by side I can hear the difference, but listening to the lower quality version doesn't bother me.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
Cool idea but the reason I use Google Docs is because I don't have/want Microsoft Office on my computer - and for the sharing/collaboration. I could see this being useful for notes and the like, but I've been a loyal Simplenote user for ove
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by mikeyur 16y ago
Depends. I can't hear the difference between $100 and $400 headphones in most cases. I have a $99 pair of Apple in-ear headphones and they work great. I like to keep my music library fairly small, so everything's encoded at 160 or 192kbps m
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by mikeyur 16y ago
SEO for most startups isn't about doing all sorts of trickery to rake in tons of traffic, it's about letting people find you easily. The most important part of the SEO process is keyword research, figuring out what people are searching for.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I feel guilty if I don't buy something at least once an hour. I've had lunch with the President of a fair-sized coffee franchise in Canada and his stores give you a 1hr code with your purchase, but after that you can just go up and ask for
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I don't think Gizmodo is in a position to dish out legal advice.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I'd put it towards my business registration costs. Waiting to hear back about my name approval request.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
"Got some air bubbles? Not a problem, just quickly wipe your hand over the whiteyboard and push the bubbles out. Easy as that." It should definitely be shown off as a feature - everyone has had that frustration when trying to put a screen p
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by mikeyur 16y ago
Visited last year and loved the city. Have many good friends spread out across the UK as well, considering a year or two spent roaming the UK and calling London home for awhile.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
If I caught a flight now, I would.. still be late. Dammit. All of my friends want to move to SF and I want to move to London.
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Designing the Face of Forrst(pasqualedsilva.com)
36 points by mikeyur 16y ago|0 comments
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by mikeyur 16y ago
That's a big part of it, but it's also the experience. I lined up for the iPhone 3G when it was released in Canada and the experience was great. I felt like I was with "my people" - and spent most of the couple hour wait talking with the ot
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I shot Matt Cutts a reply on Twitter. He has responded to friends in the past and forwarded complaints to the proper people. Can't believe how horrible Google customer service is, the only way to get real service is find someone on the insi
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by mikeyur 16y ago
Does San Francisco not have pay by phone parking meters? We've had them in Vancouver for awhile now, and it's so handy (after you setup an account the first time). They text you 10 minutes before your meter expires and you can just call and
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by mikeyur 16y ago
..back when we were able to game Digg (algorithms were very predictable) for fun and profit.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
This is also my understanding from people in the know. Jay Adelson was removed from the company and most of the codebase for Digg v4, that was supposed to be launching sometime soon, was scrapped and Kevin took over the direction of the com
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I wish them luck in getting bought out. Seems like Digg would be a good fit for Yahoo, considering their new content-only direction.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I recently spent a few hours figuring out how much I need to be happy. Happy to me is living comfortable with enough extra cash to go out or take periodic trips without going into debt. I'm currently living at home and paying off some debt
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by mikeyur 16y ago
$10 was an example price, but for most small sites you can't expect to make hundreds (or thousands) a month. I consider 'small' less than 1k uniques per day. How you display the ads largely depends on your site and traffic. If you're only r
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by mikeyur 16y ago
Direct sales are the most profitable ad solution. Adsense only works (makes you more than a buck or two) with large libraries of content - popular content with high search numbers and lots of advertisers in that space. ie. Articles about di
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I've been using Spotify for months with a UK VPN, I'm really hoping they can get it launched in North America soon.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I almost exclusively consume video content through the iPad. I download almost all of my TV shows and have my video podcasts download via RSS. I then stream it to the iPad with Air Video. Probably the most kick-ass app I've seen in awhile.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
Warehouse work - working for smaller trucking companies, loading/unloading trucks and preparing shipments. Pays around $18/hr starting out. Retail - Retail sucks if you hate what you're selling, otherwise it's not too bad. I worked in a sup
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by mikeyur 16y ago
Can I just have support to draw a pattern on the homescreen for authentication? This is pretty ridiculous.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
Depending on the total sales, they may get more than a MacHeist bundle. A few friends have been approached for MacHeist and only offered $1-10k depending on the bundle. A friend went through with it and got $2k cash and a few little extras

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