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by mrchess 15y ago
This might be a stupid question but what do you do after you secure such a large series of funding? Go on mass expansion? Would anyone mind telling me how startups typically use this kind of money (closing Series with 100+mil)?
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by mrchess 15y ago
"With only a $200 camera and no filming experience, we determined that filming documentary style yields the best picture and sound quality." Not trying to pick a fight here but if you don't have any filming experience at all who are you to
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by mrchess 15y ago
Not a fan of this interviewing format. To me it seems terribly awkward when the person asking questions isn't even on the same screen.
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by mrchess 15y ago
Any chance you can put this on the Kindle store? Not sure how easy it is, but I'm sure myself and many others would like to buy a Kindle copy :)
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by mrchess 15y ago
Yup, exactly. The entire world of PR is cutthroat. If facebook doesn't play, they will get beat.
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by mrchess 15y ago
Not sure what the big deal is here. Big companies run negative PR campaigns against other companies ALL the time -- running negative PR campaigns is a very common strategy in the large market. But I supposed they usually run try to run them
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by mrchess 15y ago
Is prop('value') faster than val() now for reading dynamic input?
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by mrchess 15y ago
One thing that always bugged me about the criticism of the Diaspora release was that people criticize it like it is production software when they clearly stated it was a "pre-alpha developer preview". Who cares if they didn't have security
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by mrchess 15y ago
Cool stuff. FYI the link to the app in the first paragraph is dead.
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by mrchess 16y ago
Yeah I should have been more clear. I did like tracking my own data, but I got annoyed that every day I would have to type the same tags again in order to do it: M: [exercise][ate late][shower] Tu: [exericise][tv before bed] Wed: [tv before
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by mrchess 16y ago
I stopped using my wakemate after maybe 3 weeks mostly out of frustration. I was never able to score higher than 65 despite sleeping for long hours, short hours, etc. (is my sleeping really that bad every day?). The other thing that frustra
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by mrchess 16y ago
You're right, and I have no idea why a thread like this still makes it to the frontpage. It is unfortunate that you need x karma to downvote threads because even us who have been here for a while still don't have the ability to assist with
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by mrchess 16y ago
I see, so there is a SyncPad server program for enterprise use. Neat.
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by mrchess 16y ago
Anyone know more details about SyncPad technology stack? The demo is over the same network which means... an iPad acts as server? But then it says all you need to do is connect to the internet... and then...? Long polling? Or socket?
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by mrchess 16y ago
In regards to your comment about their recruiting speed, I wanted to chip in. While not Google, I interviewed with meebo and went through three phone screens as well within 1 week, and they flew me to Mountain View within 2 weeks -- by far
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by mrchess 16y ago
I actually made synchtube -- thanks for the shout. Was thinking about putting in a voting mechanism eventually. Nice to see frozenhot implemented it. Ironically I also did a Show HN today ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2344151 ) toda
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Show HN: synchtube.com Synchronize YouTube videos
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by mrchess 16y ago
Around this area: 239 8th Street, San Francisco, California, United States. I have since learned that it is the norm and possibly fact for locals to realize this area is a bit more sketchy. But like I said, I'm not from Cali!
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by mrchess 16y ago
I'm always wary of free labor, mostly because I did some before so I know what it can feel like. When you work for free, you never feel obligated to deliever or perform at your best because nobody is paying you, so if you get fed up you can
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by mrchess 16y ago
My experience was half-half. I got a pretty good place, but since I was new to the area (my first visit), I was displeased when I got there and found the surrounding neighborhood very sketchy. I mean, the host was nice but I didn't want to
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by mrchess 16y ago
Mine had a complex multiplication problem but had 0 as a multiplier. Can't get easier than that!
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by mrchess 16y ago
Agreed. I used ddg for a while just to try it out and to be honest I didn't see it improving my search experience at all and found some of its design quite distracting. Highlight result on hover? Fixed header? Even the fonts throw me off. T
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by mrchess 16y ago
Diversify. The mobile app market is very volatile, and you don't want to put your eggs in one basket. As many others suggest here you probably want to make a few other apps which have traction just in case your big one fails. There's a lot
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by mrchess 16y ago
Hey Groxx how did you find about the /canvas link? I could find no reference on Google that would have direct me to it in the first place! Very curious how you knew about it. Thanks for it btw as I never knew it existed.
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by mrchess 16y ago
I'm pretty sure there was a figure floating around that suggested >60% of businesses who participated in Groupon ended up more profitable. That being said thats a pretty good gamble -- having a 60% chance shot at higher revenues. I'll u
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by mrchess 16y ago
And the rich get richer...
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by mrchess 16y ago
This will propagate a new wave of facebook trolls who will create accounts with specific demographics and make vulgar comments in hopes to 1) troll, and 2) make said demographic look bad. Problem is now we can't even tell if they are real o
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by mrchess 16y ago
You should check out the IRC channel on freenode -- #startups. I think a lot of people go there and would probably love to beta.
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by mrchess 16y ago
This post reminds me of how I "creatively" used CSS3 shadows for a job interview. One of my tasks for this interview was to mimic an overlaying drop-shadow effect from a PSD file. I couldn't figure out how to do it smoothly using transparen
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by mrchess 16y ago
I second these guides as they are surprisingly helpful. The blog tutorial seems cliche and done, but it really is a great staple and good place to start in learning the changes that rails3 has brought about.

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