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by nhebb 12y ago
This poll should be broken into three separate questions: - Do you trust Facebook? - Has you usage level increased, remained the same, or declined? - Did your trust level impacted your usage?
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I saw a suggestion on reddit once that you can canvas your neighborhood to get proxy votes for any HOA meeting. Using the proxies, you can bring forth a motion, second it with one of the proxies, and then (typically) win the vote. So the ma
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An online organizational space for HOA's. It would allow HOA members to view the budget, see the monthly meeting agenda, file proxy votes, see any open issues, and vote on board members. I have the feeling (based on personal experienc
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Shit. It's bad enough that I turn 50 this week, but I was born on BASIC day?!? Sigh.
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I like it. There are a few changes that I will need to get used to, but in a few weeks I doubt I'll notice the difference. One thing that I think FF doesn't get enough credit for is how efficiently it runs these days. I prefer Chr
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I think this is the flip side of "business guy seeks technical co-founder". I would love to see a site that partnered up developers with marketers. I can't be the only developer that realizes that they suck at marketing.
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Write down 3 or 4 ideas (including your target idea) and poll your friends, family, coworkers, etc. Ask which one they would pay for . Have "none of the above" as the final option. If you directly asked what they thought of the i
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[dead] is currently used for both comments and new submissions. I often see [dead] comments that are perfectly worthwhile, but new submissions that are [dead] are completely useless. The link is removed, and they clutter up the new page. If
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Maybe this problem could be mitigate by allowing users to tag their questions as novice, intermediate, or advanced (though intermediate is probably not necessary). The advanced tag would let the 1's help 1's, and the novice tag wo
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Most spreadsheets I've dealt with don't hold relational data. Are there people who use them as such? Sure. But I don't think that's the typical use case.
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Or, right-click the link and open in a new private window.
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https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QIbzRrRkhhc1RNY0U/...
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> I have identified another SaaS that's doing something that I could build into my product but do not care to do Is your product doing something they they could build into theirs? It's something to consider before approaching t
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A newsletter advertising network.
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Based on the issues Hawaii has had, this may not be as stupid as the Yahoo writer makes it sound: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-solar-boom-so-su...
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Portland has open air reservoirs in Mt. Tabor and Washington Park. They're both fenced off, but I do know that dead animals have been found in the Washington Park reservoirs before. what was surprising to me is that this is the first t
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by nhebb 13y ago
Most of the bits made me grin, but Kumail was the only one who made me laugh. He's great on Portlandia too.
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If you're going to start adding features, you might want to add a feature request page to help prioritize them. I sell desktop software and the most requested features in that space would probably be license key fulfillment, discount c
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by nhebb 13y ago
I can't say I hate Comic Sans itself, but I remember getting company-wide emails sent out in Comic Sans, like flyers for a bake sale. At that point I realized that it's the people sending them that I despised, not the font. Plus,
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by nhebb 13y ago
After a year of using Win 8, it still takes me a few tries to get the charms menu to display (it pops up all the time when I don't want it to). I hook a 2nd monitor to my laptop a lot, and trying to get the mouse in that "charm ba
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by nhebb 13y ago
Manufacturing is different than other industries in that it's recognized to have a large multiplier effect. Historically, the estimate has been that for every manufacturing job created, 1.5 - 4 other jobs are created in the surrounding
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Indirectly you've identified a product in great need - a sarcasm detector for the humor impaired. ;-)
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> Modals and Pop-Ups - You’ve seen this before. You click on a link to a news article or a blog post, and a gigantic modal pop-up window covers the content. This makes absolutely no sense. The first thing that popped into my head was T
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> I also enjoy music, acting, singing... Well, it's not exactly along those lines, but I always thought a good business to start would be a screencasting service. Lots of companies need demo videos, and few people I know like to cre
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That video explains one aspect of the issue (the fake clicks), but what I found most troubling from the article was the five-fold discrepancy between the FB link count and the Bitly and Google Analytics visitor counts. If anything, you woul
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They dropped the setup project ( deployment ). If they had dropped the development tools from VS, I'm not not sure what would be left. [edited (twice) for clarity]
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> I said, find a new reason to hate Microsoft. OK. I'm pissed that they dropped the deployment tools from Visual Studio. [1] People keep saying that the desktop is dying, but PC makers still managed to sell over 300M units last year
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Before launching my first product, I wrote ten articles on related subjects and put up an email sign-up form. The article were static html pages, not blog posts. They were howto's and other reference pieces that had lasting traffic val
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Ever since reading about the Robbers Cave Experiment [1], I have trouble looking at politics without seeing it through that lens. [1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/lt/the_robbers_cave_experiment/
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Here's the updated version of the C# Programming Guide for anyone interested: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/67ef8sbd.aspx

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