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by nicholaides 14y ago
Your biggest problem is asking a developer to work for equity. You're competing with every schmuck on Craigslist. If you're profitable, as you said in another comment, use that profit to pay a developer. If that's not possible, then you are
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by nicholaides 14y ago
Most sites' users aren't technically sophisticated enough to know how to or want to use Gravatar.
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by nicholaides 14y ago
It's not about proving library-like functionality. It's about providing infrastructure that their customers don't have to build and maintain. Managing avatars has non-obvious challenges/headaches: - uploading images, downloading from servic
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by nicholaides 14y ago
He was my math prof. Here's a gallery of his crazy mirrors: http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16585-amazing-mirrors/... When I saw the article title, I immediately knew it was Dr. Hicks because he would talk about his work occasionall
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by nicholaides 14y ago
I was thinking about this same idea earlier today: Buses in Philadelphia have a bunch of "No Eating and Drinking" signs and consequently no trash cans. The result is that the back of the bus is covered in trash. If they had just 1 or two tr
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by nicholaides 14y ago
Interesting idea. Seems like people are already doing it. Just Google "NaCl server side".
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by nicholaides 14y ago
"Lat" and "Long" seem like great tag names for this purpose. It sounds like the problem wasn't this guy, but the "reflection-type serialization of XML".
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by nicholaides 15y ago
I've wanted a service like this for a while but haven't had time to make it. A few other ways you could get photos from users: - get a picture from their phone. This seems really important and useful, but I'm not sure the best way to do th
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by nicholaides 15y ago
This extension made me realize that Chrome doesn't do syntax highlighting in the console. What a convenient feature!
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by nicholaides 15y ago
I didn't realize that. I assumed it was a signal that the sources weren't reliable/knowledgeable. I learned something new today, thanks.
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by nicholaides 15y ago
First paragraph: "... according to people familiar with the matter" Good thing they didn't report what people unfamiliar with the matter said.
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Show HN: RSS feeds for any Github project's tags(githubtags-nicholaides.dotcloud.com)
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Jedi-preneurship: What I Learned About Business From Yoda(nathanjohnsoninc.com)
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by nicholaides 15y ago
StackOverflow might be a better place to ask. http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=python+parse+ics
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by nicholaides 15y ago
In the past, I had some environment specific dependencies-- installed libraries and services-- that I couldn't easily backup and wasn't easy to set up. In this case, I would use a VM to do my development on and back up the VM image regularl
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5 Reasons for Entrepreneurs to Skip Business School(nathanjohnsoninc.com)
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by nicholaides 15y ago
I am, as well.
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by nicholaides 15y ago
If you solve problems that deal with a lot of data, or make a lot of calculations, you'll probably care about big O. Last time I really had to consider big O in a web app was 2009. Of course, it had nothing to do with the fact that it was a
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by nicholaides 15y ago
Can you expand on this? What's the risk? What's the attack vector?
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by nicholaides 15y ago
I would pay for something like that.
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by nicholaides 15y ago
The Dropbox API lets them put files in your dropbox. Urldroplet will go fetch the webpage you give it, save it to some files, and then use the Dropbox API to put those files in your dropbox.
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by nicholaides 15y ago
No. I don't think it would be helpful. It's hard to claim that successful developers got jobs in because of their great resumes, rather than from networking, or being a good interviewer, etc. Now, if you had TONS of data and could say what
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by nicholaides 16y ago
This is interesting. How does this work?
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Ask HN: Games suggestions for hacker kids?
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by nicholaides 16y ago
Clickable: http://www.updatesitenow.com/
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by nicholaides 16y ago
Me, too. Being able to tether and not pay extra for it is the only reason I would jailbreak.
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by nicholaides 16y ago
I don't have an answer for you, but a great place to ask this question would be on stackoverflow.com.
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by nicholaides 16y ago
That is seriously impressive! The first site I did didn't import perfectly, but it only took a second to fix a the major differences. Orginial: https://img.skitch.com/20110219-8rej2qyyg9pd6swxnxqagk8brq.j... Imported: http://www.jmockups
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by nicholaides 16y ago
The biggest hurdle you have in front of you is finding someone to build it. Reach out to your network and see if anyone knows good people working in the technologies you need. Attend local meetups that revolve around these technologies. Vis
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by nicholaides 16y ago
I've been using this for a while in a product I'm developing. One great use case is that it makes it crazy easy for users to embed content.

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