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by philfreo 16y ago
SuperHappyDevHouse or Hacker Dojo? http://superhappydevhouse.org/ http://wiki.hackerdojo.com/ Also... List of Hacker Spaces - http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
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by philfreo 16y ago
Only if you're building your own products that you can sell in a scalable way - not just becoming a larger consulting shop. That's not to say it isn't a good idea -- just that building a business is a little different in most people's mind
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by philfreo 16y ago
Would you like to buy SuckinessReminders.com from me for a very reasonable price? ;)
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by philfreo 16y ago
it's not sarcasm
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by philfreo 16y ago
What else do you think they should remove?
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by philfreo 16y ago
You can use image sprites and still control the colors using CSS! http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_standards_creativity...
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by philfreo 16y ago
Any startups have experience with Splunk? Seems like it might not be too expensive if you're not massive, and some of their demos are impressive. http://www.splunk.com/
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Apps-on Post-it Pads(apps-on.com)
32 points by philfreo 16y ago|11 comments
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by philfreo 16y ago
Wow, why all the downvotes? They were mentioned in the article and my comment was genuine.
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by philfreo 16y ago
Just looked at Shopkick for the first time and was pretty impressed. I bet they'll do really well. http://shopkick.com/
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by philfreo 16y ago
The TSA has asserted that the machines cannot store pictures, but security personnel at a courthouse in Florida were found to not only have saved images but shared them among colleagues in order to humiliate one of their coworkers.
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by philfreo 16y ago
ClickToFlash has a lot of the same benefits as uninstalling Flash when browsing in Safari. http://clicktoflash.com/ And be sure to opt in to YouTube's HTML5 trial: http://www.youtube.com/html5
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by philfreo 16y ago
Actually - it's not. To interact with other users in a significant way they have CAPTCHAS to fill out - unless you confirm your account via a mobile phone SMS (which can only be used 1-to-1).
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by philfreo 16y ago
Care to give a little more explanation on how it works?
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by philfreo 16y ago
1Password is awesome, and works nicely with Dropbox if you want to keep passwords in sync between multiple computers. Their Chrome extension has been getting better (Chrome silently updates its extensions). And their iPhone app is pretty go
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Do complex numbers really exist?(math.stackexchange.com)
3 points by philfreo 16y ago|1 comments
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by philfreo 16y ago
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/detexify/id328805329?mt=8
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by philfreo 16y ago
Time Machine, Dropbox, and Backblaze
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by philfreo 16y ago
life-time value (of a user)
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by philfreo 16y ago
Sphinx ( http://sphinxsearch.com/ ) is really good at geo/spatial searches on MySQL data Example: http://www.god-object.com/2009/10/20/geospatial-search-using...
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by philfreo 16y ago
Everyone and their brother is willing to do remote or contract work. What's tough is finding good local people who are willing to join a team. It seems kind of useless to let me talk to any developer if you're not doing ANY skillset matchin
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by philfreo 16y ago
You're talking about SRS (Spaced Repetition - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition_software ). We don't technically do SRS (yet -- although we're thinking about it). But our "Learn" mode does keep track of what you know and what
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by philfreo 16y ago
Point taken on the "default subjects" on the homepage - they were just meant to show off some of the most common stuff we have, but with 3 millions flashcard sets it's not easy to show it all :) LaTeX, SRS, and study reminders are all three
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by philfreo 16y ago
As someone who's trying to recruit developers for our startup, Hirelite looks interesting. Is there any way to target only people within a specific location (like San Francisco)? Or only people who are willing to relocate? I'd definitely pa
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by philfreo 16y ago
Anyone know any of the logistics behind how this was done?
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by philfreo 16y ago
Would love to get your thoughts on Quizlet http://quizlet.com/
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by philfreo 16y ago
How long have you been using it?
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by philfreo 16y ago
Some really good discussion about f.lux on this other HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1832339
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by philfreo 16y ago
Hey we're doing some really similar stuff at Quizlet.com (small startup but over 1 million registered users), let me know if you want to chat. http://quizlet.com/
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by philfreo 16y ago
Bonus points if it ranks by textual relevance + # of upvotes on SO

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