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by philfreo 13y ago
I'm not Zynga's biggest fan, but every company has a goal of making a profit. That doesn't mean that company mission/vision statements are irrelevant.
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by philfreo 13y ago
If you're someone who actually enjoys using LastPass, I don't really know what to say. The UX (and design) of 1Password is way better. But another important reason is that LastPass is a central service where you have to (at least somewhat
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by philfreo 13y ago
Because the HN crowd (more than most) recognizes the importance of security and single use passwords. 1Password is by far (IMO) the nicest and best way to manage passwords (and generate single use passwords). The only downside is its expens
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by philfreo 13y ago
Your "slide switch", "toggle buttons", "tabs", etc all suffer from the same big problem: hard to tell which one is selected (especially if there's 1 "on", 1 "off").
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by philfreo 13y ago
What's the mistake he references?
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by philfreo 13y ago
Check out Arq http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/
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by philfreo 13y ago
Yeah, there are definitely similar policies in the US. Not sure if its per state or what, but I've gotten a letter like this.
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by philfreo 13y ago
This is likely because many of us are part of small startups where the roles are often interchangeable in the early days: the same small engineering team is responsible for both "writing code", backups, infrastructure, and everything else t
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Supreme Court ruled no warrant needed to track you via your cell phone GPS(blogs.lawyers.com)
8 points by philfreo 13y ago|4 comments
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Easy data migration to Close.io [YC W11] from Salesforce & 11 other CRMs.(blog.close.io)
2 points by philfreo 13y ago|0 comments
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by philfreo 13y ago
I expected this to be about an http redirect...
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by philfreo 13y ago
I read it twice and concluded that it must be a joke... pretty funny now either way IMO
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by philfreo 13y ago
A gel matt, good shoes, and a little leaning can make a huge difference.
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by philfreo 13y ago
What are the largest sites using PyPy in production?
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Ultra fast JSON decoder and encoder written in C with Python bindings(github.com)
3 points by philfreo 13y ago|0 comments
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by philfreo 13y ago
I wanted the exact same thing and it's not totally trivial when you consider different discounts, quantities, past_due, trial dates, etc. So I built a simple script to do some of it: https://gist.github.com/5543145
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by philfreo 13y ago
Interesting... looks promising. Using this would be tough while we share phone/email/urls fields though.
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by philfreo 13y ago
> Landline and Mobile phone numbers are differentiatable, I'm not sure about this in a world with number portability. > email address and website url are differntiatable too Yep, we do this already. > auto-import feature LinkedI
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by philfreo 13y ago
> Unless your domain is setup to use strict SPF and then this will fail randomly Sure - but most people don't have this, and the goal is to get people to put in their SMTP credentials at some point anyway. Just doesn't have to be in the
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by philfreo 13y ago
We've experimented with this concept for our Chrome extension, but I think it's worth exploring more. http://blog.close.io/post/46905541008/the-close-io-lead-clip... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/closeio/cmhcoonbgf...
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by philfreo 13y ago
We already do #1, but #2 is a good suggestion, thanks!
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by philfreo 13y ago
The number of messages we allow per day for accounts without their own SMTP credentials is very low. But yes, this is something we need to keep an eye on.
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by philfreo 13y ago
We're using this library: https://github.com/andris9/addressparser But we're using it for more than just this scenario. If you're just concerned with this specific case you could come up with a simpler/shorter solution.
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by philfreo 13y ago
We're beyond the MVP stage... and I think when you're competing with well established players in a big space your best option is to compete on product quality rather than marketing, cost, etc. It's also worth noting that this is a form that
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by philfreo 13y ago
Well it's the standard format for displaying both the user's name & email address together (and part of the SMTP spec). But yeah - typically you just want the real address part. In Gmail at least you can get what you want with some care
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by philfreo 13y ago
Someone pointed out that Bitbucket actually already has my "click '...' to expand" idea. Might be nicer with an animation, or if they started loading the AJAX request upon hover instead of click since it takes a while, but overall works wel
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The problem with pull requests / code reviews(philfreo.com)
19 points by philfreo 13y ago|6 comments
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37signals Hands Sortfolio Over to New Owners(sortfolio.com)
1 points by philfreo 14y ago|0 comments
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by philfreo 14y ago
Work in the SF bay area at a larger startup or tech company and be great at what you do.
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Apple More than Doubles Capital Return Program(apple.com)
1 points by philfreo 14y ago|0 comments

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