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by qeorge 17y ago
Definitely true. We've all been barking up the "don't use Flash unless you need it" tree for years, but it hasn't really made a difference. Bottom line seems to be that people love the way Flash sites look. If we can achieve that differentl
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by qeorge 17y ago
IMHO, they belong to HN. A fundamental part of participation is giving.
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by qeorge 17y ago
I've seen, and enjoyed your work before, and had no idea you were that cheap. ;) Drop me a line with your new rates, I'd love to keep in touch for future work.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Sounds much more hands-on than that to me, almost like a record label or book publisher.
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by qeorge 17y ago
I took this as a follow-up to the Sidekick, which is one of those devices that is way more popular than I'd ever realized. I think there is a real market here, that's distinct from iPhone-like smartphones. As to whether or not Microsoft sho
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by qeorge 17y ago
Seems a little nitpicky. Arrington was one of many investors in Seesmic a long time ago, when the idea was video comments. I actually think its pretty cool that he's not pulling any punches here. And "seeing it coming" or not, the Twitter c
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by qeorge 17y ago
Source? WSJ disagrees: "Marijuana accounts for anywhere between 50% to 65% of Mexican cartel revenues, say Mexican and U.S. officials." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870425460457461...
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by qeorge 17y ago
Not in our name.
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by qeorge 17y ago
For better or for worse, big lock icons and green toolbars do help conversions.
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by qeorge 17y ago
You can't get great status updates in 13 characters!
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by qeorge 17y ago
Seeing as we've had 2 of these on the homepage in 2 days, here's a list of the Google easter eggs: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6201814/Google-... Maybe we can stop submitting them now? They're hardly new, and they do not
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by qeorge 17y ago
This is awesome. I'm at once excited about using this in the future, and dismayed thinking of the time I've spent manually generating PDFs because none of the HTML -> PDF options worked. I fed it my homepage, and it nailed it. I'm impre
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by qeorge 17y ago
This is true, but perhaps not surprising. Its relatively new than we're trying to sell software to "normal" people more often than fellow geeks. In my mind, AOL is the company that first crossed this divide. CompuServe was decidedly not f
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by qeorge 17y ago
Max Levchin talks about this in jl's Founders At Work . They made the web app mostly as a place to offer the Palm Pilot app for download, but it took off much to everyone's surprise. IIRC, when they finally abandoned the Palm Pilot app it
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by qeorge 17y ago
This reminds me of the original PayPal idea (paying a friend via Palm Pilot in person).
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by qeorge 17y ago
What if 10% of your visitors still use IE6? You're basically giving them the finger and send them to your competitors. Exactly. IE6 is a pain, but the extra work is worth it to me so as not to send away potential customers. Perhaps when I
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by qeorge 17y ago
Uncommon around here, but I love Outlook. I've tried Gmail, Thunderbird, and others but nothing handles the Email + Contacts + Calendar + Tasks problem as well as Outlook, IMHO. I've also used Basecamp, but I like having my To Do list integ
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by qeorge 17y ago
Cool idea. Reminds me of a niche Alibaba.
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by qeorge 17y ago
I know what you're saying, but its important not to discount the mental illness usually associated with chronic homelessness. Housing certainly should not be forced upon him, but when someone is hurting themselves sometimes you have to push
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by qeorge 17y ago
My stepmother is working on a Housing First initiative in North Carolina, in addition to her other work with homelessness. I know that programs like yours in NYC and those in San Fransisco have been an enormous help, both as models as well
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by qeorge 17y ago
Does this require a plugin? I missed it if so.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Works well, but I need it to consider the whole site. For instance, I fed it the root URL, and most of the unused selectors it surfaced are in fact used on other parts of the website.
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by qeorge 17y ago
This is a set of UI components, not a general purpose framework like jQuery. The two libraries have almost nothing in common. Separately, I don't agree with your premise that more frameworks is a Bad Thing, nor that jQuery is/should be used
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by qeorge 17y ago
Good point. Volkswagen did as well, during the kerfuffle with Porsche in 2008: http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/28/volkswagen-temporarily-be...
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He's not using either one.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Don't raise your bids to try to get more clicks - work on your ad copy first. You can get over 1% CTR even in the 9-12 slots, so don't throw money at an ad until its working.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Yes. At first I thought he was italicizing each mention of a programming language, which is a nice idea. Then python was bold and not italic, and I lost the thread.
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by qeorge 17y ago
You're right, thanks for explaining it. I still couldn't see it this morning, but I talked it out with my co-founder, and he got through to me. Thanks for sticking with it.
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by qeorge 17y ago
You are assuming that unpaid interns would otherwise take the jobs of paid employees. Absolutely. But it doesn't have to be within your company. Rather, its a tragedy of the commons. Lets use my migrant farm labor example again. Many farm
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by qeorge 17y ago
That's not the point. We have labor laws in the US because "some people will take the deal." To understand more clearly, it may be helpful to consider illegal immigration to the United States. The basic problem is that even though US minimu

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