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Ask HN: Has PG ever used an idea from your YC application?
10 points by resdirector 15y ago|9 comments
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by resdirector 15y ago
Mine: http://www.folderboy.com Built entirely around the concept of tagging. Combines the idea of folders and tags into one single concept. That is you can put notes into multiple parent folders, and those parent folders can be put into f
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Please don't steal my focus (2007)(codinghorror.com)
1 points by resdirector 15y ago|0 comments
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Send SMS to receive a fake phone call(ifttt.com)
1 points by resdirector 15y ago|0 comments
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by resdirector 15y ago
Remember the man for the person that he was, not for the person that you imagined him to be. Is this actually possible of anyone?
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by resdirector 15y ago
I recently got a very positive review for my new take on to-do: http://lifehacker.com/5835720/folderboy-is-a-simple-folder+b... Not quite success yet, but we (aka "I") have traction. And have built something that people want :).
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by resdirector 15y ago
I'd like to see a similar graph ending in 1900, 1800, etc. How different do those graphs look to this one? (EDIT: obviously you can just block out the last column(s), but the resolution isn't that good.) In other words, is there anything sp
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Woo Hoo Four months after I gave up on my app, a LifeHacker write-up(lifehacker.com)
2 points by resdirector 15y ago|0 comments
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In the aftermath of a hurricane, baby names tied to the storm take a hit(wolframalpha.tumblr.com)
1 points by resdirector 15y ago|0 comments
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by resdirector 15y ago
It makes me think that we need a new type of class in schools across the land immediately. Electronic literacy. Negatory. We need to improve our UI metaphors . In the case of finding something, holding down one key while pressing another
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by resdirector 15y ago
I use usertesting.com. You get a ten minute video and audio of testers using your site. These types of small (aka big) problems are weeded out pretty quickly. Can't rate them high enough.
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by resdirector 15y ago
Paul Bloom (Psychologist at Yale) did a fascinating talk on a whole lot of different examples of psychological contagions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWOfP-Lubuw
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Apple Patent Watch: Pico Projectors and 'Schematic Maps'(macrumors.com)
1 points by resdirector 15y ago|0 comments
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by resdirector 15y ago
Good question. Depends obviously on the implementation. If it was seemless, didn't need to be configured, and actually worked, I'd pay something like, I dunno, $3.99 a month.
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by resdirector 15y ago
Yup, if you (or someone) built that, I'd use it. Of course, it may not be that popular since not all that many people that are addicted to their devices It's a growing problem. Every other day I see a mainstream news article about device/
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by resdirector 15y ago
There's a startup in this, somewhere. Has anyone tried the YC startup http://www.rescuetime.com/ ? (I've been meaning to try it myself, but they want my credit card to begin.)
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by resdirector 15y ago
Cool, that last sentence is almost word-for-word the conversation we had.
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by resdirector 15y ago
Clickable: http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html
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Ask HN: Is it okay to build a startup in ASP .NET?
46 points by resdirector 15y ago|62 comments
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Ask PG: Would you put your house on Airbnb?
36 points by resdirector 15y ago|3 comments
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by resdirector 15y ago
I really look forward to reading a Paul Graham essay about his experience here, once the dust has settled. I know he has written about PR before, but this is probably essay-worthy in of itself (perhaps something like "in the eye of a shitst
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by resdirector 15y ago
pg in relation to the Offer HN fad of a few months back: Don't worry, these things always run their course. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839740
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by resdirector 15y ago
I don't think silverstorms aim was to offend, rather he was trying to explain an interesting phenomenon and perhaps accidentally offended. jdunlop's statement, on the other hand seemed designed to offend.
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by resdirector 15y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation."
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Don’t Compress the Idea, Expand the Medium - The Computable Document Format(blog.wolfram.com)
4 points by resdirector 15y ago|0 comments
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I don't understand why there isn't a work-mode and a play-mode for gmail(plus.google.com)
2 points by resdirector 15y ago|0 comments
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by resdirector 15y ago
Google Wave poll two years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=635354
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And aren't real social circles emergent, constantly changing and highly nuanced?(tomblah.posterous.com)
2 points by resdirector 15y ago|0 comments
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The California Dream is fizzling out(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by resdirector 15y ago|0 comments
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"I love shitty code that just gets the job done. This job probably isn't for me"(tomblah.posterous.com)
16 points by resdirector 15y ago|6 comments

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