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by rwhitman 14y ago
The more I play with the filters the more I think the mystery knobs are controlling filter envelope or modulation
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Wow I didn't even realize the recorder had 4 tracks. Amazing!!
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by rwhitman 14y ago
An HTML5 softsynth. Words cannot describe the joy I'm getting out of learning this is possible. My world is forever changed. And it sounds very moog-like too
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by rwhitman 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat My dad (who is 81) used to tell me about an automat that existed in Philadelphia when he was young called Horn & Hardart, in which was purely a rack of vending machines where you got coffee, pastri
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Based on the fact that his review was using a referral link (mentioned at the end) I wouldn't be surprised the 700k "bad links" were probably doing the same for similar reasons. Google likely regarded most of their backlinks as affiliate sp
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I've known a number of musicians and writers who have gone on escape retreats to isolated areas in order to finish a book or an album, typically with a lot of success. Many of the most productive remote engineers I've worked with live in sp
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by rwhitman 14y ago
As a travel booking startup I think Hawaii is a really clever move, you're surrounded entirely with your target customers. Very smart
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Yea the first assumption I made after reading this is that he was fired in relation to nuking the DB.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Right, from a marketing perspective for a company at such an early stage its actually a pretty good deal. In addition the Sharks know this and have an unfair advantage as investors that would motivate them to make deals. So ABC is also at
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I was forwarded this email from one of the producers before it aired back in 2009. No mention of equity. They probably wised up after they saw how successful some contestants were: From: TrXXX <XXX@gmail.com> Date: May 27, 2009 12:4
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Kevin O'Leary was also on Canadian Dragon's Den
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Its plausible that American Idol has a similar contract
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Agreed. I definitely watched star wars in its entirety including the entire cantina scene at least by the age of six. The dark parts were disturbing but I don't think they were a problem. There's an important early lesson these helicopter p
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Such a weird sales tactic - sell it for $480k or shut it down. Isn't that a bit like the landlord of a profitable duplex selling it with the real estate listing as "Buy it for $480k or we'll burn it to the ground"?
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Agree, the copy on the landing page doesn't seem to read "hey teachers, this is for you!", it comes off a bit more of "hey tech guys check out this SAAS app we made for teachers". Regardless Kite looks absolutely brilliant and likely will b
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by rwhitman 14y ago
If she's going to dip her toes into ecommerce there is no point in developing a site and trying to build up traffic. Thats a losing battle. Start with a platform that has a built in network where the marketplace and infrastructure is alread
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by rwhitman 15y ago
One day at work I watched a coworker's fake phone charger explode in a literal fireball that went off with a large "bang!" complete with shrapnel, flame shooting out and good amount of smoke. This article talks about the theoretical danger
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Facebook pays Microsoft $550 million for AOL patents(reuters.com)
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by rwhitman 15y ago
I like to think about this "find a technical cofounder" stuff by imagining myself, a highly technical person who's entire work experience being on the computer - dropping everything to start a bakery. Would my expectation be that I could fi
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How Instagram founder Kevin Systrom became insta-rich(latimes.com)
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by rwhitman 15y ago
This is a real feather in the Django community's cap. Eat that Rails
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by rwhitman 15y ago
Facebook's success is largely staked on the fact its the world's most popular and successful photo sharing application. Any viable competition in that space is a real threat to Facebook's dominance in this area, its a strategic move
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by rwhitman 15y ago
I think the choice of Anaheim was made in terms of moving tourists, proximity to Disney, right of way etc. Also Metrolink & Amtrak go to Anaheim, so you could in theory take the train from the Valley or SD and not have to drive at all
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by rwhitman 15y ago
On the East Coast high speed rail infrastructure has existed for over a decade. So CA is also trailing other parts of the US as well, considering that Amtrak has been able to operate Acela trains across multiple states on aging infrastructu
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by rwhitman 15y ago
The proposed maglev train to Vegas from LA was supposed to be from Anaheim (aka Disneyland), not Union ("Central") Station in Downtown LA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California-Nevada_Interstate_Ma...
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by rwhitman 15y ago
I recall when Appboy (mentioned in the article) launched it was some sort of app developer marketplace, then a social network, looks like they made a pretty substantial pivot now into mobile app marketing infrastructure. Its rare that indep
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by rwhitman 15y ago
A single member LLC does nothing to shelter you from taxes over a sole proprietorship, and in many states requires you to file for additional taxes and fees. It also makes your taxes unnecessarily complicated without any real benefit. The s
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The 10 patents Facebook is suing Yahoo with(zdnet.com)
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I hunted down a long HN comment thread where I proposed something similar about 2 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1399953 Pretty excited to see someone is executing on this
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by rwhitman 15y ago
The daily deal business can make a lot of money and consumers (particularly women) love it. However as Groupon has proven they are typically very dependent on expensive marketing channels in order to achieve growth. Over the last year or

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