scottyallen

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   by scottyallen 16y ago

   This is really cool, and seems like it will be even more fun once you've collected a bit more data. One minor usability tweak: having the slider "snap" to the hour doesn't quite feel right. The end result is that the ball is never actually
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   by scottyallen 16y ago

   To paraphrase what I think are his main points: - Our free customers are really bad for our business. They complain a lot in really visible ways, they make up a lot of our support burden, and they never end up paying us anyway. - Once we f
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   Ask HN: What Vim plugins would you pay for?

   1 points by scottyallen 16y ago|1 comments
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   by scottyallen 16y ago

   Now that's throwing down the gauntlet:)
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   by scottyallen 16y ago

   Nevermind, turns out I did get accepted, but the email got eaten by my spam folder. This is the first time I've lost an important email to the spam folder - kinda scary, particularly when you realize there's 1500 threads of spam in there..
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   by scottyallen 16y ago

   Very awesome. I couldn't resist: http://cakesy.com/810b350ac
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   by scottyallen 16y ago

   This would be really useful for programming, particularly refactoring. Imagine being able to quickly apply a relatively mechanical refactoring that still required human judgement (pretty common), and have other programmers do it for you. I
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   by scottyallen 16y ago

   Same here. I applied, but no email on way or the other. Is there a way to check acceptance status on the web?
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   by scottyallen 16y ago

   As someone who's doing a lot of failing right now, I really like hearing about the failures of successful entrepeneurs. What were their failures before and during their big successes? What did they learn from them? How did they cope with
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    by scottyallen 16y ago

    http://techshop.ws - It's down on the peninsula in Menlo Park. I'm sure if you showed up in the middle of the afternoon, you could persuade someone to give you a tour.
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    by scottyallen 16y ago

    They make bathtub crayons, which are basically what you're describing. It washes off with water and a little scrubbing. Look for them online or in a toy store.
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    by scottyallen 16y ago

    I realized while in college that I did my best thinking in the shower/bath tub. But I always forgot my good ideas in the process of drying off/getting dressed, before I could write them down. So I went out and bought an underwater slate (d
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    by scottyallen 16y ago

    If you knew the actual traffic stats (by, say, owning the site) for a site that Alexa has traffic data for, you could use that to calculate a scaling factor to the Alexa data. That is, assuming that Alexa's toolbar users visit sites in the
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    Shopkick Takes $15 Million From Greylock Partners(techcrunch.com)

    1 points by scottyallen 16y ago|0 comments
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    by scottyallen 16y ago

    This is a really clever way to look for business ideas. I've tried doing something similar with twitter, searching for phrases like "I'm looking to buy" and "I wish there was". There's a lot of noise though, and the publicly searchable da
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    by scottyallen 16y ago

    I was being sarcastic:)
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    by scottyallen 16y ago

    The cases for these American-made products could be painted to look like an American flag. Think of the possibilities to market that to the wheat belt:)
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    by scottyallen 16y ago

    Product inventory for all retail stores - it would be really nice to be able to easily figure out where I can buy something locally without a lot of legwork. Full Google search query logs - This would be a godsend for entrepreneurs. Imagin
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    by scottyallen 16y ago

    It's absolutely possible to make a decent living freelancing on job sites, even if you live somewhere with a high cost of living. I put myself through college (in Colorado) freelancing on Rent-a-Coder(now vWorker) and Scriptlance, doing web
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    by scottyallen 17y ago

    Let's face it, doing interviews can be boring when you do a lot of them, and so interesting resumes jump out of the stack pretty quickly. Your story should tell me why, if I choose to have a discussion with you, our conversation is going
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    by scottyallen 17y ago

    We use etherpad for allowing candidates to write code during phone interviews. We love it, and would never go back to using Google Docs for this (what we use to do before, and what I did when I was at Google).
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    by scottyallen 17y ago

    Sounds interesting. However, what's the value add here, and to whom?