seanlinehan

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   by seanlinehan 14y ago

   ...but that model gave us Bowerbirds, birds that build elaborate structures that don’t do anything except demonstrate its fitness to spend large amounts of time building elaborate structures. The first thing I thought when I read this was
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   by seanlinehan 14y ago

   What I find interesting is that I achieved a massive leap in my SAT scores without studying. As a disclaimer, I grew up in a lower-income area with terrible college prep and neither of my parents knew the college admission process. In short
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   by seanlinehan 14y ago

   My key takeaway from Horowitz talk was "Don't sip sizzurp (AKA Purple Drank)."
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   by seanlinehan 14y ago

   I actually did build an FB scraper about 2 years ago. If I'm remembering correctly, something like 1/2000 people have their e-mail address public. Name + URL is always available, but the e-mail is a bit more valuable.
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   by seanlinehan 14y ago

   48 hours from start to finish? You guys did an incredibly impressive job with this. Your landing page is more refined than many "Show HN" stories that pop up and the product itself is really cool. I'm uncertain about the business model - is
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   by seanlinehan 14y ago

   I hadn't really thought about this as an option, but I think it's an interesting thing to point out. My hunch is that not many college students actually pay for Dropbox's service as it stands, though. Not to mention, the main-main goal is p
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   by seanlinehan 14y ago

   Thanks!
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   by seanlinehan 14y ago

   (This is my first blog post)
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   by seanlinehan 14y ago

   I wrote a blog post about this exactly! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4656911
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    Why Dropbox's Space Race is Genius(sorryhumans.com)

    17 points by seanlinehan 14y ago|7 comments
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    by seanlinehan 14y ago

    I was making a few thousand dollars a month from a coupon site. The Panda update completely knocked me out of the rankings for the past 4 months, but I've been slowly climbing back up on my top keywords. It was literally no work whatsoever
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    by seanlinehan 14y ago

    We would need an absurdly diverse and large group of people for this to be effective on a large scale. If it was just the hacker/designer community working on collecting data then we could potentially have a great amount of data for those s
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    by seanlinehan 14y ago

    I'm just glad that you can tack .json on to this guy's site and it works.
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    by seanlinehan 14y ago

    Very interesting! A friend and I chatted about building something like this due to the fact that the JOBS act makes it much more feasible legally. I was thinking about crowd-building entire companies, though. I think your execution is much
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    by seanlinehan 14y ago

    The customizer is pretty sweet. The layout is nice and clean on that end. I think the parallax effect is interesting, but as others have noted probably won't convert as well as it could. You might want to try running some A/B tests with som
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    by seanlinehan 14y ago

    I wrote it after seeing the thread. It's a pretty simple technique, but it's intensely resource heavy. If the op (or anybody) wrote a script that does this algorithmically to produce as few drop shadows as necessary while maintaining qualit
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    by seanlinehan 14y ago

    https://gist.github.com/3831235
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    by seanlinehan 14y ago

    Me, in 60,000 lines of pure CSS: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/ItbEm If anybody wants to take a gander at my very slow PHP code, it's here: https://gist.github.com/3831235 Anybody have any optimization tips?
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    by seanlinehan 14y ago

    I have the same issue. I'm on Chrome + Ubuntu.
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    by seanlinehan 14y ago

    The UI/UX is great. The music is great. Triple thumbs up!
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    GPA Booster: Pick the Right Roommate(lifehacker.com)

    1 points by seanlinehan 14y ago|0 comments
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    by seanlinehan 15y ago

    This. Is. Awesome.
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    by seanlinehan 15y ago

    Over the past year I've gotten between 500 and 1000 downloads per month on a very niche application that I built in December 2010. I haven't updated it or advertised it since a month after the initial launch. I want to believe it makes mone
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    by seanlinehan 15y ago

    On my 1600x900 browser, the little comic in the background is half hidden. Other than that, pretty neat. Not a new idea, but the more of these available the better!