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by stevenp 15y ago
I've done well for myself but I was definitely not a great student. My theory (which may be wrong) is that it has to do with the fact that some kids learn differently from others, and don't necessarily do well following the traditional publ
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by stevenp 15y ago
"All future in one place" is definitely incorrect. "Your future in one place" or "Your future, all in one place" might make more sense.
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by stevenp 15y ago
I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who keeps all that stuff. A few months ago I went back through some old chat logs to find the first time that I chatted with my best friend, and it was a lot of fun to relive that part of my life.
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by stevenp 15y ago
This is awesome. Thanks for the tip.
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by stevenp 15y ago
AFNetworking looks great, but I'm also curious as to what the advantage is over ASIHTTPRequest.
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by stevenp 15y ago
Honestly, the lack of a good API by any provider is one of the biggest barriers to entry in this space. I wonder if the Hipmunk guys might release one? I'd be thrilled to send affiliate traffic to the first company that makes good on this
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by stevenp 15y ago
The way I've learned to deal with this is that I listen enthusiastically, and then I ask the person with the idea to come back with sketches or something more concrete. That has, so far, eliminated 100% of the ideas outright. When someone r
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by stevenp 15y ago
Thiel also wants to build a magical libertarian island off the coast of San Francisco with no laws. Money tends to turn some people coo-coo-bananas, apparently. http://theweek.com/article/index/218393/libertarian-island-a...
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by stevenp 15y ago
I keep all my most important documents in the "cloud"!
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by stevenp 15y ago
I'm not a fan of people pulling the "age" card. There are plenty of old men that have done tons of damage throughout history. It's fine to be mistrustful of small companies (I had that trouble with Mint initially) but there's no need to jab
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by stevenp 15y ago
It's good that they're using real people in the photos in those designs. Few things bug me more on marketing sites than when people use those happy stock photo people, who are usually jumping up and down or looking at a pie chart, or starin
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by stevenp 15y ago
Wow, maybe we'll finally get a digital edition of "The Four Steps to the Epiphany".
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by stevenp 15y ago
SO COOL! Now I want to crowbar this into apps that don't even need it. :) "Who wants to send a postcard from their to-do list!?"
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A Eulogy for Google+(forbes.com)
23 points by stevenp 15y ago|22 comments
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by stevenp 15y ago
As a frequent public transit rider in SF, and the developer of a popular Muni iPhone app, let me say: If you told anyone in SF thought that there was intentionally functioning cell service in the subway tunnels, they would LAUGH. My applica
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My 12-Week 30-Pound Challenge(ste.vn)
3 points by stevenp 15y ago|1 comments
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by stevenp 15y ago
Congratulations! I've been independent for about a month now, and the most important lesson I've learned so far is that NOTHING feels good except shipping. I'm in a similar boat. I quit my day job and I'm living off of the (moderately) pass
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by stevenp 15y ago
Main-stream media.
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by stevenp 15y ago
My t1.micro instance in us-east-1b seems to be up and running just fine as far as I can tell.
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by stevenp 15y ago
For Twilio's most recent developer contest, I decided to build an app to allow you to use their new in-browser Client API to record an audio message for your friends' birthdays. There's plenty of room for improvement, like the ability to sc
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Show HN: My Twilio Client hack project - BirthdayGram(birthdaygramapp.appspot.com)
4 points by stevenp 15y ago|1 comments
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by stevenp 15y ago
At least their new product will be "DISRUPTIVE"! But, the question is, can it be as disruptive as pulling the tablecloth out from underneath your customers? I'd be curious to find out if their customers knew. Also, look at their twitter fee
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by stevenp 15y ago
I'd be curious to know whether the Airbnb guys were honest with pg about what was really going on, since pg commented a few days ago on HN: "I've talked to the Airbnb guys and they are already doing everything they could be doing to help th
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by stevenp 15y ago
Interesting idea, but I had to reduce the Safari font size in order to see the login button, since I'm on an 11" MacBook Air. For some reason they've turned off overflow on the entire page.
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by stevenp 15y ago
I couldn't disagree more. I just gave my father (who has an iPhone) his first Mac and he had no idea where to find applications until I showed him the Launchpad. It's a feature I would never use, but it's accessible with a single button pre
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by stevenp 15y ago
This is not the first time that AppSumo has run an ad with a person's likeness. When a public figure has a fan page, I think it's safe to say that it's fair game (per Facebook's TOS) for Facebook advertisers to target fans of that person. I
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Why I Quit My 6-Figure Job to Live in a (Former) Mental Hospital(ste.vn)
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by stevenp 15y ago
I'm quite amused by the deck's opening story about the horrors of 10-year-old kids on Facebook seeing gay men dancing with towels wrapped around them in a bar. The problem of needing to partition one's social groups is very real, but the mo
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by stevenp 15y ago
For those of you who aren't familiar with Chris, one of his huge life goals is to visit every country in the world. Every now and again he runs up against one that's very hard to travel to (in this case, Angola) and the stories are always r
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$100 melons and $10,000 rent: Interesting Facts on Visiting Angola(chrisguillebeau.com)
2 points by stevenp 15y ago|1 comments

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