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by talkingquickly 15y ago
I think this is spot on, I doubt the actual code written at the event gets much use afterwards but the connections made and the teams formed can go a long way. Our startup (www.stylegauge.com) began at London Startup Weekend 2011 and is now
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
I've tried a few Freelancer sites and found them to be a good way to find new clients but it's been worth being very selective about clients and never competing on price. There are actually quite a few excellent clients out there on those s
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A Founders Guide to the US Health System(kernelmag.com)
1 points by talkingquickly 15y ago|0 comments
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
This seems to be quite a simple fix; SMS spoofing's a much more complicated problem I think because it requires co-operation across carriers. There are also a lot of services which rely on "legitimate spoofing" e.g. skype allowing you to se
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
It's a shame they've come so close to an open and honest response and then detract from from it with phrases such as "possible in certain circumstances for other websites to see the mobile number." From what I understand it wasn't really ce
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
"Funds raised in this campaign will be used to .... provide legal defence for the projects .... " It depresses me that an institution such as Wikipedia which relatively speaking achieves so much with so little money will have to spend what
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
Also getting Error Loading People both when trying to add the shared circle and view the list of members
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
Agree, I think there's a proportion of freelancers who do a mixture of boilerplate CMS development and backend development who have very different day rates for each just because the going rate for each is so different. It would be interest
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
Although many studies have shown that people given a placebo will often behave as if drunk, this doesn't prove that the effect of alcohol is purely psychological. Although people will begin to behave as if drunk, my understanding is they wi
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
Did this come out of startup weekend London? There were a couple of teams with similar ideas there and would be great if this was another team who stayed in touch and carried on after the event.
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
I wonder how much this will impact the accelerator scene, since a lot of accelerators which have tried to replicate the YC model are viable mainly because there are substantial sums of money floating about to "accelerate" startups towards.
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
A better title might be "Ask HN: Resources for developers without a computer science background to fill skill gaps" I can't change it with the Edit option unfortunately.
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Ask HN: Resources for a self taught developer to "fill the CS gap"?
9 points by talkingquickly 15y ago|5 comments
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
There's quite a lot of impressively quick efforts to raise funds for people who are affected (I noticed http://cravify.com who were in the TC article about mapping riot locations have updated their map to allow donations by location), the
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
Same happened to me, don't want to Spam and resubmit but some feedback on whether form submission was successful wouldn't go amiss!
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
The article mentions "Spending less than 50% of the time in the office," I think the key there is choice. As soon as going to the office every day isn't compulsory, you feel that you have more freedom; very few people respond well to a situ
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How to Expose Yourself to Randomness(ben.casnocha.com)
15 points by talkingquickly 15y ago|7 comments
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
Agree for very well specified projects where the amount of time a project will take can be easily be predicted and so a suitable fixed fee identified. In an ideal world all projects might look like that but in practice I think there's a chu
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
"Some of us have dreams that can be achieved while working 9-5, that's great, but if you have a dream that's important to you, that requires you to quit, do give it some thought. You only have one life." I think that pretty much sums it up.
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
I'd be interested to know what people consider a true game mechanic to be. Examples such as the op of including game like behaviour or incentives in interactions we wouldn't normally think of as games is increasingly popular and effective s
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Ask HN: Emerging Markets Startups
1 points by talkingquickly 15y ago|0 comments
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Pringles Can Wifi Antenna Turns 10 (includes link to plans)(blog.makezine.com)
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
Did anyone else read ICO as ICQ?
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I guess the premium model may be more about providing insight into what the stats mean. I imagine Google Analytics and its competitors will expand to cover HTML5 "Apps" and the mobile specific data which goes with them and the premium conte
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by talkingquickly 15y ago
I guess it depends what that something is, are we talking a centralised platform for usage analytics of standalone apps? or analytics of traffic to mobile sites?
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The Seven Deadly Sins of CEO's(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by talkingquickly 15y ago|1 comments