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by thorax 18y ago
Just to be sure-- does your list have an unstated requirement of "...and also has an office in New York" (or other specific location)? If not, that's great! If so, I think it's fair to include that in your criteria if it's important to you.
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by thorax 18y ago
I have a feeling it's like Priceline. On the spread/difference between the reserve/strike price and the bid.
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by thorax 18y ago
I'm sad to bring this up. We looked into creating an innovative auction site some time ago. Unfortunately there are a lot of software patents in this area, and Priceline (and its founders) have some that you need to look into before going t
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by thorax 18y ago
Here's an interesting/free feature idea for an auction site. Maybe it won't work as well for yours, but here you go anyway: Offer visitors a cut of the selling fee if they correctly predict what price the item will sell for. (Maybe closest
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by thorax 18y ago
With bug.gd, we're going to change the way users and software engineers deal with faults and errors in their applications. In our world, by default , people are going to work together a lot more to solve them and developers are going to kn
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by thorax 18y ago
It's a long article. Quick summary: NDA is gone, but for the App Store you still can't trust Apple in the sense that you need to trust a ladder before you'd climb it. It's not unreasonable to insist that Apple write down some rules and stic
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by thorax 18y ago
Yeah, I think it's important to have a gradient and maybe a big color block showing the color of the current "feeling". What I'd love to see is not just an up and down. I'd like to see a "meaningless spin/rhetoric" side of the scale. Maybe
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by thorax 18y ago
NetflixNewsNotifier - analyzes your queue and usage and provides you celebrity/director gossip from the movies you actually watch. Provides you alerts when your favorite directors/actors/etc are added to Netflix. Can automatically queue tho
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by thorax 18y ago
QueueTorrentSearch - Search your queue for movies you can download right now instead of waiting for Netflix. (shady and not really something I'd ever want/use, but hey-- these things are popular and I'm trying to respond to your challenge)
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by thorax 18y ago
NeighborMovieSwap - Speed up Netflix sharing by seeing what your neighbors/friends/dormmates have at their houses currently and just sneakernet swap the movies before they're returned. (webapp, but maybe not a viable business)
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by thorax 18y ago
If it's really important for you: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 I didn't write the script, but feel free to name your first born "thorax". I don't think they'll like it.
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by thorax 18y ago
So is tinyurl too big to let fail? Spread the links around shortening services-- it's not like we need every URL you ever shortened to work forever. Also, some sites (like our little ri.ms site) also create a tinyurl for you so you can have
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by thorax 18y ago
I like the design. I had absolutely no idea what the site was about when I visited. I scanned the page for about 20 seconds trying to figure it out. (Why doesn't it tell me somewhere what it's about?) I only got a clue when I looked-up at m
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by thorax 18y ago
Actually, I believe wearables represent the future of ubiquitous computing, but I think phones will be a keystone of this story for a long time.
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by thorax 18y ago
Still on Step 3 for the past two weeks now. Keep in mind Step 0 is to buy/own some Macs.
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by thorax 18y ago
Actually sounded a bit evasive/defensive for some reason. I'm not exactly sure why, but I'm at least glad they talked more about this.
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by thorax 18y ago
I'm actually not sure we should be convinced this will happen since it's just coming from a single rumor from a single news source-- but we'll see how it goes. I'm a big fan of Valve (I integrated/wrote some popular scripting engines for th
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by thorax 18y ago
These companies are heavily advertised, too. (At least I know their names, and besides Threadless, I don't know many clothing companies.) I think it might be difficult to beat them without coming up with a way to get your brand out there be
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by thorax 18y ago
It matters to me. I use Firefox mostly, but I honestly use Chrome religiously to play Weewar. It's like night-and-day difference in speed for playing that kind of an ajax-heavy game.
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by thorax 18y ago
While I don't agree with the article, it's not 100% fair to compare the requirement of this motor (or communications) skill with all those unrelated studies of human knowledge.
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by thorax 18y ago
Next up: adsense/adwords will have a social network built around it.
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by thorax 18y ago
Yeah, kind of like the "find the right denominator" (oversimplified) discussion in Good to Great. If he could have optimized on profit per keychain , he'd be in great shape. Of course, that's much easier said than done.
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, their corporate sign-up for SAAS is one of the best mechanisms I've seen for grassroots growth in an organization. It has a lot of potential in lots of different areas. Again and again and again in history, new technology first comes
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by thorax 18y ago
Nah, I'm not opposed to that, really. Ideally they'd have enough reviewers to handle that, though. A somewhat-non-profit like Mozilla handles it for Firefox extensions. For us, the annoyance is just that we have to wait on them for multiple
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, Apple has already gotten some of our money. We purchased some Macs solely to develop an iPhone application for one of our endeavors. Now, though-- given the lag with even getting approval (so we can get to the stage of installing a
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by thorax 18y ago
I like Yammer, mainly because we'll also be using some of their techniques ourselves. It's also pretty well executed, just from some casual use. If TC50 picked a winner solely on whether the TC50 grand prize itself could make the company su
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by thorax 18y ago
I love Dropbox, but I've also used Foldershare across all my PCs (and friend's PCs) for years now and it's been great. I prefer Dropbox now (it's superior), but I never felt like this wasn't something I didn't have access to beforehand.
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by thorax 18y ago
I don't do the home row touch-typing stuff, either. Nothing formally taught, all organically grown typing from using computers since I was a teenager. I'm typically in the range of 80-100 wpm depending on the test. Primarily only using the
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by thorax 18y ago
We also used it for one of our upcoming sites and were quite pleased. I spent an incredible amount of time providing feedback to the nearly 40 designers who took a shot (over 136 revisions). Still, it totally paid off and we came away with
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by thorax 18y ago
Kevin Rose was on the panel with Mark Cuban when he said that in response to imindi.

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