tworats

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by tworats 16y ago
How were you able to bootstrap for 3 years? Were you consulting on the side?
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by tworats 16y ago
For me college was tremendously fun. I learned a great deal, formed life-long friendships, and generally had the best time of my life. You won't get that at a job. You'll spend most of the rest of your life at a job. Take a few years to exp
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by tworats 16y ago
Awesome, very glad to see Simon's project take off.
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by tworats 16y ago
The first two applications that come to mind are automated testing and screen scraping, I'm a little surprised they didn't include examples of those. Looks interesting though.
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by tworats 16y ago
Could you provide mode details on this, either in the comments here or in a blog post? I almost went with Selenium but ended up with a custom system to drive Firefox, would love to learn more about what the Selenium based solution looks lik
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by tworats 16y ago
If this turns out to be true Samsung just lost a customer for life. This is just plain stupid, short sighted thinking.
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by tworats 16y ago
Programmer comes home late with lipstick on his collar and face, smelling of perfume. Wife is glaring at him. "Honey, I have to tell you the truth" he says. "You remember Judy from accounting? We ended up talking, getting close, one thing l
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by tworats 16y ago
Useful, and a neat trick to auto-size based on the browser being used (I assume by detecting the user agent). However, why is it free?
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by tworats 16y ago
Advice: don't. I switched from iPhone to Android, and while there are some advantages (mainly: I'm not on AT&T), overall it's not nearly as nice an experience. Top complaints: poor battery life (I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S, but I think
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by tworats 16y ago
Not sure why, but I immediately understood what the site does. Congrats on that, that's one of the most difficult parts. Suggestion: I'd want the service to allow kids to claim things they've done to earn points, for which they'd get their
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by tworats 16y ago
- Email/Cal/Docs: Google - Hosting: our own servers at colo + EC2 - Expense tracking/management: Xpenser ( http://xpenser.com/ ) - Invoicing: Billing Manager ( https://billingmanager.intuit.com/billing/free-online-invoic... ) - Version
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by tworats 16y ago
How do you peel of the cruft? I've been using it for a while, if I can get rid of the extraneous stuff I'd be even happier.
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by tworats 16y ago
What carrier are you on, and how stable is it? I'm assuming the install wipes all data from your phone? Is there a good way to back up your contacts and restore them?
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by tworats 16y ago
Anyone who's attempted to or successfully installed an unofficial ROM, would love to hear your experiences in terms of difficultly of install and stability. Please include what carrier you're on.
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by tworats 16y ago
100% travel is pretty tough, but if you're up for it you'll have the opportunity to spend time with a multitude of clients who are willing to pay money to have their problems solved. You'll make many contacts, and if you're any good you'll
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by tworats 16y ago
Worked for me, seems useful, bookmarked. Not sure it's a startup though, more like a useful utility.
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by tworats 16y ago
Had lasik 6-7 years ago. Went wonderfully well, easy recovery, my only regret was not doing it sooner. I was 20/20 after the surgery, not quite as good now. Here's how I found the doctor: I asked a bunch of other doctors who'd done theirs.
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by tworats 16y ago
My internship at a large company was most useful in cementing one idea in me: working at a large company is not for me. Things move so slowly you want to hang yourself, and you see the daily ritual of political jockeying in full force. At t
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by tworats 16y ago
Looks great. The homepage is dead on: simple explanation of what it does, a live example, and a prominent signup button. One issue to think through: companies would likely want to integrate the user management with their existing apps. That
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by tworats 16y ago
Had it done 4-5 years ago. Quick and painless, made me wonder why I hadn't done it earlier. My main concern was developing myopia again after the surgery. Sure enough my eyesight today is poorer than it was immediately after the surgery and
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by tworats 16y ago
I've tried quite a few of these, yours is nicely done. I was surprised at some of the beautiful domain names it generated. Now I just have to control my urge to register even more domain names I'll never actually complete the project for...
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by tworats 16y ago
Loading gmail is sometimes relatively fast, sometimes incredibly slow. Search is consistently slow. Displaying a message after clicking on it is sometimes very slow, sometimes ok. Sending messages can take an inordinate amount of time on oc
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Ask HN: Do flyers/give-away pens/tchotchkes work?
3 points by tworats 16y ago|2 comments
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by tworats 16y ago
Redesign of our homepage and a few informational pages, which should be fairly straight-forward design work, and design of the product interior pages as well, which will require more thought on usability, layout, etc.
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by tworats 16y ago
Out of curiosity, where the designers US based or abroad somewhere?
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by tworats 16y ago
Haven't tried any crow-sourced sites. I have some sort odd of mental block when it comes to these; I should get over it and give it a try.
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by tworats 16y ago
Years ago we connected with an undergrad, paid him well, and he did fantastic work for us. When he graduated we put in several recommendations for him and he ended up doing well. Would love to get into the same situation, but I haven't had
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by tworats 16y ago
I'm looking for little "d", but with good drawing and coloring. Haven't tried 99designs, that might be a good way to go. Ideally I'd like to have a long term relationship so we can keep going back to the same person as new needs arise.
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by tworats 16y ago
I'm willing to pay much more than $10 per hour, so long as I find someone good. Maybe I'll try posting here, that's an interesting idea.
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Ask HN: How do you find good designers for your projects?
9 points by tworats 16y ago|19 comments

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