udfalkso

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   by udfalkso 16y ago

   I tried a couple of times to get startups that were actively recruiting me to pay me 3/5 the salary in exchange for working 3 days a week. I wanted to devote some more time to some side projects and to just generally do whatever I wanted w
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   by udfalkso 16y ago

   My side-project, http://isitnormal.com , was one of the reasons that I got a fantastic job as an early member of the Yahoo! Answers team. Is It Normal certainly passes the "sketchy" test, and it was even much more sketchy back in the day,
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   by udfalkso 16y ago

   I built a device to catch the mail that comes through the slot in my front door. It had previously been falling on the floor and driving me crazy. One day I came across this nice product, http://www.amazon.com/SNAIL-SAKK-Mail-Receptacle-S
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   by udfalkso 16y ago

   "Remember what a startup is, economically: a way of saying, I want to work faster. Instead of accumulating money slowly by being paid a regular wage for fifty years, I want to get it over with as soon as possible. " http://www.paulgraham.c
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   by udfalkso 16y ago

   This reminds of something a friend once said to me. He said, "If you've never missed your flight, you're spending way too much time at the airport."
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   by udfalkso 16y ago

   Add dishwasher to the list.
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   by udfalkso 16y ago

   I'm curious what your audience was like. Young? Old? Tech Savvy? Did your site focus on something potentially embarrassing if it would end up on your FB profile?
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   by udfalkso 16y ago

   You forgot to ask if I have a smart phone or not.
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   by udfalkso 16y ago

   http://isitnormal.com has a pretty ordinary internet audience. Certainly not designers or developers. Regular folks. Here's the resolution data from GA for the last month (roughly 1 million visits): 1280x800: 19.62% 1024x768: 16.88% 13
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    by udfalkso 16y ago

    Sound Opinions is a fantastic music talk show. http://www.soundopinions.org/
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    by udfalkso 16y ago

    1) Hitting the ENTER key on my keyboard should submit the search form on the right. Right now I have to click on the Go button with my mouse or tab - space. (FF on Mac) 2) The elevation map is nice, but it would be great if I could click
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    by udfalkso 16y ago

    This "Guess the Dictator" game was a hit years ago, http://www.smalltime.com/Dictator . It's pretty much the same thing and they're lots of fun. http://hunch.com is leveraging this type of decision tree learning nicely today.
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    by udfalkso 16y ago

    http://isitnormal.com - Niche Q&A site that's been around for a while. Recently added a lot of cool features and it hasn't gotten much press in a long time.
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    by udfalkso 16y ago

    I'd probably end up buying > $20 worth of stuff on Amazon.
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    by udfalkso 16y ago

    If you didn't require this I would have submitted my side project. It's a few years old already and "announcing" it on HN seems odd.
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    by udfalkso 16y ago

    I expected a mailinator clone, but this is actually a simple, great idea. Nice.
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    by udfalkso 16y ago

    I found this post helpful: http://debuggable.com/posts/understanding-node-js:4bd98440-4...
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    by udfalkso 16y ago

    I found this
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    by udfalkso 16y ago

    You might do well to have more diverse video results, not just Youtube. VideoSurf has a great API for this: http://www.videosurf.com/api_info/overview
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    Ask HN: Local data

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    by udfalkso 16y ago

    Who uses the Google home page anymore?
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    by udfalkso 16y ago

    It reminds me a lot of Google Reader Play ( http://www.google.com/reader/play/ ) I agree with the comment saying that the star icon should be replaced with a thumbs up. It's not beautiful ;
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    by udfalkso 16y ago

    "What is a browser?" http://www.videosurf.com/video/what-is-a-browser-68613022
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    by udfalkso 17y ago

    3. Very few people even know that "PUT" and "DELETE" exist.
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    by udfalkso 17y ago

    If I search for a location (i.e. Lafayetta, CA), it would be great to see a map and get a link to google maps. I find this to be one of Google's most useful features. Otherwise, I'm liking this thing :)
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    by udfalkso 17y ago

    Checking the current location requires extra battery use. Apple doesn't want your app draining their user's battery if you're only using it for showing them ads. This may be all that it's about.
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    by udfalkso 17y ago

    It'll take a couple of weeks to get very comfortable in the language itself, and a little longer to get used to a web framework like Django. Once you do this, you'll be very annoyed every time you need to go back to using php. This change
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    by udfalkso 17y ago

    http://www.businessinsider.com/high-frequency-trading-hits-t... The Daily Show does an amazing job with this subject.
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    by udfalkso 17y ago

    This first scene from HBO's Lucky Louie is the best example of this: http://www.videosurf.com/video/lucky-louie-101-58075787
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    by udfalkso 17y ago

    I need a way to remove a site from my list.