vinhboy

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   by vinhboy 16y ago

   Had my first run in with instant personalization on rotten tomatoes today. It was really trippy to see myself get automatically ID by RT. Why is this necessary? I have never worried about facebook privacy, but this just crossed the line. I
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   by vinhboy 16y ago

   You saw it, I saw it, some random person who will complain about this comment saw it. By tomorrow there will be spoof videos of people saying "hot dog" or something.... Brilliant.
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   by vinhboy 16y ago

   I like fixing other people's computers. It's the closes thing I have to a super power. Imagine if superman decided he was too busy to help other people....
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   by vinhboy 16y ago

   Thats why you get to choose who you want to donate to. Someone else may find this project important.
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   by vinhboy 16y ago

   You know, I debated in my head for a while wether to get HNer in on the fun. Obviously I decided not to because I know how strict people are here about this kinda stuff. But in retrospect, this story is about taking something that is 'onlin
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   by vinhboy 16y ago

   I agree with you. If the shit I say in IM to my friends get published, it would look exactly like this. It doesn't mean I would ever do anything like that. It's just excited bragging. Some guys brag about women, money, physical accomplishme
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   by vinhboy 16y ago

   I read the entire article just for this line "There’s discussion of a possible Stewart-Colbert public event, a parody of Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally. “Maybe we would do a ‘March of the Reasonable,’ on a date of no particular significance
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   by vinhboy 16y ago

   the music certainly made it more interesting...
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   by vinhboy 16y ago

   lemon tree....
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    This is no different than a startup paying an SEO company. In the end, both places researched and surfaced something that the end user will find interesting. I dont see anything wrong with that. I think it's Google's job to decide what is r
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    I asked this in the other thread already, but let me ask again. So as startup founders, what do you guys think is the right move here? Do you do what your users want, or stand your ground and do what you think is best for the company??
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    So, regarding the shit storm brewing over at Digg, what do you guys think? If you made changes and your users rebel, do you a) revert or b) adress problems and move forward?
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    Wow, just wow. I am amazed by two things 1) How much a jerk both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are and 2) How young the engineers were that started all this...
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    I thought there was something with smiling... too early.
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    umm, they do that because they do not have refrigerators. and people probably shouldn't be drinking stuff with ice if they are sensitive to waterborne bacterias...
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    I find it absolutely mind-blogging that this is truly how our communication/internet infrastructure is implemented. Its almost unbelievable to me.
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    San Francisco is challenging YOU to build them the best damn tourist app(appnationconference.com)

    1 points by vinhboy 16y ago|0 comments
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    Yes. No. Yes - I am not that important.
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    Yea I find it annoying that coverage is all about "jailbreaking". For gosh sake, they could use this and do drive-by looting of virtually any iPhone.
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    Three days now, and no one figured it out yet... I want to know more... links, anyone?
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. Our conversion rate is good for CPC. We have done a ton of work with LPs and A/B testing, so we feel confident in that area. I will look at the API consumers you mentioned. Thank you.
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    Good idea. I think I will make this one of my next project.
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    Give our customers incentive to refer their friends?
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    I like your "benefit" proposition. I will definitely keep this in mind on my next foray into marketing.
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    Thanks for the suggestions. I am not a fan of the tagline either, but I may be over simplifying by saying we do "bookkeeping", we have a lot more than that.
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    Ask HN: Review our site - WorkingPoint

    7 points by vinhboy 16y ago|15 comments
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    I actually that's a pretty nice list of quirks that only an experienced developer would know. I learned quite a few things from that list. I would add: When all else fails, use a table. Ha!
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    Alright so using a pdf analysis tool, here is what it spits out: http://pastebin.com/hCKtL8qC Some of that looks like Obj-C to me, what's the other stuff?
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    Thank you for providing this, I love this stuff. What site do you read to keep up to date with these things?
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    by vinhboy 16y ago

    if all else fails, try this: http://code.google.com/p/iphone-socks-proxy/