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11y ago
The statistic comes from Dr. Cosio, who looked at newspaper reports and talked to emergency room doctors. Unfortunately, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention don't keep track of vending machine deaths, so we're left with
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Sharing feedback is a huge risk for companies. Giving feedback after a rejection provides them ammunition for a potential discrimination lawsuit. For this specific case, your best bet is to follow up with individuals after the interview, an
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What are you building?
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Depending on how small the app is, Digital Ocean($5/m), or Heroku, which can be free. With Heroku, you get a "dyno" with 12 hours of background jobs, and 12 hours of web server for free. After you exceed those limits, it'
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I tend to watch the first half of a webinar, and skip the pitch part. I'll watch the whole webinar if it's for a product I'm using, and paid for.
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What have you tried so far? It's possible to prove your idea would work by providing value for people in a very manual way. Once you can show that you've provided value, then it will be easier to pitch the idea. What are some of y
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Who pays for app-sec?
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StackOverflow is great, but it's audience is other developers, who may not be clients of yours. Does this forum have people who pay for services like yours? I share my legal name with an engineer at Uber. Because of this, people who go
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Hey Scott, This is my perspective, and shouldn't be taken as the be all, end all of marketing. I'm also not very good at communicating, so I'm sorry that I've done a bad job. First, deal with Google. Given your felony co
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Really great work, J. Your guide goes into the right about of detail about getting Sinatra up and running, without any fluff, or 'humor'.
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What was the symbol?
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www-start looks like a good quick start to building a HTML5 app. In the README, you should talk about how it helps you get going faster.
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Hey Sam, how do we get in touch?
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Has someone created a hackathon starter app for flask?
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This guide covers filters better than anything I've ever seen.
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Don't read the code, add the name of the code to the end of the URL.
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Erik Fisher(@enf) has a good track record of finding amazing things.
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Neato! This is a nice hack to understand the price of an area. You should turn it into a bookmarklet. http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/bookmarklet.html Presently, the code only searches one page of results.
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Groupon started as a wordpress site. http://tomloverro.com/2010/08/19/groupon-1-0-started-on-a-wo... For your idea there is a, 'secret sauce' that you fake until you have traction. Say for example,
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Thanks for providing more details. Your start market prediction algorithm sounds really neat. Let me know when I can invest :) Often times, 50/50 partnerships fail because of differing expectations. What are you expecting from the othe
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Hey Nate, welcome to Hacker News! Ideas are a lot of fun to think about, but it's work to bring them to fruition. When it comes to a partnership, people want to know about you, and what you bring to the table. Add a comment about your
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High end hotels will buy new furnishings every 18-24 months. The used furnishings are bought by Hotel Furniture Liquidators (HFL) who sell the furniture to mid-tier hotels. Working with the resellers to rent a dozen rooms of furniture shoul
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This gives me an idea. Contact house/apartment landlords in Omaha about a month before the meeting, and offer to set up an airbnb in their empty units. The vacancy rate of rental housing in Omaha is about 9%, so Landlords would be int
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I would recommend the book, 'Double Your Freelancing Rate'. It provided really great info about why companies hire freelancers, and how that is different than why you think you were hired.
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13y ago
It looks like they aren't accepting users at this time.
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I'm really surprised that the FollowPie concept doesn't exist as as a service. I've noticed on my twitter account that strangers seem to be following me based on my use of hashtags.