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by zachster 16y ago
Check out OpenX http://www.openx.org/ In addition to setting up your own private label network, you can buy and sell inventory on their exchange. This lets you appear bigger than you are. For example, if you are able to sign up a publishe
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by zachster 16y ago
I've always thought there should be no cap on either salary, or glamour for advancing developers. We've all seen how a single person can drive the productivity of an entire organization. The career path promoting great developers into manag
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by zachster 16y ago
Is this the full impact? Presumably, they wouldn't leave it on if subscription revenue didn't outweigh that lost from advertising.
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by zachster 16y ago
I'm pulling the shows from Oh My Rockness. If they recommend a show at those venues, they'll show up in the listings. When I get some more time, I'll add all the venues in NY and personalize based on Facebook likes.
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by zachster 16y ago
This has been Snap.com 's competitive advantage for years. I suppose Google gave them enough of a head start for them to make something of it if they were going to. Theirs is certainly more mature though. And they have a JS include you can
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by zachster 16y ago
This is pretty neat, but it seems like an advanced version of Google Docs Spreadsheets. I wonder if they'll roll these features into that. The OSS project is nice for confidential data, but I think a lot of people would use a hosted version
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by zachster 16y ago
This is really great. I love the concept and simplicity. Here are some suggestions: 1. Use the Amazon API to autosuggest book titles and author names. 2. Normalize the lists. That is, count up which books are recommended the most and use th
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by zachster 16y ago
Any requests?
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by zachster 16y ago
Haha... no... this is the first "missed connections" I've gotten on HN. It's kind of an obvious idea, I guess. But I haven't seen anything that let's you listen to the bands playing nearby. I'm not sure how much potential there is here for
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by zachster 16y ago
I wrote Hip.ly last Thursday because it's something I've wanted for a long time and I needed a break from my startup. I wrote a blog post about why I did it here: http://zachster.com/2010/11/08/hip-ly/ I included San Jose to make it relev
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Show HN: Hip.ly playlists bands near you playing tonight (Includes San Jose)(hip.ly)
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by zachster 16y ago
This is a great post. And it's well written! I can definitely relate to the sentiments, but I think giving developers a "pass" on their involvement in The Scene (or maybe their own scene) is letting them (us) off easy. We have our own super
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by zachster 16y ago
You're living your life in fear! <g>
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by zachster 16y ago
I like this article. I like how they talk about drug smuggling technology in terms of natural selection against an inhospitable environment. It reminds me of hacking. Less people die from hacking.
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by zachster 16y ago
It seems to me that Demand Media is the realization of the original dream of "The Mining Company" (later became About.com). They've created an efficient marketplace for generating content in direct response to user's search queries. But how
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by zachster 16y ago
It was kind of a rhetorical question. The process clearly encouraged rebellious behavior. Though I don't think this really qualifies as such. We're entrepreneurs. We network. We promote. This is what we do.
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by zachster 16y ago
Rules? I don't understand.
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by zachster 16y ago
Thanks for the nice memorial. I didn't know Luke, but it sounds like he's leaving behind a great example and a lot of inspiration.
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by zachster 16y ago
Is it fair to say that eBay is taking the profits? Or have they just created an efficient marketplace with such a low barrier to entry for both the seller and the buyer that profit margins are getting pushed smaller and smaller. If eBay cut
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by zachster 16y ago
Thanks for the pointer! This looks interesting. The edge conditions seem like they might pose a problem. I'll have to check out how often it would occur. Maybe the geospatial indexes are a better bet. It looks like MongoDB supports them als
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by zachster 16y ago
I've got this on a site I'm building that offers a sort by distance option. There's definitely a performance hit. I'm going to look into 'dumber' ways of filtering out the data prior to running this function. Maybe start by including state
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by zachster 16y ago
It seems to me there was a dating-site boom back in the early 2000's. At that time there were a few sites that offered nice white-label packages. Spring Street Networks seemed like the best to me (powering the often lauded Nerve.com site).
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by zachster 16y ago
Yup, that's right. Also quinoa. Grain Free looks pretty intense too. As someone who tries to keep a low profile (or at least only be noticed for things I think are cool about myself) it's not ideal having such a dietary restriction. But the
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by zachster 16y ago
Yeah, I wonder if that's part of it. But I still eat a ton of carbs. They're just in the form of things like potatoes, corn, lentils, etc. It's one of those things I try not to think about too much. I worry that if I decide it's all psychos
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by zachster 16y ago
I can attest to this. I gave up gluten last year. I don't know if I was really allergic. I never had the blood test done. The result is that I pay greater attention to everything I eat and stick mainly to whole grains, vegetables, seafood a
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by zachster 16y ago
Thanks for posting this. I'm committed to my current venture, but often wonder how long it will be until my curiosity takes me somewhere else. But Tony's line about "would you be able to say you’ve been doing what you truly care about today
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by zachster 16y ago
High School? That can limit the options, I suppose. Cross country party tours can raise thousands: http://causeitsmybirthday.com/
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by zachster 16y ago
Neighborgoods.net charges a fee to "verify" your existence as a real person (how's that for a CAPTCHA?). I like the idea and thought of it like they turned my whole area into a Costco. But I had to pay to get my membership card. On thing th
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by zachster 16y ago
This is a big topic. If you want users to respond to a shortcode (like 40404), you have to register that and pay a monthly fee for it's use ($500 - $1000/mo). If you go that route, you probably want to pay a mobile aggregator like mBlox to
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by zachster 16y ago
This looks nice! I recently had to implement something similar on one of my projects. Other areas that would be good to address would be translation between client time, server time and GMT (in unix timestampt format). A library that offere

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