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   by arooni 3y ago

   I have a simple-ish webapp to write that involves basic CRUD, hookup to the Stripe API for payment, a hookup to Twilio for SMS texting, some kind of cool image gallery display UI and well that's about it. I've built several apps w
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   by arooni 4y ago

   I read far too much news/politics articles and I'd like to read more books instead. How do I go about doing this? The novelty of news and perhaps the uncertainty of rewards (slot machine syndrome) makes it appealing.
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   by arooni 4y ago

   If you come for the king, you had better not miss.
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   Ask HN: How can I read long comment threads from HN or Reddit on my Kindle?

   2 points by arooni 7y ago|0 comments
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   by arooni 7y ago

   Marketing for my buy a press pass service (gets you in for free to all kinds of events, concerts, museums, clubs, etc): https://www.magicpresspass.com Marketing and recruitment for people who want to get paid consulting who have
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   by arooni 8y ago

   I realized I want to read all of these shareholder letters from 'Day 1'. Luckily some guy has already compiled them all into one PDF that I just sent to my [Amazon] Kindle. Reading about Amazon on an Amazon device lol. Hope thi
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   by arooni 8y ago

   In life you are either a consumer or a producer. Consumption is the silent killer that's killed more dreams than any other force in history. Relavent: https://www.davidparkinson.com/beware-consumption-the-silent... A
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   by arooni 15y ago

   I think this is brilliant. And I think that it will be successful as evidenced from the strong opinions in this thread. Strong opinions help products spread. The fact that some people hate this app is only evidence that they'll tell so
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   by arooni 16y ago

   Work from anywhere. Just need a small design project done: Email me at david {AT} emptyspaceads {DOT} com ===================================== JOB SUMMARY ===================================== We need the HTML/CSS for 4 wireframes we’ve c
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    [Ask YC] Is jobs page for YCombinator startups only?

    7 points by arooni 18y ago|4 comments
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    by arooni 18y ago

    Yup! I'm debating flying/driving down there... you?
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    by arooni 18y ago

    For those who are attending, please consider adding to the wiki ( http://wiki.startupschool.org/doku.php?id= ). Additionally, I've created two pages that I strongly encourage you to fill out for your own benefit: http://wiki.startupschool.
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    by arooni 18y ago

    Quit Microsoft in January ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=110792 ) and I am loving working full-time on my own ventures. I did build all products: ( http://www.phonemyphone.com , http://www.craigslistautoresponder.com , and http://w
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    by arooni 18y ago

    + 1 vote for making this happen the weekend of Startup School (especially for those of us who would be flying in to the Bay Area)
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    by arooni 19y ago

    Here are my notes: * The error page seemed a bit cramped (I tried things like entering A points, or -3 points) * Your Current Bid: 36 points. Bid More! (What does this mean? I'd like a breakdown of which gift cards I selected, rather than
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    by arooni 19y ago

    I'm 99.99% sure it's the demo code. You see we pull down all the HTML + CSS from your site and insert a bit of our javascript code to your site when we show the ads. This could cause some irregularities of the ads appearing as you mention.
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    by arooni 19y ago

    Again, we have two detection options, "Automatic" which is what the demo is using in addition to "Let Me Decide" where you can specify the HTML elements that you'd like the ads to appear in by simply adding the "ESAemptyspace" class attribu
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    by arooni 19y ago

    Thanks for your feedback run4yourlives. Can you please elaborate what specific issues you're talking about? I'm testing it now ( http://www.emptyspaceads.com/about/demo ) and don't see any issues. I have been noticing that I'm getting a r
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    by arooni 19y ago

    Ah I see. Can you tell me what OS & browser you were using? I've tested with many setups and the ads should go away when the mouse is over flash elements.
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    by arooni 19y ago

    shawndrost: Thanks I've verified the bug regarding accidentally counting clicks and will look into it. Can you elaborate on flickering? I've tested with your same setup some days ago and had no issues. Or just ping me privately through m
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    by arooni 19y ago

    Thanks for your feedback dkokelley. I'll see if I can incorporate the message of not having to sacrifice your site's beautiful design to run emptyspaceads.
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    by arooni 19y ago

    Thanks for the feedback nkohari. I'm happy to hear about AdCamo, it means that the space I've gone into is valid (with the entrance of competitors).
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    by arooni 19y ago

    Great comment. The ads we show on your site are ones we pick but as the website owner you get to control what's inside the ads that appear on your site. For the purposes of a preview, I had to pick some types and styles of ads, and unfo
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    by arooni 19y ago

    Thanks for the feedback kashif. Can you please elaborate what you mean by "sticky"?
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    by arooni 19y ago

    Thanks for the feedback tyohn. Flash ads are an interesting format and I'll definitely add it to Trac as a future release. We'd like to support all manners of ads to allow you, the website owner to customize the ads to your needs.
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    by arooni 19y ago

    Thanks for the feedback raju. I've never seen that bug before and thanks very much for calling it to my attention, I'll investigate. Please don't hesitate to contact me via my Hacker News profile regarding using our product on your site.
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    by arooni 19y ago

    Thanks for the feedback dejb. As called out in the thread, you can specify your site's own empty space by adding the class attribute "ESAemptyspace" to elements you'd like the ads to appear in. On our part, we'll make sure to only place t
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    by arooni 19y ago

    Thanks for the feedback hhm. So perhaps the demo page is too confusing. The ads are supposed to show up in the demo page when you move your mouse to the empty space of the site ( http://www.emptyspaceads.com/about/demo ). Could you plea
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    by arooni 19y ago

    utnick, I'm honored, thanks for taking the time to look at our product. I'd be happy to help you out in any way that I can. Please see my contact information in my Hacker News profile.
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    by arooni 19y ago

    We have two detection modes ( http://www.emptyspaceads.com/publisher/customization_options ) that you can use. The preview feature is using the Automatic detection which isn't always perfect. However, you can use the "Let Me Decide" detec