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by benreyes 6y ago
You mention rewriting Mojeek three times. Do you expect a fourth iteration?
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by benreyes 14y ago
Good point. I'll probably add in some background textures, images next time. Perhaps also a next / back buttons along with a current page indicator. Any other suggestions towards how it'll signify a scroll action towards more content would
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by benreyes 14y ago
Cheers rodly! Yeah I'm definitely not happy with it and want to fix that/get it re-done if we decide to keep it. I'll most likely have it stop animating after a while and also only load when it's in view. It's something one of us threw hack
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by benreyes 14y ago
I'm really sorry about that, thanks for bringing it up Secoif. I've just pushed a quick fix. The website was supposed to be fully responsive to iPhone/iPad resolutions using various javascript and flexible width methods. Unfortunately I mad
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by benreyes 14y ago
Regarding older founders. I'm currently working with one of the founders that is a statistical anomaly on the upper rage of the graph. Reality as I perceive it is far opposite from the case, perhaps this is why they are a statistical anomal
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by benreyes 14y ago
Something not quite but similar to the exchange program for New York City is 'Adopt a Hacker' - http://www.adoptahacker.com One to check out. I would like to see a similar programme for London.
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by benreyes 15y ago
I haven't finished listening to the podcast highlighted in this post but a point to note is that the book was rushed into print which may have affected the Isaacson's writing quality.
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by benreyes 15y ago
Congrats to Justin and Jason, the podcast really is something to be proud of. It combines a nice mix of tech and startup discussion. It's not really for people who like short podcasts, but this is what makes it great. You get depth where ot
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by benreyes 15y ago
Yes it would be impolite to bad-mouth specific people. But one can talk generally about traits and characteristics with a reflection on mistakes made and improvements to such processes.
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Happy Birthday Steve Wozniak
6 points by benreyes 15y ago|1 comments
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by benreyes 15y ago
Your age does not matter. Depending on how old you are and if your a first time entrepreneur I suggest that you have a big vision but adjust your tangible goals correctly to the amount of time and resources you have available to you. Perhap
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by benreyes 15y ago
When I read this line: "..even began offering her own Internet Survival Guide, free to download after submitting your e-mail address." She gained my respect, it's basic marketing 101 but even grown adults trying to market a company often do
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Startup Zerply receives backlash for design competition(blog.zerply.com)
2 points by benreyes 15y ago|0 comments
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MongoHQ (YC S11) Raises $417K From Lerer And SV Angel(techcrunch.com)
82 points by benreyes 15y ago|21 comments
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by benreyes 15y ago
As far as I'm aware (I'm friends with the founders) they have hired someone to run New Bamboo (Rails Consultancy) and have also merged their other SaaS product Panda ( http://pandastream.com - Video Encoding) with another US company. So th
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by benreyes 15y ago
Where does the data go after it has been submitted? I'd be careful when entering data on a web form where the source and intention for the data is unknown.
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by benreyes 15y ago
No worries, happy to help. What I'm working on right now is a manually curated directory for the MVP and hopefully I can get it to ramen profitability during that phase. Then will spend some time to work out the algorithms to do the automat
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by benreyes 15y ago
Interesting question, techdemic. Just to mention for questions like this on HackerNews it's often common to prepend the post with 'Ask HN:' in the title. ---- As for what I'm working on in the summer. If everything goes to plan. - A directo
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by benreyes 15y ago
Thanks JoshFraser, I have appended a note to the blog post to check your comment on here. Although the Google Apps team may have altered their policies according to my blog post which I contacted them about 2 months ago. This issue is still
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by benreyes 15y ago
I accessed the person(s) amazon account to find contact information. They are now fully aware that I accessed the account as I left a voicemail. I offered full access to the GMAIL account and gave the password on the Amazon account so it co
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Do not let your domain expire with Google Apps(benreyes.posterous.com)
281 points by benreyes 15y ago|63 comments
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by benreyes 15y ago
Being able to take criticism, filter and apply it correctly is a definite skill. If you are getting criticism from a coach, teacher, mentor or customers it's a good thing because if they aren't giving criticism then they've already given up
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by benreyes 15y ago
This is great and thanks for open sourcing the code. There is also another chrome plugin called Proxlet http://proxlet.com which does something similar. Seems like there are many tools out there but discovery and marketing is all ways an
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Public Internet Inhibiting Exploration(benmatthew.net)
7 points by benreyes 15y ago|0 comments
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A funny and unorthodox way to encourage strong passwords(nakedpassword.com)
9 points by benreyes 16y ago|5 comments
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by benreyes 16y ago
First off congratulations to the winners. I have a question about SeedCamp around the signalling effect by participating. So with SeedCamp's model that a round of startup get to go through their program but only a few get funded. What happe
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by benreyes 16y ago
Sounds great, whilst we aren't focused on the recruitment aspects we are looking to work with some recruitment startups/companies to keep our focus on the creation of a CV. I just @ replied you.
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by benreyes 16y ago
Currently starting a startup (startup'ing) full time. http://cvkitchen.com (CV Builder)
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by benreyes 16y ago
Another point Steve Blank talks about this in Stanford series of talks on customer development: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2060 [video] He mentions any type of PR, Press including TechCrunch coverage shouldn't
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Top Mistakes in Behavior Change(slideshare.net)
186 points by benreyes 16y ago|27 comments

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