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by blakerson 12y ago
"Join our newsletter to receive problems to your inbox" does not sound very fun. You might rephrase that to emphasize some positive outcome. edit: I'm taking my own advice and would like to congratulate you on launching and t
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by blakerson 12y ago
Hey, that's pretty great. I didn't get a chance to test it out with another person, but I'm so happy to see WebRTC being used to keep things so simple for users. Also, nice hold music :D
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Show HN: Musivu (Lynda.com for musicians)(musivu.com)
6 points by blakerson 12y ago|0 comments
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by blakerson 12y ago
Looks cool! Will remember if I'm ever needing shiny documents. I agree with those who support a one-off transaction option. (For example, I love PlaceIt and don't pay them monthly, but they might be doing good business from people
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by blakerson 12y ago
Side question: Any advice for a stats junkie wanting to transition into data science? I did graduate statistics on small data sets so I'm missing the big data piece of the puzzle.
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by blakerson 12y ago
As someone who frequently hires Wordpress freelancers, I offer this: Don't 'sell' the client on using Wordpress relative to other frameworks. They don't need to know the complete power and limitations of the WP ecosystem
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by blakerson 12y ago
I applaud this effort! It seems to me that templating is the thing that the Wordpress ecosystem could most easily borrow from more recent development workflows. Probably makes life a lot easier for newbies to the Wordpress world, too. Che
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by blakerson 12y ago
I'm tired of seeing these headlines based on one employee's departure. I'm not here to defend Valve by any means, but any sufficiently large organization will have the feature in Ellsworth's words that "it is huma
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by blakerson 12y ago
If anyone from Stripe is watching the thread: any chance of this supporting subscriptions?
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by blakerson 12y ago
I'm super happy to see Segment go in this direction. All the e-commerce tagging was the hardest to do and yet the most valuable for analysts. And hooray for making more stuff free!
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by blakerson 12y ago
Oh wow, how fun. I learned something today; thanks!
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by blakerson 12y ago
I "see" some game images after I quit playing. I wouldn't call it "hallucinating," to use the headline's word, but I do have images of DDR or puzzle games or 2048 dance in my head after stopping playing. Does t
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by blakerson 12y ago
Check the footer. There are affiliate links for places to stay, cowork, exercise, etc.
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by blakerson 12y ago
I'm intuitively guessing that there's more geographic variance in rent prices than in coworking or food. Everyone will have different ameliorating factors in different cities, like friends or in-laws, and I'd argue that split
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by blakerson 12y ago
When you submit a comment, don't forget to click the text link "Confirm" or else your comment will be lost. It's easy to miss since the screen looks like a post-submission confirmation.
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by blakerson 12y ago
Just because Wired is reblogging Threes' own piece on 2048[1] doesn't make it any more legit. [1] http://asherv.com/threes/threemails/#letter
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by blakerson 12y ago
Are there any known success cases with Reddit? The user community (at least on the subreddits I watch) seems very anti-commercial.
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It Gets Worse: An iPhone comparison between SoftBank and T-Mobile(blakeellison.posthaven.com)
1 points by blakerson 12y ago|0 comments
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by blakerson 12y ago
I am seriously pessimistic. This merger is about wire less , not wire line . Yes, Japan has fantastic wireline broadband and Son had a lot to do with breaking open Japan's market (after NTT's lines were made the equivalent of a co
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by blakerson 12y ago
I bet it will. The open-source competitive shooters I can think of (Warsaw, Quake3's Challenge Pro Mode mod [in the sense that it was designed by community]) all had interesting and complex movement schemes. And since we now have Githu
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by blakerson 12y ago
A few fun ways this also looks like turn-of-the-century FPS world: -We could see an FPS rise in eSports prominence again -Mods built on top of one game create tons of variety accessible to one player base -Mod developers have an easy way to
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by blakerson 12y ago
I had this in my last apartment in Tokyo. In Japan, water is commonly heated by gas-powered flash heaters. In that apartment, the heater was controlled digitally and there were up/down buttons that would change the temperature by 1 deg
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by blakerson 12y ago
You were running a money transmitter, and once you learn the regulations and liabilities that come attached to that you'll be glad you shut it down before the gap widened any further.
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by blakerson 13y ago
I'm 29 and semi-technical. Hi :D Also, you're not fucked :D I like that people encourage you to keep searching while nudging you technically and entrepreneurially. I think you get 3 things out of that: 1. Finding your passion, or
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by blakerson 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in US) Analytics expert who speaks to both business and technical teams. BUSINESS SIDE: Former director of international analytics for Rakuten. $100M business, 9 countries. Directed analytics design, implementat
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by blakerson 13y ago
Congrats! You need reach and retention - that is, new customers and keeping repeat ones coming back. For reach, I like susonnahg's suggestions. Typically these are low-converting channels so try to maximize the number of eyeballs. For
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by blakerson 13y ago
You can build trust! Blogs, email, the usual advice all applies, but you may also consider getting a professional take on design or at least adopting a framework (Bootstrap/Foundation). People can spend plenty of time arguing the merit
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by blakerson 13y ago
This is a really unfortunate domain to click through to from work. Is there a Google cache or somesuch?
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by blakerson 13y ago
From one non-programmer to another, I highly recommend Python + Django + a CSS framework to get up and running. Python is a great language to get started on because the code is relatively simple to write and read (for very geeky reasons), a
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by blakerson 13y ago
I'm having fun with this. Thanks for sharing.

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