reidman

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I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust(chevyray.dev)
13 points by reidman 2y ago|2 comments
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by reidman 11y ago
Sure, but the title of this is "Girl figures out how to program giant computer". "The boy down in ballistics got in a shootout" is not something our hypothetical police chief would say. The title also implies some level
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by reidman 11y ago
Why refer to these women as 'girls'? It'd certainly stick out if anyone said that a bunch of 'boys' had learned to program a computer – it would be implied/assumed that children were doing the programming.
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by reidman 15y ago
While SOPA and PROTECT-IP deserve to burn for all the obvious reasons, this ‘infographic’ is appalling. It’s rare to see propaganda as brazenly deceitful as the “self-censorship diagram” and “startup chart”. Using fake data to scare the mas
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by reidman 15y ago
Gruber addressed this in a footnote: "You might wonder, Hey, don’t you feel like a jerk walking around the city talking to your phone? But here’s the thing: Siri, by default, kicks in when you hold the iPhone up to your ear, so you can talk
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by reidman 16y ago
http://artistorm.com I started the website as a senior design project in 2005. My team won a $10k entrepreneurship contest, but we were all finishing college and drowning in debt, so we split the prize up and went our separate ways. I int
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by reidman 16y ago
For the record, it states in their Seller Policy ( https://checkout.google.com/seller/policies.html ) that you have to capture within 7 days and ship within 24 hours of capture. I learned this the hard way when I presold books through Goo
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by reidman 16y ago
Got my HP Laserjet (CP1518) cartridges to last literally 2x as long by setting the manual override. The printer will complain for months that it's out of ink, all the while printing beautifully.
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by reidman 16y ago
I read Investing for Dummies back in 2004. It taught me all the basics I needed to know -- mostly lingo, since I had no clue what all the TLAs meant. I had just gotten my hands on a few thousand dollars that I knew would otherwise be wasted
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by reidman 17y ago
Does it strike anyone else as petulant, childish, or vaguely illegal that he's prodding people to short their stock? I can never take this guy seriously, even when I want to.
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by reidman 17y ago
Seconding this. Just started using it last week, learned everything I needed to know in a distraction-filled day or two. Any CSS pro could pick up HAML/SASS in a matter of hours, if not less.
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by reidman 17y ago
I don't think so -- Fundable was targeted toward much larger transactions ($5k+ campaigns weren't rare, iirc) and specifically set up to 'self destruct' if the goal wasn't met. So for example, if you had a small neighborhood looking to fund
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by reidman 17y ago
Pretty one-sided, but I suppose a domain name can only belong to one side of any argument. For the uninitiated, Fundable was a site where you could input a dollar amount and accept donations towards that 'goal'. If the goal wasn't reached w
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by reidman 17y ago
Can't provide a good suggestion yet, but I'll try to make your pool of options smaller: don't go with Chase. I've been a personal customer for 7 years and a business customer for 3. A little over a year ago I opened another business account
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by reidman 17y ago
Honestly, it just never went anywhere. I'd pick it up today if I wasn't already seeing a lot of success bootstrapping an online retail store. It's often in the back of my mind, though. In a roundabout way, I suppose monetization is the root
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by reidman 17y ago
That was the entire premise of my YC app back in 2007, actually. Here's a mockup, in case anyone's interested in working on it ;D http://reidesign.us/misc/veracifyWebsite3-5.png Promises are used like credit, but the tab often goes unpaid
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by reidman 17y ago
This article, and the last paragraph in particular, strike me as another disingenuous snowball fight. Except with semantics instead of snowballs. It seems pretty obvious that 37signals, when talking about 'plans', refers to the massive busi
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by reidman 17y ago
Hmm, a domain leasing agent...paying rent for a domain name, kinda like renting office space. Has this been done already?
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by reidman 17y ago
Got one of those lovely 4-letter domains, though it's a bit gibberish: zwoz.com fwiw, if you rotate 'zwoz' 90 degrees clockwise, it says 'NEON'. It could work pretty well in the hands of an experienced logo designer ;D Incidentally, this is
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by reidman 17y ago
Instead of packing slips we've been including cardstock 'receipts' with each of the orders we ship. We write the recipient's name, circle the merchandise they purchased, and include a hand-drawn sketch featuring characters from the game (ex
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by reidman 18y ago
Google Checkout has no customer service, not for merchants at least. No phone number, no email address, just a knowledge base and a forum where GC merchants vent their frustration by making threats and typing in all caps: http://www.google
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by reidman 18y ago
Same here. I switched away from them back in 2003 when the "car salesman" mentality (an excellent and concise term, btw) really started to kick in. Went to Domainsite -- http://domainsite.com -- whose site is as poorly designed as GoDaddy
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Ask HN: Resources for IT Newbies -- OR -- Scarecrows at the Black Gate of IT
1 points by reidman 18y ago|0 comments
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by reidman 18y ago
Although I agree that Etsy is the best for this particular situation, Shopify is great for larger-scale sales. We're filling 500-1000 orders per month with their software and having no major issues, except for quibbles about missing feature
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by reidman 18y ago
We just sell merchandise -- t-shirts, posters, etc. We were thinking about doing advertising stuff, but since we're a video game site, we decided to just give our users what they wanted (swag) rather than what they go out of their way to bl
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by reidman 18y ago
"Don't over-think the physical facility/location aspects." Excellent advice! And, incidentally, Dallas was one of the places I was looking at, so it's good to hear that it's well-connected.
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by reidman 18y ago
We've been on dedicated servers for a long time, and we're at a point where cost-efficiency and flexibility are our two biggest factors. We're expecting pretty linear growth, so scaling isn't a huge deal. Up until now we would regularly swi
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by reidman 18y ago
Some additional info/clarification: Several of us who are involved with the business are going to be moving, and it would be nice to know what kind of facilities will be nearby. The reason we're not looking at CA or east coast is purely pre
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Ask YC: Colocation?
19 points by reidman 18y ago|23 comments
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by reidman 18y ago
Wow D: As a prosper borrower, I loved the service (which helped fund my startup - http://fangamer.net ) because it was kinda like high school -- easy to excel with nothing more than a little effort. Not hard when your 'competition' is a p

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