ryanelkins

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by ryanelkins 10y ago
A ride in an autonomous vehicle should be far less expensive than a ride in a manually driven Uber vehicle. If the end goal for both is a fleet of autonomous vehicles and a strong app to facilitate the use of that fleet by the public, I wou
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by ryanelkins 11y ago
The revenue thing is addressing a conflict in LinkedIn's approach. The value in the platform is the users but their monetization of that platform tends to drive off users (due to being spammy). So they are saying they need to find a mo
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by ryanelkins 12y ago
I can see where you're coming from but I think you're oversimplifying it. Spending money and showing up ARE ways that you CAN get good at things. They might not be the only ways or even the most important ways but they are definit
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by ryanelkins 12y ago
I'd kind of like to see an actual post before I sign up. Your first post is short and just telling me what to expect - why not just give me a real post so I can see what I'd be getting? Right now you're asking me to sign up w
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by ryanelkins 12y ago
When I worked as a dev I hated having people walking around behind me. I worked at a place where my desk was near a relatively high traffic area so there was a constant stream of people walking past. I find it hard to really concentrate on
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by ryanelkins 12y ago
Every customer of mine pays through a bank transfer. Some pay monthly, some pay the full contract upfront. We offer a discount for those that pay upfront so it's the customer's choice. Most of our customers pay within 15-30 days.
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by ryanelkins 15y ago
I just hate sites that won't accept spaces and restrict how long a password can be (usually to something relatively short like 8 or 12 characters). Also, many require you to use mixed case and/or numbers or "special" characters. I usually j
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by ryanelkins 15y ago
I definitely think gamification is in a hype stage right now. Some people seem to think it fix anything and others are happy to take their money. Gamification is young and no one has a good grasp of what it actually is or how it can best
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by ryanelkins 15y ago
Talking and sharing things with friends wasn't new before "social". Gamification is about better feedback for the end user in real time. Yes, people have been doing it for a long time but they've been using low-tech means. I've seen a lot o
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Yes, they mentioned that was the best centralized place to do it from.
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Google also recently removed Facebook contacts from Android with the Gingerbread 2.3.3 update. Facebook had an exemption up to that point where they played by different rules with regards to how/where contacts are stored when syncing contac
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
The problem is that even answering that question just leads to another question. It ends up the way conversations go with inquisitive children - an endless stream of "why"s with no real end because we don't know everything. At some point yo
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
There's a difference between visual design and architectural design.
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Yeah, I might like to be notified when it is actually shipped out, or maybe even when it changes locations. Often time you might have a date range so it could also be useful to know if it's at the local hub and should be delivered today if
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I can understand that - to be honest we're still trying to work all of that out. I'm going to try to write up some more details to address this concern. The short answer is it will be free as long as you are "small" although I need to defin
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Heh, yeah I think we're the first officially funded startup by Neumont alums. Glad to see some people from there reading Hacker News.
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IActionable: Free game mechanics for startups(iactionable.com)
11 points by ryanelkins 16y ago|5 comments
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
This actually has been an issue for the App Store recently, primarily concerning VLC. See http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/no-gpl-apps-for-apples...
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Yeah, seems to be working now, although he had seen my previous comment so he just gave me a dirty look when his phone started ringing. He did answer though, and I heard him mutter something about "pickles and tomatoes" trending on twitter.
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Seems like it might be down. I tried sending an example to my cofounder because I wanted him to answer the phone and have a rooster scream into his ear but so far all I've got is an ajax spinner going. Now all the giggling I was doing on th
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Imagining the Tenth Dimension(tenthdimension.com)
1 points by ryanelkins 16y ago|0 comments
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I was at the lunch he mentioned - we have a good startup community here in Utah but it was surprising to see the number of people that showed up to hear him. I hope to see the number of scalable startups in Utah increase over time.
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I don't play WoW currently and haven't for over a year now but I did enjoy my time playing. I was accused of being an addict although I don't think I was - I just enjoyed playing and hanging out with people online. It's funny reading this a
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
The problem is not many people would play that game. Of those that do, not many would play for very long. These games are formulaic because the formula works. I've thought of numerous things I would like to see done differently, but really
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Many developers have the initial gut reaction to build instead of buy. I've found that many people don't really fully understand the ramifications though. Even if some of these places only have 3-5 developers working on this full time - tha
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I agree. I think the adoption of the term "gamification" has caused a rift because really, this isn't about making things in to games or creating fun - it's about creating motivation. I think a big part of the backlash against "gamification
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
People can't even agree what gamification is. As the article points out, there is a push towards what some people call pointification. (BTW I hate both of these terms.) I see the main breakdown as being some people see gamification as makin
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
It's like rain on your wedding day.
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
The problem is that most feedback systems (which is mostly what gamification the way it's being implemented now really is) are measuring quantitative results. Bug tracking is a job that can be hard to quantify. All you can usually measure i
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I always think its funny when a bunch of nerds start talking about how to win a fight. I say that as a nerd who got beat up and pushed around a lot in elementary up through high school. Once I could afford it I made it a point to study self

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