ryanwanger

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by ryanwanger 12y ago
Airbnb intentionally obscures the exact location - for privacy reasons, I believe. It makes much more sense to do this for a suburban neighborhood.
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by ryanwanger 12y ago
If the rentals number in the search results is correct, Boulder, CO has 1,864 listings on Airbnb. The population is somewhere around 104,000 people, with around 42,000 households. That is insane. Not sure how many hotel rooms there are, but
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by ryanwanger 12y ago
This is particularly true in sports. There is a chapter in Malcom Gladwell's Outliers all about it.
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by ryanwanger 12y ago
Are you talking about this TED "presentation"? http://www.ted.com/talks/sergey_brin_why_google_glass?langua... Don't bother watching it. TLDR; Sergey stands awkwardly on stage for 5 minutes, telling you
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by ryanwanger 12y ago
I've got a Roku HD (model 2500X) and just did some measurements: Starting up: 3.5W Sitting idly on menu screen: 3.15W Sitting idly on screen saver: 3.3W Streaming Arrested Development: 3.45W Also worth noting that when not in use, it g
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by ryanwanger 12y ago
I've heard over and over that Boulder (county, which is around 300,000 people) is #1 in the country for software jobs per capita - but unfortunately I don't have a tangible source for that.
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by ryanwanger 12y ago
Corporations get taxed ~15% + 14% hotel tax. Individuals get taxed ~30% already on their Airbnb income (plus Airbnb charges the guest 6%-12% and the host 3%). If they're going to charge 14% hotel tax to people renting out rooms on Airb
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by ryanwanger 13y ago
MapQuest - Denver, CO Looking for junior/mid level Rails & javascript developers. 9-5, great benefits, & excellent team. Email: ryan.wanger@mapquest.com
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by ryanwanger 14y ago
Blocking any spam that contains a link is helpful, for sure, but doesn't get everything. Every few months I see waves of comments like: "Really graet article. We need more people like you in the world." Each comment has exactly one pair of
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by ryanwanger 14y ago
You won't use a site that doesn't have a favicon?
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by ryanwanger 14y ago
...assuming that thieves will actually be punished.
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by ryanwanger 14y ago
It blew my mind when I learned about d-pad patents for video game consoles. Ever wonder why Playstation had to use that awkward combination of 4 arrow-like things pointing towards each other? Patents.
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by ryanwanger 14y ago
I don't understand why people think it's fair to criticize a move like this without offering a plausible alternative that will sustain the business. Sure, letting other people build on it got them to where they are today, but where exactly
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by ryanwanger 14y ago
In a support email, someone demanded that we refund his money because our app was a piece of crap. The app has always been free. I told him this and he retorted that he had jail broken his phone, and doesn't pay for apps.
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Boulder Startup Week May 16-20 (& free flights)(feld.com)
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by ryanwanger 14y ago
I'm sure there is a market for this, but that saddens the non-consumer in me (that someone would feel as though they can't wear the same piece of clothing more than once).
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by ryanwanger 15y ago
If you seek only comments to agree with the post, go to Reddit. If you seek only comments that disagree with the post, go to Hacker News. Frankly, both have been a HUGE turnoff for me lately.
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by ryanwanger 15y ago
Just saw this one: http://www.missilebases.com/denver It was flooded for years (isn't currently), and would be insanely expensive to refurbish.
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by ryanwanger 15y ago
Can you elaborate on what isn't interesting to you about this show? What you described is nearly the same thing, only following YC instead.
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by ryanwanger 15y ago
Also, in a lot of costal cities, you can get on a scheduled floating casino, sail 7 miles out to sea, and start gambling.
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by ryanwanger 15y ago
Interestingly, a lot of people who were making a living from online poker WERE paying taxes on that money. Come April 15th, the IRS doesn't care how you got it.
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by ryanwanger 15y ago
Boulder, CO Not sure if this is appropriate here (please let me know if not), but over the last two weeks I put together a page of over 50+ jobs in Boulder across 20+ companies. Most are engineering, but there is also design, marketing, etc
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by ryanwanger 15y ago
Incredible. I thought you were going to link to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awK0NrgHUbk
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by ryanwanger 15y ago
I assumed that this was going to be gathered from twitter and facebook statuses, then shown as an overall average of the current mood.
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by ryanwanger 16y ago
An interesting aside: plenty of people (myself included) have been saying things like "the people at Twitter can't figure out how to monetize". This is true but it assumes that there is some easy monetization, they just haven't discovered i
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by ryanwanger 16y ago
If you let google personalize your results, then this probably happened because "code" usually means programming... for you .
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by ryanwanger 16y ago
I want to like Girl Talk, but that's just too many samples per track.
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by ryanwanger 16y ago
He's been flying his whole life and never knew this. Why? Because it had never happened to him before. Why? Because booking a round-trip ticket, then finding an alternate way to get to your destination, and still wanting to come back on the
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by ryanwanger 16y ago
How could Facebook be so much higher in terms of satisfaction? Maybe it's too casual?!?
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by ryanwanger 16y ago
Am I not using Facebook like everyone else is? I've never had anyone post anything inappropriate on my wall, or tag me in a photo I'd rather not be tagged in. If it ever happens, I'm removing that person as a Facebook friend. Not sure why i

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