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by strick 10y ago
I don’t do alarms, just timers, but my site does it like this: http://5.minutestocountdown.com/ One nice benefit of doing the number first in the url is that the second time you set a timer you can just type a single number
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by strick 10y ago
Still no ipv6 for S3?
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by strick 11y ago
The Greatest Good Inspired to make a meaningful donation, I wondered: What is the best charitable cause in the world, and was it crazy to think I could find it? http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015&#x2F
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by strick 11y ago
Back when I was running a disposable email service called dodgeit.com I settled on a similar approach. I would just have postfix drop the mail in Maildir style files, then had a perl script parse the messages one by one. I didn't even
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by strick 11y ago
Quartz: What critics agree are the best books of 2015 http://qz.com/566945/what-critics-agree-are-the-best-books-o...
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by strick 11y ago
Not a letter: http://5.minutestocountdown.com/
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by strick 11y ago
Saw this recently: https://medium.com/why-not/how-we-re-doing-stats-at-howdy-29...
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by strick 11y ago
Lots of companies already trust AWS and host various services there. Many of those companies might not trust your git servers to be up and running 24/7 with Amazon-like SLAs.
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by strick 11y ago
That is very cool. Any chance a company could run that tool on premises? I think there is a market for that.
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by strick 11y ago
"When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural p
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by strick 11y ago
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by Irvine. Pay attention and you will see this book come up time and time again on HN. I have reread multiple times.
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by strick 12y ago
>More than 39M Americans Only Have Access to 1 Wired Broadband Provider And those who have more than 1 are served by an oligopoly who overcharge for mediocre (at best) service. Are the few cities with municipal broadband or Google Fiber
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by strick 12y ago
I love the http://nextdraft.com/ daily email. Short paragraph summaries of the day's news, funny, and with links if you want to read more.
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Ask HN: Beta swap?
5 points by strick 12y ago|5 comments
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by strick 12y ago
A stats service for new websites that notifies you when interesting things happen on your website.
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by strick 12y ago
Cool! would be nice if I could select a photo I have already taken from inside the app. http://www.sipsnapp.com/ has this feature and I use it.
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by strick 12y ago
Have I missed something or is there no way to get notified when an object gets deleted?
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by strick 12y ago
Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-se...
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by strick 12y ago
Search Amazon for penguin mints. I used them to wean off coffee as an experiment (now I drink coffee again these days). It takes about 3 penguin mints to equal one cola beverage.
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by strick 12y ago
Yep - you are emphasizing my point. The default seems to be USD. Pick a sensible default - if you get more business from the US just show dollars. Or do some simple A/B testing and see if you get better conversions with one versus the
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by strick 12y ago
On Stamplay pricing: whenever I see pricing in pounds not dollars on a service like this, I think they are not quite ready for my business. My IP address (pretty) clearly identifies me as a U.S. customer, why not present the pricing page in
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by strick 12y ago
http://feltron.com/
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by strick 12y ago
I think the tabbed navigation on: https://www.plivo.com/pricing/ is going to confuse some users. Some people will never see the SMS pricing even though they are looking for it. Banner blindness is a real problem and ap
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by strick 12y ago
If you are the type to have remorse when a new model is introduced just after you buy, you may want to wait a week or so. The MacBook Pro is due for an upgrade pretty much any day now: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Retin
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by strick 12y ago
Great way to celebrate is to give this another listen: Carolyn Porco: This is Saturn http://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_porco_flies_us_to_saturn I haven't heard it myself for years but still think of it often. It i
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by strick 12y ago
Have you reached out to your customers yet? @ev has obvious ties and Tim Ferriss was an early investor.
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by strick 12y ago
I'd recommend running this as a simple twitter account to test the concept. Reach out to people who follow the shows you are interested in. Tweet at a scheduled interval. If they don't follow it is unlikely the app would get tract
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by strick 12y ago
Randall Munroe of XKCD talks about a great puzzle at the end of this 10 min video: https://www.ted.com/talks/randall_munroe_comics_that_ask_wha...
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by strick 12y ago
Simplest: 100% VTSMX Conservative: 60% VTSMX, 40% VBMFX I would do: 50% VTSMX, 30% VBMFX, 15% Lending Club, 5% YCombinator funds on fundersclub or wefunder.com (split over next 4 summer and 4 winter classes) This is a great site: http:&#x2
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by strick 12y ago
Any thoughts about forking Angular and building in Hoist support to make an officially supported Angular/Hoist client side library?

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