mknappen | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to outsource marketing for my bootstrapped 'lifestyle business'?
Take the job. Spend 30-60 minutes per day on marketing activities before or after work.
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mknappen | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Can Airbnb hosts reject you based on your marital status?
While companies like Uber and Airbnb cut through regulations that create artificial scarcity, they also cut through protective regulations.
mknappen | 10 years ago | on: Webhook.co – Webhook manager
The link asks for google account access off the bat. Perhaps the github url would have been a better place to start.
mknappen | 10 years ago | on: Timecube.com has lapsed
See also: original Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap label
mknappen | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Help me find a co-founder
Most of us can work really well with people of different ages, interests, family structures, backgrounds, political persuasions, religious ideas, and popular media choices. Different approaches to responsibility and how to treat others will kill a partnership; Different TV tastes, not so much.
mknappen | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Should i quit?
Work on your project on the side AND take that developer job abroad.
A SaaS can take years to build to a point where you can even get in to see a real, live seed or angel investor. Live now and keep coding for your future.
mknappen | 11 years ago | on: Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs
Perhaps if art were taught in US schools with the systematic rigor of mathematics and rhetorical essay composition, as it should be, people would cease being surprised that artists exploit technological advances like everyone else. The LAX International Terminal features digital installations, not frescos.
mknappen | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Appropriate toy for a 1-year old girl that may lead to programming
ball
mknappen | 12 years ago | on: We're going to send out invitations to YC interviews close to midnight
Thanks for the update!
mknappen | 12 years ago | on: Hackers & Hookers Costume Party
That's a big hope, considering the official response.
mknappen | 12 years ago | on: So I’m the guy who sent the t-shirt out as a thank you
Did Ramses Martinez have the authority to pay people who found issues and instead sent tee shirts? Have people been paid in the past? If yes to both, the "no good deed goes unpunished" and "I'm new here so lay off" response is disingenuous. However, if there was no way Martinez could have paid bounties or no history of payouts, the grumpy response to not being showered with cash is unreasonable. (And perhaps Martinez, et al., already knew of this particular vulnerability.)
mknappen | 12 years ago | on: 7 Qualities of a Good Client
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish = Difficult Client
mknappen | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: How many "self-taught" programmers and how did you do it?
"Self taught" is an unhelpful distinction. It is the work itself that teaches. Helpful voices found in university programs, books, and boot camp courses may point you toward useful habits, but there are no shortcuts to experience. At day's end, everyone is self taught.
mknappen | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Twitter Account Ownership Issue?
How strange.
mknappen | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What to do if my in-development app just got launched by someone else?
Think about MySpace and Facebook. Often the first to market doesn't dominate a few years out. Figure out the problem you are solving and do it to the best of your ability. "Appropriate" your competitors' best ideas if they fit with your solution and ignore their bells and whistles if they don't. Even if you are not successful, there is no shame in failing well. Chalk it up to education and try again.
mknappen | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Twitter Account Ownership Issue?
My coworker insists the email address was never validated and no one else ever logged in from this email address. After registering, the account came up with nearly 100 following and followers, none known by my coworker. The standard new user demo never happened. My coworker then changed the user name, and user profile information as a precaution. The actual owner of the account would likely now be able to login or re-register with their user name, but their followers would be gone.
mknappen | 12 years ago | on: MyOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014
Thank you.
mknappen | 12 years ago | on: Request HN: Tell us what to build. Or hire us. (Group of Stanford Students)
How might we contact you outside of HN?
mknappen | 12 years ago | on: Teaching Programming the Way It Works Outside the Classroom
This style of programming also goes by the name "code quilting". Part of the difficulty with moving this workflow method into the classroom is that it requires schools to redefine "cheating."
mknappen | 12 years ago | on: DIY Cellphone
Spooky- Just this morning I decided that building a cell phone would be my next evening project.
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