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nate
7,926karma·1,070submissions·October 10, 2006
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YC alum. Founded Inkling and Draft. Ran Highrise. Founding engineer at Census (acquired by Fivetran)
https://ninjasandrobots.com
I'm working on https://allihat.com, https://pageforth.com, and more. If I can be helpful at all with anything, please hit me up on X (@natekontny) or email me anytime (nate.kontny+hn@gmail.com).
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That's awesome :) Fantastic movie. Are you on twitter or facebook or have a blog?
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I love it. It's all Dustin Curtis' doing and design. http://dcurt.is/ . He created the SVBTL blog network I'm a part of.
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I don't see a lot of keywords where you can just assume they'll all be $1 CPC. Project management software: $14 a click. "iphone camera app" - $2.90 a click, "stop smoking" - $4.62 a click. And those …
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I've seen the "sell me this pen" type of test before. Got me thinking... I wonder if anyone would like to play a competitive game where we pick a commodity like a pen or anything really, and we challe…
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Hugh's been a favorite of mine too. One of the only newsletter's I've subscribed to. You might dig this blog post of mine that was up on HN awhile ago that mentioned Hugh and Jobs and the effort of go…
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There's been a few of these types of posts about movies here. Went looking and found this one with some interestingly creative tv show episodes. Almost every episode of Mad Men also has a neat creativ…
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"There is probably a minute number of cases where someone wants mass assignment changes to include the parent's id of that record" So it sounds like you aren't using mass assignment to change parent i…
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And you're using mass assignment to do those assignments?
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Shouldn't rails by default protect belongs_to associations. There is probably a minute number of cases where someone wants mass assignment changes to include the parent's id of that record.
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There's another way of looking at pricing that comes up more and more in my thoughts on starting a new business/product. I've been calling it "pricing in reverse". I'll blog about it soon in more deta…
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I've taken a speed reading course through Groupon (Iris) and it has increased the amount of books I consume by 100x. Good for Amazon. :) Speed reading might be broken into two parts. There's the part …
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"the opposite is also true" - Derek Sivers Test. It'd probably be best to serve a company to be able to test whether or not it serves you best to force customers into a hand held sales process or let …
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Not having a demo or problem statement is tough probably? And you might find some great stuff using your lure like you are doing. But I can't help feel you might have more fun and possibly better effe…
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http://www.spamhaus.org/definition.html Unsolicited and Bulk is usually the going definition. If's it's a targeted, relevant, personalized email it starts to be not-spam. And I'm definitely a propon…
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I highly recommend the book Nail it Then scale it. http://www.amazon.com/Nail-then-Scale-Entrepreneurs-ebook/dp... There's some interesting discussion in there about cold emails and cold calls. It p…
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This isn't exactly relevant to the article, but somehow shares some of the spirit of what happens to us as we educate/inform ourselves more: "this very real thing that runs rampant in educated people.…
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I also highly recommend a couple Michael J Fox movies for this genre. Secret of my Success. And For Love or Money.