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38,208karma·5,954submissions·April 19, 2008
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Mostly known among your parents for creating the infamous Popurls and Twidroyd (Very first Android Twitter app).
Idealab alumni.
Later biztoc.com (With Mark Cuban, acquired by ProRata)
Still running upstract.com
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Austria, Japan, CA
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The dubious stock image alone makes me hit the back button after .5 sec.
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A location picker right from the menu bar would be nice. VyprVPN does that (Not to say that it's a great app).
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Some screenshots might have been nice - Can't even figure out whether it's an app or just a config enabler for the native VPN feature.
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...rank extremely high For broad terms or real long-tail stuff?
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Yes, it's an unethical, poisonous, money-grabbing pattern that should be banned but aren't there enough folks on HN that are actually making money off of something like this? Talk about the …
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The definition of what anonymity means for the average user is pretty vague and I doubt it'd be of primarily technical nature.
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I declare 2013 as the year of Favicon Wars.
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These ports belong to one of the worst money-grabs in history. Look at the reviews: Numerous bugs, no updates for recent iphone/ipads and worst of all, the controls just suck for everyone who pla…
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How can you turn a profit from unlimited 30mins job at 69$/m and even moderate capacity utilization?
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"You don’t need to know your seat number until you are on the plane" Maybe on a hydroplane.
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But only because you're not their target group.
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Interesting point for a gazillion $ company: "Fab is NOT automated, everything is done manually by emailing people back and forth a LOT. (At least when I worked with them). Everything is done th…
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I usually do my best work with music, street noise and chatter from the TV at the same time. The more variety, the better.
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And keep in mind: Should the buyer still receive the bitcoin after all, he would have to destroy it as per paypal's terms...
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you might check out http://www.postagon.com
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Or http://www.postagon.com/ which is unsurprisingly my creation.
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"If you do sports twice a week." I would argue that 6 x 30mins is the minimum and mcdonalds should be once a month, not twice a week. And skip the vitamins.
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Makes sense. The title is still a bit of an overgeneralization.
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The peculiar excess found in US supermarkets is not something I would translate to the world cross-the-board though.
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After trying really hard to use an ipad as a work tool for the most mundane tasks since the very first generation, I'm back for good on an 11" MBA and not looking back. Now that the battery …
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These arguments are about the same category as stating that email is broken - If you have 600+ friends or emails that overwhelm you, blame your process and not solely the tool.