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freerobby··on I know I belong in computer science, but sometimes I wonder.
I don't understand why you are portraying concentrated education vs liberal arts education as a women's issue. I'm a male who also earned a CS degree at a liberal arts school, and I had similar struggles in trying to balance my technical workload alongside literature and politics.
freerobby··on I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.
Great execution and slick-looking site. Referral programs make this an easy product to monetize.

On the marketing front, one way to pitch it is that a decentralized registry makes life easier for your friends, too. I am so sick of having to pay top dollar for gifts just to get them off of a registry, when better deals can be had elsewhere for the same products. How many extra dollars have gone to Bed, Bath & Beyond instead of Amazon simply for that reason?

freerobby··on Please review Hikify, a hiking and mountaineering website
Thanks, I'll have to dig up my journals. I'll try to do when I have a bit more time. Once again, great work.
freerobby··on Please review Hikify, a hiking and mountaineering website
This is really exciting, nice work.

Can you delete this photo? I accidentally uploaded a DNG which resulted in a really crappy resized version.

http://www.hikify.com/images/2/

freerobby··on Ask HN: I versus We
Use "I" when you want to convey something personal; use "we" when you want to convey unity, mutual empathy or some other connection with your team and audience. If it's a close call, a good rule of thumb is to think hard and be honest -- are you referring to yourself or to your team?

Examples:

1) I'd say "I deeply apologize" rather than "we deeply apologize" when I want to be clear about owning responsibility for a corporate failure without hiding behind our corporate outfit.

2) I'd say "We're excited to launch..." to convey a team's hard work, dedication and excitement.

3) I'd say "We all hate having to do foo. That's why we created bar!" to show mutual empathy with our audience and convey that we are trying to solve a problem that "we" all have.

These tips mostly come from a public speaking class that I took, but they've served me very well for writing copy.

freerobby··on Poll: What does the HN community believe about AngelGate?
I believe that 10 super angels went to a bar, and Mike Arrington wasn't wanted there.
freerobby··on With Solve Media you'll never look at a CAPTCHA the same way again
Very clever.
freerobby··on Recovering deleted files using grep
Clever stuff, thanks for sharing.
freerobby··on Gmail plugin that lets send (or receive) email later [invites]
Alex is good people. :)
freerobby··on Would WordPress Sue The Maker Of Thesis WordPress Theme? - Mixergy Interview
Agreed.
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