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In case anyone is wondering, this occurred Dec. 11 - 17, 1999. (The year is missing in the article).

In case you're curious, here's a great article giving a nice history of the development of this company / product:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/12/140512fa_fact_...

That's not what my analytics say.

> Sky is the limit only for people who have right combination of skill and luck.

Don't forget hard work and persistence! :)

This article reminds me a of a quote from Learn Python the Hard Way:

"Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting. It can be a good job, but you could make about the same money and be happier running a fast food joint. You're much better off using code as your secret weapon in another profession."

"People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to advance those disciplines."

"Of course, all of this advice is pointless. If you liked learning to write software with this book, you should try to use it to improve your life any way you can. Go out and explore this weird, wonderful, new intellectual pursuit that barely anyone in the last 50 years has been able to explore. Might as well enjoy it while you can."

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/advice.html

Built in Django. Fully automated. I haven't touched it in 6months or more and it just keeps running.

And you are correct, not a huge search footprint due to the lack of unique / authoritative content, but it's got good rankings where it matters - "mma news aggregator" => #1. :)

Pure laziness on my part. I built it for myself and using it has been payment enough, but now I'm getting too busy to run it and do any kind of promotion. Feel free to email me (in profile) if you want more info.

http://mmabuzzsaw.com/ MMA News aggregator. 12,000 uniques per month. Aggregator / 30k pageviews. No ads right now, but could easily add them.

Don't forget all the false summits along the way. Right when you think success and the summit are within reach, you crest it only to realize, you have a long way to climb to reach the finish line (liquidity!).

Great analogy - thanks for sharing.

I saw this presentation at MicroConf. It was very impressive. Incredible progress and traction in such a short timespan.

Even more impressive is that the demo version of Bare Metrics uses their own data! Incredible transparency - thanks for the inspiration!

https://demo.baremetrics.io/dashboard

New convert here - thanks! Much better than my previous one.

Excellent strategy. Got painfully close to victory - 16,516 total.

awesome set.

> Nanashi also said they group plans on not releasing the huge store of passport scans they found… Hopefully this group has the public’s best interests at heart.

Good lord. Lose all your bitcoins AND your identity. Mt. Gox can't go away fast enough!

Awesome rules. Posting on my wall right now.

Here as well, unlocked indefinitely:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/04/19/040419fa_fact3?c...

I can't imagine a more humble and down to earth newly minted billionaire. What a cool guy.

Awesome - glad to see someone trying to prevent hearing loss. I've had tinnitus for a few years now and am very protective of my hearing these days. Now that I'm forced to be more aware of it, I'm consistently amazed at how unnecessarily loud the world often is. Always have a set of ear plugs in my pocket!

The conceptualist // empiricists seems to apply heavily to me as well, in my entrepreneurial career. Despite thinking I have good business concepts down, I've learned far more through practice than I have through books. For me, I have to apply something to truly learn it.

Gives all us bootstrappers some hope after all! It certainly gave me some.

> People like to believe that entrepreneurship is something totally different than executing a conventional career, but that's mostly a myth.

Couldn't agree more. I fell into this trap for a number of years. Once I started taking my business seriously and treating it like a job (an intense one at that), I've had far more success.

Awesome work! I have a nascent project in the healthcare space and I will definitely consider using this for all HIPPA related issues.

One tidbit - will you have some kind of "HIPPA Compliant" image that can be placed on partner sites using your API? Sort of like the "Secured by VeriSign" graphic that shows up on eCommerce sites to give the end user more trust that their data is secure, etc.

Awesome summary - thanks for sharing. Now I appreciate the beauty of his creation much more, despite the fact it was designed to kill.

You could also just add a "scrollwheel:false" parameter to the google maps options.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/2330272

BTW, just watched your mixergy interview today - great stuff! Learned a lot.

This is awesome. Best post I've seen on HN in a while.

That is really cool. Thanks for posting.

YES! That is it! Thank you very much.

Just FYI, google thinks your dev blog is / has spam:

http://i.imgur.com/za2UXWh.png

One a separate note - awesome game! I plan to buy it. On the web version, one thing I'd like would be able to toggle a miss clicked space back to "neutral" with a click. I'd also make the levels slightly harder before getting to level 5 - they all seemed too easy up to that point.

Great - thanks!

Thanks! I found a good free one for OS X as well:

http://www.dejal.com/timeout/