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quickposton How to Gain or Lose 30 Minutes of Life Every Day

Mind sharing your script? I'd love to have something similar.

quickposton Quit My Job For Consulting: Two Months Later

Good advice. How have you been identifying and marketing yourself to the clients paying with "House Money"?

quickposton Show HN: Roll20, a new virtual tabletop for playing RPGs online

At first I thought you were talking about a touch table interface for RPG / Board Games. A couple of my friends are doing a bunch of development in that vein:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGMjnmdwC8s

quickposton ExportMyPosts.com - Backup Your Posterous Blog Data in One Click

Cool tool! And nice turn around!

Minor Typo on the homepage: s/refernce/reference/

quickposton Waking up at 5am to code

Hey 97s-

Send me an email or some contact info for you (my email is in my profile). I was randomly looking at some of your comment / post history on YC and we are in a somewhat similar situation. I'd like to help you. :)

/s/ quickpost

quickposton Elon Musk says he will put millions of people on Mars

Wholeheartedly second that recommendation! Red Mars was a really fun Hard SciFi read!

quickposton Steve Jobs has died

The text for the full speech is here - if you've never read it, you should. It's amazing:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

Rest in Peace, Steve.

quickposton The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit)

The only guide you'll ever need (also courtesy of reddit!):

http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/brm9y/have_you_seen_t...

quickposton MailChimp Acquires TinyLetter (ask me anything)

This is an even sillier question, but how exactly do you keep track of all your ideas? A special notebook? Spreadsheet? What have you found is the best way to keep track of all your ideas on the go, while never losing track of them, etc?

Thanks!

quickposton Ask HN: What has been your least profitable side/weekend project to date?

http://mmabuzzsaw.com/

Aggregators don't make money!

quickposton Google Deletes Last 7 Years Of User's Digital Life, Shrugs

These guys look close:

http://www.backupify.com/

quickposton Tristan Walker: two years ago, today.

> This was before they even had @foursquare.com email addresses (and well before our series A round).

It sounds like it was pretty early on...

quickposton There's no speed limit (2009)

The only limit is yourself....

http://zombo.com/

quickposton Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (July 2011)

SEEKING FREELANCER

Denver, CO USA

Run a small webdev agency, and need a Django / JQuery / HTML developer to help with occasional overflow work (~20hrs / month currently, could grow significantly over time).

Remote work is perfectly fine. My email is in my profile. Please send examples of work (github, websites, etc.) and your expected hourly rate.

Thanks!

quickposton Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Apple Campus

I wonder what the radius of that building will be.

quickposton Battleships: a ridiculous but awesome idea

Fascinating stuff - thanks for posting. :)

quickposton OK, You're Rich. Now What?

He just bought a $7million dollar house, so....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/05/mark-zuckerberg-hou...

quickposton Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion

If this graph is to believed, it looks like they are on their way to doubling in size since then:

http://skypenumerology.blogspot.com/2011/04/summer-recession...

quickposton Html5 Fractal

My friend Doug built something similar:

http://dougx.net/fractals/

Also some very nicely constructed HTML5 games:

http://dougx.net/plunder/

http://dougx.net/sweeper/

quickposton Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%

Your list of examples brings to mind a question I've had in my head for a while...

What are the professions where a hard working and intelligent person can reach a $500k income with a high degree of certainty?

quickposton [dead]

The 37signals one really got me:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2838-were-relocating-everyone...

I was annoyed at them for blasting remote work, until I started reading through the article and realized it was a joke.

quickposton Poll: How much do you average per freelancing gig?

Looks like Mobile Dev, if this is him:

http://twitter.com/eekfuh

http://www.deliciousmorsel.com/

quickposton How To Make A Million Dollars In 100 Days...The Fruit Guy Interview

PDF Transcript is here: http://www.hardtofindseminars.com/Transcripts/Fruite_Guy.pdf

quickposton Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas

Same problem here. Firefox 3.6ish / Mac

quickposton Record Industry: Limewire Could Owe $75 Trillion

> the top end of what is being asked for is almost literally, all of the money in the world.

LOL, now THAT is awesome. The RIAA would be the perfect villain if they weren't so ridiculous.

quickposton Ask HN: What will Y Combinator look like in 3 years?

Heroku's acquisition almost seemed like it approached that magnitude, from a valuation perspective.

quickposton Subject: Airbnb

Fascinating conversation. Thanks for giving insight into how these deals work...

>ABNB reminds me of Etsy in that it facilitates real commerce in a marketplace model directly between two people.

Interestingly enough, I still tend to side with Fred's assessment of AirBnB's future. All my experiences with it as a user have been too unreliable to expect that it can scale to truly massive usability. Selling your old guitar online is a lot different than renting a room to someone. Renting a room has so much more of a personal aspect to it.

There are so many more subtleties to actually having a stranger come and stay in your house than there are to sending a stranger a book, guitar, etc via USPS.

Regardless, I still think there's a massive market out there for this type of thing, I just don't see it swallowing up the whole Hotel industry.

quickposton Owning 15 things: 7 months in

Here's a photo of all of his belongings:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bouldair/5122960153/

quickposton Khan of Khan Academy at TED (video)

Ya, for sure. Bill was as awestruck as the rest of us.

quickposton Show HN: Home automation and lighting control with Kinect

I wonder what happens when there are multiple people in the house, coming in and out of rooms, etc.