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bjonathanon Mixpanel (YC S09) - Merry Christmas, Internet

That seems a good explanation of the lifetime offer on appsumo a couple weeks ago...

Beside that thank you Mixpanel :) !!

bjonathanon Hiring for Happiness

Direct link to the PDF for Scribd Haters: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2577298/Hiring-for-Happiness.pdf

bjonathanon PayPal Suspends WikiLeaks Account

Huge marketing opportunity for WePay! (and also a huge opportunity to do the right thing)

bjonathanon How Obama Raised $60 Million by Running a Simple Experiment

The PDF is still free: http://digital.designing-obama.com/

You can also read "Barack Obama Social Media Toolkit by Edelman" : http://www.scribd.com/full/10807015?access_key=key-nc75wovez...

bjonathanon My webapp: Guitar tabs as they should be

Your website doesnt seem to work under Firefox 3.6.12 (windows 7 64bits) . I can see the page 1second and after I am redirect to a blank page and the page is stuck loading.

Strangely the site works smoothly with Chrome..

bjonathanon Prognosis : Lessons learnt from developing a top 10 iPhone app

It's not "really" your problem or at least you can made somebody else pay for the mistake if your users arent really health care professionals. With your app and your actual ranking you could cold call a few medical magazines and offer to them to be feature in the app for a couple thousand bucks. Advertising in medical publication is VERY VERY VERY expensive, I'm sure some big co or medias have moneys to spare on ads in your app.

If you are not confortable with that maybe you could contact them offer them that to have an idea of what they are ready to pay to be in your app. Maybe the amount will change your mind :)

I dont mean to be disrespectful with my comment but I made that mistake to wait to long before monetising my startup because I always wanted more and more data before selling ads on it. I lost a lot of time (and money) for nothing.

bjonathanon Prognosis : Lessons learnt from developing a top 10 iPhone app

I'm sorry if it's a dumb question but why do you plan to wait to add advertising? You are on the TOP10 right now, you are having good review (by users AND blogs). Its seems to me like the perfect moment to add ads to your product.

Arent you afraid that you loose your momentum without made any dollar from your app? You can find clean way to do advertising on an iphone app (look at Twitterific for example)

bjonathanon Getting a .by domain

PRICE AND PAYMENT

Primary registration - 33 USD (1st year).

Renewal of registration per year - 33 USD (2nd and every following year).

source: http://domain.by/instructioneng_new.html

bjonathanon Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser

No for real, try to install SQLite/Spork/Autotest/Rspec. It isn't that easy when you are a noob who only want to start to learn how to dev.

Personnaly I was so sick and tired to get everyday a new problem when I wanted to install a gem that I setup a VM with Ubuntu and I launch it when I want to dev. Ubuntu is "user friendly"-ier than Windos for ONE thing setup a dev environment.

And as nobody dev on Rails under Windows it's very hard to find help or good tutorials when you encounter a bug :(

bjonathanon Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser

I guess you never really tried to install a full dev environment for Rails on Windows...

bjonathanon Internationalization in Rails 3

Great blogpost.

Just wanted to say that Wordchuck is a great service to translate your website, we are using it to translate our website and we are very happy with it! GG Shelly!

bjonathanon Ask HN: What do you use for Mobile App Analytics?

We are currently using Flurry basic version mainly because it's free and really easy to setup. I recommend it for those two reasons.

We are also planning to use Appfigures real soon for iTunes Connect download analytics (http://www.appfigures.com)

bjonathanon PDFed Hacker News Daily

Very nice, you should use http://viewtext.org/ API to clean the pages and comments. The PDF will be easier to read and with less pages :)

I love the idea!

bjonathanon I broke textCAPTCHA with Python

Wow very impressive, just tried it:

Q:Which word from list "duckweed, commendations, civilised, receptionists, flours" contains the letter "v"? A: FAILURE

Q: What word from "interdisciplinary, disorientating, decamps, moan" begins with "i"? A: FAILURE

Q: Egg, pink, white, green and pub: the 1st colour is? A: pink

Q: The day of the week in dog, Wednesday, penguin, trousers, hotel or lion is? A: wednesday

Q: Hand, jelly or Jennifer: the person's name is? A: jennifer

Q: What is fifty three thousand seven hundred and one as digits? A: 53701

Q: Cake, rice, snake, head and jelly: how many body parts in the list? A: 1

Q: If yesterday was Tuesday, what day is today? A: wednesday

Q: Which of these is a body part: lion, jelly, church, butter or nose? A: nose

bjonathanon TextCAPTCHA: 180 million simple logic questions

Easy is not enough, Captcha need to be universal also.

For non native english speakers:

"Cheese, cat, mosquito, trousers, elbow and ant: how many body parts in the list?" or "Soup, dog, trousers, house, mosquito or pink: the colour is?"arent as easy as "3+1" or reCaptcha . Not everybody speak english on the interweb...

bjonathanon Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook)

Apparently it's a new

bjonathanon Ask HN: Etiquette at conferences?

Some conference tips from Colette Ballou (from BALLOU PR http://BallouPr.com ): http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&ands=Conference+tips...

bjonathanon Zero to a Million Users in 15 Days

strange

quoting the blog post "We re-launched Kik Messenger 15 days ago with 0 users"

bjonathanon Zero to a Million Users in 15 Days

I dont think so, my facebook feed is currently assaulted by friends asking and sharing their KIK ID (and none of them is a geek or an early adopter usually)

bjonathanon Zero to a Million Users in 15 Days

Do you know what was their marketing plan to launch Kik?

bjonathanon Show HN: I asked an HN member for feedback and she blew my mind

It was on HN frontpage last weekend I believe

bjonathanon Ask HN: Please review my startup - Stockyoo.com

a french startup is doing that: http://www.citizenside.com/en quite successfully

bjonathanon Stop looking for nontechnical founders, go get an MBA. It's easy

"My degree has master of business administration on it; that means I can call myself 'business ninja' without being ironic."

Epic

bjonathanon Holla - An open source Campfire

great product! I love it. We currently use Jaconda.im at my office. Holla seems as good !

Only one little bug in the demo, when I click on "XMPP/Jabber" I'm redirect to http://getholla.com/$%7BgetXMPP%28%29%7D with an error (The page you were looking for doesn't exist)

bjonathanon Really Slow Site for Testing HTTP Caches.

Hello, I have no doubt that this tool is really usefull. But as a non techie I dont understand the purpose. Can somebody explain me or refer me to an article that can explain why test HTTP caches and what is it?

bjonathanon AS HN: How much Bandwidth do you consume per day? How can I reduce mine?

Opera CEO was at Plugg (conference) last year and he explained that Opera market share was huge in Russia and poor countries because of that feature. As for OP lot of people dont have unlimited bandwith and Opera seems to be the best at keeping the consumption low.

bjonathanon Ask HN: Necessary piracy?

If you have a kindle change your zone in the kindle settings page and add an US adress (pick one on the yellow pages). I am in france and use that method to download us only kindle ebook. It's work perfectly :) (amazon dont verify the postal adress)

bjonathanon The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe

Site is down, you can read the article with Bing's cache: http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http%3a%2f%2fbenmetcalfe.co...

bjonathanon Crunch Time at AOL

This article is non sense. Techcrunch $7.5m ?? The only goal of Cringely here is to brag that Mark Cuban was interest to buy a part of his business...

Even Calacanis said that Techcrunch worth around $25m...