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hornbaker

2,083 karma · joined October 16, 2011

I'm a serial tech entrepreneur. Have done a couple EIR stints at Sequoia and co-founded a YC company. Spent 9 years in the Valley and currently live in Austin, where I work from home on various projects.
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hornbaker··on The State of Meteor Part 2: What Happens Next
I gave up on Meteor because of 10-20 sec build times. They have to fix that.
hornbaker··on Throttle – Control who can send you email
It's already a feature of gmail. Just add "+whatever" to the username and it will still route to you, e.g. use "john+sketchysite.com@gmail.com" when you sign up at sketchysite.com.

Occasionally you'll run into a form with broken email validation that won't let you use a + character, but I've been doing this for years and it works the vast majority of the time.

hornbaker··on Paypal froze our funds, then offered us a business loan
And owned by PayPal.
hornbaker··on Chinese Markets Halted, Equities Plunge Another 7%
Caveat emptor: http://www.thestreet.com/story/10457663/1/the-perils-of-the-...
hornbaker··on A/B Testing, from scratch
Good read, but pretty dense (or perhaps I'm just dense).

Personally, I get more practical value from http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/.

hornbaker··on Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
This one needs more attention than I have time for: https://resumejoy.com
hornbaker··on Show HN: Creddle – Paper-friendly web resumes
Not sure how Creddle is doing it, but on my weekend project https://resumejoy.com (basic service is free), I use wkhtmltopdf. It's a little fiddly, but handles webfonts and most any CSS you throw at it.
hornbaker··on YC Portfolio Stats
Wow. If that round closes, they'll have a bigger market cap than Zynga (currently only $2.7B).
hornbaker··on YC Portfolio Stats
Any company which has sold equity, whether on the private or public markets, has a "market" valuation based on the per-share price. Private companies may also get a market valuation with a 409A valuation, but those are typically kept as low as legally justifiable for stock option attractiveness.
hornbaker··on YC Portfolio Stats
Yep.
hornbaker··on Show HN: This one line of code will make HN usable on mobile devices
Bummer, but thanks for the reply. FWIW, I'd prefer compression of nested comments over having to scroll horizontally, back-and-forth, to read anything on the site.
hornbaker··on Show HN: This one line of code will make HN usable on mobile devices
Clickable link to before/after pics: http://imgur.com/rMYfqwN,mwPDMvB#0
hornbaker··on The Red Hourglass: Self-Experimentation with Black Widow Bites
If you like stories like this, don't miss the one of the veterinarian who infested himself with cat ear mites and documented the results:

http://kimberlymoynahan.com/2012/10/of-mites-and-men/

hornbaker··on Always Hungry? Here’s Why
This article was by Ludwig, not Lustig.
hornbaker··on Apple in talks for $3.2bn Beats deal
Next product: Heart Beats ear buds.
hornbaker··on A Quick Guide to Sublime Text
This ('kj') works great for me in User Keybindings with ST3 and Vintageous:

  { "keys": ["k", "j"], "command": "_enter_normal_mode", "args": {"mode": "mode_insert"}, "context": [{"key": "vi_insert_mode_aware"}] }
I was a heavy VIM user prior to making the switch to ST2 and then ST3, and haven't really found any vim blockers with ST3/Vintageous.
hornbaker··on After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice
pg approves of this comment: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/449251994566275072
hornbaker··on Brick. Webfonts that look good
Alfred, love the project and effort. Everything looks great on my Mac.

On a current Windows 7 machine, Brick is much better than Google web font using Chrome, but both FF and IE v11 would be a show-stoppers for me, with random baseline shifts in the preview header making it look a little like a ransom note font.

Is there any browser compatibility lost by offering up only the WOFF format?

hornbaker··on Hackers? Techies? What To Call San Francisco's Newcomers
"Employed"?
hornbaker··on Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80%
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956658
hornbaker··on The Age of the Product Manager
> Second, in many tech companies, PMs outrank engineers

Really? What is one of these companies, for example?

hornbaker··on Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach
john@doe.com and fuck@off.com can beat that - pwned three times each. See also noneofyour@business.com.
hornbaker··on Facebook is the 21st century tech equivalent of cigarettes
He really should have used an incognito browser window for his Google "how to quit..." autocomplete example (facebook, smoking, vim, drinking), as it's apparently biased from his own browsing habits.

Going incognito in Chrome, the list is quite different (smoking, a job, your job, smoking weed): http://i.imgur.com/wsH60zm.png

Which makes me curious: does everyone else see the same list in Chrome incognito, or is Google doing some tracking by IP / browser fingerprint?

(Someone should build GoogleCounselor.com, an automated service to tell you what your bad habits are.)

hornbaker··on We wrote a CEO page and it works
There are no rules here, only conventions. In my opinion, a copyright year in the past makes it look like you don't know what you're doing. If you feel the need to tout your long history, then put the start and current year, like 2011-2013. Otherwise, follow convention and make sure it always reads the current year.
hornbaker··on Elio Motors: $6800 car, 84 mpg
Since it appears to be down, here is Google's cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cQY-Ft3...
hornbaker··on Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats
You're poking a $4B bear, so prepare for the C&D.
hornbaker··on [dead]
Anyone wanna wager how much longer they hang on to that non-flat navbar design?
hornbaker··on Amazon Analytics Service
Have you looked at AppAnnie? They launched an e-book tracking service recently...

https://www.appannie.com/dashboard/?demo=1&vertical=books

hornbaker··on We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals
It wasn't me, but let me try to help - maybe your comment was posted to the wrong story?
hornbaker··on Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac
Neat product. FYI, on your home page, I get the background image, then "Watch This" > (I click) > "Watch This" goes away, but nothing happens. And content below the fold is not visible or hinted at. (Mac OS X 10.7.5, FF 25)
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