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dboyd

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About dboyd

I'm Darren Boyd.

My startup work began in 1993, and my career has been largely Internet related development, including these products and companies...

  http://yourlink.ca/

  http://sendables.jibjab.com/everyday_fun/category/starring_you

  http://msnack.com/ (that company didn't work out to well, that site might be gone)

  http://repairpal.com/

  http://www.zendesk.com/

  http://www.realgravity.com/

  https://www.lendeavor.com/
Other person info...

  https://ruby.social/@craftiness

  
http://www.hackernewsers.com/users/dboyd.html

Recent public activity

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    Leach fields are not uncommon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septic_drain_field

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    Comment #19056338

    Lendeavor | San Francisco, Columbus, Remote | Full-time | https://www.lendeavor.com/ Lendeavor is a FinTech company operating in the healthcare space, headquartered in downtown San…

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    Lendeavor | San Francisco | Full-time | https://www.lendeavor.com/ Lendeavor is a FinTech company operating in the healthcare space, headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a …

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    Lendeavor | San Francisco | Full-time, REMOTE | https://www.lendeavor.com/ Lendeavor is a technology-enabled lender to healthcare practices. Practitioners — primarily dentists, vet…

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    Comment #14062033

    My favourite one that I use as a cliche from time-to-time is... > The average European lifespan has more than doubled since Sir Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco to the continent.

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    That is in the lama book ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001322.do ). > Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, …

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    Comment #11276756

    It would screw up high-noon for a lot of people. However, getting the US down to two time zones would be much less problematic, and achieve most of the benefits you'd see from one …

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    Comment #10023854

    Looks great. Your formatting on the result page is messed up in my browser (chrome on osx). You can see a screen shot here... https://annotate.driftt.com/view?i=99nffsejxeiittq%2F2…

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    Comment #9998440

    San Francisco, CA REMOTE Lendeavor helps people get small business loans. Since the beginning of 2014, we've helped bakers, consultants, builders, sneakerheads, doctors, and brewer…

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    Comment #9965248

    That's less than 1% over one week . The APR would closer to 15-20% (depending on salary, pay frequency, etc.).

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    Comment #9414705

    This was my first thought as well. Why is it that people have no issue with your laptop vendor "claiming ownership" of your laptop, but are so alarmed when the same principle is ap…

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    Comment #9390607

    3/7 == 0.42857

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    Comment #8795263

    As well as readability (mentioned above), I find Evernote's Clearly to be a great extension for reading anything on the web (medium.com tends to be notorious to read)... https://ev…

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    Comment #8045130

    I have the same issues. I do have Disconnect running, which blocks about 30-40 third-party requests made from your site. It looks like errors from mixpanel are breaking the rest of…

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    Comment #7437809

    This desk doesn't look like it does very low. When I do sit, I like my desk to be almost on my lap, so that my arms hang straight down, and my elbows are very close to 90 degrees. …

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    Comment #7336230

    Just started using OpenStreetMap on the weekend. I found Mapbox[1] to be very easy to get started with. Their plans also seem to specifically benefit the 'small user' (I.e., free d…

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    Comment #7145455

    Exactly the same... I was hired by my college to build a grade management system in my second-to-last year there. I was in a hurry due to a lunch meeting with other IT staff at the…

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    Comment #6925363

    Hat-tip to roadie. I am absolutely amazed at how well it works, and how much work it removes in producing HTML emails.

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    Comment #6763144

    Related post from a couple days ago (re: Valve's SteamOS)... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745386 And, from that article... > Sony may have lost between $4 and $6 billion o…

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    Comment #6751870

    I tried to create an account the other day and they explicitly required a mobile phone number they could send an SMS too. I suspect that different people see different behavior.

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    Comment #6746623

    > even more offensively intrusive than Facebook Not sure if that statement is specifically related to your wife having to "provide a phone number", but... Facebook does the same th…

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    Comment #6726396

    I thought so too. My meager spanish translated the domain name into "mansauce.com", which really doesn't sound that appealing 8).