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hughstephens

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About hughstephens

cross between tech and business, sadly not an expert in both (can anyone be?).

you're welcome to email me at: me at {{myusername}} dot com.

Twitter @hughstephens

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    Comment #19989602

    It's hard to say – most Instagram influencers provide a public contact email +/- phone number for "business enquiries". Could be that the data that is listed was previously on the …

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    Comment #19989586

    Lengthy conversation about this from the original article when TechCrunch broke this[0] a couple of days ago. Suggest reading/commenting there than this clickbaity rewrite HN threa…

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    Comment #19796175

    While interesting and worthy of debate, the title makes it feel a lot more general than reality (this is a study of Kickstarter companies, so goes with the huge sample bias of “stu…

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    Comment #19060436

    NodeJS / React / Angular Fullstack Javascript Engineer | Sked Social | REMOTE | Full stack or Front end | Fulltime Sked Social helps customers improve their visual marketing on soc…

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    Comment #18889074

    Sked Social | REMOTE | Full stack or Front end | Fulltime Sked Social helps customers improve their visual marketing on social media. Our customers range from small businesses to g…

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    Comment #15167065

    suggestion: surround yourself with people who constantly challenge you to do better. Everyone has times that they feel are "lost" but the time you need to remind yourself of is the…

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    Comment #14750301

    +1. I've participated as an angel in a few AU rounds with SAFEs and SAFE-like instruments rather than priced rounds.

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    Comment #14504400

    I have been pondering something like this for ages, as most solutions seem to be insanely expensive. Found this though recently fwiw http://activereports.grapecity.com/server/

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    Comment #14504385

    Schedugram | Product Manager / biz analyst | Melbourne, Australia | REMOTE http://schedugr.am/ Help us create tools that our customers want to use. We are a growing SaaS company th…

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    Comment #12612739

    Drop me an email if it's something you're curious to work on - this is an idea I've been planning to have a crack at eventually…

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    Comment #10176780

    Dialogue Group | Melbourne Australia | REMOTE OK Web design / UX front-end Designer and NodeJS / MEAN engineer We build products that solve wicked problems – simple solutions to co…

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    Comment #10040679

    apologies, my fault.

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    Comment #10039338

    who knows – in many ways it's even better if it's satire, because it's just believable enough.

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    Comment #10034052

    this is excellent, hadn't seen it before! thx

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    Comment #10033764

    maybe true – but if a server gets no requests, does it really exist? or would the inter-machine chatter continue ad infinitum? would they run out of IPs or successfully transition …

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    Comment #10033557

    Next update is live 2:38 AM PDT We continue to execute on our recovery plan and have taken multiple steps to reduce latencies and error rates for Amazon S3 in US-STANDARD. Customer…

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    Comment #10033523

    haha if two hours is nothing to you, that's pretty lucky. We work 24x7 (global customers, yes US is a bit busier but not by a lot) and we're an Australian company, so not a whole l…

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    Comment #10033476

    It only goes red when a nuclear event occurs, obliterating most of humanity and only the machines remain.

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    Comment #9946316

    Better than what? Many of the other alternatives didn't have quite the same "iOS style" friendliness (a lot haven't had a whole lot of work done to them of late), and didn't submit…

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    Comment #9919753

    Yeah that one is hard to fix. We use the minEmoji set which will replace the unicode chars with SVG or inline image – that's why we folded it into our code – that way it shows up o…

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    Comment #9915670

    Feel free to ask any questions (improvement suggestions (or even better pull reqs) are welcome!) - we just pulled this out of our existing app Schedugram as a friend asked to use i…