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nmeyer

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About nmeyer

Co-Founder + CCO @ The Rattle Relativity6 Entrepreneur in Residence @ MIT GroupAhead Wim Sup Yahoo MileWise SocialShield Playlist.com Reble.FM (S07) MIT Course 6, Media Lab Booz Allen Hamilton Kings of Chaos

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    You may want to talk to the Infinite Cooling team out of MIT too. They do water reclamation on top of cooling towers to reduce water usage. Could be a nice channel partnership betw…

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    Anyone know how it works? Does it create a virtual camera source that Zoom can source from?

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    We do something similar for our Explore feature on MileWise, just our deals include prices in reward points. We compare current prices to historical trends to figure out if a price…

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    We use node+express for everything at MileWise. I put together a starter project for quickly bootstrapping new projects that's ready to go using our favorite set of tools: Expres, …

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    We actually built the app using Appcelerator Titanium. We modified Backbone to work with Titanium's API, and were able to reuse pretty much all the Models we wrote for our web app.…

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    So while we don't have a way explore flights based on say, earn maximum miles per dollar, we do sort by what ee call WisePrice - which actually does factor in the "kickback" you ge…

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    Thanks for all the feedback from our dev post on the blog guys. TechCrunch picked us up a couple days later!

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    Very clean site design, and UI looks gorgeous. Awesome job! May want to think about putting the qualifier inside the call to action: Buy now for $9 (try risk-free for 30 days) Then…

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    You can get close by turning on gravity by pressing 'G', then dragging the ball into the air and dropping it. Unfortunately can't get it to splash since it's just a height-field si…

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    Aw shucks you've uncovered our master plan. We have our own account scrapers augmented with a partner API from AwardWallet for the more esoteric programs (CVS Rewards anyone?)

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    Sacha Greif did our homepage. ( http://www.sachagreif.com/ ) He's awesome, super talented and incredibly fun to work with.

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    Great feedback - we weren't sure whether at this point people would have a clear idea from the homepage of what we were doing w/ the info and they'd just want to get on with things…

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    We actually do both, and then spent a few cycles de-duping etc. 1) Part of our reason for using Node+Socket.IO is to deal with the problem of having a bunch of different sources re…

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    Awesome. Emailed!

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    Not at all. I'm glad the iPad inherited it's core user-experience philosophy from the iPhone and iTouch - Apple has positioned the iPad as a device suited not just for entertainmen…

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    Paul -- as a fun aside, one of the books in that article (The Year That Changed the World) is my father's latest book. Let me know if you want to borrow my copy ;-)

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    theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln. Great leaders