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shadowz

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About shadowz

Founder/CEO at @chalkdotcom. Passionate about education. @Forbes #30Under30 2015. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

william@chalk.com

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    Comment #4331792

    Thanks for the feedback. Education is for sure an underserved market. One of the reason is the high barrier to entry. It's a completely different ballgame when you're selling to sc…

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    Comment #4180424

    Seems pretty severe actually. Washington Post has a live blog going on about it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/pos...

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    Comment #4168643

    First off, congratulations on the launch! Check out Mike McDerment's talk on metrics: http://vimeo.com/10733370 Shortly after launch of our own app, we created a marketing table in…

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    Comment #3967974

    Unfortunately the US Mint has discontinued purchases with credit card since July 22, 2011.

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    Comment #3949879

    Use a read later service like Instapaper. You wouldn't want to be reading HN all day because that would just be counter productive. At some point, you have to ignore what's going o…

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    Comment #3945395

    +1 indochino.com. I'm another happy customer.

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    Comment #3940267

    Really dig the design on Kandan but I wish it could be used as a front for XMPP/Jabber also.

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    Comment #3909706

    I'm surprised no one mentioned http://tripit.com . I do find that they need improve adding activities but I use it for every trip I go on.

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    Comment #3450617

    Exactly what I came here to say. Correlation does not imply causation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...

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    Comment #3159094

    Second Backbone. I use Underscore + Backbone + jQuery and it works really well.

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    Comment #3054059

    Canada +1

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    Comment #3054052

    I asked them on their live chat, and apparently at this time, they have no timeline but they're saying Canada is top on their list for expansion.

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    Comment #2556806

    Jobmine at University of Waterloo

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    Comment #2488151

    Liquid Web or Storm on Demand (Liquid Web's cloud solution)

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    Comment #2383094

    Sweet! I'm living there next semester.

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    Comment #2182059

    University of Waterloo (CS Major)!

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    Comment #2039998

    Check out Forrst or Dribbble

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    Comment #1734701

    Check out the folks at Storm on Demand and Liquid Web. They fit your budget range and provide fully managed hosting. I've very happy with them.

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    Comment #1734698

    I had a terrible experience years back (no longer with them now). If it works, it works well, but when it's down, it goes down for almost 24 hours!

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    Comment #1493701

    While you struggle with design, I struggle with code since I'm more of a designer. It's even worse because all I can do is stare at a static HTML version and imagine the functional…

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    Ask HN: How to split traffic in A/B testing?

    I've been reading up a lot on A/B testing lately on HN. Since sequential A/B testing is not recommended due to external factors, I'm just curious as to how someone is suppose to sp…

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    Comment #1406203

    Harvest is great. We use them to track our time as well as to bill our clients. However, I think OP is asking more accounting rather than tracking/invoicing clients apps.

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    Comment #1373080

    But isn't a focused private beta better than just a public launch?