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Show HN: Arbington.com – 1,200 online courses from todays top instructors

Hi everybody! Today I launched arbington.com, a new learning website that's affordable and treats the content creators better than other leading platforms (as in we share much more profit than our competitors and communicate with them regularly).I've taught somewhere around a half million people how to code over the last 10 years on various platforms, and I think it's time to support our...

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Re:Show HN: Get paid to send your own emails and newsletters on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @01:11AM (#8141127)
Wow that was fast! I saw your request and emailed you your invitation link. Happy (paid) emailing!
I'm glad you brought this up. CAN-SPAM covers all commercial messages and "any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service"

Footrr Ads are not the primary purpose the email. They are supplemental material inside an email, and are not commercial emails (because it's one person emailing another person).

I'll do another read-over to make sure it's still all gravy. Thanks for the comment, minimaxir!

Get paid to send emails? Yep But we need your feedback.

Hey guys,We're a new startup that lets people opt in for small and elegant ads in their email signature. For every click on the ad, you can make some money. It's literally CPC advertising, but this time you're getting a piece of the pie. You don't need to make an ad, and it's free to try it.We're doing some trial runs to make sure everything is running the way it should and we need people to...

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A lot of people are saying this is a bad move because insert reason that contradicts YouTube's existence. But consider Tumblr's sale to Yahoo! and nothing changed. Google bought YouTube when Google has 1% of the internet traffic. YouTube already had 6% [2006] (and is the worlds most popular site per unique visitors).

To be honest, I'm surprised MSFT didn't try to buy them first.

Re:How To Become An Apprentice Developer on Sunday November 11, 2012 @11:15PM (#4771580)
This was an amazing read. I'm very happy to have read this, and I now know that other people feel similar to me.

Thanks for writing this article =)

Re:Ask HN: What have you done after a failed startup? on Saturday November 10, 2012 @02:22PM (#4767460)
I created a social network called Unadu. It gave the users a voice, along with every other current aspect of online networking. It gained a little traction in my area with only a few hundred users over a 4 month span. Over the last 3 weeks there was virtually no activity. When you fail, fail fast right? So I retired the network and immediately went on to working on the next project. I learned a lot; mostly where my strengths and weaknesses area.
Re:Illegal Numbers on Sunday October 28, 2012 @06:54PM (#4710267)
I don't speak binary very well, so correct me if I'm wrong on this subject. If a number that represents illegal information is formed, that number is illegal. What if there is a larger number that has the illegal number in it? Example: 10 is illegal. 1000 has the number ten in it. The "10" can be filtered out.. How would this be handled?
Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator on Saturday October 27, 2012 @05:31PM (#4707313)
As far as design goes: HN has a very simple design and I find it a lot less distracting than more responsive designs.
This is an intriguing article, whether or not this true.

Now to be honest.. Facebook's platform is so open and easy to get information from people and their friends, that a typical web developer could create an App that requires the user's email address upon signing in via Facebook Connect. Upon successful connection, the developer could write a script to save that email address and post some article about the user using his/her real name. This could get the users attention, attracting their friends. Once they sign in, however, the script will store their email address as well. How long will this work for? Until Facebook denies the rights to your application.

If you want to make $5, sell that list to this guy.. again. haha.

Re:Kinds of Focus on Saturday October 27, 2012 @04:56PM (#4707214)
Keeping an open mind is always great. However, being unable to focus on one task and become superior at it is quickly becoming an issue. Today, if I remember correctly, the average attention span is only 8 seconds. Remember: Jack of all trades is the master of none.
Re:Amazon Reports First Quarterly Loss in 4 Years on Thursday October 25, 2012 @09:06PM (#4700377)
Microsoft also reported their first loss not too long ago.