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Re:It's been two months since I canceled by data plan on Friday November 25, 2011 @06:37PM (#3278576)
That's exactly what happened to me. But if you don't have the data plan, why would you need the phone? Two things I really like about my new feature phone... (a) phone quality is better (b) it's smaller
Re:It's been two months since I canceled by data plan on Friday November 25, 2011 @06:35PM (#3278568)
It lets me check my calendar in the morning. An important use case, but not something that would generate habit throughout the day.
Re:Every City Should Have an API: Let’s Start With Watertown, MA on Thursday September 08, 2011 @09:43PM (#2976430)
I did this, but for a specific city service in Madison, WI. I built an API for the Madison Metro bus service that provides a nice web service for developers, but does ugly screen scraping behind the scenes.

http://www.smsmybus.com/api/

Re:Ask HN: Transition from Rails development to iPhone/Android? on Thursday January 06, 2011 @06:42PM (#2077850)
Have you looked into jquery mobile? Still in alpha, but a nice toolkit for building mobile apps that run in the browser but look and feel like a native app.

http://jquerymobile.com

Re:Asthmapolis Wins Twilio + Union Square Ventures Contest on Thursday October 21, 2010 @04:20PM (#1817275)
There are some companies doing this for general prescriptions. Vitality - http://www.vitality.net/ - has a wireless cap that helps track adherence.

But asthma is pretty unique since the inhalers are used in "rescue" situations and there are strong geographic correlations that arise from environmental issues.

Re:Ask HN: Sponsor my travel for Startup School on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @08:37PM (#1762220)
I would have pegged a Mainer to make a mean Fluffernutter Pie. :) I'd love the key lime pie (without meringue). Thanks!
Re:Ask HN: Sponsor my travel for Startup School on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @03:51PM (#1761164)
I'm good for $20.

Consider it payment for your work growing the tech community in Madison, WI as well as a down payment for your future evangelism on the behalf of Madison.

Oh, and I wouldn't mind some baked goods!

Re:Ask HN: Sponsor my travel for Startup School on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @03:29PM (#1761061)
Do you have a PayPal (or similar) account setup for collecting funds?
Re:Posterous goes down again on Friday August 06, 2010 @02:02PM (#1581779)
That post isn't a long term solution. It's a patch. One that they are going back to again today by flipping the IP address.
Re:Boulder Startup Week May 4-8 (free airplane tickets to HN) on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @11:14PM (#1284001)
Madison has many parallels with Boulder but not necessarily in the realm of nurturing tech startups. So there is a lot to learn. Bring me to Boulder for the week, and I'll soak it all in and bring it back to Madison.

Hopefully, in a year or so, I'll have an opportunity to reciprocate.

Re:Drag and drop programming environment on Friday March 14, 2008 @10:40AM (#136802)
check out the rest of their message... sharendipity is building a platform where all of these programming elements can be re-used without the need to program. you can build a complete application without punching a single semi-colon.