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Maybe local text-to-speech is not plausible given the heavy processing and battery drain. What if instead there is a list of words/brands being listened for; my phone is always listening for "OK, Google."
All I know is that things that I have talked about with my phone around 1-2 days prior, I suddenly see ads for. Things I did not Google or mention on the Internet. In one case I started seeing ads on Instagram for a product that I posted a photo of and did not even include the product's name in the post. Dishwashing liquid that I would never even buy (I'm not the target user so it wasn't target marketing).

It's all a little too much for me to believe it's a coincidence.

Re:Ask HN: Startup CEO giving employee grief for quitting on Monday October 02, 2017 @09:11PM (#15389294)
Not all startups are like this, this is an issue with the CEO. Some "leaders" take leaving a company personally.
Re:What's the Easiest Programming Language I Can Learn on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:11AM (#7210770)
Thanks, didn't know about Flask I'll check it out!
Re:What's the Easiest Programming Language I Can Learn on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:10AM (#7210764)
Thank you.

What's the Easiest Programming Language I Can Learn

Before you burn me at the stake, please hear me out. I'm a UX designer by trade; while not a developer, I do understand software and technology very well. I spend a lot of time testing and tinkering with ideas by trying to hack them together the best I can. My goal is to build a small but real feeling version of my idea to understand and test if there's actually value. I continually hit the...

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Re:How We Grew Our Blog to 5,000+ Subscribers in Five Weeks on Thursday October 31, 2013 @12:09PM (#6647632)
It's nice to see a company writing posts with this much transparency. While it's not simple to grow a blog presence like this it does take persistence and knowing a few solid techniques. Thanks for sharing.
I personally can't blame them. It's an exact copy of their site, which makes further replications very easy and encouraged. Their letter to Luke was very nice, hardly pushy at all.
Re:Ask HN: What apps do you use to present mockups? on Monday July 22, 2013 @08:50PM (#6087496)
I usually present in person and don't have any huge pain points around doing it this way. I think tools like this that allow for comments to be left on a mockup is interesting but not a deal breaker: http://redpen.io

I use Dropbox the most to share files with clients. Recently I've been working on a concept for presenting mobile designs - I think this process is more broken than other types of design presentations.

Re:Please help provide feedback on my SaaS experiment? on Thursday July 18, 2013 @02:02PM (#6065341)
John, thanks a lot for responding - really appreciate it. All good thoughts.

Please help provide feedback on my SaaS experiment?

Hello,A friend and I are experimenting with a conference room booking app SaaS solution: http://getaroomapp.com/We built the smallest version of this possible to appeal to non-Enterprise people like co-working spaces and small to medium offices that have shared conference rooms.I've copied some feature information and links to screenshots below (if you'd like a demo please email us:...

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How do you communicate with your team on projects?

http://jesseddy.wufoo.com/forms/team-communication-questionnaire/

Hey all, I read the guidelines and did not see anything about posting links to surveys for research. Since you are all mainly developers or work in tech I'd love your thoughts on a three basic questions for some research I'm doing. Takes less than 10 seconds.

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Hey everyone, this is one of the makers - great feedback so far just wanted to say thank you.