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Portman Wills Cofounder @ https://wagestream.com

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  1. Ask HN: What's wrong with my job listing?

    I posted this 30 days ago and have gotten only five clickthroughs and ONE application. I suspect that something about this job post is turning people away, but I can't identify what.…

    1 points 1
  2. Mortgage Hack: $1MM mortgage goes unpaid for 5 years (washingtonpost.com)
    2 points -1
  3. Innovation Stagnation (by David Brooks) (nytimes.com)
    8 points 0
  4. Bet HN: Yet Another Set of iOS5 Predictions, with odds (blog.jointhecompany.com)
    2 points 0
  5. Ask HN: How to author animation like today's Google Doodle?

    Today's (2011-05-11) Google Doodle is an elegant animation in honor of Martha Graham. The source of the animation is some JavaScript and a large .png sprite: http://www.google.com/logos/2011/graham11-hp-sprite.png What…

    6 points 4
  6. Please don't put 150KB of linebreaks in your HTML (kmart.com)
    1 points 1
  7. Android StackExchange error page (android.stackexchange.com)
    23 points 3
  8. Groupon pulls all SuperBowl ads in response to controversy (emoney.allthingsd.com)
    1 points 0
  9. Apple's Embarrassing Predicament (blog.yafla.com)
    2 points 0
  10. LivingSocial passes Groupon in global traffic (siteanalytics.compete.com)
    2 points 1
  11. Apple Has $51 Billion and a Shopping List. Is Facebook On It? (mediamemo.allthingsd.com)
    48 points 53
  12. #162 Wealthiest American is a cheese distributor (forbes.com)
    3 points 1

  13. NO - I don't wear anything different than I usually do for board meetings.

    4 points 0 pollopt
  14. Poll HN: Do you dress up for board meetings?

    My cofounder and I have this (perhaps strange) habit of dressing up for our board meetings, even though our board meetings are on Skype, and sometimes even just the telephone.<p>This morning, as I put on a…

    1 points 0 poll

  15. YES - I dress nicer for board meetings than I do for a typical day.

    3 points 0 pollopt
  16. Importing PayPal into QuickBooks Online

    We're starting to get some traction with our product (yay!) in the form of multiple PayPal orders per day. There has GOT to be a better way to input PayPal data than this:…

    2 points 2
  17. "Fragmentation IS progress" (yafla.com)
    1 points 0
  18. Daring Fireball's iPad and Android Web Traffic Share (daringfireball.net)
    2 points 0
  19. Randomness in game design: Blight or Bane? (2009) (playthisthing.com)
    27 points 2
  20. After 19 years, http:// prefix is getting ditched (in Google Chrome) (code.google.com)
    98 points 96
  21. Tips and gotchas when designing sites for the iPad (8164.org)
    2 points 0
  22. Ask HN College Seniors: What are you worried about right now?

    I've been asked to address the senior class at my university this week. It's a seated dinner with students and alumni where they can ask the alums about life, career, family -- whatever is on their mind. I'm supposed to…

    12 points 29
  23. Dear NoSQL: "SQL-isn't-scalable" is a lie (yafla.com)
    138 points 103
  24. Soldier arrested for waterboarding his own 4-year-old daughter (dailymail.co.uk)
    1 points 1
  25. Chris Dixon on VCs backing out of a term sheet (businessinsider.com)
    2 points 1