Terry_B

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Ask HN: Simplest way to create a very basic data driven website these days?
10 points by Terry_B 11y ago|6 comments
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by Terry_B 13y ago
It's all who you know? http://sivers.org/xn "Luckily, who you know is up to you, not luck."
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by Terry_B 14y ago
Working in the aerospace industry for a number of years, I've seen and created all types of crazy spreadsheets to design aircraft and ensure they are safe to fly. The good thing about the engineering industry though is that all those spread
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by Terry_B 14y ago
In addition to the other reasons here, I think when it comes to lawyers and doctors, people typically want "the best". Are you willing to take a risk with your health or getting into legal trouble? So the price of the best people just keeps
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by Terry_B 14y ago
You're still way up the pointy end of the business though. You are directly involved in acquiring customers. I think the OP was making the contrast more with people who try and reduce the companies admin overhead slightly by automating part
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by Terry_B 14y ago
Yeah, should have been more specific. If they result in the company getting more sales done with the available time/resources then they add to revenue. The company could of course treat it as "doing more with less" and therefore use it for
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by Terry_B 14y ago
This is a great point. I've been trying to think of as many things programmers can do that increase revenue as possible. A/B Testing and sales funnel optimization is definitely a winner. - Optimizing how a company utilises it's resources -
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by Terry_B 14y ago
"The price is still up 30 percent on the year but far from its 74 percent increase a few months back."
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by Terry_B 14y ago
I think Twitter understands that there is a much lower barrier to leaving their service for a competitor, compared to the other social services. What data do you have in Twitter that you wouldn't be prepared to leave behind?
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by Terry_B 14y ago
Wish you guys the best of luck! As someone who has worked on and thought about location based gaming like this for a long time but failed to launch I'm really hoping you guys pull it off. We even called our prototype "Turf" :) Location base
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by Terry_B 14y ago
I always figure that the maintenance guy and probably half the staff know the master code.
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by Terry_B 14y ago
[OT] Why is it that I knew he was a fellow Australian the second the video popped up and without volume? The brain is a crazy thing.
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by Terry_B 15y ago
I love this concept and hope to do some remote working like this soon. Most important factor though, how good is the wifi? The world needs a website with tropical resorts rated by wifi quality.
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by Terry_B 15y ago
I suspect that the recent addition of automatic referencing counting will help a LOT for iOS apps.
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by Terry_B 15y ago
Sure, amongst other things I've written software for use by commercial pilots and nurses. I don't think I'll end up being either of those.
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by Terry_B 15y ago
It's a good point but there's a huge field of potential software and opportunity out there that we programmers are not the users of. Who should build it then?
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by Terry_B 15y ago
As time goes on The Lean Startup thing is starting to look a lot like the lifecycle Agile went through doesn't it? - A good idea comes along that makes a lot of sense - Starts to gain traction - Some people get a bit too religious about it
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by Terry_B 15y ago
I've read a lot of the most well known game design books and its staggering how good this book is. League of its own.
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Ask HN: What awesome geeky products should we be wishing for this Christmas?
9 points by Terry_B 15y ago|2 comments
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by Terry_B 15y ago
Yeah, glad I read this before upgrading. My large collection of podcasts stored in Instacast will probably be lost straight away.
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Today, the world feels like a less innovative place(terryb777.posterous.com)
2 points by Terry_B 15y ago|0 comments
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by Terry_B 15y ago
Yep and all of this because mostly business drives technology not ideological programmers. And on the rare occasion the ideological programmers are in charge, you can't get them to agree. Frustrating but that's the way the world works and I
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by Terry_B 15y ago
Nice! I like it. Couple of thoughts perhaps on how you could better close a sale. It wasn't immediately clear to me what exactly I'd do with this. Would I create a book for myself with things other people have told me? Would I put my wisdom
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by Terry_B 15y ago
I don't disagree with you but I've seen a number of articles that simply present the fact that the top have increased their % and left it at that as proof of something bad happening. If what you say is true then that is the argument that ne
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by Terry_B 15y ago
Sure, it might if you show the data that proves it. But showing the data that the top has increased their % share of the wealth does not prove that.
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by Terry_B 15y ago
Not picking on this article in particular but whenever I read these types of stories I get the feeling that people don't make a clear separation of these two very different issues: 1. The bottom is worse off relative to the top in terms of
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by Terry_B 15y ago
Oh for sure, networking and word of mouth seems to be 95% how the business works. I was just interested specifically in whether any success had been had with any forms of advertising other than adwords and seo.
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by Terry_B 15y ago
What forms of advertising have you tried if you don't mind me asking? Just online stuff? Effective or not, I've been struggling to think of ways to advertise a small contract development business to enterprises other than adwords and seo.
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by Terry_B 15y ago
Yeah, the idea of deliberately leaving something unfinished so you know exactly where to start from next time you sit down has helped me greatly. http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/01/leave-your-tasks-unfini...
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by Terry_B 15y ago
Something I've found in getting people started in this direction is that they don't know what words to use when googling for their problem. You can give them a huge leg up by giving them a programming vocabulary to help them on their way. T

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