dustin

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by dustin 10d ago
Thanks Andrew
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by dustin 6y ago
30% might work in software, but it's is a very deep discount for most physical retailers. If the product has a 50% margin (sells for $100, costs $50 to source) then your retailer makes $100 for 5 orders instead of $50 for 1 order. Exce
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by dustin 9y ago
Get yourself into a mastermind group with 2-5 others in a similar situation - solo founders, bootstrappers, etc. You can start with just 1 other person then add more. Have a regular 1 hour video call every week or two. Everyone gives update
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by dustin 10y ago
This! +1 for not letting yourself be pressured by the queue.
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by dustin 10y ago
Republicans?
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by dustin 11y ago
The front page is also broken on Safari (7.1.5). The video won't run and when I right click it my browser crashes.
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by dustin 12y ago
Also - read the "War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. Excellent book about resistance to hitting our goals. Indecision is simply resistance against what you know you should be doing - flipping is easier than persevering. Get a routin
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by dustin 12y ago
Create a study group or get yourself an accountability buddy or coach who you check in with on a weekly basis. Could even be a friend who's not involved but whom you commit to emailing every week with an update and a goal for next week
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by dustin 12y ago
To be fair, monkeys eating a bunch of processed lab grade crap is probably a better approximation for the modern human than an optimal diet.
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by dustin 13y ago
Agreed. This is just empty PR. If the guy was that concerned about privacy he wouldn't sell to the company with one of the worst reputations for privacy. He made the choice and that's fine, but this communication is effectively me
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by dustin 13y ago
This!
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by dustin 14y ago
Not exactly political, but the man has a point. Better explanation here linked from Slashdot here (the actual mailing list site is down.) http://www.muktware.com/5276/linus-torvalds-secure-boot-supp...
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Technology Push vs. Market Pull(laverick.org)
1 points by dustin 14y ago|0 comments
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by dustin 14y ago
Is ebay one of those companies? http://www.ebay.com/new Or are they maybe close but not close enough to call out considering the size of their legal department? To be honest, not being much of a designer, I've seen this scrolling with bac
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by dustin 14y ago
"...given the contract’s length and its role in the film... a lesser studio or artist might have been tempted to go with several pages of lorum ipsum" So he's basically praising pointless lawyering! :) Or a more charitable reading: he's gee
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by dustin 14y ago
Lol - had to read it out loud.
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by dustin 14y ago
For all the posts saying Linus is wrong, which he may well be technically, consider this from a layman's perspective. Ortiz recently: "At no time did this office ever seek ... maximum penalties under the law." Justice.gov previously: "SWAR
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by dustin 14y ago
I live in London and I have my location set to Recife, Brazil. That way I get 'sunset' around 9pm in the winter - late enough to let me continue working on a bright screen, but early enough to not blast blue light before going to bed. The p
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by dustin 14y ago
As with most departments, legal works on a continuum. Some coders push buggy code and some coders polish their bits endlessly. The good ones write code that meet the requirements in a reasonable amount of time and move on to the next task.
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by dustin 14y ago
Thanks for posting this. Standard documents are great. Even if you don't get to use them they provide a point of reference for negotiating terms.
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The Sex Tape Litmus Test(laverick.org)
183 points by dustin 14y ago|135 comments
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by dustin 14y ago
Very interesting stuff. Got interested in permaculture a couple years ago, and this seems a great complement in many ways. Obviously much more sustainable than how most people get their food. I wonder what the energy & water requirement
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by dustin 14y ago
I saw a talk about node.js by Mike Amundsen the other day - he did all his work using http://c9.io/ etc The IDE seemed a bit flaky, but quite powerful - the concept certainly seems promising. http://www.amundsen.com Having said that,
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by dustin 14y ago
Or better yet, tap out your Bump login and password with the phone!
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by dustin 14y ago
Yup 1) I don't get it, so I'm unlikely to think it's brilliant without trying. (So now I need a laptop to upload photos from my mobile?...) 2) I wouldn't download this to try Bump without some better explanation, especially given implicit d
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by dustin 14y ago
I like it. Looks slick and as a native iOs dev I'd strongly consider it when I want to work with more complex web views for rapid iteration. A lot of PhoneGap/Web View apps are second rate on the UI front, so if you can help developers imp
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by dustin 14y ago
I once interviewed a project manager.. asked how he came up with deadlines. He said "ask the programmers and subtract 20%". Talk about a red flag in an interview!
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Ask HN: Bootstrapping into first freelance gig?
1 points by dustin 14y ago|0 comments
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by dustin 14y ago
I've seen the 3% number mentioned a few times, and seem to remember hearing that this has stayed consistent for some time (so more applications but still 3% -> bigger batch size) but I can't find the original source just now.
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by dustin 14y ago
Wonder what this means for a Steam console, particularly if PC games get more love as a result of consoles being x86. I suppose it's good news in the end, with less time wasted on cross-platform shenanigans and more time spent on making ga

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