mfieldhouse

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by mfieldhouse 13y ago
I like how you slipped in the use of 'doodly squat' there - very fitting.
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by mfieldhouse 13y ago
What benefit does having this law give? 'It also prohibits residents of certain buildings from renting their accommodations for under 30 days'
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by mfieldhouse 13y ago
Disgusting how there's scumbags out there who jump at the chance to make some quick money, even if it means destroying the lives of others.
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by mfieldhouse 13y ago
"... the consumer space and enterprise space are connected and become more so. Microsoft needs to be strong in the consumer space to remain strong in the enterprise." Not at all true. Cisco, Juniper, Oracle, EMC, Netapp are strong
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by mfieldhouse 13y ago
I've often seen the choice of having kids or getting married being used as a 'quick fix'. Usually for a failing relationship, insecurities or poor financial choices (benefits++). It's not always, but it can be.
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by mfieldhouse 13y ago
It's all relative. Take a bunch of people of a similar background as Alex, education, opportunities. Then choosing the lifestyle he has is pretty rare. And if you can cope with the tradeoffs, it is awesome - especially the long term pa
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by mfieldhouse 13y ago
Often disease, disability and accidents are caused through poor lifestyle choices. Sometimes lots of little things add up and it's hard to see the true cause. I've not driven for 4 years so I'd say that's put me at a sig
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by mfieldhouse 13y ago
Because HN isn't a politics site. In fact it's not even a tech news site. That's what the likes of mashable are for.
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by mfieldhouse 13y ago
My objection is what's in this for me? How is this better than writing a CV? Try something like "Stand out from the hundreds of people applying for your next dream job by telling an authentic story with aufond.me"
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Jason Fried has a good reason why you should ditch your free plan
4 points by mfieldhouse 13y ago|1 comments
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by mfieldhouse 13y ago
Platforms for businesses to share real problems are already out there. Go sign up to forums for accountants, CPAs, real estate agents. What do they struggle with, what common themes are are there, what part of their job do they joke about l
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by mfieldhouse 13y ago
Cool, thanks for being open about it
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by mfieldhouse 13y ago
But if it made enough money to keep yourself and the others in a job then why ever declare it as a failure? Unless it didn't make enough money?
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by mfieldhouse 13y ago
Just for fun and to hopefully one day avoid failing in a startup, I like to do post mortems. What I understood of Vinetrade is it struggled to make any income in a market which isn't comfortable right now trading online. 1. 2/12 Launches vi
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by mfieldhouse 13y ago
Right off the bat, it looks like the problem lies in 'we built a software product that simplified how nonprofits plan and measure their social and environmental impact.'. It just seems nothing was built that people wanted to pay for. The pr
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by mfieldhouse 14y ago
'Many start-ups (and even growth firms) lack this discipline and they therefore serve customers off all sizes. This leads to suboptimal results for all.'
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Ask HN: What are the problems that would prevent this business from working?
1 points by mfieldhouse 14y ago|2 comments
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by mfieldhouse 14y ago
maehhhh!
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by mfieldhouse 14y ago
Any links on Google to pirated content are an initially unavoidable byproduct of crawling the web. Whereas providing access to pirated content was this guy's core business and value proposition.
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Ask HN: Why don't freelance hackers and development companies create startups?
32 points by mfieldhouse 14y ago|37 comments
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by mfieldhouse 14y ago
I think in a way he's talking about newspapers getting back to their real roots as being genuine 'NEWS' papers. That's instead of the trashy gossip magazines that so many of them have turned in to.
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by mfieldhouse 14y ago
@ksat - I think it's easy to get the wrong idea of what your site is for from the heading - "...having them develop a real web application". Of course building an entire web app just to apply for a job is overkill. But it looks like that's
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by mfieldhouse 14y ago
I reckon this has mostly come about through the shift of guitar being seen as an instrument and more as a faux artistic accessory of a person's identity. Like those people who have guitars hung on their bedroom/living room walls, or on a st
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by mfieldhouse 14y ago
Every time I see a discussion about university education, the wrong question is always being asked and debated: "Do you really need degree X for job Y?". Of course domain specific knowledge and further education is a good idea. The 3 questi
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by mfieldhouse 14y ago
Does this guy actually run a successful tech startup? What makes him think so? Experience? Observations? Weird that an article like this would get written and then posted on here by: 'Rob is a tech entrepreneur who moved his first company t
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by mfieldhouse 14y ago
What is meant by Python magic? What is and isn't magic? Why would you want to use it and why might it be considered a bad idea?
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by mfieldhouse 14y ago
Ironically, this thread has degenerated in to exactly what pg is describing. People are binding their identity to their preferred style of social interaction. "I'm an extrovert..." "Oh well, I'm an introvert"
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by mfieldhouse 14y ago
What languages, libraries, hosting and database did you use? What editor was it created in and on what operating system?
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by mfieldhouse 14y ago
From what I've seen, the majority of Windows gamers who are technical run pirated copies. The rest of the non-tech users who buy prebuilt PCs won't have the inclination to switchover. For that reason and seeing that PC vendors get an adequa
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by mfieldhouse 14y ago
You're not earning money for material possesions. That's a never ending unfulfilling pursuit. Your earning money to give yourself a secure future, to be able to spend more time with people you enjoy being around, to be free to go wherever y

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