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by nudge 12y ago
You need to balance what you need to get done with your natural curiosity. Separate them out and make sure both happen. 1. Work out what material you need to cover on your required studies. 2. Break it down into shorter, manageable bits. A
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by nudge 14y ago
Do you feel the same way about learning to speak foreign languages and play musical instruments? Is it obnoxious for a person to teach introductory French night classes, when fluency will take years and may never be possible for the student
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by nudge 15y ago
Drive metal stakes right through them. I don't know if this will make it impossible to recover data, but it'd be difficult.
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by nudge 15y ago
I've got a better idea. You give me the $4k and I'll fly to San Diego and beat you with a stick any time you stop working. Seriously though, this is a really weird plan. It's a huge amount of money to spend for something that almost certain
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by nudge 15y ago
It's impossible to answer this properly without seeing your site. With that in mind, here are a few thoughts: 1. Features don't matter in the abstract. You can succeed with fewer features by being, for example, simpler. That's the 37signals
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by nudge 15y ago
Why would there be such a thing? Would you create a service with that kind of value (and actual running costs) and give it away for free?
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by nudge 15y ago
Say you have doubts, and that you want to discuss them. Then discuss them, in an orderly and dispassionate way. Keep in mind the possibility that you are the one who's wrong, and you'll be fine. Be calm, rational and modest. Also: creativit
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by nudge 15y ago
My guess would be that there's very little money in it, and for what money there is (advertising of such events, perhaps), competition is fierce. But if you've got a good way to disrupt it, go ahead!
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by nudge 15y ago
http://37signals.com/bootstrapped
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by nudge 15y ago
It's a patent application, not a patent. The difference is important.
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by nudge 15y ago
Okay, that wasn't clear to me, but it's a good point. You could write up some advice to other non-programmers / "business guys" unsure of how to start: "writing a spec" is indeed a good way to start building.
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by nudge 15y ago
Why are you wondering whether you have an idea or 'something more'? Just build it, or hire somebody to build it for you, or talk it over with some people. Anything that moves you forward. Wondering what you have isn't going to help you at a
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by nudge 15y ago
The email is badly formatted. There are many unnecessary paragraphs / line breaks in the middle of sentences. It looks unprofessional, and does not reflect well on the sender's technical abilities. There are a number of other problems with
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by nudge 15y ago
Just to clarify, it's not entirely down. It's just investments. I use this bank for checking and credit card and they're both fine.
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by nudge 15y ago
I don't understand this at all. What is it you want from the New York Times, exactly? A more restrictive paywall so that you can't view things you find on twitter? Or just no paywall at all, and a pony?
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by nudge 15y ago
Looks pretty good to me, but if I limit the search to Heathrow and just a few months in the middle of the year, nothing comes up. Where are you getting your data from?
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Ask HN: Any authors here?
2 points by nudge 16y ago|0 comments
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by nudge 16y ago
Good looking site and a sensible product idea. A few thoughts: 1. "GIFT CERTIFICATE TEMPLATES FOR YOUR BUSINESS" is not the best tagline, I think. "Template? What's a template?" Perhaps better is something like "Sell gift certificates for y
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by nudge 16y ago
It would be to allow you to concentrate on your core functionality without worrying about whether you are complying with spam laws, getting delivered, what your delivery rates are etc., running the mailserver. It's just paying for all that
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by nudge 16y ago
Techcrunch has a ridiculous number of widgets. Try browsing with a blocker (I use the Disconnect extension on Chrome) and you'll see the difference.
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by nudge 16y ago
Goals don't work for me. Habits do. See if you can transform your goals into things you can actually do, rather than things you want to reach.
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by nudge 16y ago
"Programmer" I think is a little like "scientist". It used to be possible to be an expert in all things, but it's not really any more. So don't be so hard on yourself. You're like a biologist retraining as a chemist. But since you've found
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by nudge 16y ago
Recently (unsold) on flippa: https://flippa.com/auctions/118288/Streak-ly---motivation-we...
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by nudge 16y ago
Kudos for discovering something important about yourself. Your path forward probably should be determined by the kind of work you want to do, but I think you know this. Certainly don't be sucked into the new technologies because they're coo
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by nudge 16y ago
Because it means more profit, and because the market will bear it.
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by nudge 16y ago
It doesn't seem worth pursuing to me. I mean, it's well-executed and the design is pretty good. But it's a toy - it doesn't solve any particular problem or serve any particular purpose. So for that reason you'll always struggle to get traff
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by nudge 16y ago
Try Zoho Creator: http://www.zoho.com/creator/
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by nudge 16y ago
For posterity, the url to the article itself (as opposed to the blog) is http://trentwalton.com/2011/01/26/you-are-what-you-eat/
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by nudge 16y ago
I think that is just their App Engine for Business costs: (for others' reference: http://code.google.com/appengine/business/ ) You may want the extra services that this gives, but it is not the standard App Engine offering. If you are not
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by nudge 16y ago
If you don't mind developing for their data structure, I think Google App Engine makes scaling pretty easy.

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