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by terrellm 5y ago
This road rage incident occurred in California, which has some of the strictest gun regulations in the country.
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by terrellm 7y ago
I so want to get into mechnical keyboards but most of my work is done on a 2015 MacBook Pro and I'm so efficient with the large trackpad - I rest my palms on the laptop and can reach everything with just a pivot of the wrist. I tried t
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by terrellm 8y ago
My wife and I (both 40 today) are a husband-and-wife entrepreneur team that started our software business right out of college at 21. We had our first child at 30 and second at 33. At the opposite end of the spectrum, some of my wife's
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by terrellm 12y ago
Congrats Sol. I know you've been working hard on putting together a great source.
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by terrellm 12y ago
RailsMachine. Very pleased with the service, too.
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by terrellm 13y ago
Recently I saw where the shipping increased based on the price of an item. I bought Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 ($419) and the Prime next day price was $7.99. I guess they figure that if I'm spending $400+ on an item, a couple bucks more wo
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by terrellm 13y ago
We (my wife and I) hired my mom to run my e-commerce stores after she retired. She is paid an above-average hourly rate, can set her hours, and can work from home. Knowing that we would be giving someone access to a merchant account that ha
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by terrellm 13y ago
On our ranch, we have an automatic gate opener with keypad. While FedEx and UPS will use a key code if one is printed on the address label, USPS refuses to enter through an open gate. Maybe they were just afraid of the cattle ( http:&#x2F
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by terrellm 13y ago
Long time reader of the site and nice to see your post on HN. Thanks for sharing everything and good luck with the sale. Dropshipping can be a great compliment to an existing software business, offering a nice way of increasing customer li
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by terrellm 13y ago
I develop a Rails 3 web app and recently moved from MySQL to MariaDB. Well actually the guys at Rails Machine did the move for me. I don't know what all they did on their end, so can't speak much for the server admin side. We e
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by terrellm 13y ago
My 5 year old really loves playing Kodable. Congrats on creating a educational game.
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by terrellm 13y ago
For those looking for a smaller city and/or more conservative city than Austin, check out Bryan/College Station 90 miles away. BCS is home to 50,000 students at Texas A&M University and also TAMU Startup Aggieland. If any HN'ers are in
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by terrellm 13y ago
I sell a SaaS product with an average price of around $18/month. We (my wife and I) aren't afraid to pick up the phone and call someone... even if it means finding their phone number on a website or online phone book. The typical account e
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by terrellm 13y ago
The article title gives the puppy image credit but I think the additional text had as much if not more of an impact on the conversion lift than the image. "Start your 30 days free trial" text vs "*Sign up now* 30 days free rial.
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When marketing gets creepy(saasmarketingstrategy.blogspot.com)
2 points by terrellm 13y ago|0 comments
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by terrellm 14y ago
This guide has some great information. A dropship commerce store can be a great complement to a software company if you are able to integrate a company's products in with your software. My wife and I develop a cattle management software ca
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by terrellm 14y ago
You are right... my mistake. I was looking on a different page of the old bootstrap site.
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by terrellm 14y ago
The Responsive Utilities section is interesting with new classes such as .visible-phone and .hidden-phone (also tablet and desktop) but I find in my app that my customers want to see all of the columns even if it means a little bit of scrol
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by terrellm 14y ago
Wow looks nice. Is an SSL certificate still required since the JS is on Stripe's secure server?
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by terrellm 14y ago
We've had several of these companies approach our agriculture software company over the years. The key phrase to listen for is "scheduling fee" as that's what they call the $15k - $25k fee. The most recent pitch was last year and the speci
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by terrellm 14y ago
Agreed - particularly if you are the advertiser paying for a ton of "curiosity clicks" from people wondering where the ad goes. It would have been interesting to see a measurable goal (downloads, newsletter signups, watch a 3 minute video..
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by terrellm 15y ago
What if one of your examples was the original filename and the account holder renamed it to something less obvious such as cat.jpg?
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by terrellm 15y ago
The two subdomains (technews and primaries) both have the same IP of 70.32.92.201, a MediaTemple IP. TechCrunch used to host at Media Temple according to DomainTools Hosting History. There is probably an A record in the DNS pointing those s
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2 Days Loss From Transfers Out Of Godaddy.com: 37,000(thedomains.com)
76 points by terrellm 15y ago|29 comments
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by terrellm 15y ago
Sort of backwards to my company Cattlesoft where we prefer our employees to already have their own cows before coming to work for us. We develop software for the cattle industry and have had far better luck with hiring people who own cattle
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by terrellm 15y ago
NameCheap is a great one. Also you can usually Google around and find a Godaddy coupon for a cheap transfer in and sometimes even discount renewals. I'd definitely recommend keeping your hosting separate from your domain registrar. Let th
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by terrellm 15y ago
I wonder how much of the popularity is because popularity was perhaps a goal of some of the NodeJS advocates. Recently I stumbled on http://nodejs-vs-ror.nodejitsu.com , which in the source at https://github.com/mmalecki/nodejs-vs-ror/bl
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by terrellm 15y ago
I've been in technology for 15 years. In that time I went from QA to networking/IT to independent software development. Along the way I learned how to run a business, optimize my websites for search engines, create persuasive marketing co
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by terrellm 15y ago
I just subscribed to show support, too. There's no doubt that I'll get $9 worth of benefit out of the Pro screencasts and updates. The amazing thing about RailsCasts are how great they are at helping developers through sticking points. I c
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by terrellm 15y ago
I have not used them yet but I've had several people recommend http://www.elegantbanners.com/ . Their sample work seems nice and banners start at $20, so it may be worth a gamble.

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