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by vbrendel 9y ago
So what email address should I get that will most reduce my risk of crashing my car?
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by vbrendel 9y ago
The point here is not what the advantage of phone support is but to provide the service personally. You can outsource anything, but if you read the article, the learnings you get from doing it yourself are invaluably useful.
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by vbrendel 9y ago
The article is clearly written by someone who has a vested interest in the incumbents who are now up against Uber and Amazon. Uber burns cash like pretty much any funded startup but there's nothing in the article suggesting their unit
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by vbrendel 9y ago
Me and my co-founder refined our pitching skills somewhat. Overall I wouldn't say it's worth it.
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by vbrendel 9y ago
https://www.producthunt.com/
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by vbrendel 9y ago
Not generally a good idea, but please post a link to the product to get more specific feedback. A product is not a business yet. Before you sink money into a launch you'd want to go from "I think I have a good product" to &qu
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by vbrendel 10y ago
Work out which company you would actually want to work with (ask questions) and just do do their friggin puzzles if that's what gets you in the door.
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by vbrendel 11y ago
Does orthodontics really fall under cranial deformation? ;-)
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by vbrendel 12y ago
This is more than ironic: statuspage.io was affected last week by the Amazon DNS outage! That doesn't seem to get a mention.
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Tax treatment of crypto-currencies in Australia – specifically Bitcoin(ato.gov.au)
4 points by vbrendel 12y ago|0 comments
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by vbrendel 12y ago
There is no way you can know exactly that two workers and two dynos are right. Just start off with Heroku. Maybe even pay for a worker or an extra dyno. Remember you can run multiple instances on a single dyno with eg. unicorn. Once your id
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by vbrendel 12y ago
According to that article, the 40 comment penalty is applied to all posts. Putting "Show HN" in your post probably didn't change that. The algorithm for the front page favours newer things and attempts to generate traction fo
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by vbrendel 12y ago
The .html 'exception' shouldn't really be that surprising. How many web servers do you know that run on MS-DOS?
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by vbrendel 12y ago
No need for status symbols anymore. If you want people to know you are rich, just post it on Facebook.
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by vbrendel 12y ago
Take any notion of "beta" off your site. You want people to sign up thinking it's production ready and start test and improving your funnel based on a trickle feed of new visitors. Use A/B testing and talk to people that
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Ember.js performance improvements at Zendesk(developer.zendesk.com)
2 points by vbrendel 12y ago|0 comments
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by vbrendel 12y ago
Any piece of data that's out there, currently private or not, will ultimately become available to anyone as long as they can find it. This is a tool which speeds up that process. Can't wait for the Facebook version of this plugin.
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by vbrendel 12y ago
At 23 I was still at Uni, a nerd failing at all non-nerdy subjects, no girlfriend, no money, no car. I had hardly any ambitions and failure was the norm I set for myself. But I was pretty happy nonetheless. Don't let all the hype get t
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Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf](dropbox.com)
251 points by vbrendel 13y ago|147 comments
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by vbrendel 13y ago
She's clearly serious about this. From her blog: * 6. LinkedIn. Please do NOT shop through LinkedIn for all the important sounding senior practitioners in town, and ask them to connect. It comes across as bush league, it shows poo
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by vbrendel 13y ago
You should never have run "Trojan Horse.exe"
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by vbrendel 13y ago
Clearly not a good question to ask on HN... surprised bitcoin hasn't been mentioned yet :-) edit: it has now. I rest my case.
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Hackathon mentors should be paid(fromlittlethings.co)
1 points by vbrendel 13y ago|0 comments
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Learn to build your own iPhone Game online(makegameswith.us)
2 points by vbrendel 13y ago|0 comments
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by vbrendel 13y ago
If I was Zendesk, I would do exactly that, fight your trademark. Not that their objections will necessarily hold up. You could arguably defend it, but why bother? If you say you are friendly with Zendesk, why did you name your product Zen-s
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by vbrendel 13y ago
Selling to individuals as non-business does not require any withholding
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by vbrendel 13y ago
Chrome users, no need to look further than HipsterNews: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hipsternews/midncc...
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by vbrendel 13y ago
Strictly speaking, no. In Australia, businesses cannot pay suppliers unless they have an ABN, otherwise their payment will be subject to Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT). You can take money as an individual without ABN however. With PayPal this is
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by vbrendel 13y ago
Please don't write "interwebs". It only works when hearing it, not when you read it.
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by vbrendel 13y ago
Couldn't agree more. I joined BugHerd for the same reasons. Pull together and make something great. Too many people try to start companies by themselves.

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