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by FollowSteph3 10y ago
How is this different then a phone? Are you liable for the conversations others have on your phone?
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by FollowSteph3 10y ago
I'm surprised the discussion isn't focused on the 3% fee, it's almost not discussed. Think about that, that's 3% of all retail transactions for electronic processing. And their not even liable for charge backs, that&#x27
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by FollowSteph3 10y ago
The article mentions government grants, does anyone know of a small software shop that has been able to get one? We looked into it at one point and its next to impossible. Our advisor told us we had to modify the product in weird ways to ma
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by FollowSteph3 10y ago
Trust and a well implemented feedback system cost money and effort and if you're going there it's most likely to get the lowest price and not the best service.
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by FollowSteph3 10y ago
That's the reason why you get such good prices. Hire cheap developers and you have to take a gamble on the deliverables. If you're willing to pay a fair or premium price your worries decrease ;)
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by FollowSteph3 10y ago
How many smaller businesses that use salesforce would have lost all their data with hardware failures over the years? Most smaller businesses have absolutely no backups. Remember HN is the exception as were a technical crowd ;)
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by FollowSteph3 10y ago
I think this is very good. I can't tell you the number of times I've lost form data by hitting backspace. For those wondering how, if you do control backspace to erase a word etc igs very easy to miss, especially as you transition
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by FollowSteph3 10y ago
If a restaurant lets their customers use their phone are they liable if the customer uses the phone for illegal purposes?
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by FollowSteph3 10y ago
If this were true then how do you explain all the crime that still happens. Even high profile cases. It would be a lot easier to manager bigger crimes. But since we still see them struggling with even big profile cases, where not having an
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11 SaaS Companies Reveal MRR and Other SaaS Metrics(nathanlatka.com)
4 points by FollowSteph3 11y ago|0 comments
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by FollowSteph3 11y ago
I agree with exactly what you say except for the price. At $24/year there's just no room to stay in business. Even just one support request would put you in the negative for that customer. Nevermind the server costs, payment proce
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by FollowSteph3 11y ago
Imagine if you were more intelligent then everyone else by a large margin, how boring would it be over time? No matter who you engage almost no one can even understand you, never mind push or challenge you. After a while this would be very
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by FollowSteph3 11y ago
My understanding was that total annihilation didn't work on modern computers... Do you have links to the communities that play TA?
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by FollowSteph3 11y ago
The thing is different people have different tax needs. Some people have very tax filings while others are very complex and some things can't be downloaded at all. It would be great but it's just not possible. FYI I work in a rela
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by FollowSteph3 11y ago
I wrote a blog post explaining exactly this in detail based on my previous experience doing government contracts. I called it why a hammer costs $5000: http://www.followsteph.com/2011/11/22/why-does-a-hammer-c
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by FollowSteph3 11y ago
I see it as a fundamental issue of who will pay for the content. For example the New York Times has to pay people to write articles. People do not want to pay to read the articles nor do they want ads. So how does the NYT pay its staff? Unt
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Your Typing Style Might Not Be So Bad(gizmodo.com)
31 points by FollowSteph3 11y ago|32 comments
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by FollowSteph3 11y ago
Most users say they want stability but when it comes to actually paying, unfortunately most users will only pay for features, especially new shinny ones that demo well. This is the challenge faced by software companies.
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by FollowSteph3 11y ago
To make it really work I think the cost would have to go up exponentially with time. Maybe once a decade you pay. And you could even pre-purchase but at the exponential price. This would allow most works protection early on at an affordable
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by FollowSteph3 11y ago
And Windows 95 had no modern security checks in place, so good luck with Internet access. That stuff has performance costs. Also people seem to forget that we had to reboot those machines all the time due to crashes, more code that has perf
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by FollowSteph3 11y ago
I think the biggest issue isn't the searchability of mobile apps but rather the price point. At the current price point you cannot pay for any advertisement unless your in the top 1% and hence your whole marketing plan is then the App
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The real reason germs spread in the winter(bbc.com)
9 points by FollowSteph3 11y ago|0 comments
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by FollowSteph3 11y ago
What happens if you get in a car accident delivering Amazon packages and don't have commercial car insurance as I suspect most people don't have not realize they need...
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Spain's Ciudad Real airport sold at auction for €10,000(bbc.com)
4 points by FollowSteph3 11y ago|1 comments
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by FollowSteph3 11y ago
I found it ironic that the author talking about web cruft also had some on their website. The header image on my cell phone in landscape mode took up 20% of my screen and stayed even if I scrolled. Anyways I thought that was pretty funny :)
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Those people who need very little sleep(bbc.com)
95 points by FollowSteph3 11y ago|83 comments
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by FollowSteph3 11y ago
If you ever work on two computers over a shared network drive with Macs working in the exact same folder you'll immediately know the answer to this question ;) I don't understand why every system doesn't have one.
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by FollowSteph3 11y ago
The problem is you can't write that optimized lean assembly code in a lifetime anymore. Software today does a lot more than it used to under the seams now that most people forget about.
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Reddit in uproar after staff sacking(bbc.com)
6 points by FollowSteph3 11y ago|1 comments
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7 reasons software developers should learn marketing(successfulsoftware.net)
5 points by FollowSteph3 11y ago|3 comments

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