JonathanWCurd

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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
Who makes the drive? Many of the manufacturers have diagnostic programs you can run to test if its motherboard or read head issues. If its not making funny sounds (read head / platter damage) you may be able to swap the drive chip guts with
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
2-5 k is normal if the drive is so far gone they need to take it apart to get to the data. CBL Data worked for me in the past but That was a few years ago. They will evaluate your drive for free and tell you what they can get off data wise
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
In that case, maybe try one of the online startup docs repositories. Maybe you can find something in one them that would work.
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
Since I do not know your skill level, location, and other variables its hard to say exactly. Thats why I suggested comparing to what you could earn if you were to take a full-time job in your area, at your experience level. Also you said yo
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
Hire a lawyer. If the dollar value is that good that it makes you want to do it right. Then its probably worth the cost to do it right and get good advice.
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
Pull the trigger. Use the money to build a development team that you trust. And trust them with building your first version (MVP). Iterate from there.
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
Twice the rate you would make working at a full-time job.
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
And if you are looking for a co-founder zipdog's advice above is a great starting point.
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
Hire a developer or two and build a MVP to test the idea in the wild. That way you can see if what you think is a great idea really is. If not rinse and repeat. If so add to your team to make it better and keep adding to the product.
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Ask HN: Using numbers vs. longhand in domain?
5 points by JonathanWCurd 16y ago|8 comments
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
Read HN, or more appropriately just read about what your doing / getting into. But most importantly do. Failure and Success are a result of continuing to try.
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
You can push the app and generate buzz by giving away a replacement phone to the top scorer over some period. If its ad supported and grows large enough the money should cover the expense. Something like: "Want / Need a new phone see how fa
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
Also its possible that soon we will have all sorts of custom extensions from custom providers / companies and then people will have to start paying more attention to the extension of the domain as well as just the name.
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
I also agree that it depends on if another extension makes sense. For example: If you are buying a .me (or other extension) just because .com and .net are gone and it doesn't relate then pick another name. If you are buying a .me (or other
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
Open CV is free and decent to start with. Lots of wrappers exist for it so you could pretty much use it with whatever environment you are using. If your idea is validated you could then look into some of the more expensive commercial librar
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
Some people here might be interested maybe a list or a way to contact you.
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
Might be, but at least its a pretty darn good trick.
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
I think this would be a great plug-in for teams of developers to install. Especially early career members. You could make the rewards visible to your team members in TFS so you could rag on the guy who always submits "Spaghetti code" or the
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
I tell a good number of people about 3mindme but I have yet to tell someone who knows it exists. Although I find it useful and sure many others would as well people just don't know its out there. Perhaps that is something you can capitalize
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
I like the idea. I currently use 3mindMe.com to accomplish the same thing but I'll give this a try.
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
I think that nailing down the smaller more focused categories is the way to go. If you can make it both more relevant and more focused it would be both different and useful providing a real reason to give it a try.
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
I do see that you have something that sounds like this coming under your coming soon section so you may already be working on this.
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
I'd love to be able to filter or have the system filter even further. For example in sports, just baseball or football not all sports.
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
First step: share a link.
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
Thanks for the offer but I agree with others in thinking people should earn the right to have the community review their work. What level of participation justifies that right is the real question. Any thoughts?
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by JonathanWCurd 16y ago
The ability to spend time doing what one loves is what I consider the point at which you can say one is truly wealthy.
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ASK HN: Question about modifying application
2 points by JonathanWCurd 16y ago|0 comments