Mc_Big_G

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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
I'm not exactly sure how relevant this is the the free will conversation, but it's related and something I think about on a regular basis. When I see a person who grew up in a wonderful environment with presumably good genetics, judge and c
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
I couldn't agree more on Adwords vs Facebook ads based on my experience using both. The targeting on FB is fantastic and you can really play with it to get maximum CTR.
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
I'd love to hear the reasoning behind down-voting this. In a thread with 225 comments, only my post and one making a pun about gays is down-voted to 0. If you have something to say, say it. sheesh
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
Interesting. I had a flash of real violence breaking out over the game.
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
Working on a quickie startup using a domain name I've had since '03 which is foreverlist.com. It's a paid classified ads site where, for $5, you can list an ad with unlimited images that never expires and which you can change to anything a
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
The sad fact is that most users don't care about vendor lock-in and it is not in the interest of these companies to make it easy to export your data for use with another service. I based my first startup around the fact that my users could
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
I'm in the same boat. Knowing and repeatedly experiencing the fact that most startups fail, I have accepted that the time spent is not wasted, even if I never make a dollar. I've already seen positive results in contacts made and experie
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
Their linkedin page says they have 18 employees.
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
hmmmmmmmm My wife is definitely not into the same genre of books as I am and frankly I'm happy with that. Is there some real correlation between compatibility and the books you read or are you just assuming that?
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
Get acquired by Google, problem solved.
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
How does anyone even find your site if you don't do at least some advertising? You could spend the rest of your life trying to get traffic from twitter and the like. It's obviously significantly easier if you have a network of people wi
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
So, it's an affiliate site with info scraped from various sources?
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
[citation needed]
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
People do not pay for technical advancement. They pay for solving their problems. Yeah, I get it. My point was that it isn't easy to find something people are willing to pay you for, no matter how simple that sounds. Also, technical adva
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
My bad...it was 402 words.
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
Great advice. This is why HN is awesome.
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
The estimate I received was 8 pounds. I mistook the pound symbol for euros. In any case, the conversion is nearly the same. Please don't take my post as criticism. I was merely reflecting on the fact that I spent a few years of my life bui
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
It's quite amazing to me that people are willing to pay ~$11 for proofreading ~100 words and won't pay 1 cent for far more technologically advanced services. This is why you have to figure out what people will pay for before you build it.
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
I'm curious if the password problem is really as big as he says or if he's just biased because of his experience at PayPal. I don't always remember my password, but I've never encountered a site that didn't offer one of the following:
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
2) You can stave off hunger by chewing ice chips or drinking water (even just chewing with an empty mouth seems to promote satiety). Chewing gum really helps me in the same way.
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
The design is simple and fantastic. My suggestions: 1) 150 characters is MUCH too short to sufficiently describe what you are selling. I would dynamically increase the size of the description box and/or add scrolling i
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
It's good business sense to drop providers which don't give them a good return on their time investment. It's probably worth the gamble in the beginning, but it's critical they diversify. We've already seen providers like Amazon come out w
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
I tried the free developer version of RightScale a year or so ago. RS offers a slightly different service than CK. With RS, you can create scripts which run at startup and configure the instance. RS does automatic master/slave DB server
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
Your budget does not allow for building a redundant system. The only way to mitigate risk is to set up monitoring and automated backups.
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by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
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