PhilWright

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by PhilWright 11y ago
It would be helpful to get more detailed information in order to provide more targeted suggestions. What is your educational background? What is your work experience? What languages/domains have you worked in?
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by PhilWright 11y ago
I spent four years as a contractor between 1997-2001 and all my work was sourced from recruitment agencies. Remember that the recruiters have no idea about anything technical. They match the buzzwords from your CV against a company and if t
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by PhilWright 11y ago
I believe that history disproves the idea presented. Ever since the start of the industrial revolution there are have been luddites thinking that mass unemployment are around the corner because of technology. Once 90% of the country (Englan
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by PhilWright 11y ago
True that. I also love the fact he gives himself a B grade in past predictions. Nostradamus would probably give himself an A grade and we know how useful his predications have been.
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by PhilWright 11y ago
The majority of end users have the ability to understand a list in the style of a spreadsheet, which then becomes a simple and effective tool. But sometimes there need goes beyond the spreadsheet. As soon as you add relationships, such as 1
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by PhilWright 11y ago
How much time and effort was involved in selling the company? Did you need to engage an accountant or lawyer in order to provide documents for the buyers due diligence? Place domain names in escrow? Does this place a lower limit of the valu
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by PhilWright 16y ago
They make no mention of how they make any money. Any ideas on the business model that is paying for all this bandwidth etc?
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by PhilWright 16y ago
I have a simple rule of thumb. When someone makes an extraordinary clain I require an extraorderinary level evidence. I think that praying to a supernatural entity for help qualifies as an extraordinary claim. So far the evidence has not ma
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by PhilWright 16y ago
Hang on, they are suing because he MIGHT do something? Kind of odd that you can sue someone because they might do something. Can I be sued because I MIGHT do something bad in the future? Surely that is not enforceable.
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by PhilWright 16y ago
I am concerned that Flash is like Silverlight in being a black box inside the browser and some platforms (i.e. Apple) do not allow it to run on their phones. In the long run I might want a mobile version of the site.
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Ask HN: HTML5 or Silverlight for a new Startup?
1 points by PhilWright 16y ago|5 comments
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by PhilWright 17y ago
I am about to begin a startup if you have skills at SEO and landing pages etc. My holding page is at www.familytreeonline.com
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by PhilWright 17y ago
You need to careful you don't become labelled as the inhouse SEO/SEM expert. Once labelled like that it might be hard to get the chance to develop other business skills that are needed to broaden out your skill set.
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Spolsky rolls the dice (componentfactory.com)
1 points by PhilWright 17y ago|0 comments