RobGR

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by RobGR 18y ago
I have generally found tradeshows and conferences to be only marginally worth it, or a waste of time. The most recent events I felt I got my money's worth out of were the Austin Game Developer's Conference several years ago, and Defcon las
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by RobGR 18y ago
The tone of the article is not whiny. For a freelancer, or for a person doing a bootstap startup, a job that only requires one day a week is wonderful. It provides a baseline of income, hopefully a decent bit of social interaction, and one
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by RobGR 18y ago
I use IRC channels to ask arcane mysql, asterisk, and other tech questions, on the freenode channels. It's kind of hit or miss. However, a couple of times I have found good help on the #asterisk channel, and ended up talking with someone
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by RobGR 18y ago
They say that support will come for other countries by the end of the quarter. However, if you don't want to wait and see what they do, maybe you just need a partner in the US who can set up an Android Market account and pass you the money
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by RobGR 18y ago
I think you are missing some nuances of what it means to be a Slacker. It's not just about work or non-work. It's also about a kind of passive, almost anti-social way of assigning a low value to things that most of society considers impor
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by RobGR 18y ago
Having a good work ethic when you are doing useless stuff like making triplicate copies of your TPS reports is bad. Americans work more hours each week than other industrialized nations, but we have one of the lowest per-hour productivities
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by RobGR 18y ago
Without anonymity, will people post ? If they have to use a school email to post, will they be anonymous ? If you send an "account confirmation" email to the student's address, won't some idiot at the institution read it and try to use it
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by RobGR 18y ago
I agree with the disclosure rule. Look through their current reviews; do any of them mention pay, or even be vague about it, such as "we were asked to review this application" or something ? If not, then what you want to do is "pull a drea
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by RobGR 18y ago
You will have to research the law yourself, but there is a limit to how many people can invest in a business before you cross a line into "selling securities" and have to formally be a real corporation with stock. Not that you can't do it,
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by RobGR 18y ago
I signed up and contacted a seller. In spite of all the java script the site was pretty fast. I'd still get rid of it. Two points: 1) You need to get people using the site, and I have to second the observations that requiring someone to s
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by RobGR 18y ago
CL postings expire, so I don't think that is a big deal. The way to do the import is to write a program that runs on the seller's desktop, that goes out to CL and logs in and snarfs the stuff, and then has them confirm / edit one by one as
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by RobGR 18y ago
* Incentives for users to post, i.e. beating the chicken and egg problem: 1) Find a way to offer a payment service, or easily integrate with google checkout, so that the user's "Buy" button is automatically hooked to their GC account and
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by RobGR 18y ago
The existing user base of CL, and the chicken-and-egg problem of buyers and sellers, are definitely valid issues. However I would keep a very simple interface. There are things that I have sold on craigslist and I knew that I would get mor
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by RobGR 18y ago
The human-parseable URLs would definitely be a big improvement. "Power Users" (i.e., nerds) of CL often type in the whole URL to the city / section that they want instead of going to the main page and clicking from there.
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by RobGR 18y ago
Make a global, all-encompassing wikipedia style wiki. Except that the content will be ONLY eyewitness accounts, i.e., the sources that wikipedia complains about lacking with [citation needed]. For example, if I as a undergrad saw RMS givin
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by RobGR 18y ago
It seems like a good idea to me. Ads for travel related services usually pay a lot, so maybe it can pay for itself. However you should be doing it mainly because you want it to be done, I don't think it will make a lot of money. I will ch
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by RobGR 18y ago
The white board vinyl works best if you use it to repair some old whiteboards. You get the old ones for free, that are scratched and suffering from the can't-quite-erase-completely problem, and then cover them. You can also convert a chal
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by RobGR 18y ago
Start high and drop it over time if you are not satisfied. Also, maintain a "permanent license" option that is not monthly, that is about 6 times the monthly cost, and don't drop that as fast as the monthly cost if you have to drop it.
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by RobGR 18y ago
I agree that it would make a cool phone game. I played it for quite a bit. I think you should consider the original numbrosia as a phone game also. I think if you had a collection of math-oriented games, you might put them all in one plac
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by RobGR 18y ago
Everyone should know the rating system. People tend to ignore rating systems that are hidden or not easy to understand. An example of a rating system that suffers from many hidden features is the "credit score" system; of course it is not
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by RobGR 18y ago
Narrow your browser window.
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by RobGR 18y ago
Take the lottery, for example. The economy hasn't routed around that, and it clearly does not add value to the economy or society. Yet it "fulfills a need" in the sense that people willingly seek it out, and in fact seek out illegal "numbe
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by RobGR 18y ago
I agree with this hypothesis. Furthermore, advances in computers and communication and electronic record keeping should have allowed fewer people to be employed in the industry, shuffling much larger amounts of money. I think much of the c
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by RobGR 18y ago
You might look into various bank's online software. Some banks have a "business account" that has a really simple accounting system built in, that is a double-entry system with 4 accounts. I think Wells Fargo is one such bank. Another thi
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by RobGR 18y ago
That's definitely true, but going to grad school or the military as a "backup" is probably a bad idea. There are worse holding patterns, but there are also a lot better ones. In general, if you don't know what you want to do, making a mult
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by RobGR 18y ago
Does anyone have a link to the "green venture fund" discribed as organized on facebook, where individuals contribute as little as $100 ? It sounds like it could be something like Prosper, but more focused on small startups, which would be p
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by RobGR 18y ago
No one would sign up in the first place. Hordes of vitamin sellers from Utah have trained the public that way. Unless the name of your site is facebook. Numbrosia was kind of cool. But they are just fun games, are you sure they were ever
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by RobGR 18y ago
I found this article fascinating. I don't think it has any hope of working at all, however. Sci-fi writers and "Futurist Societies" have talked about an "End of Scarcity" which will occur when we can give every new baby it's own super-powe
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by RobGR 18y ago
Are you using some kind of hosting company's graphical configuration ? It sounds like you should not have made www.abc.com forward to itself, and that you are probably ok now, but it's hard to tell. To really know what is going on here, we
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by RobGR 18y ago
Every new facebook, myspace, webmail, etc creates another namespace. It's not necessary to have your name in all of them, and can be a bit of distraction to focus on that. I second the recommendations of gmail and twitter, although I don't

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