Sodaware

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by Sodaware 14y ago
Don't be afraid of losing jobs because you charge too much. When I first started on oDesk I charged $10 an hour, because I didn't want to put people off. Then I realized that kids in my neighbourhood make more walking dogs. Since then I've
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by Sodaware 14y ago
1 - Nobody has ever asked if I have a GitHub or StackOverflow account. This might be different for high-priced jobs, but for everything I've done it's never come up. Normally a quick email exchange or phone call has been enough. 2 - I found
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by Sodaware 14y ago
I completely agree, there's a huge amount of data there that can be processed in a useful way. The problem is, at what point does something become a Twitter client? IFTTT let people use tweet data in a bunch of interesting ways, not just as
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by Sodaware 14y ago
I wonder if that means Twitter want to roll out Facebook style "apps", so it has more control over things. At the moment it's not really a platform if you can't build anything that stores or displays tweets.
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by Sodaware 14y ago
Here is the September "who's hiring" topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463689 If you're looking to work freelance, there's also the Freelancer topic for September: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463692 Good luck!
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by Sodaware 14y ago
The lesson here: The best way to sell stuff is by selling stuff. Look at what's involved: * Guest posts / articles to become known as an expert * Emailing a list of interested parties * AdWords, preferably in a campaign that can scale * Twi
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by Sodaware 14y ago
Flipcode had some amazing stuff, and taught me a lot. I can't believe it's been away for 7 years.
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by Sodaware 14y ago
"The E-Myth Revisited" is a great book that deals with this problem (amongst other things).
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by Sodaware 14y ago
Here's a stupid idea: let people buy "badges" that appear next to their name. Kind of like "verified", but to show support for their favourite celebrity/band/whatever. There are some pretty intense fanbases on Twitter.
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by Sodaware 14y ago
The common sense part of me says this is far too optimistic. After all, we haven't put people on the moon in nearly 40 years. However, the hopeful part of me thinks it's possible. In 10 years SpaceX has gone from nothing to launching capsul
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by Sodaware 14y ago
One thing that surprised me about American TV is just how many adverts were for medical products. Every time I watch TV here I find out about another dozen or so problems I didn't know I had that need to be cured.
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by Sodaware 14y ago
Why is activity so much lower on a Friday? Is it because everyone has lots of work to catch up on and no time for HN, or is it because people are leaving work earlier on a Friday?
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by Sodaware 14y ago
I'm pretty sure it all comes from advertising.
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Failure study: Rune Masters (game that sold 8 copies)(moacube.com)
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by Sodaware 14y ago
I can think of a few changes I'd make off the top. I'd put the pricing info on the front page, right next to how much money they could bring in. The profit calculator is a neat toy, but you could summarise the info and put it on the homepag
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by Sodaware 14y ago
It would be nice if Reddit could filter out content based on previous voting patterns. I know people suggest unsubscribing from the bigger subreddits, which helps a little, but rage comics/memes have a habit to leak across over time. The sa
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by Sodaware 14y ago
Aside from moral reasons, it will be interesting to see if creating fake meat is more energy efficient than existing farming methods.
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Plotting for Motivation(davidseah.com)
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by Sodaware 14y ago
Weird. I've been using 12.04 since it was in beta and it's been stable for me. The only problem I've had lately has been with flash videos chewing up too much CPU and causing things to get a little hot.
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by Sodaware 14y ago
It depends on what you mean by popular. For a quick burst of traffic, the ever popular list posts do quite well (e.g "7 reasons you should never do X", usually tied in with a current trend). They do well on social media sites, but they attr
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by Sodaware 14y ago
If you're wanting to learn Ruby on Rails, I highly recommend http://railscasts.com/
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by Sodaware 14y ago
Most of the chart could apply to other web languages, including everybody's favourite whipping boy PHP. For me, the hardest part of rails was getting a working environment setup on my server, development and build machines.
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by Sodaware 14y ago
Average time for StumbleUpon visitors on one of my sites is 1.5 minutes, but others only get about 20 seconds of their attention. I've found visitors from search engines tend to hang around longer, probably because they were actually lookin
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by Sodaware 14y ago
fiverr ( http://fiverr.com ) might be a good place to start. There are plenty of people who want small jobs doing, particularly things like researching or writing small articles for blogs.
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by Sodaware 14y ago
The main project site has more information, as well as some screenshots: http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/
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by Sodaware 15y ago
I would also advise writing to your local MP (find them here http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ ). It's easier to ignore 4,000 digital signatures than 4,000 physical letters. It wouldn't hurt to call them either.
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4/1: Google Analytics turns your stats into piano music(matthewsweet.net)
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$10 million prize for a working medical tricorder(qualcommtricorderxprize.org)
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by Sodaware 15y ago
I really hope that companies like SpaceX reduce the cost of space travel to the point where we can send out more probes to check things like this. It's early days for private space travel, but I think the next 10-15 years are going to be ve
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by Sodaware 15y ago
There's also FTC disclosures to worry about, although I'm not sure if it covers posting affiliate links to another site.

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