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by Terry_B 15y ago
I've always wanted someone to write a book like this that is basically a catalogue of all the different business models out there from the common ones to the obscure. Does anyone know if something like this exists?
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by Terry_B 15y ago
I find writing out the instructions to be very helpful as a start as well. If I'm really struggling to get started on something I tend to divide myself into Thinking Me and Robot Me. Thinking Me just starts writing out the dot points on how
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by Terry_B 15y ago
I thought it was working well without points until this morning. With this ASK HN post ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2444709 ) about the best credit card payment method I would typically immediately go and look at the comment score
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by Terry_B 16y ago
I'm guessing that it's the famous kickstart it gave to Twitter that has started this trend.
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by Terry_B 16y ago
I'm surprised by the lack of answers talking about market forces. I know many people who think that doing a job that is complex and hard automatically entitles you to money and complain about people with much easier jobs, who aren't as smar
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by Terry_B 16y ago
I agree, I've got the same value out of these things as you. But pretty much all the people I know who have had some amount of success with anything didn't know these things and didn't care. They just hacked something together and didn't st
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by Terry_B 16y ago
If you've gotten used to both full time work and full time study at the same time, then you shouldn't have any trouble finding the time and energy to work on projects outside of work hours when you graduate! Hang in there.
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by Terry_B 16y ago
Just so I've got this clear.. If I develop an enterprise ipad application and track down the customers myself, it is possible to sell to them and take 100% of the revenue still? I can do this by offering the app for free on the app store an
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by Terry_B 16y ago
As can credit card companies, I once heard on a Planet Money podcast I think.
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by Terry_B 16y ago
Oh absolutely, if the problem is simple enough it's definately possible :) Even in aerospace finite element optimisation techniques have led to some very effecient structures. The problem is when you pass the limits of what is manufacturabl
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by Terry_B 16y ago
Geez, where do I begin... :) It's a fascinating problem and on very small engineering projects with a small team of people willing to experiment with new methods it would be great to try and take things in this direction and see what works.
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by Terry_B 16y ago
The problem I saw working on the 787 and other modern aircraft is that we now bury ourselves in analysis and data in the name of accuracy. Just like in programming, when the code gets complex and you have more and more dependencies. One sma
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by Terry_B 16y ago
As someone who has worked on the 787 and other large aircraft programs as an engineer and whose job it was to automate as much of the process as possible, I admire your line of thinking but I'm afraid reality is very different to what you h
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Ask HN: What do people of a particular profession search for?
3 points by Terry_B 16y ago|2 comments
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by Terry_B 16y ago
I have the same negative reaction to going to the mail box these days. With the exception of the odd expected delivery from amazon, nothing good comes from checking the mail.
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Ask HN: What type of consulting do you do? Advice for a generalist?
1 points by Terry_B 16y ago|2 comments
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by Terry_B 16y ago
Nice one Patrick. Having authority under some regulation certainly seems like it would be the best way to keep the price up.
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Ask HN: Is it possible to earn $1/min (not passively)?
15 points by Terry_B 16y ago|19 comments
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by Terry_B 16y ago
I'm constantly surprised by how low the numbers are for lots of searches.
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by Terry_B 16y ago
Writeroom + timemachine + dropbox. I don't think you're the target market :)
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by Terry_B 16y ago
My wife has the occasional habit of cherry picking the best bits of all of our friends/acquaintances lives, combining them into one and using that as the yardstick as to how we are doing. She'd be the first to admit this btw:)
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by Terry_B 16y ago
I find that I'm very addicted to writing code when it's just you and your language of choice. The difficulties in motivation start when I hit something 3rd party that I don't know very well. There was a productivity tip on HN a while back a
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by Terry_B 16y ago
I really dislike C++ but more to the point I really dislike other people's C++. This is triple compounded when you only have to do C++ occasionally. I've never even got close to the point of looking at something like const *const char &
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by Terry_B 16y ago
Wow, you're right. Their site is gone and it's not downloading properly on itunes. Wonder if its out there somewhere. They stopped recording them a while ago and said they had recorded all they had to say on the topic, but shame its been ta
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by Terry_B 16y ago
I found "The Cold Calling Podcast" to be quite insightful and practical if anyone is interested.
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by Terry_B 16y ago
Yeah, I'm guessing they could end up surpassing all to become the CMS of choice for large corporations with their awesome in browser editor.
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by Terry_B 16y ago
Squarespace are offering a great service. Is it a bad sign for my aspirations as an entrepreneur though that I don't know how I would spend that much money on a business like that? I'm guessing a lot would go on infrastructure if they do th
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by Terry_B 16y ago
I have long wanted to see someone attempt to live their life following every piece of advice on how to increase your longevity that appears in trashy current affairs tv shows, bad newspapers etc. Would make a great blog.
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by Terry_B 16y ago
Grooveshark.com
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by Terry_B 16y ago
Ok, I want to know more :) Is your startup funded and do you work from home? Is your partner working? I'd like to hear a little more about how they're completely orthogonal, as most people I know with kids would probably indicate differentl

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