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by aberkowitz 16y ago
If you're bootstrapping a company that you cannot afford to bootstrap, then by all means, figure out how to bring in money ASAP. On the other hand, if you can afford to develop a loyal user base first, then that is your best path to success
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
RSS sucks because it's the bastard child of long content and short content. Until publishers can figure out how to write for medium length content, it will be tucked away for use by self professed nerds who like to access and manipulate inf
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
It's irrelevant what you call a user. Almost anything a user does with your app is helping you - whether it's consuming ads, talking about your product / service, or giving feedback.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
I'd advise that you nuke the frontpage. Instead, make it location aware and show categories (ex: recommended, asian, mexican, american, italian, greek, other) with five restaurants each. The individual restaurant pages are very clean and in
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
I'd advise that you read about the demise of Yukos, formerly one of Russia's largest companies.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
Splitting equity 50-50 is almost never a good idea. When hard decisions need to be made, someone needs to have the final say.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
Do you have any systems in place to prevent the degradation of commentary often seen in anonymous content?
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
I'm not sure where your skepticism is coming from, but I can assure you that I would have saved countless hours had I begun with a more current version of Rubygems and Ruby.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
> Under no circumstance should you install Ruby, Rubygems or any Ruby-related packages from apt-get I really wish the RoR book I was reading had told me that before I spent multiple hours trying to properly setup Rails.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
Would each greenhouse have its own desalinization plant?
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
> Aircraft aren't like hacking on some webapp Exactly, so why do you want to have an iPad control an airplane? Wouldn't it make sense to add this to the EFIS systems so that the code is held to the same standards as any other flight sys
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
I don't see why this software is written on an iPad when it could be implemented more effectively in the plane's own control system.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
It will be interesting to see how the strike dissipates, or fails to dissipate, based on the effectiveness of prisoner's communication networks.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
While I have not yet finished Dr Conrad Barski's "Land of Lisp", I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in an introductory book as I am really enjoying it.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
The United States government creates a hypocrisy when they do not follow laws put in place by their own institutions.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
It is not clear to me whether Google is doing "ethical talent acquisitions" by releasing unneeded products, or whether they have just have no need to keep these projects closed.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
Anybody who uses paypal should be aware that there is not an adequate system in place to insure an honest and amicable transaction occurs between the buyer and sell. That's just a risk you take for using the worlds biggest online auction si
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
Raphael.js and protoviz exist to lower the barrier of entry of SVG to canvas level [0]. The only advantage they have over canvas is interactivity. Certain libraries like impactjs [1] are aiming to fix that. [0] Just about the entirety of ca
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
I remember it because it is shorter than google.com. dukgo.com
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
I can save you eighteen characters - !google -> !g !wikipedia -> !w !amazon -> !a
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
I wonder if they will charge you a fee if the car is not two-thirds charged upon return.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
I'm always upset when I watch tech company interviews on TV expecting them to cater to me - someone who keeps up to date on technology news, instead of a general audience that isn't as knowledgeable.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
Brilliant advertising ploy; it seems kind of stupid that they aren't using this opportunity to push HTML5 / Ogg Theora video.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
For your own good, domain registrars should contact you, by email, well in advance of an expiration. Worst case scenario, the name is held by the registrar for the grace period and the former owner has exclusive rights to it during that ter
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
Note: Amazon charges 15¢ per Megabyte of data to convert and send directly to your Kindle. If you instead input username@free.kindle.com, it sends it to your email so you can download it and put it on your Kindle.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
With at least three ways to change it to tabs on bottom.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
In 2004, 57% of undecided voters who were polled said they would rather have a beer with him than John Kerry [0]. [0] http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/benedetto/200...
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
Perhaps Sony forgot to remove code [0] that leaks new technology [1]. [0] http://blog.deliciousrobots.com/2010/11/27/sonys-changes-to-... [1] http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/28/sony-fires-barrage-of-tou...
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
Only time will tell whether these new developments help limit non-combatant death. Nevertheless, this detachment from human death scares me.
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by aberkowitz 16y ago
I predict however he finds his business to succeed currently will be utterly destroyed with this article. You cannot possibly have your name published in association with fraud accusations and not expect knocks from government agencies.

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