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by acabal 15y ago
I worked in .Net shops for a few years, back in the days before .Net MVC. Part of the reason people ended up (and maybe still end up) stuck in .Net might be because back then, as soon as you tried stepping outside of the .Net webforms box
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by acabal 15y ago
Man... I literally just bit the bullet and opened a merchant account and gateway at Auth.net last week, and the second I do, FeeFighters comes out with their own superior gateway, and Stripe launches. Talk about bad timing for me :(
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by acabal 15y ago
Shameless plug: I'm working on a ebook-generating web app that will let you upload a Word/OpenOffice document, have it automagically parsed, then let you tweak it with some useful prettifying algorithms--or by hand--until it looks great. T
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by acabal 15y ago
From a small-time perspective, $100-$150. That's small enough where if the project doesn't take off I won't be out too much cash, and big enough to justify a logotype from a font library, a simple vector logo, and the transfer of a not-unr
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by acabal 15y ago
Looks like a great idea, very clever, but I'm not sure about the pricing. I would love to use something like this as a small developer, but $250 is a bit much for a domain and a logo given my small-time budget. On the other hand, companie
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by acabal 15y ago
Kindle Touch looks really similar to the Nook Touch, which is a truly excellent product. But Nook Touch still has a killer feature for a ebook nerd like me: it reads epubs. I'm assuming the KT will still be locked in to Amazon's ridiculou
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by acabal 15y ago
I thought I was going crazy when I realized the cache links were gone... good to know I wasn't the only one and that they're still there, though hidden (I never click on the preview arrows).
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by acabal 15y ago
I managed my own mail server for scribophile.com for a year or two. Figuring out how to reliably send email is a complete nightmare and as much black magic as it is engineering. When I finally had to move to new hosting, the thought of ha
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by acabal 15y ago
I'd love to stop by but Bad Mergentheim is a little too far away for me :(
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by acabal 15y ago
I hope that doesn't mean they're abandoning development on their e-ink devices, or relegating them to third-class citizens. The only reason I'd buy a reading device is if staring at it for 2+ hours didn't give me a headache like a backlit
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by acabal 15y ago
Turns out that most writers who post their work in public are horribly scared of it being stolen. There's also a myth about something called 'first publishing rights' that persists despite my best efforts to eradicate. Long story short, t
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by acabal 15y ago
I'm the sole founder, developer, marketer, and everything-else-guy for http://www.scribophile.com and http://writerfolio.com . They've funded my travels across the world for the past few years. Right now I'm living in Germany with my Ge
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by acabal 15y ago
I'll probably be in Colombia around then, message sent!
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by acabal 15y ago
Are these numbers revenue or profit? And congrats :)
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by acabal 15y ago
Maybe true, but the fact that iOS devices are selling so well shows that people actually want their computers to be as simple as appliances. I think that to many "regular" people (i.e. non-HN-reading types of people), the power in comput
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by acabal 15y ago
I was super excited until I read that you have to submit requests to be voted on. While I understand the difficulty (impossibility?) of having this kind of service on-demand, I really would rather not have to submit my obscure and possibly
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by acabal 15y ago
Because it's more fun to develop a new codebase using cool new tools and technologies than maintain an old one and try to hack new technology into it. Not that that makes it right.
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by acabal 15y ago
While I thought Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space was just ok, I really loved his standalone book Chasm City . I picked it up randomly at a book exchange and was blown away. The universe is fiercely imaginative and colorful, the dial
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by acabal 15y ago
Bloggers in your target market are priceless. When I launched http://www.scribophile.com/ , a site for writers, I made a list of 50 writing blogs. They didn't have to be big names; writers love to write so there's lots of writers' blogs o
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by acabal 15y ago
You're right, I've corrected my post. But I still stand by my general point :)
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by acabal 15y ago
That's precisely my point. In the Linux world, your distro version is inextricably linked to the versions of every major and minor software package in a way that just doesn't happen in Windows. If I stuck with Lucid, I'd still be using Fir
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by acabal 15y ago
I think you're misunderstanding what I'm referring to. I'm specifically referring to rolling-release distros, of which LMDE is one. It's based on Debian-testing. Regular Mint is indeed a milestone-based distro built on Ubuntu. But LM
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by acabal 15y ago
> Last time I checked, Ubuntu kept existing setup, desktop etc. when upgrading. Have you ever dist-upgraded an Ubuntu distro? Upgrading to Lucid moved your window controls. Upgrading to Natty turned on Unity. While it's true that upg
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by acabal 15y ago
Upgrading Basecamp doesn't force an upgrade to Gmail. Your comparison doesn't really apply here.
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by acabal 15y ago
Yes. For example when Ubuntu switched to Pulseaudio, it borked my sound. Even with the release after that one (can't remember which one it was), I had to have a shortcut on my desktop for 'killall pulseaudio' because just playing music fo
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by acabal 15y ago
Nope. Ubuntu won't be ready until upgrading Firefox (or any individual package) doesn't force insanity like opposite window controls or Unity without asking. Regular people aren't interested in seeing drastic and seemingly nonsensical cha
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by acabal 15y ago
I know what you mean--I get these comments too, and I've been living in places like Germany, Belgium, England, Mexico (Mayan Riviera ain't as cheap as you'd think) etc., while earning dollars , and still making it happen. People always ask
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by acabal 15y ago
I don't think people bought the TouchPads because they wanted a low-quality "couch surfing" device; they bought them because they knew it was an incredible price for the hardware, and with all the media hype happening, they had to buy them
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by acabal 15y ago
I like the Kindle (and the new Nook, not the old ones) for two reason: 1. the e-ink is easy on my eyes when reading for hours; I would never seriously read on a backlit tablet device. 2. The devices really are ONLY for reading. I spend my
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by acabal 15y ago
I think the problem is that people still don't care about or want tablet computers; they care about and want iPads. All the companies jumping on the tablet bandwagon forgot what happened to 95% of the mp3 players that sprang up to compete

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