akronim

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by akronim 16y ago
Maybe £40k is too low for London, but they're in Leeds which is a different story. It you look on itjobswatch.co.uk for "developer" the average in London was £50k, in Leeds £32,750. (I don't think you can use "iPhone" as a keyword sensibly
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by akronim 16y ago
The difference is that with a technical skill it's hard to break away from $x/hr, but if you can leverage the technical skills into areas that have a direct impact on revenue for your client, you can charge some percentage of the revenue in
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by akronim 16y ago
I would also think that no Anne Hathaway news should result in no positive price changes for a correlation to exist That's not correct. Imagine the stock price can be derived from two factors A and B such that price = A + B. A is correl
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by akronim 16y ago
Also the industries aren't comparable directly on revenue numbers. Walmart had net sales of $340 million but the net income after tax was $11 million. That's a very low margin business compared to software, where a typical result might be
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by akronim 16y ago
Maybe the long term plan is going vertical, this is the start of owning content production, then later expand into broadband.
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by akronim 16y ago
"traveling the world surfing" is within the reach of anyone who can afford the initial airfare, provided it's to somewhere you can live cheaply and survive on odd jobs. Think Morocco not Maui, Indo not California. There is a happy medium
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by akronim 16y ago
Also http://longform.org/ + http://www.instapaper.com/
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by akronim 16y ago
In stark contrast to B2B where if you get the right niche you can be charging a few thousand per client per month. Even one client == ramen profitable. Then again I guess it's not as cool as having the millons of users required for B2C!
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by akronim 16y ago
Mac OS X Server had (has?) decent support for proper accounts, with the client machines essentially just diskless terminals that boot from the server, and with all accounts on the server - called netboot. So not like screen sharing at all.
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by akronim 16y ago
Also, in 1998 if you had a budget of a few million you didn't need to think about commodity hardware, so you called sun and blew some cash. Investors wouldn't take you seriously if you had a ramen profitable bare bones 2011 style operation
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by akronim 16y ago
I sometimes have a difficult time writing and passing tests... That sounds like a design issue - if you don't design the code to be testable you'll probably find it hard to test. Even programming in the small e.g. at the method
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by akronim 16y ago
I'm not sure experts exchange were making that much of a killing selling access subscriptions? There's clearly a lot of ill will towards them, but I would imagine they are still in a pretty good place if they want to move to a more usabl
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by akronim 16y ago
I don't see any step 3 - what's he selling?
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by akronim 16y ago
The commercial ones use real people I think, not really an option for a free service.
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by akronim 16y ago
Why not keep them out there and get a lead sooner, then hope to keep the lead if they do foul out?
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by akronim 16y ago
Do they set the user agent?
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by akronim 16y ago
Patrick's is 0.18%, amazing to see the range - especially considering the Bingo Card Creator funnel is pretty optimized.
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by akronim 16y ago
They're aiming for compatibility with Java 1.4, which doesn't have varargs. In java 1.5 you could just write public static Object[] createArray(Object... args) { return args; }
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by akronim 16y ago
Sounds like he's perfectly positioned to help people transition from X-Serves to whatever gives the best migration path.
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by akronim 16y ago
Do rankings change often enough to need daily emails?
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by akronim 16y ago
OS X Server is just OS X with some additional services and admin tools, and probably less effort to maintain than a whole different hardware form. Given that the Mac Pro Server was only just announced, it looks like that's the tactical fix
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by akronim 16y ago
So the teen girls sending 4,050 average a month are sending a text every 7.5min on average while awake?? If that's the average what are the top, say, 10% doing?
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by akronim 16y ago
I can see zero evidence of ads being targeted to me, try changing your status to engaged...
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by akronim 16y ago
My co-founder is moving on because he thinks "Priority Inbox" is too big a threat. I would have thought it just introduces more people to the idea. It's not like Google will release an outlook/Mail.app/Notes plugin for it.
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by akronim 16y ago
Interest paid to the bank is also forever gone.
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by akronim 16y ago
Since the probability of this was high, it would already be factored into the current price. The announcement just confirmed it.
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by akronim 16y ago
The whole "things you didn't know" series is aimed pretty low, more like "things you didn't know because you never used it at all". Was the same for the collections series.
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by akronim 16y ago
Mozilla - his example in the essay - eventually got re-written as the most popular browser in use today It worked out ok for end users, but didn't lead to such a great outcome for Netscape.
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by akronim 16y ago
It's a labs release - they don't want to get every S3 customer on day one. This pricing is a good way to get some beta users and soft launch. I'm sure they wouldn't be in this if they weren't going to match s3 pricing at some point.
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by akronim 16y ago
Exactly - the majority of AAA bonds would be US/Euro/Sterling government bonds, which are still AAA rated.

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