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by alanbyrne 13y ago
Stop coding, pick up the phone and call some of your free users. Ask them if they'd pay for your product and why/why not. If none of your free customers are willing to pay, then it might be time for a pivot. Such as licensing your app to f
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
I agree. I've recently noticed a huge amount of .Net resources for the Microsoft Cloud based on Azure, Office 365, SharePoint Online etc. I expect there'll be lots of money made piggy backing LOB .Net applications off these services.
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
Simple, pretty, to the point and does what it says on the tin. Unfortunately I can't seem to copy the link at the top of the design. Instead of making it a readonly input, make it a link or tell them to copy the URL from their browser. Us
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
Wow, that comment made me feel old.
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Ask HN: How should we market/promote our niche Office 365 Reporting SaaS?(cogmotive.com)
2 points by alanbyrne 13y ago|0 comments
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
This is an interesting point of view, and almost exactly the opposite of mine. I also travel a lot and I love it. I travel in order to experience new cultures, people, food and drink. The last thing I want to see when I have traveled half
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
I wonder what this means for us Swiss citizens working in other EU member countries. Will they reciprocally boot us out?
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
This is why I pay CloudFlare each month. They repeatedly publicly show that they know exactly what they're doing - and they do it without any sense of smugness.
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
I don't understand why they did that... couldn't they have just offered him at job at £200,000 a year? I'm sure he'd have accepted. Edit: Typo
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Ask HN: Can anyone suggest PHP based alternatives to AppFog?
5 points by alanbyrne 14y ago|1 comments
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
I love this idea and it is exactly the kind of thing I want here in London. Except I run and Android phone :(
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
These things always feel like they pan the reverse way than they should...
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Microsoft Office 365 is down(portal.microsoftonline.com)
2 points by alanbyrne 14y ago|0 comments
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
Yeh, if "Buy now with one click" had a breathalizer component I'd be a lot richer right now. But then again, I wouldn't have a USB Nerf cannon...
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
I would link that a "review" to your answer to the common interview question: "What are your weaknesses" "Phil Dub often works too hard and put in too many late night unbillable hours on projects as he is a perfectionist"
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
You're going after the wrong target market. Sudoku apps are for middle aged women (Yes, I generalize, but it's pretty much the only game my mother plays on her Android phone). Stop targeting your ads at Android related users (Android forum
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
The site looks great. Simple, to the point with an obvious call to action. I have one question about the pricing. You say "x projects" and the cost is monthly. Is that x projects per month? If I start a project in one month, and it cont
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
Same problem from http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.pingdom.com
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Pingdom down for UK?(isitdown.co.uk)
3 points by alanbyrne 14y ago|1 comments
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
Yes, remote PowerShell is basically like SSH and is based on Win-RM. It can be encrypted with SSL.
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
Citi was one of the best places I have ever worked. Sure it was tightly controlled with various security precautions, change control and the other banking regulator requirements which made it impossible to be a hacker and to get things done
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
> Minimum Pubs for a PhD in CS? This certainly exceeds acronym/real word ratio in my book. I thought this was about a university pub crawl... :S
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
> We're also planning on integrating a lot more data - there's a whole load of open government stuff (think crime stats, schools data) in particular that we're looking at. This would be great. I moved to London last year and I had no id
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
Affecting PHPFog/Appfog too - I think their MySQL services.
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AWS: Network Connectivity issues affecting EC2 in US-EAST-1(status.aws.amazon.com)
55 points by alanbyrne 14y ago|31 comments
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
If you've not read Masters of Doom, do so now. It is an amazing read.
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How to stay sane, while sending rockets into space [video](youtube.com)
1 points by alanbyrne 14y ago|0 comments
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
"Bing won 1 rounds" What bothers me most about this is that the programmers didn't bother to remove the S from "rounds" when the result was singular... sloppy.
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
None of these articles seem to be about women or sex... interesting. I got this book for my 18th birthday, and it was invaluable in shaping me into the person I am today. I don't quite understand why it costs £65 on Amazon though: http://
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by alanbyrne 14y ago
How do they know? IMEI?

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