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by andre 19y ago
anymore left?
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by andre 19y ago
With a big down payment they shouldn't have to care.
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by andre 19y ago
I was helping somebody with a help file for a linux program and the first reaction was to just Google the name of the program and the issue and the solution that will come up will probably be more up to date and spot on since somebody else
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Are "help files" useless, in light of Google?
1 points by andre 19y ago|2 comments
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10 Weaknesses of Your Intelligence (In Computer Language)(stevepavlina.com)
2 points by andre 19y ago|0 comments
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by andre 19y ago
The "sample" is there so readers won't get confused that it's just an example. I threw it together pretty quickly, I'm not afraid that somebody is going to steal it, I'm actually trying to share it with everybody.
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by andre 19y ago
Please post more details as to who you are looking for with what kind of qualifications.
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by andre 19y ago
I think what steve was driving at is how many visitors were generated by each service. If you get 1% conversion of 50,000 visitors from digg, it's still better than if you get 5% of 500 visitors from NYTimes
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by andre 19y ago
it's better to ask for forgiveness than for permission! on a more serious note, (i'm not a lawyer). I would look to see if you're competing with your employer, if you are not than there's not much to worry about, if you think you might be,
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by andre 19y ago
Interesting. Rock on!!!
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by andre 19y ago
I'd love to see a follow up in 90 days to this story, maybe with how much money the site made, etc.
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by andre 19y ago
Tips for outsourcing like Guy did: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=26310
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by andre 19y ago
All the companies rage about developers and third party development, but it looks like Yahoo might actually step up and open up their system when Google is keep a closed shop.
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Viable Threat to Google Adwords Emerges(gigaom.com)
4 points by andre 19y ago|3 comments
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by andre 19y ago
With the hiring of the new female it might help actually.... The thinking might be, "Be cool, get into computers and you'll have hot babes like that too." But from what I hear from some friends of mine that are in CS majors, it's not pretty
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by andre 19y ago
Good point. There's like no elaboration at all. Even if he doesn't want to use Twitter, he can use other companies out there.
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by andre 19y ago
That's what came into my mind, why not just use Wikipedia content.
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by andre 19y ago
A great solution is to give them an incentive to give you their real email address, like you're going to send them an important report or something else that is of high value so the visitors have no problem giving up their email address.
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by andre 19y ago
Alex covers this subject pretty well on how he handles different traffic: http://alexking.org/blog/2007/05/22/monetization
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by andre 19y ago
If a company has no terms of use or any other kind of policy on their site, what are the issues in scraping the content? any way to prevent it?
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Scraping content issues
4 points by andre 19y ago|6 comments
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How to Learn Any (Technical, Programming, Other) Subject in 7 Days(okdork.com)
8 points by andre 19y ago|5 comments
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by andre 19y ago
1) Tell myself that it's ok, and that the cell and net will be back in less than 24 hours 2) Catch up on sleep 3) Read all the books that are stacked up and not being read 4) Buy homing pigeons for lost distance communications
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by andre 19y ago
This has been occurring with my univ network for days now, sometimes down for half a day at a time.
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by andre 19y ago
Test drive it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=24516
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Visit the New Facebook Platform Here before others have a chance(apps.f8.facebook.com)
3 points by andre 19y ago|0 comments
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by andre 19y ago
From GIGAOM: "Now Zuckerberg says you can serve ads on your app pages and keep all the revenue, sell them yourselves or use a network, and process transactions within the site, keeping all the revenue without diverting users off Facebook."
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by andre 19y ago
Now, that would be crazy. How do you make money with that?
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by andre 19y ago
Good point too! To me this feels like signing up for a franchise instead of starting your own business, you have control, but not full control. For some purposes or ideas it's a great.
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by andre 19y ago
the only question I have: How are the developers protected from facebook launching similar products when their product proves that it makes money or draws a lot of traffic? Edit: Fixed

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