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by bjplink 17y ago
I've been solo full-time for two years now (and off and on as well before this) and I'll vouch that having a special room for an office helps considerably. Just before the new year we built a brand new office for myself in our house and it
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by bjplink 17y ago
I use them for a paid membership site I own and haven't had any problems for several years now. I'm pretty low volume though so that might have something to do with it.
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by bjplink 17y ago
Weird stance from someone who lists themselves as the "creator" of a Custom Google Search box in their HN profile... http://techielifeissues.blogspot.com
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by bjplink 17y ago
Isn't it a little strange that he announces his "blogging retirement" on a magazine's website inside an article hidden behind an interstitial ad? Shouldn't this have gone front and center on Joel on Software?
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by bjplink 17y ago
I was a semi-regular user before the redesign, didn't particularly like the new look and have pretty much stopped using the site.
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by bjplink 17y ago
First of all, based on my own personal experience, I don't buy that formula for one second. Secondly, a link on a TechCrunch post is by no means a high PR link for any decent length of time. You MIGHT get your link on their front page for a
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by bjplink 17y ago
"A single post on Techcrunch is worth more link wise, than a million PR1-3 blogs posting about your latest link bait strategy." I don't have a link to provide as proof but I'm pretty sure based off of my memory and anecdotal evidence I've r
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by bjplink 17y ago
I'm a freelancer web developer who recently had to cut loose a client of mine. It was fantastically awesome and I recommend it to any one who has a particular client or customer who creates more hassle than the revenue they generate is wort
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by bjplink 17y ago
If you decide to watch this and during the last few minutes decide it's a bit over the top and want to stop I suggest you hold on until the last 30 seconds. I almost gave up before then but I'm glad I finished.
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by bjplink 17y ago
This is probably one of the most shameful and depressing discussions I've ever read on this site. It's amazing the backlash this appears to be causing. For a community full of people running startups and sites, either full-time or on the si
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by bjplink 17y ago
They haven't come totally true because there isn't enough developer interest in the Android platform yet. I know from reading thread after thread on this site that the majority of folks here will find offense with that but I'm sorry that it
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by bjplink 17y ago
This issue is starting to cause some widespread panic on the Digital Point forums. I had some outsource work done for me there and I've tried two times to get my payment to go through and each time it's been reversed and I've been credited
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by bjplink 17y ago
I use my iPhone when I'm on site almost exclusively but the employees at this location probably aren't savvy enough to work with the tiny screen. I'm pretty sure the larger iPad display would eliminate a lot of problems that a tiny iPod tou
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by bjplink 17y ago
As I was tracking the press conference on the live blogs I had the same thoughts as you did. One of my larger clients is a factory setting using a custom built web app for, among many things, inventory control. When it comes time to do phys
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by bjplink 17y ago
I think your list of negatives is the big sell of the iPad for most computer users... of which there are many on this planet who don't care about open source or installing different broswers or jailbreaking or any of the other reasons most
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by bjplink 17y ago
Explain to me how carrying around two separate devices is more portable?
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by bjplink 17y ago
The comments on this post are fascinating. It's a really, really long scroll but to watch grown adults be so oversensitive about their stations in life makes for some entertaining early morning reading. "Popular" web designers, I feel, have
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by bjplink 17y ago
I use both pretty regularly but I would agree that NameCheap is probably the way to go. GoDaddy, with each passing day, has more of a sleazy and cheap feel to it. Having said that, no matter how dirty GoDaddy makes you feel it won't be near
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by bjplink 17y ago
The author of this post has nailed this on the head. Without viewable lists the discovery part of thesixtyone seems to be lost. I was/am a big fan of the site but this new UI has kind of sucked the wind out of it for me. I feel like thesixt
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by bjplink 17y ago
People hardly ever go out of there way to make a fuss when a company has good customer service or handles a support issue well. Sometimes the negative minority is just the most vocal. For instance, most people have PayPal accounts with no p
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by bjplink 17y ago
I have a site that's a utility for World of Warcraft players (pugchecker.com). It sees about 2,000 uniques a day, give or take, and I've had a donation button at the bottom for a few months now. In that time, I've received four donations fo
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by bjplink 17y ago
I've been using Gowalla for about a week now and it's a neat little diversion when you're out on the town. I like that it works in my city which is relatively large, but not large enough to be recognized by Foursquare yet. The downside to G
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by bjplink 17y ago
Just in case anyone gets interested in this... the SitePoint Marketplace is now called Flippa ( http://flippa.com )
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by bjplink 17y ago
I agree. I think it's important that a lot of the people with lackluster sales or disappointing results should take a step back and be honest with themselves about whether or not their app is actually worth buying. There is plenty of moanin
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by bjplink 17y ago
When this happens to me, and it has several times, I just get real honest with the person and ask them to try and be a little more organized with their questions. Most people become real apologetic when they feel like they're abusing you...
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by bjplink 17y ago
I live and die by #1. I have a last in, first out policy when it comes to requests via email. If you want something done, and you email me about it, it gets top priority over whatever else I'm doing. One of the biggest comments I hear from
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by bjplink 17y ago
It's a little old now and a documentary, which might not be what you were asking about, but you should check out Startup.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/
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by bjplink 17y ago
It's a shame there aren't more threads here about 37signals that mention their products and less threads about their snarky, linkbait blog posts.
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by bjplink 17y ago
If your site becomes even marginally successful it is almost inevitable that some jerkwad will register a .info or .cc version of your domain to try and take advantage. When you consider that a .info domain is around $1 it's probably worth
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by bjplink 17y ago
The tone of this article is pretty off base (lots of people buy domain names to resell later) and I thought it was interesting that they would paint this NBA player as some kind of dodgy Internet citizen up to no good.

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