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by borplk 10y ago
The problem is I find it hard and expensive to get traffic coming in. So what if I find a useful app but it is getting 5 visits per day? My personality is not terribly compatible with the type of marketing that I see some people do nowadays
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by borplk 10y ago
I'm probably not the only one but aiming for something that is small enough that I ca run on my own and it makes little enough that only pays for me is more attractive to me than to make more money but then have to deal with hiring peo
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by borplk 10y ago
It's about money. It was always about money, the collaboration thing is just a veil. Companies will always invent "happy vocabulary" to justify whatever it is that is in their interest to do. If they could pack their employee
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by borplk 10y ago
I imagine a good chunk of them will decline due to IP reasons and stuff.
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by borplk 10y ago
Interesting. I'm a bit surprised I'd imagine they'd be interested in taking it over. What do others think?
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by borplk 10y ago
Also meant to mention Shopify ( https://apps.shopify.com/ ). Not sure how good the marketplace is.
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by borplk 10y ago
My piece of advice is go with a "normal" method of payment of either fixed-pricing style or hourly/daily payments or salary. Unusual payment arrangements don't work well.
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by borplk 10y ago
I'm not aware of a specific catchy word that precisely describes that but I can imagine it would be useful to have one. You could describe it in sentences though. Like, breaking standard browser features is not a good thing. Also it&#x
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by borplk 10y ago
This might be a bit weird but I find washing my face with water helps. When you get a chance wash your face with water and if possible try not to dry it too much afterwards, a bit of moisture sticks around for a while and helps your eyes.
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by borplk 10y ago
What options are out there for Android? I think the ones I used were Lux and Nightwatch. Not a huge fan of them.
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Ask HN: Less-saturated platforms for premium plugin development?
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by borplk 10y ago
Yes Nim has the reputation of being a Python-like system programming language.
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by borplk 10y ago
Like others have said here I'd advise against it. It will absolutely put you in a position of weakness in the future because everywhere you go you'll have to be like "I was using Delphi in my last job ... but believe me I&#x2
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by borplk 10y ago
Just write it in an email what TV shows you watch mate.
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by borplk 10y ago
The funny thing is if you get successful people praise you for sticking to your preference. It's like a fuck-you card. People will blame the college kid for not dressing more professionally. But suddenly if the college kid becomes Zuck
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by borplk 10y ago
"I like sporting events, but not clubs, because all the noise at the sporting event is focused on the action on the field/court/ice but the noise at the club is an unrelated tangled mess of conversations and music." This
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by borplk 10y ago
Presumptuous is a great choice of word there and I also agree. Unfortunately due to extrovert (and pretend-extrovert) majority in the world there's always an undertone of "this is the right way and everyone else is weird" lin
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by borplk 10y ago
We need more pragmatic people (and less academic) in the programming language scene. Some of the people I see remind me of a doctor that forces you to learn all about the chemical composition of a pill and its history before he lets you tak
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by borplk 10y ago
My item added to that would be this, "There's a universal dedicated storage mechanism for the state of the operating system and its related packages similar to a SQL database." It really annoys me how ad-hoc state and values
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by borplk 10y ago
Sorry I don't reveal that.
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by borplk 10y ago
Nothing
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by borplk 10y ago
As someone who exclusively uses a password manager with random unique passwords for each service it always amuses me to see posts like this. Years ago I relieved myself from the stress by using a password manager. Now for all I care they co
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by borplk 10y ago
Can you give some examples of the kind of skills you are talking about? I keep hearing this but no one mentions concrete examples.
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by borplk 10y ago
It's hard to give good advice with this much information it's all up to you in the end. However I can tell you sticking around and hoping for a company to "wake up" and so on is a delusion. I think in general people shou
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by borplk 10y ago
For the past couple of years I have been consistently amazed at how bad Lenovo has become. What a bunch of morons are in charge. Every year I wonder if it's going to get worse and sure enough they do something stupid.
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by borplk 10y ago
That's not the point. I'm not paying thousands of dollars to get something that needs to be "cracked" to work the way I want. Lenovo will not see a single dollar of mine, ever.
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by borplk 10y ago
For government websites I can understand it but for commercial stuff I think this attitude of "everyone must be supported at all cost" is nonsensical. Where do you draw the line? Do I have to also support people who prefer to use
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by borplk 10y ago
Yup I can relate a lot. Since I started working for myself from home the difference has been night and day. I hope I can survive on my own for the longterm because the thought of having to go back to yet another office, especially an open o
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by borplk 10y ago
I will be happily dancing around the flames of Skype.
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by borplk 10y ago
Maybe try this: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM

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