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by catone 18y ago
I left Verizon after about 6 or 7 years a month ago because I wanted an iPhone. It's just the best phone for my needs on the market. But if Verizon gets the iPhone next year, or the Palm Pre and the Pre offers a comparable user experience,
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by catone 18y ago
"Internet-enabled devices in mature markets" doesn't include mobile, and as far as I can tell doesn't pretend to. So this article is essentially arguing against a claim Adobe never makes. Seems like sort of a made up gripe to me.
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by catone 18y ago
I think it is ... it's just harder the more saturated your niche gets. If you have a unique voice/point of view and are willing to put in the work (long hours, lots of hustling), you can still make a living blogging. (Bearing in mind that
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by catone 18y ago
That was my first thought -- not that the rumor was untrue, but that it was an exceptionally weak basis for a story, and possibly bordering on irresponsible. A tip from a random person via email that starts off with "I heard from a friend.
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by catone 18y ago
I'm sick of articles claiming you can't make money blogging. 1. You can (I have). 2. It's not easy. I took the cheaters route by working for already well established blogs, but plenty of bloggers who have started in the past few years are d
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by catone 18y ago
I've never liked sites that start the user off on a crowded country-wide Google Maps view. It seems like such a clumsy way to display data. One, I don't want or need to find every pizza place in the US, so why show it to me? and 2. it's o
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by catone 18y ago
Definitely good advice. Having the skills to be able to fix problems when shit goes awry (or at least enough so that things aren't exploding until someone who really knows what they're doing can fix them right) would be a good thing, for su
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by catone 18y ago
I guess the question was mostly theoretical -- then again, it's only theoretical for another month or so. To answer your questions: * Ruby on Rails, Apache with Phusion Passenger for deployment. We've been using SQLite for development, but
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Ask HN: Finding a contractor to set up our server
3 points by catone 18y ago|13 comments
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by catone 18y ago
As a blogger, speaking from my own personal experience, cold calling is perhaps the absolute worst way to pitch. I generally end up just ignoring calls unless I'm expecting them for a planned product/news brief. They're distracting, take
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by catone 18y ago
I start it, and then see how it's going a few days in. If it's a struggle then it either probably isn't something I want to be working on, or there's something wrong with my premise that's keeping me from really "feeling it." So back to t
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by catone 18y ago
Ryan Carson shared stats for DropSend a couple of years ago on Vitamin: http://thinkvitamin.com/business/will-your-web-app-make-mone...
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by catone 18y ago
All of them. Or, more precisely, anywhere you either: 1. may want to some day communicate officially with users, or, 2. wouldn't want someone else impersonating you Check out the list at http://www.usernamecheck.com/ (also handy for chec
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by catone 18y ago
For sites that get such a small amount of traffic I don't know if Compete is accurate enough to draw any conclusions. Rails Forum gets about 110,000 uniques per months, but Compete says 24,000. I guess the point still stands if they're ess
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TechCrunch is not a marketing plan(freshbooks.com)
12 points by catone 18y ago|4 comments
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by catone 18y ago
I think you're reading too much into the analogy -- or misreading it. The analogy isn't, "web business are just like pizza shops!" Rather, the sentiment that I think Allen was communicating is, "in _any_ business, there is always room for
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by catone 18y ago
My buddy Allen Stern (of CenterNetworks) said something recently in a podcast that I liked and is relevant here. Paraphrasing, he said something like, "In New York City there are a thousand pizza places and new ones opening up all the time
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by catone 18y ago
On their FAQ page, it mentions future plans to offer utilities for bands to sell downloads, create and sell merchandise, and sell concert tickets. Presumably, those would be pay services. (They could also sell premium packages that allow
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by catone 18y ago
Running corollary to that, I'd love to be able to set HN to give me some sort of alert on site whenever someone has responded to one of my comments/submissions.
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by catone 18y ago
The first part could theoretically be achieved via your "saved" list (anything you've up voted). I.e., http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=naish
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by catone 18y ago
I think it's probably this one: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/william_kamkwamba_on_buil... "When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, work
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by catone 18y ago
A ton of SaaS apps are, I think. Like Lighthouse, the 37signals apps, Freshbooks... SlideRocket probably will in the near(ish) future, if they're not already, etc. Then there's the micro ISVs like Balsamiq. Plenty of startups are making m
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by catone 18y ago
Yes! ... I actually work from home, but I went into the office for two weeks this past August to get to know the guys I work for. Their office is an open plan (one big room with a long E[ish]-shaped desk and people sitting at various point
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by catone 18y ago
Just did a search and found something on what I was talking about: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5302 Had my facts a little mixed up (it's 43 distribution centers, not in 45 states). Anyway, take it for what you will. :)
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by catone 18y ago
I guess it would depend on the sales tax laws in each state. Some states require sales tax on ecommerce if there is a physical presence, some do not. Some require tax regardless. The argument I have always heard in relation to Netflix is t
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by catone 18y ago
I think those are the states in which they have a physical presence. I know their headquarters are in Washington, for example, and that they have a big distribution center in Kentucky. New York, though, may just have laws taxing ecommerce
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by catone 18y ago
The argument I've always heard against Amazon acquiring Netflix is that Netflix has distribution centers in something like 45 states, whereas Amazon only has them in a handful. So that'd be 45 states in which Amazon would then have to char
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by catone 18y ago
I think it actually happened a few days ago. I noticed a jump last week.
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by catone 18y ago
I recently wrote a blog post about something similar that might be applicable here: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/12/19/12-ways-to-keep-sa... The article was geared toward home workers and focused on tips and tricks to avoid getting
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by catone 18y ago
This is a really minor thing, but a pet peeve of mine is when vowels from two separate words line up in a domain. It confuses me at first glance, and sometimes the name gets obscured. So I see, CloudFireit (i.e., something I would pronoun

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