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by cfinke 16y ago
It's possible that they raised the money to pursue some significant tech behind a portion of their product; it could be possible that they are on the cusp of making vast advances in text-to-speech synthesis, and they needed more funds to se
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by cfinke 16y ago
Add to the list any client that tells you how easy a project should be: "I need a widget that does A, B, and C; it shouldn't be too hard, just a couple lines of JavaScript." No matter how low the estimate you give them, it will be too high
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by cfinke 16y ago
You don't need to quit Facebook; you need better friends.
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by cfinke 16y ago
That's too bad. I spend A LOT of time on that website, and all of the visual cues I had come to expect are now gone, leaving me feeling lost.
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by cfinke 16y ago
I'd go paid from the get-go. In my experience, once users associate something with "free," it's much harder to get them to pay anything for a similar product.
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by cfinke 16y ago
> Firefox plugins have been wildly successful when solving pain. But not when charging for the solution.
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by cfinke 16y ago
You may find my experience with developing a freemium browser extension helpful: http://www.chrisfinke.com/2010/09/13/my-experience-with-deve... The executive summary is that a free extension with ~70,000 users had a conversion rate to pa
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Improving the browser extension localization process(chrisfinke.com)
1 points by cfinke 16y ago|0 comments
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by cfinke 16y ago
That's a pretty nice-looking site; do they support Chrome-style messages.json files?
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by cfinke 16y ago
The current feature set: * Uses Google's OpenID support for account management. * Clean UI for displaying all messages from a locale, along with developer descriptions and placeholder examples. * API for downloading latest locale files. * I
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What do you think of my site for managing Chrome extension translations?(interpr.it)
4 points by cfinke 16y ago|3 comments
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Improving password input on mobile devices(chrisfinke.com)
2 points by cfinke 16y ago|0 comments
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by cfinke 16y ago
> "The potential upside to users is a smaller data bill." Ideas that are terrible for end users almost always include a line like this: one small potential benefit for the group getting screwed. The possibility that any users will see
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by cfinke 16y ago
You said rape twice.
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by cfinke 16y ago
If you read it in context, they're saying that Anonymous is affiliated with 4chan, not with the hackers: > The hackers suggested they had chosen Gawker out of > spite. They said Gawker writers had been critical of the > online m
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by cfinke 16y ago
I ordered one for my wife's birthday in January... last year. It's a good thing I had a backup gift ready.
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by cfinke 16y ago
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
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by cfinke 16y ago
If you're moving to GitHub from Google Code, you might find this issue transfer script useful: https://github.com/cfinke/googlecode2github
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by cfinke 16y ago
> On the ChromeOSforums.net site alone we've seen at least 5 unrelated individuals receive the laptop I wouldn't call that "tons."
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by cfinke 16y ago
Looks like it has indeed been taken down. The author should have seeded it on BitTorrent instead.
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by cfinke 16y ago
I wrote a similar tool two years ago: http://www.chrisfinke.com/2008/01/03/take-your-facebook-data... If my experience is any indication, the author will be receiving a takedown notice shortly.
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by cfinke 16y ago
I think you mean :(
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by cfinke 16y ago
This site: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/11/18/wednesday-final-... shows 9.2MM viewers for that night's episode.
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by cfinke 16y ago
I registered the domain at about 7:50pm Central time and had content on the site by 8:05; the show had aired at 7:00 Central time, so I was still two hours ahead of the Pacific time zone airtime (10pm Central time).
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by cfinke 16y ago
Fixed, thanks. My IDE even showed it as a misspelling, but I guess I was too high on the rush of getting the site up to notice.
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What kind of traffic is driven by a single mention of a domain on network TV?(chrisfinke.com)
159 points by cfinke 16y ago|54 comments
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by cfinke 16y ago
I ordered a WakeMate for my wife for her birthday... in January. Hopefully it will ship in time for me to give it to her for her next birthday.
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by cfinke 16y ago
> AutoAuth Just wanted to say thanks; this is the first time I've ever seen one of my extensions listed in a "What extensions do you use?" discussion.
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by cfinke 16y ago
Do you use Firefox (or Chrome)? If so, go through the list of add-ons you have installed and contact the developers. (JS is the primary language for add-on development.) Many add-on devs are freelancers (read: available to work), and if you
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Ask HN: Please review my browser add-on's landing page
1 points by cfinke 16y ago|0 comments

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