codeslush

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by codeslush 15y ago
I've been reading hacker news for about 18 months or so, and signed up for an account ~9 months ago. Since signing up, I've contributed a fair amount of comments. Interestingly, most of the comments I've put the most thought and time into
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by codeslush 15y ago
I want to believe you - it seems logical. But everything in front of me suggests they do not know how to price things! If you disagree with me, that's okay. But I have to believe they could have sold every single unit today for $200 to $
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by codeslush 15y ago
Sure, down vote at will! My point wasn't that the current price was the right price, but that it was overpriced before. Clearly, there is a demand for the product. Maybe an experiment with a happy medium would have been a good experiment
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by codeslush 15y ago
goes to prove they had a desirable product, wrong price point!
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by codeslush 15y ago
Better title: "A must read for anyone involved in software development!" I wonder if this will become required reading for CS students? I haven't read the entire contents, but browsed through a few of the chapters. REALLY GREAT WORK! Ver
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by codeslush 15y ago
Fair enough. I don't know "best practices" from a company perspective. I know from a consumer perspective that the frequency of updates is very relevant to the TYPE of application/service/... Examples: 1. Facebook/LinkedIn: Send me an u
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by codeslush 15y ago
Can you offer them some sort of choice in the matter? A daily/weekly/monthly digest? I suspect different users will have different preferences and this should be something easy enough to implement as part of the signup process. FWIW - I w
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by codeslush 15y ago
I'll second the pre-sales role - it's the first thing that came to mind when reading your post before any of the comments. Sales Consulting/Sales Engineering/Systems Consultant --- they are all mostly the same type of role with different t
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by codeslush 15y ago
v = !v - if toggling between true | false
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by codeslush 15y ago
I read the wikipedia article - thank you. However, I think we are speaking of different things! Maybe, maybe not. I speak of true happiness. I look at the people in my life that live "a good life" and the people I see succeeding are tho
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by codeslush 15y ago
"tend to get ahead", "trend seems obvious", "fly in the face..." -- I've witnessed a lot of "intelligent" people in my life, and a lot of people on the other end of the spectrum. Intelligent or not, I would suggest that people who "tend to
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by codeslush 15y ago
It's so difficult to launch your OWN product and I enjoyed reading about your experience and goals on your blog. I'm reading (again, this time to completion) "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" and a phrase in it really applies to th
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by codeslush 15y ago
As of the time of this post, ~8:10PM Pacific, "jerk" has been used a total of 6 times in this thread - 5 of which are owned by you! ;-) I write this because this particular comment, for me, sends a negative vibe about you. By no means am
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by codeslush 15y ago
I sure hope they have a great legal disclaimer in the event they get it wrong!
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by codeslush 15y ago
You're fine, I'm the crazy one...err...ignorant one! I was just wrong. In viewing some of the other comments on this thread, it's clear to me that milo would have done a fine job of filtering me out! :-) FWIW, I looked at the problem dif
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by codeslush 15y ago
Too many AirBnb stories, and too many comments - so it's possible my input is duplicated. But I COMPLETELY agree with you. A month or two ago, someone was visiting SoCal (San Diego) and needed some help - I was about to offer him a place t
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by codeslush 15y ago
I, too, looked at the challenge and originally had the same thought. However, upon a second reading, it seems that there is a lot of room to misunderstand the requirement, which is almost certainly where the difficulty appears. For example
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by codeslush 15y ago
Is this a joke? Any halfway credible criminal would make sure to strip that info out before posting (or use a device that doesn't capture it).
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by codeslush 15y ago
If you're able and/or willing to go to Silicon Valley, which is where I think your best bet is (note: I don't live there, but if I was near homeless that's probably where I would go), then I will figure out a way to get you a plane ticket
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U.S. Steps up probe of Nortel Patents(online.wsj.com)
6 points by codeslush 15y ago|0 comments
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by codeslush 15y ago
I don't agree with your comment, but I get what you're saying. I think the guy should be applauded for what he did do - which is substantially more than a lot of people do! He had some goals - he achieved them. The lesson he learned from
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by codeslush 15y ago
I must confess, I actually watched the entire video! Much better than looking through hundreds of screen-captures in a list and interestingly entertaining! It's striking to me the number of watch makers that advertised through the course o
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by codeslush 15y ago
I was an original droid owner. I didn't want to switch to AT&T, as I had dropped them years before for a variety of reasons. Everyone I knew got iPhones, and I stuck with Verizon and was happy with my droid. Two months (or so) before
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by codeslush 15y ago
"I also don't want to be in sales" -- have you too narrowly defined sales? From reading your description, it seems quite a natural area for you to be, in the capacity of a Sales Consultant / Sales Engineer / etc... You can be the technica
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by codeslush 15y ago
fatfreecrm sugarcrm vtiger Of the three, my preference is fatfreecrm - light weight, well written, ROR based. Sugar might have richer capabilities if you need it. All of the above are open source, or have open source versions.
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by codeslush 15y ago
Andrew - congrats! Great to hear this and of course best wishes for your business. You should know that your post had quite a network affect - probably beyond what you realize. I was a commenter on that post and had at least three or four
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Sticky, but doesn't stick
1 points by codeslush 15y ago|0 comments
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by codeslush 16y ago
I'm curious if this has any negative impact on the accuracy of long term memory recall. For example, I can imagine that I would place these exaggerated items in a friends house...then, years later, in a discussion with said friend; "Hey, d
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by codeslush 16y ago
I've been using rails since alpha and have always found it awesome for my use cases. A crm system I wrote on it is still on 1.x. (written over 6 years ago). Sure, some things sucked and some things are now better, but always was awesome and
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by codeslush 16y ago
You're in LA - look up coloft - they are in santa monica and have a website of the same name. They have a lot of events for startups and the owners are fantastic people. You have all kinds of hacker groups in la too. go to meetup.com and

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