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by compumike 17y ago
I saw this post on the top news page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051217 so I decided I'd submit my own story of what a self-employed workday looks like. I originally wrote this post for friends and family, but hope it can be us
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An Internet Entrepreneur's Workday(blog.compumike.com)
1 points by compumike 17y ago|1 comments
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by compumike 17y ago
Repeat showing to the same shows (MythBusters, etc) -- although I don't think that necessarily implies the same people . In fact, it seems impossible to control whether to show it multiple times in a single 30-min slot, etc.
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by compumike 17y ago
I did the sketches (pencil+paper+scanner), my co-founder did the music + video compositing of the commercial, and we paid $100 for the voiceover. We're DIY people so we had to give it a shot ourselves first. :-) You can see an earlier vers
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by compumike 17y ago
We've been trying it out on a limited basis. You pick show-level targeting, set a max CPM (cost per thousand households) bid, and a max daily budget. Then, after it runs, you get reports about # of impressions, etc. It clearly brings a lo
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by compumike 17y ago
How about doing a DNS lookup but for a SOA record type, instead of an A record? I'm fairly sure that will either give you a record or an NXDOMAIN. $ dig magic.com SOA [snip] magic.com. 21600 IN SOA auth03.ns
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by compumike 17y ago
Very tactful -- I'd be very happy to hear specific thoughts on this from you or the rest of the HN community! Send me an e-mail, or post it here.
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by compumike 17y ago
For our first product, we used eBay, starting an auction at $0.01/free shipping and letting it go for a week to see where it ended up. We got lots of bidders and a better price than we expected, and most importantly lots of interest. After
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by compumike 17y ago
The HTML did, but not the CSS :-P http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%...
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by compumike 17y ago
The amount of candy definitely changes the capacitance! That's one of the reasons we had to add the auto-zero algorithm to the code. As the candy level decreases, the overall capacitance decreases too. Even without the candy influence, t
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Halloween Hack: programming a "haunted" Jack-O-Lantern(nerdkits.com)
18 points by compumike 17y ago|4 comments
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by compumike 17y ago
That page shows some of our projects, but also see the "video tutorials" at http://www.nerdkits.com/videos/ , and also buried on our forum there are many customer projects. For example: a hamster wheel sensor which graphs how far a hamst
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by compumike 17y ago
NerdKits goes from beginners to way beyond... We actually publish lots of educational content -- see 18 free videos so far on http://www.nerdkits.com/videos/ -- that show off lots of programming and electronics concepts that push the lim