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by coryl 13y ago
Understand distribution. As you'll probably find out, building a great app doesn't translate into downloads.
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by coryl 13y ago
This is true, but also true because B2B is generally boring. A majority of readers will never use an analytics platform or a sales CRM software.
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by coryl 13y ago
I'm guessing being gifted is a totally different question since you'd have to be born with it. In Freakonomics, the idea is that older kids will be more physically developed, thus get more attention and skill development. Those ki
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by coryl 13y ago
Eh, that's the catch with building on platforms. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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That would simply depend on how sleazy the individual or business in question then, right? I don't see commission as the biggest factor of importance when deciding investment vehicles. Your family doctor may get commission on prescript
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by coryl 13y ago
A bit impractical, given that all software will bug out sooner or later. And even worse, fickle people will instantly 1-star your app.
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by coryl 13y ago
Why is commission a bad thing?
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by coryl 13y ago
Reach out to area colleges, contact the professors and tell them you're interested in offering help. Most profs have office hours where students come in to ask questions, so they might be able to use you to help students.
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by coryl 13y ago
I enjoyed reading this book by Ramit Sethi: http://www.amazon.com/Will-Teach-You-Be-Rich/dp/0761147489/r... Its full of very basic fundamental advice. It doesn't go into depth into securities options, bu
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by coryl 13y ago
Audio feedback? Speakers instead of headphones?
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by coryl 13y ago
Are you kidding me, 2 seconds of looking at that landing page is all you need to know.
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by coryl 13y ago
Wait, whats the definition of an Asian/European car. The manufacturer or the geographic location? Cause I'm pretty sure Hondas and Toyotas have gas on the left.
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by coryl 13y ago
Project description: We wanted to solve the problem of capturing gifs quickly and easily. Existing solutions were complicated and yucky: you need the video source file, photoshop, or some specialized software, or a limited Youtube-to-gif se
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Show HN: Fast gif capturing + 1-click upload (Mac App)(gifgrabber.com)
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Highly technical simulations (may or may not look like games). ie. much more detailed versions of farmville, kerbal space program, etc.
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by coryl 13y ago
Can you even choose to die by overworking? I mean, you can overwork yourself and inadvertently die. But you would never know if you were going to die, or just wake up really tired and go home the next morning. Jumping off a bridge is one th
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by coryl 13y ago
Performance reasons, native API / framework availability. A native developer can achieve anything the JS dev can, but vice versa does not apply. OOP is a pain to learn, but once you learn it, you have access to all OOP languages. I lik
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by coryl 13y ago
Google trends is not always a good indicator of traffic
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by coryl 13y ago
I wouldn't sell my baby for that. Heh, well first you'd need to have a baby. A baby worth $1bn of which you owned 20-25% equity.
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by coryl 13y ago
I'm not sure about that. I mean, this whole place is inadvertently an advertisement for the Ycombinator program. And people click the YC company job ads all the time too.
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by coryl 13y ago
Why? HN users tend to have income, and probably spend money on work/productivity related products. Example ads: hosting, programming tools, job boards, vc/legal services, startup services, etc.
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by coryl 13y ago
So Las Vegas Hotels have a bad business model? There are ways to deal with potential issues, ie. security deposits
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by coryl 13y ago
This particular service isn't focused on black girls for the purpose of being racist or exclusionary. The short and easy answer is analyzing racial representation and statistical disparity. Certain groups can be vastly over-represented
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by coryl 13y ago
Twitter might have, if they had a presence. They had this sort of issue in France a while back didn't they?
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by coryl 13y ago
Definitely detected some unconscious racism (or at least willful ignorance) by apsec112's post. Saying that "this doesn't belong on HN" when HN has anecdotal articles about job/interview experiences and startup hiri
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by coryl 13y ago
You could travel southeast asia relatively cheaply. Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, India, etc, or stick to a couple countries for longer periods.
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by coryl 13y ago
I would assume NSA roles have much higher requirements in education and training.
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Former fashion CEO -> wearables? iWatch?
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by coryl 13y ago
Hell yea you can do it, you just need to stop day dreaming and start applying. I learned to make apps in less than a year with no CS education. Granted, I dedicated my days and nights to it. You don't need to learn ABOUT web developmen
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I doubt even that would cover him. "Instagram" is a made up word, so I don't believe competing in a different space is enough to be protected the way an "Apple Orchards" could be protected vs "Apple Computers&q

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