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by dangero 9y ago
Did you read the article? Ripple wanted out because there were other agreements in the partnership that Ripple claims R3 did not follow through on and they are countersuing for this reason.
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by dangero 9y ago
Gigster used to give fixed price quotes, but it looks like they may have stopped doing that based on the website copy. Can anyone confirm that?
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by dangero 9y ago
I found their glassdoor reviews enlightening. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Gigster-Reviews-E1168400.h...
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by dangero 9y ago
I agree and why does the stock image show it on the interior of the home next to the dinner table? Wouldn't you install this in your garage or a closet somewhere, not as a dining room accent?
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by dangero 9y ago
Ripple serves this exact purpose.
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by dangero 9y ago
You think making a dollar after 200+ hours stroked his ego?
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by dangero 9y ago
I usually just do believable screenshots and a call to action like, "Request a trial" or "Buy now" it depends on what it's for. I never take any money I just log the actions people took on the site. If it's a b
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by dangero 9y ago
It came out maybe a year after the App Store launched, and the 100 copies I sold never justified maintaining it. It's long gone. Only way to play it would be an old iPhone that still has it installed and I don't even have one of t
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by dangero 9y ago
Edit: I forgot one that is fairly recent too. I built a Windows app that allowed you to watch Twitch picture in picture while playing a game. Sold one copy before shutting it down.
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by dangero 9y ago
The first dollar is usually the hardest though. This is a true account of one person's experience and I think a lot of people don't understand what that feels like. 200+ hours to cheer for $1 and some people don't even get to
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by dangero 9y ago
I built a competitor to Reddit and Digg (at the time) called RatherGather that had some differentiators that ended up not mattering to people. I wish I understood Metcalfe's Law better at the time. I built a mobile game called Roaring
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by dangero 9y ago
I've crashed and burned on SaaS enough that I'm very into the landing page approach -- don't build the product, but convince people you have so that they can click the "buy now" button. That way you feel more confid
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by dangero 9y ago
Yeah my first thought was I believe Donald Trump was the person who came up with the idea for drip proof icecream (when talking to Ali G)
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by dangero 9y ago
Still seems worth it for a slight efficiency gain plus the ability to gain charge just by waiting if you run out of juice in the middle of nowhere.
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by dangero 9y ago
I've seen a lot of freelance design services going this direction lately: https://designpickle.com is one example
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by dangero 9y ago
it bears mentioning here that the vast majority of cryptocurrency investors seem to be male, and their Twitter discourse tends to be less than refined, with insults often lodged at devotees of rival currencies. The vast majority of crypto
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by dangero 9y ago
Anything else would be second hand though. Sometimes I feel the need to research something for myself and it's important that some people do that. Watching allows me to answer questions like, "What is the message they are trying t
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by dangero 9y ago
The other day I was considering commenting in a negative way about something the NSA tweeted, but a voice in my head said, "Do you really want to be put on a special surveilance list?" That's when I realized our freedoms are
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by dangero 9y ago
Anything that IBM puts out remember they are a consulting company, so they want to generate a huge brand name. That allows them to charge the consulting prices they need to charge to make this business work for them. IBM Watson is a collect
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by dangero 9y ago
It's not just the setup of a self-hosted solution, but maintenance, and otherwise. If you look at the enterprise space, bigger and bigger companies are becoming comfortable with cloud-hosting of services. Growth of companies like Okta
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by dangero 9y ago
I've actually been working on a similarly focused product but specifically for enterprise: http://www.progresschat.com
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by dangero 9y ago
That and they have a lot of integrations which means it's hard for people to switch to something else other than slack because they will lose their plugins.
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by dangero 9y ago
The key here being you had to get permission to take on your new job from your current employer. You were at their mercy to continue your career just because you worked as their employee for a while. What if they had said no? If you weren&#
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by dangero 9y ago
You raise a very valid point. If you break down a public blockchain by resources used you find those transacting on the network are getting a phenominal deal on storage and compute resources. In the case of bitcoin your data is being backed
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by dangero 9y ago
How do you manage that many clients and what do you do for them?
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by dangero 9y ago
Along those lines I'm always surprised at how many SUCCESSFUL tech companies even today are built with PHP. Tech stack is often not the driver of success or failure in a company.
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by dangero 9y ago
It's an interesting thought experiment. The closest analogy I can think of is pulling the wrong wire on a bomb.
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by dangero 9y ago
For anyone who is interested in looking at some growth data take a look at this chart showing the worldwide value transfer of Bitcoins through localbitcoins denominated in USD: https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins
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by dangero 9y ago
The one nuance you are leaving out is that students invited her to speak. If Hitler was invited by students to speak then I would think he needs to be allowed or we have to be honest that we aren't supporting free speech except for ide
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by dangero 9y ago
"right" is a moral judgement. It depends on whether you see this as civil disobedience. It may be "right" and also illegal at the same time.

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