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by dpcan 15y ago
Exactly. We all sit around here and preach to the choir. I don't know that anyone really knows how or what to do here. How does a non-mainstream issue like this get into the public eye in such a way that anyone but our niche gives a crap?
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by dpcan 15y ago
You have a great idea/point. The problem is that as soon as you put the word "software" in front of the word "patent" during a discussion you can actually see eyes glaze over and brains shut off in the person you are talking to. It's just e
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by dpcan 15y ago
I don't know if this is why, but my sales are up about 10% today over compared to the last week's average, so I don't know how niche this really was but my guess is that emulation may have been curbing the gaming needs of many. Not sure t
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by dpcan 15y ago
I want them to add categories and monito them. Why are chess, bubble popper games, and mole poking games in the top of the sports games categories?????
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by dpcan 15y ago
I agree and disagree. There is a lot of information out there that is terribly hard for your common searcher to find still, and if that information can be extracted from government data farms and displayed and organized in such a way that i
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by dpcan 15y ago
But it's not as if Lodsys doesn't know this. I doubt they'll say "oh, my bad" and walk away now. They have a reason for sending these letters to small dev shops, knowing full well Google and Apple have licensed their patents, and we really
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by dpcan 15y ago
It will get Google and Apple's attention.
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by dpcan 15y ago
The original poster recieved a letter after adding in-app purchases in his Android app.
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by dpcan 15y ago
One can tell the difference between spam and non-spam on twitter. It's grossly obvious. We've probably all followed someone and found out a couple days later that they are just a robot spamming machine and un-followed. I checked out @swom
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by dpcan 15y ago
Altly? I hope that's not the final name. For those who's native language is not English, this would be a REALLY hard name to say. P.S. The Altly.com home page has a Facebook Like Us button. Eh?
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by dpcan 15y ago
I totally disagree about the content. I find it to be the absolute best small business / entrepreneur magazine out there. I prefer it over Inc and others by far. It opens your eyes beyond tech as it covers so much ground.
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by dpcan 15y ago
I JUST downloaded FF4 and now I see 5 is coming out. Version-less updates of browsers makes sense, and they should be seamlessly, silently, updated in the back-ground. This is getting crazy. I install Firefox for friends and family who I w
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by dpcan 15y ago
I'd consider his apps novelty apps, but I don't see why that's a problem. You can buy smiling rocks and fart scented candles in stores, and nobody cries fowl. Many apparently find his apps rather delightful, and though they aren't for eve
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by dpcan 15y ago
Yes. I would say email is the #1 headache by far. Going with Rackspace Cloud and their email solution is helping A LOT. I'm moving my biggest accounts over, and they seem much happier, and I get virtually no support requests from them any
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by dpcan 15y ago
For 1 - it's expensive how I have it setup. I have dedicated servers and am running full-server backups nightly with 5-day archives. It takes more dedicated machines to do this. I need to find another solution. With Rackspace Cloud Sites
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by dpcan 15y ago
I host a couple hundred sites on dedicated servers. Mostly local business sites. Hosting was hands down the dumbest move I ever made. I pay tons for servers, I'm fielding "I get too much spam" support requests several times weekly. Managi
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by dpcan 15y ago
About $7K per month in Android app sales. (EDIT: Was at $15k per month last October before the competition started getting crazy) About $2.5K per month hosting websites. Then consulting income - I keep consulting because I feel like at any
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by dpcan 15y ago
Who is fighting to keep software patents as-is? Who are we up against? I have NEVER read anything in their favor. If we live in a society where the laws need to be changed, why are they just not changing? What horrors could actually com
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by dpcan 15y ago
This is what many have done on android too, but who ever leaves a comment on an app and comes back to look for a response? I think most who comment a question assumes the dev will be able to reply to them directly, not realizing it is anon
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by dpcan 15y ago
I have been BEGGING Google for this in the Android Market for a year. Seeing a customer post a comment with a question I have no way of answering directly is maddening! What other kind of business in existence, anywhere, is it actually imp
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by dpcan 15y ago
I don't think this is accurate. The permissions listed seem to pertain to the uses-permissions in the Manifest. If the Manifest doesn't request these permissions, and they aren't allowed, they won't work. If I don't put the Internet uses-p
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by dpcan 15y ago
In small areas, the local news website is much more important usually. I can't imagine much of it would apply if I lived in LA or NY,NY - that or there would just be SO MUCH to follow it wouldn't be worth the time. In my small community, t
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by dpcan 15y ago
touché
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by dpcan 15y ago
Android devs are keeping their financial figures close to the vest I believe, which results in a lot of people thinking there's no money to be made on Android. It's smart. When the iPhone's App Store launched people were spilling their gut
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by dpcan 15y ago
This doesn't make sense. Apple/Google have apparently paid the license fee for the patents - so are they JUST paying the 0.575% of THEIR OWN APP sales? Is part of the 30% being withheld from developers paying for some of these patent licen
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by dpcan 15y ago
From what I've seen, it's very easy to do poorly, but not so easy to do well. One might say graphic design is easy because you are simply drawing colored shapes, yet many of us suck at this easy job.
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by dpcan 15y ago
You don't have to lie, but MUST know when to shut the hell up.
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by dpcan 15y ago
What if it's valid?
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by dpcan 15y ago
Reddit Local news website HN Email
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by dpcan 15y ago
Agreed, I was really hoping for some amazing minimalist techniques for adding that professional flare to any design.

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