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by ed209 14y ago
I'm not sure how useful this is [for me]. All the computers I access Facebook from I already have a synced dropbox set of directories so choosing one of those is just as much effort as choosing the from the Dropbox picker menu. I can see th
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by ed209 14y ago
that's a bit of a sweeping statement. I would agree with you if the autoplayed video has audio or is instructional in some way. In the article I agree it should not auto-play However, auto-play can be nice in the right setting. Lots of car
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by ed209 14y ago
You mean in a situation where a comment is out of order, abusive, or some other obviously bad comment? I guess if comments were forced on downvotes, let's say "I downvoted you for being a moron" than instead of leaving your own version of "
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by ed209 14y ago
I do care about karma. I care because it's a measure of whether what I say is agreeable or disagreeable. It's not about fitting in or following the herd, but if I say something that loses me karma I want to understand why. Maybe I'll end up
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by ed209 14y ago
Fresh from reading Elliot's recent PayPal woes[1], I find this (parent article) post in my twitter feed. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4483710
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PayPal strike again(twitlonger.com)
8 points by ed209 14y ago|1 comments
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by ed209 14y ago
I'd be happy with that. Frankly, PayPal's perception of risk is clearly killing businesses. They are going so far into being risk averse that it's killing business. I would rather shoulder the risk that suffer PayPal's "protections". They'r
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by ed209 14y ago
I just emailed Guy as per the suggestions of this forum (and a couple of other people). Guy kindly replied. Hopefully have a few more names on there soon :) Re: making money. I plan to sell extras, like premium themes etc So keep the core p
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by ed209 14y ago
at the moment I freelance and work from home. Sometimes I work while travelling. I kid myself that I'm free, but really I work evenings and weekends. Some of my white-collar-joe friends might feel trapped, but at the weekend they are drinki
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by ed209 14y ago
thanks, I'll take a look. I want to try and replace my freelance work with passive income products. I was thinking of ThemeForest to start but I might try this.
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by ed209 14y ago
I didn't realise shopify had an app market. Is it big enough to make decent money? Does shopify take a cut of your subscription income?
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by ed209 14y ago
Not sure about "solopreneur", isn't an entrepreneur just a single person anyway :) Although I wouldn't title myself with either. I've worked on my own since '03, currently in here http://qiip.me/edlea/blogger/post/4019 I freelance mon-fri
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by ed209 14y ago
For what it's worth, I find the Asylum version is much nicer, has more character and emotion than the "high production quality" version.
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by ed209 14y ago
In the beginning this was not the signal being sent out to developers, so I will call you crazy :) I understand the risks. Hell, I'm even taking them with my own project, but I always hoped if you add value to the API owner and that they cr
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by ed209 14y ago
Actually, I'm a HN regular and I find this story interesting. I find it interesting because it's an indication about how Twitter intends to treat developers - a signal that I should worry about about building off other APIs and not the Twit
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by ed209 14y ago
With an account created within an hour of this submission I have to ask if you are trolling this forum? Everyone is entitled to opinion, but when discussing articles like this it's fact and science that matter. Comments like your cost lives
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by ed209 14y ago
Rescuetime does this sort of thing, blocking distracting sites http://www.rescuetime.com/tour "Block Distractions and Get Focused"
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by ed209 14y ago
If you're in the UK that doesn't appear to be the case. I'm not particularly versed in copyright law, but take a look at this example where the work was just "similar" http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/01/25/Imitated_Image_Copyr...
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by ed209 14y ago
Could you crowdsource it? Share a Google Spreadsheet here with a list of all the batches, I'd look up a couple :)
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by ed209 14y ago
Well, you might say that... but by coincidence BBC news covered a telepresence robot in hospital today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19341028 :)
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by ed209 14y ago
It's not as clear cut as that. Advertisers expect viewers > viewers expect a good product Why would a company, whose revenue depends on lots of users, build a crappy product that loses them those users and hence the advertising money? A
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by ed209 14y ago
>Sure there will be some complexity around what defines your cut This glosses over the whole problem with this model. The more apps there are, the more you have to share out the subscription income. At some point, there will be so man
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by ed209 14y ago
I've worked on my "side" projects while doing client work for pretty much the last 5 years :) Let me tell you what you don't want to do... keep doing client work, keep doing your side project and ignore the fact that really you're not putti
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by ed209 14y ago
Don't they have multiple options for "Post As"?
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by ed209 14y ago
Commenting is something I'd much rather offload to someone like DISQUS. Creating your own commenting system either requires lots of spam management (for an open commenting system) or forcing users to register for your service before they ca
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by ed209 14y ago
or so it would seem. Don't rule out chasing an idea for years before you find it's successful. AirBnB, Pinterest, Craigslist etc etc “Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presente
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First full-resolution images of the Martian surface(nasa.gov)
435 points by ed209 14y ago|139 comments
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by ed209 14y ago
>genuinely bad fit for the tastes of the HN community Suited me just fine. Whether or not I agreed with the design conclusions they came to is not the point. They gave something a try - good on them. Maybe it sparks ideas for someone el
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by ed209 14y ago
that, and the fact that since June 11th 2012, the next batch of visas do not entitle you to work in the US until October 2013.
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by ed209 14y ago
what you're ignoring is that Facebook and Pinterest were also "reinventing the wheel". Social networks and bookmarking already existed.

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