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by esw 13y ago
>As a fellow subscription revenue biz, we've found that lower priced plans invite customers whose support requirements are much greater. This has been my experience, too. The customers who consume the most support resources are alm
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by esw 13y ago
I appreciate the designer's frustration, but I've found that in most cases, simply taking the site offline (assuming you host it) is enough to get a call back from the customer. If the customer decides that they'd rather not
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by esw 13y ago
I certainly understand the sentiment, but we've been talking about the end of the Windows era for at least fifteen years. At some point it will inevitably end, but I suspect that we will only be able to point to the 'final nail&#
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by esw 13y ago
Yeah, it's a cost vs. peace of mind equation. I've done both colo and managed, and in my case, having someone (e.g Rackspace) manage the ecosystem is worth the added cost.
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by esw 13y ago
I bought a new kitchen countertop through Lowes a few months ago, and this is exactly what they did. The countertop is priced by the square foot, but they write up the total cost as labor so that they don't have to charge sales tax.
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by esw 13y ago
Sure, I'd definitely consider this.
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by esw 13y ago
This is workable for small sites, but are you really equipped to deal with a denial of service attack? There are plenty of small DNS providers (Zerigo comes to mind) that can't even stay up during attacks.
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by esw 13y ago
Oy, this is just crazy. I should have migrated my accounts after last week's downtime.
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by esw 15y ago
Really, bitcoin isn't even a consideration until I can pay my bills with it.
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by esw 15y ago
Depends on whether your industry is seasonal, and how quickly you need to start turning a profit before you have to pack things up. Online retail (for me, anyway) was very slow in the summer and crazy around the holidays. If we had launch
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by esw 15y ago
This is neat. How do you plan to make money on it?
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by esw 15y ago
It depends on your history with the customer, the amount of money, and your risk tolerance. I always ask for a deposit unless the amount of money is completely trivial.
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by esw 15y ago
We all acquire highly specialized knowledge based on our training and work experience. Some of that knowledge is easily transferable to other areas, and some of it isn't.
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by esw 15y ago
When I find a technical book that I want to buy, the first thing I do is search to see if it's available as a download. I'm happy to pay - I just don't see any need to own a physical book that consists primarily of extremely tangential tec
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by esw 15y ago
Be aware that these situations can sour very quickly. Be prepared to compensate him fairly for his contribution, and ensure that he doesn't have control of any pieces of the business (code, domain names, etc) that are irreplaceable.
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by esw 15y ago
>Furthermore, he doesn't even acknowledge his absence. Have you asked him about it, or are you just quietly seething about this? If you're sure that he knows about the meetings and is deliberately blowing them off, then it sounds like y
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by esw 15y ago
I don't know that anything has necessarily changed, since you've described the university experience I had almost 20 years ago. For what it's worth, if you relate to college as a hoop that you have to jump through (I did), then you'll almo
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by esw 15y ago
This is a terrible time to be looking for work in academia, too.
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by esw 15y ago
Yeah, I think it's a fine line. For example, the Washington Post wrote an article about my last company. We included a link to the article on our media page (where we listed every mention in the press), along with a tiny WaPo logo. Severa
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by esw 15y ago
If anyone wants to view Gawker sites as they were before the redesign, just append ca. as the subdomain (like http://ca.io9.com ). Even knowing this, I still visit io9 1/10th as often as I did before their redesign.