garethsprice

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by garethsprice 15y ago
Isn't a libertopia (reading as a libertarian utopia) a place where griefing and scams are able to run rampant, the thought being that the free market will sort out the issues in the long run? Of course people get hurt in the short term, but
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http://animoto.com/ does a reasonable job of automating simple video production. Looks a bit generic, but it's a hard problem to solve - things like voiceovers and tightly animated text like in the posted video seem simple but require a f
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by garethsprice 15y ago
Hard to scan, the keyword headings are a good start but I still have to drill down into the article headlines to see what the article is actually about. A summary of the issue (eg."Google buys Zagat" instead of "Google, Zagat") would be hel
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by garethsprice 15y ago
100wpm with 1 mistake. Edit: Could feel the stress in my hands towards the end, could not keep that rate up for long.
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by garethsprice 15y ago
The author of this piece is also the author of an industry bible for copywriters, The Copywriter's Handbook: http://www.amazon.com/Copywriters-Handbook-Third-Step-Step/d... My wife is teaching herself copywriting and liked this book, alth
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by garethsprice 15y ago
Hey I know the answer already... "You influence n curious nerds who signed in to register their accounts and have never returned."
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Not clever enough, though...
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Beautiful design. What was the thought process behind choosing a commission-based business model over a flat monthly subscription? Are you sure that business model is going to be profitable, and (perhaps more importantly) not negatively aff
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by garethsprice 15y ago
Thanks for the response Omar! Glad to see that you're having trouble keeping up - means that your idea is being well validated! Here's a few items I noticed after logging in that I e-mailed to you, thought I'd post here to see if anyone els
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by garethsprice 15y ago
Good grief, talk about manufactured scarcity. I am a senior developer who takes on side work, but I'm too busy working on client projects to be watching your Twitter feed all evening and pasting in codes hoping that one works. Why not just
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by garethsprice 15y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20101127164625/https://squareup.c... is a capture from 11/2010, but that has horizontal scrolling too. Was the vertical one prior to that, or was it new for 2011? Guess horizontal works for them...
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by garethsprice 15y ago
Related, National Lampoon's Deteriorata: http://www.mendosa.com/fluke.html
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by garethsprice 15y ago
No more features! Give it away to the first 5-10 people in your target demographic you can find who'll take it, and see what they do with it. If they don't end up using it, why not? If they do, what is it missing? Stick to those 5-10 like g
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by garethsprice 15y ago
Thing is, it's not like a non-technical person is going to download this and say "Awesome, no need to pay a developer to build this now - all I have to do is implement a few SQL tables and forms and I'm done" - they'll still need the develo
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by garethsprice 15y ago
As an entrepreneur: That Java is what powers major companies (including Google) would be interesting to know. What's the benefit to installing this? If I install it, how am I going to find someone to work on it? That is is based on industry
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by garethsprice 15y ago
40 at day job, 40+ on consulting projects. Finding it harder to keep up the pace and want to reshuffle to find time for my own projects. Hard to get off that consulting gravy train though.
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HostGator is also one of the largest consumer-facing web hosts for small sites. They don't require these checks from everyone, just orders flagged as high risk. I'd imagine they're flagging these orders using a third party risk verification
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by garethsprice 15y ago
Do you think the business would have worked if Node.js and MongoDB were not available, or are they absolutely essential to your core business?
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A consultant is someone who can improve a client's situation for the better, applying knowledge or resources that the client does not have in-house. A freelancer is more of an implementer whilst a consultant helps to decide what is implemen
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I feel safe knowing the Secret Service was on the case. Wouldn't want any of that published scientific knowledge falling into the hands of the public, after all.
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Cross-browser support. Getting much better, but HTML5 is still a pain to test/debug cross-browser (or, "in IE and in everything else", which is mostly what CBT comes down to)
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Give or take, about 59.2% more trust making me about 27% more likely to buy from a site designed to a level 3 standard over a level 1 standard. Seriously though, response to design is like response to advertising - subconscious and subtle,
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by garethsprice 15y ago
Still waiting for the GOP caucus on chemtrails or lizard people... what is it with the Republican party and paranoid conspiracies?
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Check out http://www.lessaccounting.com - they're a SaaS app with a service component where you can hire a bookkeeper to manage the bits you don't want to deal with.