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by gaustin 16y ago
> make it so I can pay as much as I want and my picture will stay up until someone agrees to pay more. I'd think you'd also want to add some sort of decay on the threshold price to keep people spending.
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by gaustin 16y ago
I did it about 20 minutes ago, and it went through fine. Already got the credit. According to the counter there's still ~150.
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by gaustin 16y ago
I would pay for del.icio.us. If I were in the Bay Area or NYC, I would try to find an investor and wrangle a deal to buy the service from Yahoo and run it in such a way. I seriously hope that someone else is doing so.
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by gaustin 16y ago
> Imagine if facebook couldn't figure out a way to make money, would it then be considered a failure even though millions of people find it useful? Depends on who you are. To the investors, that would be a failure. To the people that fi
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by gaustin 16y ago
I would hope so, because I'm betting most people would be using this while driving.
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by gaustin 16y ago
Link: http://giftgoround.com
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by gaustin 16y ago
I would put my own stuff up. AirBnB? Rent out your room, find friends and family that have a room to rent. Etsy? Sell your own crafts. App market place? Sell your own apps there, and give other early adopter publishers a more favorable cut
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by gaustin 16y ago
Yeah, I really enjoy these bundles. I've purchased quite a few of them in the last year or two, but I tend to not get much value out of them though. There's so much new software all at one time that I end up not using any of it. This is jus
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by gaustin 16y ago
> At the same time, life is short. Why waste one moment doing something you don't love? Bills/debt (student loan payments, in my case). Fear. Neither is a good reason. But they are both excuses many of us use.
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by gaustin 16y ago
I wonder how much overlap there is between the packages I've used and the ones you've used. I've only been in the Java world for about 3 months, so my perspective is definitely raw and incomplete. Maybe we just have different criteria for w
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by gaustin 16y ago
For a few reasons, I had to take a job maintaining/enhancing some huge government Java applications (largely Oracle based). I thought that there was some interesting things going on in the ecosystem because of what I read about all of the J
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by gaustin 16y ago
Build it. I'm already there.
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by gaustin 16y ago
It got bought out within minutes of being posted. The price was incredibly low. Sure, I could build that app, but it would cost (in time) several times the buy-it-now price of $350 to get it to the same level of polish. It doesn't hurt that
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by gaustin 16y ago
Lucky. I was verifying my account by phone when you bought it out from under me. I was totally looking forward to playing with that bundle of code.
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by gaustin 16y ago
> I've seen misunderstandings that could waste literally weeks of programmer time get corrected by a 15-minute pair-programming session. Are they things that wouldn't have similarly been resolved by remote pairing?
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by gaustin 16y ago
I got evaluated for adult ADD because of similar productivity issues. It turns out I'm just really bored and unmotivated by the work I'm doing.
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by gaustin 16y ago
This little tease has piqued my interest. I'm working on several ideas for making better enterprise software. Any interest in developers at this point?
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by gaustin 16y ago
Holy smokes, that's worse than my employment agreement (but not by much).
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by gaustin 16y ago
There's a pile of "textbooks" on my wishlist that I just can't afford. Something like this that would knock off a significant portion of the price would be amazing. When the Pragmatic Bookshelf had their huge Thanksgiving sale last year, I
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by gaustin 16y ago
> Personally, I think there's a more interesting market opportunity in helping developers monetize from the daily deals space, rather than making a daily deals product meant for developers as end-users. Things like a marketplace for mat
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by gaustin 16y ago
I like the experience of having hundreds of books in my backpack, without having to carry them. I tend to prefer Kindle books when available, but I read them on my iPad (my wife inherited the actual Kindle). It's easy enough to take notes a
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by gaustin 16y ago
If it's within minutes, does it truly matter? Also, neither site really "breaks" news. Anyway, to answer your question... You will probably have to measure it, if you want. Should be too hard. Another, better, solution might be to generate
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by gaustin 16y ago
I tend to set frequent checkpoints. For these really short contracts, I'd setup a chat every 2-4 days, always with one two days before the contract ends. During these chats I'm just looking for progress and questions. Some people will only
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by gaustin 16y ago
As much as I dislike .NET in general (there are some excellent parts) and doing large enterprisey development, I think C# is an excellent language that is only getting better. C# started out as a clone of Java, but it seems to be what Java
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by gaustin 16y ago
I don't know what it takes to go from being an eye doctor to doing laser eye surgery, but it seems to me like there's a pretty clear skills development path there. I'd be interested to know if that's a feasible career move and, if so, how m
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by gaustin 16y ago
> I'm several years out of university myself and just now getting a few of my side projects to that point. It's exciting, but I can't help but worry that I'm behind the curve. There is no curve. Comparing yourself to others based on age
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by gaustin 16y ago
The ones in Angry Birds for Android show up as a banner towards the top right side of the screen. I imagine a good number clicks are accidental.
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by gaustin 16y ago
Which part, the eyeball inequality?
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by gaustin 16y ago
> It means reaching people when they are in the mood for spending on your product (the right time / the right place). I know that and agree. I think the fact that someone paid for the app is a relevant positive targeting indicator for a
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by gaustin 16y ago
> They pay a truck load of money to reach 300-500 paying readers per day? > But they won’t pay as much to reach an avalanche of non paying readers? It seems to me that advertisers might prefer a small number of people willing to pay

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