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by ggwicz 15y ago
I'm not enough of a developer to integrate completely with stripe, but we've been making the change to Dwolla. Anything is better than PayPal. I appreciate their contributions to epayment, but their time has passed. Other great options out
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Jesus Christ. Can we stop all this "PHP Sucks" nonsense? We get it, a language like ruby is better for you . And hell, there's not much of an argument against how PHP looks; Ruby and Python, to me, look much much nicer. But complaints abou
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by ggwicz 15y ago
See, I still disagree. Working with WordPress has been nothing but (relatively) easy for me, even when making relatively complex plugins. No one is arguing that WordPress is better , necessarily, than a custom build. But reality trumps the
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Anybody else confused as to why "tripling his employee count" is a goal of Libin's? Not being snarky, just don't get why you'd want more chefs in the kitchen (unless they're building a few new apps or something)
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Ouch that sucks. Care to share more about the startup itself? What was it? Was it VC funded? How was the founding team composed?
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Yeah, I was talking about ones that went out of business. And it is a fair observation. However, I wouldn't consider something "not growing" as a failure. Why does it have to grow? It might not be what you want it to be, but then it's onl
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by ggwicz 15y ago
In this context, failure means you weren't able to keep the business running.
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Ask HN: How Many Startups Failed?
8 points by ggwicz 15y ago|6 comments
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Just as an example, it is better to make an app like BaseCamp or Campfire with Ruby on Rails than WordPress. But I can learn enough in a matter of weeks to make something like the P2 Theme ( http://www.p2theme.com ) with WordPress; god know
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by ggwicz 15y ago
It's not a horribly ugly theming system. I'm mainly an HTML and CSS guy, and know a healthy amount of PHP. But I don't know enough to set up a server, databases, write a CMS from scratch (well, maybe I could), and I don't like spending a
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Basecamp could theoretically be less interesting than a Segway. But a Segway won't help me run a freelance biz with a guy 4,500 miles away. Utility is far more valuable in many ways than entertainment. Can't wait for the new updates
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Although WordPress' repo uses SVN (I prefer Git), it runs really smoothly. Something like that would be great for jQuery, but you wouldn't need the whole update feature set.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
And "business acumen" has nothing to do with good decision making.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
"When you pursue something difficult, eventually you have to make a choice between being balanced, normal, and conventional, and being different, weird, and exceptional. I chose the latter." Wow. You are not a normal writer. More writin
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by ggwicz 15y ago
It just seems like, of all possible things to concern yourself with, what OS someone is using is like way down the list.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
If you're arguing with people over a computer operating system... ...just stop it.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
It's always been an advantage, we're just becoming aware of it. Like, being fit has always been an advantage for organisms. But until organisms came along who developed language and became able to communicate that it was valuable (aka human
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Well, I don't use to-do lists. People confuse to-do lists with check lists. I use check lists to make sure, for example, that when coding a WordPress theme I don't neglect any page templates. But I don't write a to-do list to make the W
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by ggwicz 15y ago
This isn't "underground". I'm in high school and many, many people I know pop ADHD medication and other stimulants so they can get better grades and focus more; AKA, to be more boring (kidding..sort of). Find any bored suburban neighborhood
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Palantir: One Step Closer to 1984 Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither. - Benjamin Franklin
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Policy-making anythings are annoying. Let's see more policy-removing. Less fragile and less systemically harmful.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
And this is why I have a deep respect and admiration for Mr. Torvalds
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Bill Hicks covered marketing pretty well :) But real quickly: yeah, that dude playing video games is playing video games. If he were to then start developing video games, I'm just saying that creativity would be easier for him in that realm
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by ggwicz 15y ago
I feel like to be creative you just need to enjoy what you're doing. It's like the idea of a to-do list: it's a list of things you don't really want to do, because the things you want to do are done already. If you're doing something you lo
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by ggwicz 15y ago
I don't personally believe you can "become" creative, but putting on good music and drawing for awhile makes things "flow" better for me. I suck at drawing tho...
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by ggwicz 15y ago
This.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Hoarding may happen only in the growth phase. As soon as that becomes stagnant...people will stop hoarding them. Yeah, that seems to be the trend. It's opening up more and more (thankfully!). And isn't hoarding kind of a different word f
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Thanks man! And you're not making up for lost time :) Everybody's life is completely different.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
I don't do something unless the profits are clear. I once had $3,000.00 stolen from me, so I've learned early on to avoid anything too risky. And I'd rather make pennies doing something I love than dollars doing something I hate. It's abs
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by ggwicz 15y ago
I love bitcoin. The concept is right up the alley of some of the anti-inflation ideals of milton friedman, locke, keynes, and hayek. The only problem I see is that many people are incentivized to invest in it and hoard it, not to spend it.

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