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by gigantor 15y ago
A popular variant of this list also includes: 59% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of the United States
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by gigantor 15y ago
Such service could work, although it could possibly create a nuisance for continuosly updating your wallet that are tied to other services such as bitcoin mining deposit accounts, or if you ever treated your bitcoin wallet to handle monthly
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by gigantor 15y ago
Of course Bitcoin is not anonymous. The moment you make a purchase that contains some personal information about you (whether your name, IP, address, etc.) with your current wallet, any future purchases can be mapped back to you using your
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by gigantor 15y ago
Too much time between the request and delivery. There needs to be some sort of instant gratification for this to fly, otherwise it's essentially asking users to do free market research. Profit sharing with the users should the deal come int
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by gigantor 15y ago
Not exactly white hat, but these are 'services' I currently know of that are generating income for their owners, perhaps it may inspire some ideas to create something legitimate: * Running a bitcoin mining pool and accepting donations/small
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by gigantor 15y ago
http://flippa.com , where you get a stream of business ideas that are mostly proven to work. Due diligence required as usual to identify scams, future market demand, revenue/effort, competition, profit margin, etc.
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by gigantor 15y ago
The title is a bit misleading, but I constantly beg for non-technical colleagues to have any sort of application modelling skills. MS Paint Web Mockups, Excel, PDF Forms that save to an email 'database', anything that gives a clear picture
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by gigantor 15y ago
I've used .net nearly exclusively for the past 8 years in my career and still believe this is all some stunt to generate negative hype. If this so-called uproar is caused by developers who are not willing to upgrade their skills, they shoul
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by gigantor 15y ago
Are you suggesting going into an interview with a completely empty head and just not worrying about it? My best interviews just happened to be during times when I completely winged it and had no pre-mental analysis before hand.
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by gigantor 15y ago
Blackhat or not, this is a great example of how there are very viable alternatives to SEO in terms of internet marketing. The ever changing rules and laws of search engines unfortunately make or break a vast majority of online businesses.
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by gigantor 15y ago
D - Drink Bottle - Perhaps the most important button? Performance and concentration does increase quite a bit when you're properly hydrated.
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by gigantor 15y ago
Ironic that this concept is identical to the very first implementation of Facebook itself.
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by gigantor 15y ago
Contracting pays more since the employment term is fixed and job security is 'less guaranteed' than a salaried position. Also, finding a new gig every few months, learning systems from scratch, and being embedded into a brand new environme
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by gigantor 15y ago
Many payment processors (at least a couple of years ago) do not require the CCV #. Providing it merely gives you a discount on the transaction fee, since it reduces fraud.
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by gigantor 16y ago
http://affiliateprogram.1800flowers.com/
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by gigantor 16y ago
Absolutely agree. Execute first and make $5 online instead of reading books on how to make your first $1 million. But I don't see you writing this comment as a problem. If it reaffirms your beliefs, results in you taking action, and teaches
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by gigantor 16y ago
It's their original flash swf interface, emulated in javascript/canvas using the Raphael library
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by gigantor 16y ago
Perhaps a large percentage of startups are using .net but not mentioning it to HN for fear of not sounding cool like Ruby or a NoSQL platform. We use it because we know it and can launch something fast. It does everything we need it to do,
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by gigantor 16y ago
That would be Truth About Abs, paying $28 commission/ebook, netting $3 a pop at high volume.
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by gigantor 16y ago
That wasn't so bad, and here I thought you were about to wage holy war against me just for asking...
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by gigantor 16y ago
Would this be eventually gamed, spoof all data to come from facebook and get free bandwidth at facebook's expense?
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by gigantor 16y ago
"I don't know about you but I've not been so excited about a bacteria since my STD tests came back clean." Professional journalism at its finest, and a rewording of the existing speculation.
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by gigantor 16y ago
not only are they welcome, they're the majority, participating in about 80% of the hands dealt
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by gigantor 16y ago
I'm still confused how this tablet gets so much hype, and I think of the Joojoo every time I see this promoted somewhere. Yes, it has a cool display, but it's very sparsely marketed, too many promised features are still in the alpha stage (
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by gigantor 16y ago
An experienced web developer where I'm living at (Western Canada) contracts at about $60/hour, with the recruiter taking away usually $10/hour. Yes, it's a decent chunk, but the bigger picture is that companies paying the highest contract r
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by gigantor 16y ago
Here's a list of some ideas that were entertained despite already existing, and ended up wildly successful. Any of them sound familiar? - Google ("Nah, who needs another search engine") - Facebook (MySpace) - Zappos (selling shoes, idea cop
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by gigantor 16y ago
I was working with a business partner on a startup a while back, and what really impressed me was their prototype, consisting of a 'database' of static pages, and updates done manually using the forms-to-email system. The fact that they had
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by gigantor 16y ago
Certainly not, but the idea behind contracting is that you make enough to fund yourself, and therefore not require YC money in the first place. Most YC amounts are around the $20k range, which you can easily make with a few months of contra
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by gigantor 16y ago
I'm in my 30's and I feel I have one huge advantage over numerous 20-somethings: ability to do short term contract work, and fund the startup that way. This is assuming : a) you have enough networking/experience to land sufficient paid cont
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by gigantor 16y ago
Netscape was certainly what Joel Spolsky was referring to in terms of never rewriting software ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html ). They dominated the browser wars in the early days since they released their browse

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