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by gyardley 14y ago
"The best way to insure that you can live the life you want and have some fun is to put all the effort in that you can now and try to put off having fun until a bit later on." This is insane. While you need to meet your responsibilities and
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by gyardley 14y ago
How could clearly explaining what your site does and who it's for not be the right thing to do? I can't even begin to think of a reason why you would hide this from potential users.
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by gyardley 14y ago
What are you doing to generate ideas? To come up with sellable subscription products for businesses, you need to obsessively study and interact with your potential audience. Good ideas won't just spring into your mind.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Prices were slightly higher at launch, with $4.99 and $9.99 being fairly common price points. (Super Monkey Ball, the first heavily-promoted game I can recall, was $9.99.) But by Christmas 2008, less than a year later, prices were about wha
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by gyardley 14y ago
Different advertising providers pay according to different schemes. Some pay every time an ad is shown to a user. This is the cost-per-impression model. Some pay every time an ad is clicked. This is the cost-per-click model. And some pay ev
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by gyardley 14y ago
People are quite good at selecting people like them - in my experience, it's quite possible to have a nice diverse group of people, all of whom have exactly the same viewpoints. I'm not objecting to this proposal in any way - nothing wrong
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by gyardley 14y ago
He's probably disparaging her personal decision because he believes her personal decision is bad for her child. People are under no obligation to respect lifestyle decisions they believe are incorrect.
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by gyardley 14y ago
He's probably suggesting that there are many types of bigotry and no one political party has a lock on them. Yes, in America if you're bigoted against blacks, you probably vote Republican. If you're bigoted against whites, you probably vote
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by gyardley 14y ago
I don't know - distrust of and feelings of alienation from elites are pretty common conservative themes. I'm both conservative and a big Pink Floyd fan, and never felt that that was weird. Of course, any band with enough albums is likely to
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by gyardley 14y ago
An old acquaintance of mine runs a startup called BancBox ( http://www.bancbox.com/ ), which I believe can do this. I haven't used it personally so I can't vouch for its quality.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Let's stop fantasizing about the Canadian health care system. I had family with ALS and the expensive equipment and home modifications required to cope with the later stages of disease aren't covered in Canada, either - except next-to-no C
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by gyardley 14y ago
All good design is moral design, and only moral design can ever be good. Nonsense. Good design is effective; its quality is independent from its aims. There's been no shortage of good design used for vile aims, and there's tons of good ca
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by gyardley 14y ago
Tell that to every unemployed actor in Los Angeles. Doing what you love helps with success, but it's not a panacea - you're still subject to the same constraints as everybody else.
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by gyardley 14y ago
In addition to the other resources in this thread, I'm also finding the Ruby Koans ( http://rubykoans.com/ ) useful for drumming syntax into my head.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Seems to fall apart at a close look. Except at the extremes, "materially improves users' lives" seems highly subjective. You can make this fit almost any product with a clear conscience - so no one's going to describe themselves as a Dealer
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by gyardley 14y ago
Sit-ins have been extremely effective, where there's a free press and where companies want to avoid negative publicity. You can't eject people forcibly without looking thuggish, and reporters flock to them. Only problem: you actually have t
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by gyardley 14y ago
The answer varies depending on who's talking - ask for clarification from the specific people you happen to be dealing with.
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by gyardley 14y ago
The 'oh no, not another todo list' comments on this are hilarious - and I suspect Sam will get also get a kick out of them, as he deposits his checks. Sam, congratulations on your launch.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Yes, some people do, which is why as the owner / founder / 'CXO' you should use whatever title's best for the situation you happen to be in at that moment.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Well, sure, but 'my' != 'the'.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Dropbox isn't blocking third-party apps, they blocked one particular third-party app which was aggressively attempting to pin a giant 'hey, come sue me' target on their back. Both smart and user-friendly, for the subset of users who use Dro
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by gyardley 14y ago
I'd love to hear some anecdotes from non-Americans currently raising kids, especially if they've also got some hands-on experience with American culture. Are American kids truly spoiled, or is the issue universal? If American kids are spoil
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by gyardley 14y ago
Way, way too late for that. SEO can and is conducted, even without analytics from Apple.
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Louisiana Sex Offenders Must Identify Themselves on Facebook(arstechnica.com)
2 points by gyardley 14y ago|0 comments
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by gyardley 14y ago
The sentence you replied to? It doesn't mean what you think it means.
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by gyardley 14y ago
'Wall Street does X' and 'the Mafia does X' does not in any way imply that Wall Street learned X from the Mafia - and there's no evidence in the article, either. Typical Tabibi bombast. I suspect bid-rigging, while unethical, is pretty comm
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by gyardley 14y ago
When I went to your domain and read the main page, I didn't understand what it did. The big call to action 'learn more' button took me to a series of points that didn't really clue me into what it was about. I thought I got it, but I wasn't
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by gyardley 14y ago
I didn't get that impression at all. After all, Derek wrote this post in 2009, and if you follow the links, the company he rushed back from the hot springs to found seems to have gone nowhere. All he's really saying is 'you need to be execu
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by gyardley 14y ago
Awesome. Previously I'd been pointing people at Gunderson Dettmer's set of documents ( http://www.docracy.com/userprofile/show?userId=80 ) but it looks like Orrick's is more comprehensive.
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by gyardley 14y ago
I think you're getting screwed, and I'd be actively looking. If you're working on your own projects, though, the threshold where you can say 'to hell with it, I'm off to work on my own stuff full-time' is pretty low. That's your silver lini

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