hcho

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   by hcho 14y ago

   If the problem is technical, the candidates get their feedback immediately. Either they themselves know they botched up the question, or they are given the clue via absence of a follow up question. The best thing you could due to salvage su
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   by hcho 14y ago

   >If you talk to hiring managers you’ll hear that they wish there was a way to provide feedback to rejected job applicants No, million times no. Providing feedback to a rejected applicant may open a huge can of worms. If these hiring man
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   by hcho 14y ago

   Publishers are Google's product. The bans are a product quality assurance exercise for them. They do not really lose any business when they cut out a publisher. They almost always have plenty of other options to display their inventory on.
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   by hcho 14y ago

   Selling your stuff(books, videos, seminars etc) beats any kind of advertising hands down. Selling your advertisement spots yourself is the second best, if you can pull it. Affiliate programs seem to do well for some bloggers. If you are aft
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   by hcho 14y ago

   Good point. I say I never sign an NDA, full stop. There's no way that I can know their competitors are working on the same idea.
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   by hcho 14y ago

   Are you aware of the fact that HN is open source? There's also Reddit and Lamernews. You can pick one and re-skin for your purposes I suppose.
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   by hcho 14y ago

   I don't think so. I am not developing this app at a great pace for a while. I changed this one thing and see a continuing impact on traffic.
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   by hcho 14y ago

   http://this11.com - It's a soccer tactics app.
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   by hcho 14y ago

   I have a freemium app and I recently stopped asking for an account for the free tier. Traffic tripled and so did the premium accounts. So yes, I can attest that frictionless on boarding increases sales.
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    by hcho 14y ago

    It's just like any other business transaction. If the company wanted you not to bail out at the last minute, they would have signed a contract that stops you from doing that. Did they do that? If not, you don't have any obligations and a re
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    by hcho 14y ago

    How's your retention rate? I'd bet your numbers are really bad and that's probably why you're not building any traffic. Your content is just not consumable. I clicked one of your links, it's just a wall of text. I couldn't bring myself to
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    by hcho 14y ago

    I am finding it hard to believe that this will be such a landgrab. The demand to already existing non .com TLDs doesn't indicate that there will be a huge demand for new ones.
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    by hcho 14y ago

    I wonder what's the likelihood of an actual dinosaur's survival in our current atmosphere. Oxygen levels might just be not high enough.
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    by hcho 14y ago

    Terrible choice of domain name. Defence league is generally used by right wing extremist organisations.
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    by hcho 14y ago

    Try just mentioning instead of replying. Reply triggers the spam filter straight away, as you've experienced yourself.
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    by hcho 14y ago

    No I don't have numbers in hand. I remember a few developers sharing their numbers here, though. Maybe you can search.
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    by hcho 14y ago

    I have the impression that Android apps make money with ads rather than purchases. It is possible to make money, just with different approaches. The skills and experience you'd gain doing Android development is transferable to iOS anyway. I
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    by hcho 14y ago

    I can walk into a phone shop and buy a contract-free, sim-free smartphone for £50. Sure, it's low end but it is a smartphone. It looks pretty upside-down to me.
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    by hcho 15y ago

    How much runway do you have? If you have enough savings to survive without bringing a dime in for, say, 3 months, give it a shot. If things don't work out, you can always find another job.
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    by hcho 15y ago

    Did Schrödinger's cat just meow? People will try to submit their stuff during good times and skew the data soon.
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    by hcho 15y ago

    I am paying about $18 per month for my linode instance. I am not going to migrate to $10 a month VPS for a saving of $8 per month. Linode knows this and is under no pressure to drop their prices. It would be a totally different story of mu
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    by hcho 15y ago

    I once built a task queue using redis, start-stop-daemon and php. start-stop-daemon can turn vanilla php scripts(or any kind of script for that matter) to a worker.
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    Are you ready for the next stage of commoditization of web design?(lazyasaturtle.blogspot.com)

    9 points by hcho 15y ago|2 comments
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    Why you don't need a logo and can get by with just a favicon(lazyasaturtle.blogspot.com)

    5 points by hcho 15y ago|0 comments
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    by hcho 15y ago

    Thanks for the suggestions. I will probably add these to a paid version.
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    by hcho 15y ago

    Thanks. Would it help if I increase the padding of the court a bit?
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    I made a web based basketball play drawer. Looking for feedback.(drawaplay.com)

    3 points by hcho 15y ago|5 comments
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    by hcho 15y ago

    How would I know where it goes? A porn site? Phishing site?
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    by hcho 15y ago

    I have a few elderly relatives who I help with their technology issues. Clamshell phones are by far the most comfortable devices for that age group. They don't feel comfortable with pressing the green button to receive a call, but opening t
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    by hcho 15y ago

    Use a css framework, at least to begin with. I used bootstrap.js at my latest project: http://v0t.es It's not going to win any design awards but it's better than anything I could have come up with by myself.