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by hopeless 16y ago
It's interesting that you mention the magic mouse. I switched to a Mac about 2 months ago and can't believe how uncomfortable the magic mouse is. Apple understand aesthetics but obviously haven't a clue about ergonomics. I've reverted to my
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by hopeless 16y ago
Hmm... I tried the app but encountered a few problems: - I could login with one account but it didn't show any apps - I added a different account but got the email address wrong so I deleted it again but this crashed the app :-(
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by hopeless 16y ago
Looks good and sounds ideal. I'll probably try it out soon although I don't have a pressing need to manage my servers from the iPhone. Has anyone else tried the other Heroku app which was released last year ( can't remember its name) to pro
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by hopeless 16y ago
It's not just the size of the Notes userbase which makes it attractive... It's the fact that every user of Notes hates it with a passion. A market ripe for picking I'd say!
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by hopeless 16y ago
Too often these types of optimisation ignore the actual real world usage but credit to the author for showing that it can seriously improve ActiveRecord performance (albeit 3-4x speedup rather than 200x). I have some Date-intensive models s
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by hopeless 16y ago
Buy a lottery ticket!
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by hopeless 16y ago
I've learnt from experience that there's another warning sign: Silence. If no one is making suggestions, complaining, or promoting your product then it indicates apathy. Which means that you aren't solving a critical problem
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by hopeless 16y ago
In my experience, it's easier to land a startup job straight out of college than a BigCo job. BigCo's look for X years experience, formal certifications, references etc. Startups look for enthusiasm, ability and a personal connection -- som
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by hopeless 16y ago
Well, I've been reading HN since before it was called Hacker News and I don't think I'll stop any time soon. It's not HN news which it making me want to start my own business but a desire to work on meaningful projects which fulfil my need
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by hopeless 16y ago
If by "start" you mean "quit your job and start full-time" then I won't because I have an unemployed spouse and 2 young children (and my current salary doesn't facilitate any savings). Of course, nothing stops me from working it once the ki
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by hopeless 16y ago
which, I should add, should be a lesson for everyone: marketing > functionality. One which I need a serious lesson in too. Particularly in the app store where there's no trial periods and customers are accustomed to taking a risk on low
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by hopeless 16y ago
The thing is, Camera+ frankly isn't that impressive. It has a cute but useless SLR animation but there are better camera apps out there (Hipstamatic, GorilllaCam or just the built-in app). I'm actually disappointed that I bought Camera+ and
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by hopeless 16y ago
Personally, I feel authentication is one area where it's best to have "many eyes". Sure, rolling your own is easy enough but have you really thought of every edge case, every security exploit? It is also one area where most applications are
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by hopeless 16y ago
I'm comfortable with CSS and HTML but I'm not very good working from a blank slate so I tend to grab a plain HTML theme from ThemeForest ( http://themeforest.net ) and then modify it myself (usually: recoding it to use Blueprint, removing e
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by hopeless 16y ago
This is a great reminder why I moved to Heroku ;-) (the points re. backup and monitoring do still apply, but at least it's only for your app and not the whole server)
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by hopeless 16y ago
I recently started up a new blog ( http://nextended.com for Sony NEX users) and searched around the available platforms. I've used blogger in the past but it's pretty clunky these days. I still use self-hosted Wordpress for my personal blo
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by hopeless 16y ago
Thanks Patrick, I'm sure it was one of your blog posts that put me on to KISSmetrics so I'm interested/glad to hear that you're going to stick with them. Perhaps you'd do a review in 6 months time to see if their pricing plans vs the effect
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by hopeless 16y ago
Thanks, that was kinda the point I was making when I said KISSmetrics needed to make you $200 on the $149 plan... you'll have invested your own time into this tool so that needs to be accounted for.
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by hopeless 16y ago
Thanks for the reply Cindy (yeah, I think we corresponded once or twice). I'm relieved to hear this decision was based on some hard data and I can see how the pricing model might be good for KISSmetrics. Obviously, it's not quite so good fo
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by hopeless 16y ago
Except that Mixpanel have both a free and basic plan ($50) to cater to smaller sites. Thanks for pointing that out to me though... I'll have to investigate
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by hopeless 16y ago
I can see the support point of view: reduce the number of customers = reduced support burden. But a "Starter" plan could come with lower (or no) support commitments. There could also be disproportionately less events (i.e., $10 for 20k eve
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by hopeless 16y ago
But it seems strange that they are completely ignoring the small business market altogether. I'm pretty sure it would be easier to sell 15x$10 subscriptions rather than 1 $149 subscription, which is probably going to involve at least a phon
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by hopeless 16y ago
It was purely the simplicity of the user interface for visualising the steps in the sales funnel and seeing exactly where you were losing conversions. I think you can construct something similar in Google Analytics but KISSmetrics is a much
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KISSmetrics' bizarre pricing decision(jamie.ideasasylum.com)
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by hopeless 16y ago
ok, but the URL still reads 'i-swearing' like some sort of Apple fanboy or humour site. It's also incredibly slow to load. Can't comment much on the idea though since my idea of fashion is whatever is at the top of my drawer in the morning.
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by hopeless 16y ago
Looks like he's already reached his goal?
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by hopeless 16y ago
There are people who insist on a particular capitalisation of their names (i.e., all lower-case, irrespective of grammar rules) which is surely no different from using characters outside the Unicode set. I'd be very careful telling people w
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by hopeless 16y ago
I've always wondered how/why Google provide maps to any iPhone app... normally such commercial usage will cost you $10,000 (per app/website). I assume there is a commercial agreement and Apple has paid major $$$ on behalf of their developer
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by hopeless 16y ago
Trust me, we're not laughing. We have to use our own products every day too :(
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by hopeless 16y ago
Everything you need to know about Unicorn... except what on Earth is Unicorn! A one-line summary wouldn't have gone amiss.

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