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by izak30 17y ago
Jquery DOES offset bad lines of code. Writing your own ajax framework or css selectors, probably not a great idea. using jquery, offset your bad LOC.. it's not as silly as it seems.
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by izak30 17y ago
My Dad is an architect in a small town (40k pop) and services much of rural south eastern ohio. He almost never sits at a computer during the day, and most of his drafting is done by draftsmen on datacad. I'd be happy to privately give you
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by izak30 17y ago
Businesses pay rent at a mall, and in turn they get to decorate the place how they want (presumably, not with ads for other stores inside). It's still an interesting problem, and the mall analogy is a good one. Would bands pay if there wer
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by izak30 17y ago
Well, myspace had traction and users.
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"What the Fuck is Going On?" A musician's take on MySpace(thesoundofhumanlives.blogspot.com)
30 points by izak30 17y ago|29 comments
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by izak30 17y ago
Well, the USPS won't sell mailing lists (AFAIK), but lots of other places do (SalesGenie is one.. but not cheap) Sourcing/spidering phone books, or chambers of commerce for specific towns is another method if you have more time than cash.
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by izak30 17y ago
So, that brings up another good point. StackOverflow, like answers.OnStartups was leveraged from an already burgeoning community, and quickly got other communities involved. With something grassroots, are you stuck in a chicken and egg pr
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by izak30 17y ago
That's one of the biggest complaints I had from "Guy A" who looked at it. There was no decent way to 1) Interface with the content with his current site 2) port reputation two ways from his existing community.
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by izak30 17y ago
I think that e-mailing a password for them to change adds another step, instead of taking one away.
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Ask YC: Viability of StackOverflow for other topics and community building.
5 points by izak30 17y ago|6 comments
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by izak30 17y ago
Well, they're already profitable. If you're looking at a year or more, I'd agree, it's crazy; but they're asking "how do I make the jump, and be profitable full-time".
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by izak30 17y ago
Cool. I wasn't suggesting that you be irresponsible with your credit, especially given that it's not just _you_ taking the risk. But clearly you've though through your options, that's all I was getting at. That what you'd make, even in y
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by izak30 17y ago
Your credit limit is probably around the amount of money you would need in the short term though.
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by izak30 17y ago
I've been playing with this while it's been in private beta. It's good, and works just like EC2, but for DB
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by izak30 17y ago
I haven't. Right now, we're trying to figure it out. We work with many FQDNs. I've been talking to a local guy who says that in bulk I could get IPs for $3/mo at his datacenter. The price is good, but I'm then back to managing hardware,
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by izak30 17y ago
Customer Support is good. Functionality is pretty meh. You have no SSH, no SCP, no gzip. We host on EC2 and it's been really cost effective, and everything that we've needed EXCEPT multiple IPs to an instance. each instance can only have
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by izak30 17y ago
Yeah, I know, but you can only attach one per instance, so the effective cost per elastic ip per month is 1 small instance.
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by izak30 17y ago
Thanks! I did lose points for this w/o clarifying.. I run multiple sites on a single instance (we're a webhost) We don't do shopping carts/ssl for our clients, because that would cost 1 - Small Instance/month, which is cost-prohibitive for
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by izak30 17y ago
I don't support more HTTPS because of the cost of static IPs on EC2 (i.e. ~72/mo)
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by izak30 17y ago
Friends challenge you to quizes on facebook... why not 25 pushups. Not only make it a stats analysis, but make it a game, offer rewards for activities, let your friends (or trainer) put a bounty on certain activities.
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by izak30 17y ago
Joel Spolsky talks about this over and over on the Stack Overflow podcast. People who are willing to do something for free !== People who are willing to do something for small bits of money or quantified reward. It's possible that there is
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by izak30 17y ago
I use google docs for 99% of stuff. Critical docs and spreadsheets though stay local, with OpenOffice, and synced with my partners via dropbox.
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by izak30 17y ago
This is really pretty great. Spent a few minutes adding contacts and tasks, and it went pretty well. Readmore is right about some of the demo data bugs, but I haven't ran into anything when i started from scratch.
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by izak30 17y ago
From What I know (from a teacher who I sent to your site): E-mail may be super effective, but you may have more luck selling to teachers if their students don't need an e-mail address; if they can put in their (pseudo)name or 'school number
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by izak30 17y ago
My first reaction was 'YouTube is taking on ustream and justin.tv?'
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by izak30 17y ago
Also: Previous Thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=175186
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by izak30 17y ago
Merchant Account with local bank + Authorize.net has been our choice
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by izak30 17y ago
Sales Tax in my city is 6.5% so as a decimal it hits the mark.
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by izak30 17y ago
Microsoft put out Small Basic a little while ago. It's actually a lot of fun, and really simple (well... for me... the kid would be the real test) to pick up. I did a quick overview here http://www.issackelly.com/Blog/entry/Hands_on_with_
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by izak30 17y ago
Cyberhomes, Trulia

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