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by ja27 15y ago
I worked completely remote for 2 years and anywhere from 1-4 days a week for the past year or two. - Get out of the house. I'd set the goal of getting out twice a week. Worst case, go eat and work somewhere with wifi. If you can meet with f
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by ja27 15y ago
I get about 1 every other day. I ignore them. They generally are so clueless that they're not worth my time. If I ever wanted one, I know a couple recruiters that know what they're doing.
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by ja27 15y ago
I saw something great in some Seth Godin piece. If your boss (or team) doesn't yet trust you to do big, impactful things, take on other projects to earn their trust. The breakthrough idea was that they don't have to be product projects. Jus
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by ja27 15y ago
I'd use it for two things: directions and boarding passes. Otherwise my printers are basically containers where the kids go to get blank paper to draw on.
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by ja27 15y ago
I've kind of lived this for the past couple of months. I haven't spent the time as well as I'd hoped due to some family and other issues. Picking something to focus on was my hardest part. Lots of interesting startups, technology, and stuff
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by ja27 15y ago
I know of almost a dozen Kindle Fires that parents are holding onto to give to their kids at Christmas. I think the Amazon downloads will pick up quite a bit in the next 3 months, especially for apps that could appeal to older kids. But it'
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Congratulations on achieving your target. Is there any chance of you getting apps into the Amazon store or are they only allowing U.S. developers? I know techie bloggers aren't loving the Kindle Fire, but I know a ton of normal people buyin
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by ja27 15y ago
Any idea why your iStockPhoto income dropped just for this period? It seems like a fluke / outlier, not a long-term trend.
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Supporting Technology Entrepreneurs in Georgia(academicvc.com)
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by ja27 15y ago
iOS users, at least many of the early adopters, were used to spending money in the iTunes store on music. It was an easy leap for them to go from spending 99 cents for a song to 99 cents on an app. There are iTunes gift cards in almost ever
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by ja27 15y ago
There are less women going into computer science because there are less women in computer science. It's an issue of the social norm, not math ability, biology, or anything else. Most people, male or female, will pick colleges, majors, caree
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They are. Handset sales don't correlate to app sales.
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That scares me. I've forgotten half my Truecrypt passwords. I guess I should give up and delete those archives.
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We got one for my tween daughter. All things considered, it's one of the nicer cheap Android tablets. The screen has great viewing angles. The lack of hardware volume controls is a pain. I didn't notice any video quality problems from Netfl
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by ja27 15y ago
Maybe it's because I worked so long for an IBM partner and dealt with IBM customers, but DB2 runs a lot of stuff at large Fortune 500 companies.
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by ja27 15y ago
I'm curious how the mechanics work for publishing an app to the iTunes store for a client? Does the client create the account and handle publishing the app? (Do they need to sign the package, deal with XCode, etc.?) Or does the client creat
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by ja27 15y ago
And getting what you built into the hands of the people that need it is nontrivial and I'd argue it's the hardest part.
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AdWords could work if you can cheaply own the exact niche. The blog will take quite a while to draw any significant amount of traffic. The best bang for the buck might be to get noticed by some high-profile blogger. Make a funny demo video
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by ja27 15y ago
It just dawned on me that I didn't mention the TEDx part of this. This kid building apps is pretty cool, but the fact that he put together a talk and presented at a TEDx is what might be even more impressive. There are many different sizes
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by ja27 15y ago
I have mixed feelings about some aspects of FIRST Robotics, mostly about how much kids really learn when they're so focused on winning. (That's actually a core value of FIRST - "What we learn is more important than what we win", but a lot o
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by ja27 15y ago
I help coach a FIRST Tech Challenge robotics team. When I opened up my MacBook one day there the kids went nuts seeing XCode and the iPhone simulator open. A couple of them would probably rather be building iOS apps than doing robotics. One
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by ja27 15y ago
Do whatever it takes to get out sooner. Every year in school costs not just tuition, etc. but lost potential income. Live on as little as possible and avoid student loans as much as possible. I avoided loans until I was married and in grad
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by ja27 15y ago
The 448.2M number also assumes that there is no overlap between the 152 average guests at each wedding. Does the average guest only attend one wedding per year? I don't think the number itself is a big deal but it's sloppy enough to stand o
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by ja27 15y ago
rsh coworkersbox "cat /dev/audio" > /dev/audio Or vice-versa. Not sure what systems it'd still work on, but it was a lot of fun on pre-Solaris SunOS machines.
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by ja27 15y ago
I've had a few co-workers come over from the UK and Ukraine. We've joked a lot about how Americans don't walk anywhere and I've even warned them to be careful walking because drivers don't ever expect anyone to be walking. One thing that di
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by ja27 15y ago
I love my 15" MBP screen (the hi-res anti-glare). I haven't used a MacBook Air except in stores, but I have a 12.1" netbook with a glossy 1366x768 screen. I couldn't live with less vertical pixels than 768, but the 13" Air's screen would be
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by ja27 15y ago
Well, they would still like you to buy books. But this is a great supplement. I can also get free ebook "loans" from my local library, but with a 2 week loan period and there's often a waiting list to get popular books.
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by ja27 15y ago
Another interesting mechanism is what ChessTempo.com uses. Players and puzzles both have a Elo-like dynamic ranking. When a player beats a puzzle, the player's rank increases and the puzzle's rank decreases. This makes it easy to, over time
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Also over Thanksgiving weekend.
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by ja27 15y ago
Trying not to be overly critical, but the three games I looked at seem quite simplistic and the artwork is minimal. Putting a little more time into the artwork should pay off. These recent tutorials on Gamesutra could help: http://www.gama

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