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by ja27 15y ago
I'm trying to remember what all I used to run from a single 360k DOS floppy on a 640k 8088. I had at least DESQView, QEdit (which might be the editor you're thinking of), and a VT100 emulator.
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by ja27 15y ago
Why is Klout any more odious than any number of other Twitter statistic apps? http://tweetstats.com/graphs/nelson http://twitaholic.com/nelson/
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by ja27 15y ago
I'm struggling with this idea right now. Some background: I was laid off recently and am torn between getting another coding job or trying to build a business. I'm a bit older, married with kids, and only have about 9 months of savings read
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by ja27 15y ago
They want you to go full-time on it but they won't.
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by ja27 15y ago
I've been thinking for a while that the next phase of my career might be as a "gamification expert". I enjoy Foursquare, Gowalla, etc. and have a reasonable amount of interest in game theory, game design and mechanics, and psychology. But w
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by ja27 15y ago
We've been without cable TV for years. Any time I talk to people about cutting their cable TV the only objection is live sports.
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by ja27 15y ago
My vote is to go with a free version only, but have in-app purchases. You'll keep it easy to download and try and if they like the first 10 puzzles, they're more likely to pay the 99 cents or whatever for the next 30 puzzles.
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by ja27 15y ago
I went with the 15" MBP with the screen upgrade (1680x1050 and anti-glare). To me, the extra vertical pixels are a big plus when coding or writing.
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by ja27 15y ago
30 disks = 30 floppies back then. Yes, I've installed Linux (and 386BSD) from a big stack of floppies. It's not fun.
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by ja27 15y ago
Dropbox is used by about half my coworkers. Among friends that I work on projects with, it's used by more like 90% of them. That's on par with Skype and we saw their valuation.
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by ja27 15y ago
I help myself keep going when a project like that is slow to bring in revenue by measuring it in terms of what that can buy. My little $50 a month site is almost a new iPad a year and I don't spend any time on it.
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by ja27 15y ago
The price can seem a little high but it's a fixed price. No guessing, no haggling, no uncertainty. Just pick one you like and go. I wonder if you'd consider locking in the matching Twitter, YouTube, etc. names as well. I'm afraid that if yo
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by ja27 15y ago
Is anyone watching TechStars on Bloomberg? When I saw the Wiji guys and their adaptive advertising, I was immediately thinking of the implications if you can do this good of a job of facial recognition. Imagine if every ad screen you came n
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by ja27 15y ago
I have a friend with an XNA community game in the store. He's so disgusted with the garbage that goes on to get games to rank in the store that I think he's pretty much given up. I don't see that as a viable option to make money unless you
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by ja27 15y ago
The price of Google App Engine looked dirt cheap too.
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by ja27 15y ago
What is Facebook's plan for credits? I rarely even remember that they're there. Does anyone use them?
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by ja27 15y ago
Yes, exactly. He also did a talk about targeting the female market. This might be a big help for you. Here's the thread, talk, and blog post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2371965
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by ja27 15y ago
I don't know about the price. I'm a cheap bastard so it all seems expensive to me. If you can find a way to A/B test different prices or run special offers that might help figure out the best prices.
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by ja27 15y ago
It's a good question to ask, but it ignores the benefits of electronic books. Imagine Abraham Lincoln, born in a log cabin, raised in poverty, being stymied in his early education by the lack of paper, a typewriter, or electric lights. Thi
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by ja27 15y ago
I worked for a big company with multiple business process management product offerings. What did they use for internal processes? Survey Monkey or Excel spreadsheets.
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by ja27 15y ago
I like it and I agree that there are other niches you could target - weddings, baby showers, graduation, confirmation, retirement, etc. Anything that's sort of a life-changing event or entering a new stage in life would be a good time for t
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by ja27 15y ago
Yes, it's really frustrating that Netflix only allows streaming from the primary account and none of the sub accounts. Anything we stream shows up on the recently watched list for our kids to see.
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by ja27 15y ago
We had the same situation. My 11 year old daughter has had a Gmail account for many years and started using a couple years ago. Everything was fine until she tried to accept a Google+ invite and was locked out. Unfortunately this was more t
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by ja27 15y ago
Yes, there are car wash / detail companies at both of the nearby malls here (U.S.) and at our office building once a week. What I like about their plan is that it's a little easier for them to target people with disposable income. I imagine
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by ja27 15y ago
I don't know about the average family but in the past 5-7 years I've replaced almost everything in my house that consumes electricity - HVAC, water heater, dishwasher, fridge, television, computers and light bulbs. Almost all of those went
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by ja27 15y ago
It's really common in warmer areas like Florida. Most of us have heat pumps with an emergency "heat strip" resistive heating element that's really expensive to run.
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by ja27 15y ago
The two contracts I spent the most time going back and forth with before signing were the two biggest wastes of my time. One was a ridiculous NDA with a paranoid guy with delusions that he had the world's best original idea which turned out
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by ja27 15y ago
All mocking aside, I've had this idea before. We've "car camped" around the U.S. when we were young and broke. I love the idea of having more choices and possibly cheaper campsites. But there's no way that this makes any financial sense for
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by ja27 15y ago
Has anyone been successful getting into the Kindle developer program? I applied many months ago and got nowhere.
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by ja27 15y ago
If you can find news and other interesting items related to the web app, set up a Twitter, Facebook group, blog, Tumblr, etc. and shovel a couple pieces of content on there a day. Search Twitter and follow everyone talking about that niche,

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