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by jbail 16y ago
It still looks the same to me, but apparently it's launching sometime today. It might be a good time to visit Myspace and relive the glory days before it changes to the new logo and color scheme. I just did, clicked "Browse" and that was al
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Myspace Makeover(switched.com)
2 points by jbail 16y ago|1 comments
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I'm with you --- Digg's response is pure bullshit. They have $30MM in funding and don't have a test environment??? Yeah. Right.
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by jbail 16y ago
Amazon does --- but it costs 1% more for transactions outside of the US. Also, Amazon's rates automatically change based on the amount you are charging. All of this info is here: http://aws.amazon.com/fps/pricing/
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by jbail 16y ago
I gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. I don't use Paypal, so I was just reading their site where I missed the key sentence, "Each PayPal account is associated with only one merchant processing rate." That sucks. I think that makes Amazon
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by jbail 16y ago
How exactly is the fact that you didn't know about the outage "the magic of cloud computing"? I get that you're saying your users don't care/didn't notice, but I'm clearly missing something because if I had an app on Heroku, I'd be a little
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by jbail 16y ago
PayPal says it's cheaper for the seller above $12 to use the $.30 + 2.9% fee. You are skeptical, so let's do the math: $12 x 2.9% = $0.348 + $.30 (flat fee) = $0.648 $12 x 5% = $0.6 + $0.05 (flat fee) = $0.65 The "larger rate" is actually c
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by jbail 16y ago
Amazon FPS fees are practically identical to Paypal. Paypal Micropayments, $0.05 + 5% for transactions under $12 Amazon FPS, $0.05 + 5% for transactions under $10 Paypal Micropayments = Over $12, $0.30 + 2.9% Amazon FPS, over $10, $0.30 + 2
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Why We Hack: The Benefits of Disobedience(lifehacker.com)
5 points by jbail 16y ago|0 comments
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by jbail 16y ago
It's interesting you use plain text for your ZestyLogos logo, yet sell a logo design service. You could use some testimonials. Coupon for HN?
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by jbail 16y ago
Do you allow telecommuting? Or are you looking for local candidates only? What is your strategy to reach potential candidates? Are you working with a headhunter?
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by jbail 16y ago
I work as a software engineer. A few months ago, I was looking to for a job switch and got TONS of calls from companies both big and small in CA and NYC (mostly CA though). No offense to either place, but for me, neither is somewhere I'd wa
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by jbail 16y ago
I don't have statistics on how big cloud computing is projected to be in the upcoming years, but Amazon is clearly poised to take advantage of this huge, relatively new market. I could see their P/E reflecting (at least to some extent) thei
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by jbail 16y ago
Excuse my cynicism, but what prevents this exact thing from happening to Grooveshark in the future? Wikipedia says Universal Media Group sued you and that's why Apple took your app down from their App Store just two months ago. It also says
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by jbail 16y ago
It's sad, but record companies destroy any potential for Internet based music. Music apps last only so long before they get sued or need to restrict your listening freedom in some way. The other thing that happens to the cool little music u
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by jbail 16y ago
Adding LOL next to a pretentious statement like, "the Valley is an order of magnitude closer to being self-aware" adds to the conversation that I think it's a silly statement. I didn't think more words needed to be written to get that point
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by jbail 16y ago
I don't know why I'm getting downvoted. That quote from the article was funny. I should preface this next statement by saying, I'm not trolling, this doesn't apply to the Valley in particular and this is serious food for thought: Does anyon
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by jbail 16y ago
"...the Valley is an order of magnitude closer to being self-aware." LOL.
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by jbail 16y ago
You don't need to know the future. You just need to hear the rumor before everyone else does. Why do you think Apple had a big run up before they announced earnings and then dropped the past two days? Just a coincidence? Maybe, but more lik
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by jbail 16y ago
Buy the rumor and sell the news.
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by jbail 16y ago
"...a new type of company that anyone can join ." Letting anyone join is the first thing I'd reconsider. I applaud that you're thinking all-inclusive, but most entrepreneurs wouldn't want just anyone joining. They want skilled professional
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by jbail 16y ago
Q: "How do you create balance?" A: "...I have an algorithm." Good idea. I think I need to come up with a balance algorithm too.
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by jbail 16y ago
It might not be laziness that you don't support that 2%. It costs real time and money to add and support fallback content and functionality. There could be better uses of that time and money that create more value for the business...which i
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by jbail 16y ago
Maybe Digg uses small servers whereas StackOverflow uses big servers?
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by jbail 16y ago
"...and people who dream bigger than people in Boston." Ouch. I'm surprised Mass High Tech gave you press with a mouth like that.
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by jbail 16y ago
Just submitted to test. Should I get an email?
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by jbail 16y ago
Gmail on my smartphone (running Froyo) doesn't load images. In fact it has a "Show pictures" button which I must explicitly press to load images.
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by jbail 16y ago
The UI looks pretty cool. Nice work. Any reason you made it a native app instead of an enhanced web app? Out of curiosity, where did you get these quotes from? I'm guessing you culled them from one of the numerous quotation sites on the web
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by jbail 16y ago
To summarize: If you're not on Facebook, you're invisible, irresponsible, not modern and uncivilized. Wow. Not having a Facebook account makes me a horrible person apparently.
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by jbail 16y ago
I think geeks dress poorly because they don't care what other people think and/or don't care to impress with clothing. Plus, geeks don't have time to wander around malls when there is hacking to be done. If it wasn't for my wife, I would ow

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