john_flintstone

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by john_flintstone 14y ago
The biggest problem I had - one I'm battling with right now - is that when you move successfully from being just a programmer to being an entrepreneur who sells software, after a while the software part becomes less important. You start thi
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
This doesn't impress me. You get far better and more accurate results from running a Google ad campaign on a mocked up landing page than a survey would deliver. An ad campaign gives you far more: number of impressions, click through rate, c
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
Sour grapes fella. How do you know she's been 'lucky' in life?
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
The reason I posted this link, and why I find it useful, is that it's written by the tech journalist at Ireland's Business Post, and posted on their website. It's not 'expert' advice from a blogger, it's what the journalist who covers start
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
Every bubble is "completely different" to previous bubbles to the core group at the center of it. If they didn't think that, the bubble would never materialize. I still remember laughing in the year before the dot com bubble burst when I'd
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
That doesn't help. If I listen to the 10 o'clock news in the Netherlands, do I get a choice of languages? Newspapers in two languages? Parliamentary questions and interviews in 2 languages? Seriously?
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
This is not just a software/startup problem. Every single web project / eCommerce site / anything online that requires work, should be rolling out a variation of an MVP. I had a meeting with the brother earlier today. He runs an online whol
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
Adsense is the only Network that works consistently for me. The others simply don't have the volume of advertisers, especially if your visitor base is not US/UK. Other ad networks rarely seem to venture beyond the bigger markets.
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
You can in the UK.
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
And complete anonymity. Most people don't care about this, but some of us do, sometimes. You buy a pay as you go sim card for £10, pay with cash, and toss it a week or month later.
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
I'm not talking about sticking out of your pants. I'm talking about a nice tight pair that shows off your 'assets'.
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
>Why not? If a man (fellow coworker) has nice biceps, I say it (I'm not gay, not trying to seduce him, but being fit is very high on my values list). If a woman (fellow coworker) is cute, I say it (I'm not trying to seduce her, I just t
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
>Google is trying to rank you highly for providing the best content...Want to rank better? Write better! The real world doesn't always work like that. I do a lot of work for an eCommerce site that sells wholesale. Their customers have l
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
That's true. Chinese visa procedures are nightmarish, and can change without warning. But it's a bureaucratic and paperwork nightmare, not an inter-personal nightmare - there's no third degree. And once you land on Chinese soil, border cont
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
Not if you're travelling from Ireland. You don't need to show any ID - though technically, if you're not an EU citizen you're supposed to join a different exit queue.
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
>They created ruby on rails, which a few people use A few people? Really? Now that's just petty.
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
I think you misunderstand them. They're poking HN with a stick, just to get a rise out of you. As in: "these guys think they matter, but they really don't, not to us." It's a little petty and mean, but I have a similar pettiness and meannes
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
>it's more fun to watch because it looks riskier Then why isn't the rest of the world just as enamored by American Football as Americans? It's an almost non existent sport anywhere outside the US. If it really were more fun to watch tha
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
>and the HTML didn't validate Stupid as it is to go down the publicly naming route, what has the HTML validation status of the code got to do with anything? This is a measurement that only means something to guys who measure things - it
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
Does anyone know if Usenet will be in the firing line, or is shutting that down a whole other ball game?
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
Well, when I hear the term "cherry popper" it's a similarly titled episode of The Shield that springs to mind. And that episode was all about pre-teen sex while pervy middle aged guys in a seedy club watched. So, even after knowing what the
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
You're narrowing the focus too much. The article was not about software or tech businesses, it was much more general. I've seen the same problem described in businesses selling poultry rearing products and fashion jewellery.
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
"groovehq.com" Maybe I should know this, but are these guys some kind of 37signals offshoot, or have they just copied the 'hq' thing? >Groove is a hosted customer support and engagement platform that helps companies manage customer supp
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
Read the comments, and I've got to say: I'm not one of you guys. I don't write code, I build products (otherwise known as software), that human beings use. I looked up Pascal's triangle in Wikipedia, so now I know what it is, and I could wr
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
Maybe, but I had a bad hair cut for 3 years, and I wish someone had had the balls to tell me.
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
I addressed that above: "Of course, I should have worked harder, and I would have learned more if I had..." My point (which I thought I'd made clearly) is that it was far, far too easy to do well, with little effort.
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
I graduated from one of the top 5 British universities in the mid 90s with a 2:1 degree in History, and I have to say that it was one of the easiest thing I ever did. I had class and lecture time of 4-6 hours a week, and spent another 8 hou
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
China todays always reminds me of Dickens's Tale of Two Cities: "IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it w
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
>The quality of technical articles on Wikipedia are second to none Academic articles maybe, other articles, not so much. I run a website / forum in a niche area of animal husbandry, and one part of the site links to useful descriptions
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by john_flintstone 15y ago
Just as most users don't know about Ctrl+, most users wouldn't know what "adjust text size up / down" meant either. My 60 year old father uses the Internet a lot, but he wouldn't be able to identify your use of the word 'text' with the word

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