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   by jsdalton 17y ago

   The comic referenced at the top of the article was good for a laugh or two: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
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   by jsdalton 17y ago

   Did the title get edited or something? It seemed absolutely clear to me, and I don't even see IMDB mentioned anywhere?
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   by jsdalton 17y ago

   This looks awesome. The pricing is pretty close to AuthSMTP, which seems to be the defacto email delivery service I see people using. It offers a lot more features than AuthSMTP does though.
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   by jsdalton 17y ago

   I thought the same thing until I saw this: http://www.notableapp.com/plans To me at least, that seems waaaay overpriced for what the service offers -- but I admit I have not investigated it very thoroughly.
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   by jsdalton 17y ago

   I heard the news about the Google Closure library last week, but I completely missed the release of this javascript compiler API. I understand that it compresses your JS pretty well, but what of the "optimizations"? Has anyone benchmarked o
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   by jsdalton 17y ago

   Why this, as opposed to sIFR, Cufon, or other free techniques that are currently being used for font replacement? (Honest question.)
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   by jsdalton 17y ago

   Have you thought about whether removing the pagination would cause an even high percentage of your readers to read the full article? And if the percentage who click to page two is in fact so large, have you considered how much more satisfie
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   by jsdalton 17y ago

   Happens to the best of us. Cheers.
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   by jsdalton 17y ago

   Crazy marketing idea #2: Put a link to your main website (i.e. getworkflo.com) somewhere on your blog. Read this article, saw the name and thought, "Hm, what is this workflo product? I'll just click here on the top navigation...no...maybe t
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    What are the chances that someone viewing a decade-old article will just happen to be viewing it at the exact same time as someone else is viewing it AND at the exact same time that this other person is submitting a comment on it?
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    Ask HM: Suggestions for MS hosting services?

    4 points by jsdalton 17y ago|2 comments
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    Another one: http://www.postalmethods.com/ I remember looking at these a while back, and I believe Postal Methods is more robust than either of the two you mentioned (and pretty cheap too).
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    Cool. For comparison's sake, this is very similar to another website that's been around for a few years, Carbonmade ( http://carbonmade.com ). Carbonmade is a bit broader than just web design, but it's likewise beautifully designed and it's
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    Pubsubhub and RSS cloud are "competing" approaches to real time notifications.
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    Thanks, this is helpful. Not to be a stickler, but two things on your summary: * Where are you getting your estimates from? The numbers on the spreadsheet in the article do not match your rounded summaries. * Twisted is faster at the same p
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    I see no reason whatsoever for this article to be on Hacker News.
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    For me, the word always calls to mind the scene in Jurassic Park, where the annoying little girl exclaims, "I am not a computer nerd. I prefer to be called a hacker!" I have never been able to take the word seriously since.
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    Your debug page is showing: http://highlightcam.com/about/
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    Not a joke: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa... (I'm assuming by "joke" you meant "not a real app.")
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    I think they got all this money from selling lots of products at a price people were willing to pay.
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    The article and headline say "PayPal killer," but my guess is that it would be closer in spirit to Amazon's Flexible Payment System.
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    I guess this is a sign of progress, but honestly this news just serves to remind me how incredibly slow this project is going.
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    Don't tell me shouldibeworriedaboutscaling.com was taken?
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    Cheap ideas and easy development translate directly into low barriers to entry -- if anything these are obstacles to getting rich, not gateways.
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    Flagged. Here's why: Firstly, this website is nothing more than a vanilla implementation of the open source job board framework jobberBase ( http://www.jobberbase.com/ ). Also, the submission title is an abuse of the word "review," which ge
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    I think the biggest losers are actually "the rest of us": i.e. those of us who neither borrowed more than we could afford to pay back nor lent to those whom we knew could not afford to pay us back. There aren't many bailouts or special gove
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    I'm sure that's the same guy who posted the link to HN, but the article he linked to is from some fitness consultant's blog. I guess I don't see the problem.
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    Has anyone here used BatchBlue? Any feedback on the service itself?
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    by jsdalton 17y ago

    Highrise was my first choice to use, actually. It's probably excellent for managing customers, but the hard limit of 50,000 contacts makes it impractical for managing users. I was envisioning piping certain key user events into a CRM, so th
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    Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage contact with your users?

    11 points by jsdalton 17y ago|4 comments