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by kokey 13y ago
I think a bit of buzz around renewal time is good. The best new signups come from referrals, and the best time for referrals is shortly after a customer has made the decision to pay for the service.
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by kokey 13y ago
I had various models of the GP2X and hacked together a game for it and really enjoyed the community around it. That said, I thought the Pandora project would either fail or units would only be available when better alternatives exist, or t
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by kokey 13y ago
I'm not sure, I think in the UK it's a fairly common assumption that a history degree means you'll most likely be operating a beer tap to pay the bills. This is also useful in most pubs since they are a few centuries old.
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by kokey 13y ago
Interesting. It describes roughly the strategy that I've settled on when looking for accommodation to rent. I think it also has the added advantage of making you feel you've made a good decision.
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by kokey 13y ago
It sounds like a winning investment strategy would be to go short on whatever you are investing in.
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by kokey 13y ago
It is quite refreshing to see an article clearly stating the problem and the right solution. The barriers to competition needs to be broken, then the neutrality issue sorts itself out. We don't need to see entrenched cartels and mono
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by kokey 13y ago
While many make reference to the mythical creature Net Neutrality, I think at best this will be mostly a way for Comcast to enjoy some time for extra revenue and perhaps a chance to develop a closer partnership with a company like Netflix.
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by kokey 13y ago
US or UK MPG?
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by kokey 13y ago
I've always been fascinated by ponzi schemes, or other pyramid and chain structures. Most of the legislation against it that I've looked at, attacks it from a deception angle. So, basically, if it's honest about what it is
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by kokey 13y ago
I feel your pain, that is me too most of the time. That said I'm the only technical person around to fix these things, so I often can't step back and spend time sorting out the big things, or even figuring out how to prioritize t
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by kokey 13y ago
Exercise is only lacking if most of your daily chores and transport are handled by machines, which is not the case here.
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by kokey 13y ago
I have conflicted feelings about this. On the one hand it's nice to see the creativity and spirit, on the other hand it's sad to have to invent solutions for problems we should have stopped having a century ago, where the solutio
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by kokey 13y ago
I had to search through the comments for the word 'opportunity' to find this comment. I share exactly the same thought. It's a relatively straightforward model, and it should be easy enough to advertise for it too.
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by kokey 13y ago
It sounds like you like process and management, but doesn't have that authoritative leader streak. It sounds like you are technically capable, but you feel that you've missed the boat to be a top coder or engineer. It still soun
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by kokey 13y ago
If I understand it correctly, this isn't based on true stats but instead heavily depends on numbers through news reports. I would be tempted to say that's almost as unscientific as the reasons the anti-vaccination crowd uses.
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by kokey 13y ago
Technological unemployment isn't exactly a new thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment
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by kokey 13y ago
It's easy to create alarm over inequality. Compare the people who has built up wealth to the people who has no wealth because what they earn gets spent every month. This way even most of the middle class looks dirt poor.
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by kokey 13y ago
I don't think living in India makes consumer electronics, cars, worldwide travel, world class education, clean neighborhoods, reliable electricity, good plumbing, or anything like that cheaper. I've moved between developed and de
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by kokey 13y ago
I've spent 3 years making Nagios 'work'. I've had to add all the things Nagios didn't have, like inventory management, graphing, combining graphs, trend detection, service discovery, etc. I also had to make it sca
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by kokey 13y ago
It sounds like about the right level of effort required to maintain something developed by Fabrice Bellard.
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by kokey 13y ago
I think the fact that you can buy 4 liters of White Lightning for that money instead negates the necessity to find somewhere warm and indoors.
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by kokey 13y ago
I think there is a lot of potential for job creation for young and unskilled workers in the domestic service economy. You could have a device guide a service company employee around your house to do things like take your laundry out to be
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by kokey 13y ago
Yup, I believe what these sites provide is a platform for introductions and initial agreements, but both parties still need to do the relationship building themselves.
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by kokey 13y ago
I have found the approach like the Facebook example above to be more common in the UK, to South Africa or India. I have been wondering whether it's just my experience, or if developing countries are just simply behind and resemble an
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by kokey 13y ago
When a philosophy graduate is unhappy that collective, voluntary trade on the market doesn't benefit his 'trade', he will see it as evil, repressive capitalism. While, in an anarchist, decentralised, collective society there
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South African entrepreneurs, take a bow: a North American’s perspective(ventureburn.com)
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by kokey 13y ago
This has been coming, and there's also so much room for gains from it. Eli Dourado covered this nicely, I think http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/04/then-internet-now-airsp... Personally I hope the comm
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by kokey 13y ago
I was also thinking this was a stereotypical HN sensational headline blog post. Apart from being strangely correct, it somehow makes me want to code something in Java today.
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by kokey 13y ago
"Increasing inequality leads not only to the growth of top fortunes; it also results in greater numbers of wealth-holders. The “1 percent” becomes “2 percent.” Or even more." So, a larger percentage of wealthy people in society is
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by kokey 13y ago
I don't really agree with the 'green' hype, and banking on battery improvements etc. However, I think designs like this will become useful along with other forms of drone technology. This helicopter actually looks fairly ch

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