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by lusr 14y ago
I appreciate your reply and your point, but my tone was intentional and I believe in this context it is well warranted. I think it's great to be excited at the potential for success, and the reason I come to HN is because it is invigorati
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I don't follow? What is the meaning of "investment vs users"? Surely "# users" as a metric only makes sense within a specific business model that ultimately resolves down to a figure of "profit/user", which reinforces my point that discus
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What I find interesting here is that while I could get behind research published by an established firm with known directors, researchers, etc., it's much more difficult to know what to do with this "Anon" report because for all I know it c
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Then I have a great business proposition for you! It's easy... for the past month we hung around a street corner and for everybody who paid us $1 we gave them $1 back with a SMILE! We've done this with 10K paying customers so far! We als
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by lusr 14y ago
If you're in the .NET world, HtmlAgilityPack does a great job of producing proper XML from broken HTML. CSS selectors don't always suffice, particularly with sites that don't use CSS :) Sometimes you have sites where the best you can do i
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by lusr 14y ago
I did and in principle it's a great idea but I can't wrap my head around the pricing - as a solo founder earning South African Rands with the requisite technical expertise to manage these things myself, I can't bring myself to pay more than
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by lusr 14y ago
It's just as simple to spin up an EC2 Windows instance as it is for a Linux one. Just costs you a bit more, and as a .NET developer, the only thing that still bugs me about .NET are the licensing fees for Windows - but if my business isn
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by lusr 14y ago
The economics of tech startups are really puzzling to me. What is the obsession with raising all of this money? If your business is profitable then raising money shouldn't be a concern, especially if you have something just sitting in cybe
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by lusr 15y ago
This is why I have to wonder how old the parent is. When you're young and have lots to learn, sure, take on a lot and learn. But as I've become older I've decided I'm not interested in putting in the extra time just to make my boss wealthi
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by lusr 15y ago
Yup. Since you cannot (as far as I know) influence luck or good fortune, your only option if you want to succeed is to hedge your bets and make as great an intelligent effort as possible. I'm still struggling with the 'intelligent' part.
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by lusr 15y ago
While I completely agree with your point that a good design is important, I hope there's nobody on a tight budget reading this and thinking "damn now I have to spend $100 to keep up with the market". My CV consistently receives praise. My
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by lusr 15y ago
I use Ubuntu Server exclusively and Juju looks amazing , but the title of this blog post really got under my skin. I kept reading through the post trying to relate what was being said to the title and eventually started skipping paragrap
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by lusr 15y ago
That's a great way to iteratively develop a new design (which, BTW, is quite a nice improvement) for an existing product, but what if you didn't have the existing product? How long did it take to build the all the dependencies of the photo
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by lusr 15y ago
Phase 0 (Big Corporate IT): PM is given deadline by business, goes through song and dance of negotiating deliverables (without any analysis being performed or developers consulted for estimates), is forced to start work with a small team o
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by lusr 15y ago
He has many other books describing his techniques but that was easily the best one. I remember being able to memorize the sequence of half a deck of cards, forward and back, on my first attempt. It's amazing what you're capable of if you
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by lusr 15y ago
It's good to see somebody else building a complex product. People seem to forget that not all projects can be launched overnight - if you're building a WordPress plugin then, sure, you can launch and start selling it immediately, and itera
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Thanks for this. Reading all this stuff about people releasing stuff after 2 nights of work I was starting to wonder if I was crazy having my closed beta planned after 3 months development. I've been working damn hard part-time on the cor
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by lusr 15y ago
The only point I'm making is that a non-programmer has to hire someone to do the work or learn how to do it themselves (and thereby become a programmer). In my experience the latter is a hell of a lot more rare than the programmer learnin
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by lusr 15y ago
Let's put it this way. We've all heard of the lone programmer who built something entirely alone and made a million bucks from it. We've never heard of the lone businessman whose idea grew legs and programmed itself to make the guy a mill
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by lusr 15y ago
I am an independent contractor. There are two types of contractors, and I have been both: 1. The "warm body" that does indeed just sell hours, usually via a labour broker or development house. They fulfil a "development resource" capaci
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by lusr 15y ago
Development work is nowhere NEAR the same as selling somebody something. It involves defining scope, deliverables and timelines. It involves a long-term commitment from two parties: you to provide skill and effort, and them to support you
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by lusr 15y ago
Any idea why Google doesn't do that? I'm guessing it's against the terms and conditions? In which case I have to wonder why DDG can do it.
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by lusr 15y ago
Now I'm confused. Where did I say it can't be monetized? I quoted a statement from Google that makes it sound like they're investing in this out of the goodness of the hearts. I'm asking if anybody knows what their actual plans are for m
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by lusr 15y ago
Lots of good comments above, but here's a concrete example. It can be a lot faster and accurate searching the source code for an answer than googling it. My most recent example: the .NET WebClient throws an exception ("ProtocolError") if
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by lusr 15y ago
Well, given the recent post about getting Access running on the web, I reckon you could take it to the next level: get Access running on Wine under Linux emulated in JavaScript on a web browser. Or get DOSBOX to run any old school line of
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"We announced our self-driving car project in 2010 to make driving safer, more enjoyable, and more efficient." OK so Google Labs is shut down and Google starts charging for various APIs but decides the world needs to be a better place so in
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by lusr 15y ago
While a vast improvement on the past, "Navigate to" doesn't find stuff intelligently like Resharper's jump... e.g. if I have a file "LabListView", I can type "llv" in the "go to" window and it'll be highlighted (I could type any combination
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by lusr 15y ago
A lot of people like to repeat the idea that "failure is a learning experience" but it is only recently that the essence of this idea in practical terms became concrete for me (thanks to "177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class"):
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Based on my extensive pizza eating experience, the average pizza slice is no wider than the distance between my thumb and forefinger, so start by wrapping the string around thumb & forefinger 11 times, leaving a bit dangling at the end.
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If your entire complaint is that you want short-cut keys then look into the Tools | Options | Keyboard configuration. I find raw VS.NET pretty lame in terms of Intellisense, no "jump to file" shortcut, etc. so installing Resharper is a nec

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