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markszcz
16y ago
First off I feel as though I dont know much about how a startup works yet. Im trying to learn so I could eventually launch something in the future. Watching the first video "Holy shit , my idea sucks" around the 15:30 mark or if you look a
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16y ago
Spoiler alert, that password is "readwriteweb" First of all I was going to complain that I couldent get in. I was going to reply as an angry raging code monkey and demand a password. Then I kept reading. =\ The first 1000 readers that use t
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16y ago
Something mysterious about being transparent I guess. I feel that there is a lot emphasis on "show the world everything and let the community reward you/scold you on your actions" type of mentality with these sort of services that entices s
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markszcz
16y ago
"Instead of sending each other interesting articles, they could just see what the other person was looking at and start their discussion there" Isn't that what Delicious was? ( http://www.delicious.com/ ) "Keep, share, and discover the best
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16y ago
I have a Droid X and the camera, so far, works every time I have tried to use it. I havent restarted my phone for two weeks now and taking pictures yesterday at costco wasnt an issue and taking a picture of this post wasnt either. http://
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16y ago
"If you live on your GPS, then this would be enough of a reason alone to choose Android over Apple" I dont live on it meaning I dont have to use it all the time, but when i'm going to a new restaurant for example I love being able to either
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16y ago
At least Google gives you a way to Opt Out =) ( http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/opt-out.html?hl=e... ) Apparently they where tracking me.
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16y ago
I dont know if this one does but what I did was get a SkypeOut number and used Skype to call out when I was in Barcelona to call my friends in the US. So at least you can call people in the US cheap =\ ( http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/fea
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16y ago
Ran this on my Droid X: Works on the defualt browser, Works on the Opera Mobile brwoser, Works on the Firefox browser. So my mobile phone has better CSS rendering then my desktop IE8. Go figure.
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16y ago
They got you in the door didnt they? If one out of ten people decide to upgrade I bet they would be happy with that.
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16y ago
I'm sorry but whats a CV? Im assuming its a resume? -update- Guess I should have googled harder: A curriculum vitae, commonly referred to as CV, is a longer (two or more pages), more detailed synopsis than a resume. ( http://jobsearch.about
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16y ago
Reminds me of the time when I wanted to open a capital one bank account. They needed me to deposit 50$ in order to open the account and since they dont have any fees on the account, they said I could use my new ATM card to withdraw the 50$.
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16y ago
Dear anonymous, I don’t have much experience in firing people but I have read and watched quite a number of startup books and videos to understand a reoccurring theme when hiring people, especially for a startup: Make sure they fit, and don
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16y ago
Oh fine +1 for you making it more "Englishy" =P Yeh its like Rt. 94 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
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16y ago
Google page translate seemed to have failed so here is the manual version of the page: As reported by the driver, the 1994 national road safety camera mounted was interesting: http://niebezpiecznik.pl/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/radar-40...
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16y ago
Thats what I dont get. On the car it looks like the driver is writing some other sort of License, ZU O666 but the sign is telling DW 530GS to slow down. Not enough images of the car to prove if it did, or did not tell the driver exactly to
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16y ago
@ simonsarris masz racje, to znaczy "slow". =) Google translate is great but I didnt cheat, I wrote that myself. ( http://translate.google.com/#auto|en| ). I think its interesting that in the beginning I assumed this was an american car/pla
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16y ago
Heres one with 65% confidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR2_M8kL_3o&t=3m58s 97% confidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR2_M8kL_3o&t=4m26s
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16y ago
Speaking of reflexes, it reminds me of those games where your supposed to click/hit a button once it says go. I did a quick search and found this pretty simple flash reaction game: http://www.opendb.net/media/content/426.swf Best I could
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16y ago
General question about anyones experience with domains that done end in .com How hard coded is the .com extensions when it comes to the general public these days (your mom/uncle who just uses the internet to read email, if that much)? If yo
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16y ago
Let the domain squatting begin. =P Honestly though, at least its a $100 to register. At that price hopefully it will deter a lot of squatters from buying up all the domains. "For GBP 60 (approx US$ 100) for year one and GBP 30 (approx US$
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16y ago
http://www.nic.io/new.html
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16y ago
What do you think about this? Testimonials for each designer. A design someone posts might be beautiful but what if they lack in the delivery department. Some sort of customer reviews would be nice to have and let people know how dependable
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16y ago
Yes, +1 to the site looking great. I would also say that quote goes hand in hand with this one: "If you’re learning a new language, don’t do tutorials verbatim" So true, there will never be a tutorial for exactly what your working on becaus
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16y ago
Just saw an update (towards the bottom, http://bit.ly/hY8Jig ) "Huffington Post reports that publishers will keep 'in the range of 90%' of revenues from One Pass -- quite a nice bump from Apple's 70% offering." Update: CNet's explination:
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16y ago
Agreed, but i read that "One Pass offers payments in mobile apps (i.e. in Android apps)" Maybe there will be a differently tiered charging system depending on the content (news content vs application specifc content like a new level for a g
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16y ago
But if your charging within your Android application " the transaction fee for in-app purchases is the same as the transaction fee for application purchases (30%). " ( http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/index.html )
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Android dabbler/developer here. I like how google is empowering their developers with different pricing strategies. Before it was plain vanilla, either you pay, or its free. Yes you can pay for an app and within 15 minutes ask for a refund,
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"grant access to existing subscribers through a coupon-based system" Doing some searching I also found another article stating "And One Pass offers payments in mobile apps (i.e. in Android apps), in instances where the mobile OS terms permi
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16y ago
Google's market will also be takeing about 30% of in app purchases.
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