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by mattmiller 16y ago
I doubt this is true, but I hope it is. The more non-carrier companies with money in the wireless space the better. Maybe AT&T and the rest of them will have to give up some control when every major software company is competing for it.
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I think it is best to pay for ads and figure out the conversion rate before using free traffic sources. That way you get a worst case cost of acquisition and you know how much it costs to buy a new customer. Then use free traffic sources to
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by mattmiller 16y ago
This is great. Is is easy to use Wordpress user management as a starting point for a user back end? Right now I am using userCake, which got me up in about 5 minutes. If I go with Wordpress would it be better to drop userCake for WP user ma
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by mattmiller 16y ago
SF is the embodiment of what you don't like about CA. In southern CA (read San Diego) politics are a lot more centered.
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I have read dozens of articles lately about how lazy young people are today. This is the first article I have read that attempts to defend young people. The author made a lot of good points and did so with an up beat attitude. Overall it wa
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I don't think Google will do that. I think one of two things will happen: -A lot of smaller vertical search sites will pop up. MedicalInfoSearch.com will not show entertainment or economics info, and its ranking will not be based on backlin
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I see what you mean, but I would call that moderately unethical. The reality is there are probably less than 5 legitimate mesothelioma websites (FDA, Wikipedia, maybe some charities...) and the rest are all junk put up to get ad-sense dolla
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I don't see how this is spam, and I am surprised that people are offended that the authors of these info graphics are trying to make money. They drew up an info graphic that you thought was entertaining. In exchange you show your friends by
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I am starting today. Last 4 months creating, manipulating, and validating an idea until we get enough people to say they would buy it. Another month getting partnerships we need with other companies. The last two weeks up until 2am every mo
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by mattmiller 16y ago
Thats great about getting in the local paper. Local coverage didn't convert a lot of people for us either, but we showed those articles to every client we contacted. I don't know if it helped, but I like to think that it gave us some credib
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by mattmiller 16y ago
The more visitors you get the better the value will be. Get yourself a small community ASAP. Also, call more than one potential client. You could call every medium to large restaurant corporation and every good sized general or news website
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I built a cheap website for my startup that is guilty of the same design styles. I would love to try something new and different, but I am not a designer and even if I was I don't have the time. If any quality designer wants to work with a
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by mattmiller 16y ago
Bad programmers did what they were told instead of creating their own solutions to fix problems. Although it sounds like their own solutions would have been ignored by the brass anyway.
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by mattmiller 16y ago
You forgot to give any information about you, or what you are bringing to the table. Have you lined up any customers? Do you know how much you will charge? Did you read the 10 customers post yesterday? http://blog.asmartbear.com/customer-v
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I got into it through HTML and javascript. This was in the Geocities and Tripod days. Websites were really the only application that I could create something cool easily. I also played about with VB and Pascal, but stopped because it took t
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I have learned the most in math classes that did not allow calculators. It is about learning the concept, not learning how to use the tool.
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by mattmiller 16y ago
The California junior college system had a lot more funding than the CSU system. My first two years of college were at JC. All the programming classes had a computer at every desk. I thought this made sense, it was a programming class after
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by mattmiller 16y ago
Thats pretty cool. First one to come up with a site that shows a bunch of examples wins a bunch of easy traffic.
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I want to see a study that tracks cancer rates per capita over time. It seems like if there were enough analytics done on cancer you could look for rate jumps and use that as a starting point to an investigation. There is an issue in Carlsb
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Ask HN:How do I find market info databases?
9 points by mattmiller 16y ago|1 comments
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by mattmiller 16y ago
All 3 are pretty good. I have thought about ways to streamline small claims. Pay $X, write your claim and the app sends it to the courts. A month or two later you get your decision. The second one is good too. It would be hard for me to ima
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by mattmiller 16y ago
If you already have software guys that are satisfied with their jobs have them do some of the recruiting with you. My company sends its engineers to college recruiting fairs. Also, some things that I like about my job that I would assume a
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I would do the first or second one. As the team gets larger you will be given a more reduced roll. If you are working with only a few other devs you will probably have the chance to make decisions that influence the product, and if you stay
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by mattmiller 16y ago
You example is illegal. The operation 3+1 can be removed without changing the answer, violating rule 6. You should replace rule 5 and 6 with "Zero can only be used in power (as y) and factorial operations".
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I am in the same boat. I look for ideas that aren't difficult to implement. That way I can easily build it in evening hours. I have found that marketing and sales takes the vast majority of the time anyway.
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by mattmiller 16y ago
Thats not bad. Do you know of any real image search engines that search based on what the image looks like versus text about the image? I image that this wouldn't be too hard for simple logos.
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Ask HN: A better way to pay bills?
7 points by mattmiller 16y ago|6 comments
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I am torn between a dedicated server or a VPS. I thought for a moment about app engine or one of the other non-standard cloud based systems but I am a little uncomfortable at the lack of control and costumer support. To answer your question
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by mattmiller 16y ago
Thanks for the numbers! I was afraid that a dedicated server would not be enough hardware, it is reassuring that you think I could get away with a Linode plan. Based on your response and talks with some other people I think I am being overl
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Ask HN: How do I estimate app hosting costs?
8 points by mattmiller 16y ago|6 comments

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