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by maxklein 17y ago
You know why I'm harsh now? Because this is just a small community. They are dealing with a mass-market product - if they discover the things that piss off customers now, they will know better how to do things in the future. Yes, hardware i
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by maxklein 17y ago
This is pissing me off more and more. How do I know that these "premium" features are not the actual features that I want? They may just give me the bare minimum, and since I already invested $50, they now try to squeeze more money out of m
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by maxklein 17y ago
I want my money back, and I'm going to request it till they do. I feel cheated - fitbit is shipping, and what the hell is this bullshit about premium analytics?! When I pre-ordered there was no indication that there was going to be a monthl
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by maxklein 17y ago
I just looked it up: http://code.google.com/p/imdbotty/source/browse/trunk/gadget... It seems that the html is server-side preprocessed before being displayed in the gadget, if I am correct in assuming those are template tags. So that wou
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by maxklein 17y ago
Can wave gadgets not render standard html? I never thought of the scrubber thing, but you're right, it would be pretty nifty. Is it not possible to simply push the current html you have into a wave?
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by maxklein 17y ago
That's pretty cool. I'll see if there are parts from your project that I can steal. You know what I'd love your project to do? To post the sales report to google wave. I wonder how hard that would be. Can you estimate?
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by maxklein 17y ago
At the bottom of the site I've listed a bunch of things I'm planning for the future. If anyone can come up with ideas on what would make for a really good sales grapher, please do comment.
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Tell HN: I released my open source iPhone AppStore Sales Graphing Tool(maxklein.github.com)
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by maxklein 17y ago
High Speed Rail between cities make a lot of sense, but what if the city you are arriving at does not have a public transportation system? For example, what would be the point of a high speed rail between Dallas and Houston? How would you g
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by maxklein 17y ago
Okay, someone a bit more intelligent than me should correct me on this: Are most poisonous plants not bitter or foul tasting? Also, apart from mushrooms, don't they usually signal their poison? Why does a plant develop poison if not to disc
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by maxklein 17y ago
In the U.S.A, public transit is not feasable. I was in Texas a while back - compared to Europe, things are just way too far apart to make trains or subways feasable. I also lived in China for a while, and in China you mostly travel by bus.
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by maxklein 17y ago
The changes affected responses to the emails, which are a lot more than actual sales. Sales increased with more responses/communication with leads.
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by maxklein 17y ago
It depends on the amount of competition in the area. There are developer tools where you have 2-3 companies and they all do this.
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by maxklein 17y ago
The income stream from new customers in this business is not so high anymore (I think maybe $700 or a bit less a month), and I firmly believe that even though it's okay to play dirty when breaking into something new, afterwards go back and
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by maxklein 17y ago
You sure about that? Imagine there are 6 or 7 vendors selling a component you need for your software. Most are sending you form replies. With one you are talking to a real person who emails you and answers your questions promptly, and speak
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by maxklein 17y ago
Yes, roughly in the middle of both of them. I don't do the misspelling anymore, just for sake of proper grammar, but it was always the best converter with.
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by maxklein 17y ago
I find it difficult to understand why you would want to do this exact thing that a lot of other companies have done and you are not even innovating. It looks very similar to twitter or yammer - could you not have used them as a base to reth
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by maxklein 17y ago
Maybe you guys could get together and start a new company!
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by maxklein 17y ago
Go back to school and finish what you started. It will be harder later, and you don't want to spend your life justifying why you don't have a degree.
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by maxklein 17y ago
I believe people quickly know what works and what does not, even without directly being aware of it. If a woman wears a new type of lipstick, the signs that it is working or it is not working are very subtle, but over a few days, she will u
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by maxklein 17y ago
Rather than spending 2 years in the gym, one could just borrow the neighbours dog and get even more responses.
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by maxklein 17y ago
This anti-china propaganda on the internet at the moment is sickening. If you want to buy into the China Removes Avatar from Cinemas and Rides With Hitler, then go on, but I'm not going to involve myself in any more of these discussions. Ch
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by maxklein 17y ago
A useful argumentation technique.
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by maxklein 17y ago
But...that's what THEY are doing. Do you not become the same when you do that?
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by maxklein 17y ago
That's how the chinese system works. It's a communist country with a communist party and a controlled economy: it's not a suprise if this happens. If you don't like such a system that's fine, protest the system, but don't protest a tiny par
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by maxklein 17y ago
It's not something you should just "consider". Adding that feature will make your app successful.
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by maxklein 17y ago
I don't think these are mom-pop cinemas.
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by maxklein 17y ago
What about the grocers etc that lose because of the money that was transported overseas rather than locally?
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by maxklein 17y ago
It's available as a DVD in the stores.
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by maxklein 17y ago
So? China is not a capitalist country or a free market country, and they are under no obligation to enable an American company profit for as long as it wants. Most of the money being taken in by Avatar comes from normal chinese people, and

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