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by mijustin 14y ago
Nope. etune.com is taken. Some of the "available" results being returned are not correct.
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by mijustin 14y ago
What else could you do with Glass (besides check the time) during a conversation that wouldn't be disruptive?
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by mijustin 14y ago
OP here. I use a 3rd party transcribing service (so they're definitely not programmers).
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by mijustin 14y ago
Surprised that the big companies had a hard time cutting cheques (normally, that's a non-issue). Maybe because your software was too "fun"? Do you remember how many people ended up paying you?
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by mijustin 14y ago
Do you remember which program it was?
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by mijustin 14y ago
Ha ha. That's awesome: a bag of Skittles from Canada! (as a Canadian, I appreciate this). Question: why did you decide not to put a price on it?
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by mijustin 14y ago
I love this story! How old were you at the time? How did you "offer it up for others to buy?"
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by mijustin 14y ago
I think the fear of rejection is huge. I'm a pretty confident guy (I'll speak in front of crowds without too much trouble). But the idea of putting a price tag on something and asking people to pay for it is scary. The biggest fear: "What
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by mijustin 14y ago
Ha ha. Either the dates are a little hazy, or he was actually using FileMaker Plus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileMaker#History Here's the earliest record I could find for AudioFile (1997): http://web.archive.org/web/19971221191641/h
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by mijustin 14y ago
So many people feel the same way. What was the scariest part about taking money from people?
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by mijustin 14y ago
How could I forget about Amy! She's one of the first people I saw publish her numbers: http://unicornfree.com/2010/i-made-216668-from-products
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I always wondered about those. Did they make any money?
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by mijustin 14y ago
Whoa! You were 8 or 9? I ran a little ProBoard BBS for awhile. ;)
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Hmmm. Only an "idiot" would talk about sales? Patio11 - http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/12/29/bingo-card-creator-and-o... Nathan Barry - http://nathanbarry.com/2012-year-quitting-job/ Brennan Dunn - http://planscope.io/blog/giving-up-a-m
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by mijustin 14y ago
I'd be interested in hearing more shareware stories. Did anyone else here have success selling shareware in the 80's and 90's?
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Twenty dollars in an envelope(justinjackson.ca)
195 points by mijustin 14y ago|89 comments
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by mijustin 14y ago
This is actually brilliant content marketing: clearly define the need (this TIME article misses a great opportunity) and then the solution (our app fixes this).
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by mijustin 14y ago
I'd say that Tobias' post portrays both: his individual choice to make certain choices (and pursue Jürgen's team), and the context of the German apprenticeship.
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by mijustin 14y ago
Are you in the Austrian or the German system?
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The hard part is attribution. Hobbies are just one of the seeds that germinate into fully adopted technologies. MUDs were definitely part of the inspiration for MMORPGs, but the success behind MMORPGs has a lot to do with commercial interne
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by mijustin 14y ago
Thanks ;) It's "ham radio" from now on! Just found the etymology here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_ham_radio#Etymolog...
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by mijustin 14y ago
Exactly. It's a bit tricky to do the attribution. Looking at a current technology and giving it a single origin isn't realistic. In the comments Chris cites HAM being a precursor for BBSes. Maybe; but so were actual physical bulletin boards
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by mijustin 14y ago
What smart hobbyists are doing now is part of the picture. There are other elements that are needed for a "thing" to become a "big thing" that the whole world uses. Tech hobby trends need to conspire with other trends in business and societ
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“Did we just rip off Marco Arment and The Magazine?”(marco.org)
18 points by mijustin 14y ago|6 comments
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by mijustin 14y ago
Yes: figuring out if people are productive is hard whether they're at the office or not. I'd love to see more discussion on this: what are good ways for managers to know if their team is being productive?
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by mijustin 14y ago
OP here. I don't think I'm implying that a car factory worker should let it's employees work from home. ;) Maybe I should expand on this part here: " Yes, every job, product, and company will have certain constraints. The point is to create
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by mijustin 14y ago
Yup, I think you just touched on (what could be) the main issue for Yahoo. If they don't have any of the right people, they're in real trouble. Can an amazing coach with a mediocre team produce a championship? I don't think it's possible
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by mijustin 14y ago
If they're honest, what's to fear? I think the developers that you're talking about have shows that they're "only honest with supervision". Companies like Automattic, 37signals, and GitHub hire "managers of one". These are that can produce
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How to end the "work from home" debate(justinjackson.ca)
5 points by mijustin 14y ago|12 comments
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Physicists find Spider-Man's webs could stop runaway train(cbc.ca)
1 points by mijustin 14y ago|0 comments

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