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by motoford 14y ago
I spent 5 minutes looking, and here is my very rushed take. What I see here is the same as I can get from a spreadsheet. IMO you need something to compel users to use your app instead of a spreadsheet. What features do you need? Well that's
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by motoford 14y ago
Has anyone noticed yet in the real Siracusa review that marco.org is the first link in a screenshot of Siracusa's reading list? Page 8
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by motoford 14y ago
I like how the author feels the need to "dress up sophisticated" to steal merchandise. How very old school. We need more of these gentlemen thieves here in the states.
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by motoford 14y ago
This guy remembered so little that I wonder if it really was his account to start with and he just couldn't remember receiving all those previous emails he found.
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by motoford 14y ago
I just noticed those jerks at American Semiconductor are charging ten dollars shipping for the $10,000,000.00 part. What a rip!
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by motoford 14y ago
Here is what I get in my "Customers who viewed this also viewed" list: 120293-0001REVK: $10mil (various electronic components?) Zenith Men's Extreme Tourbillion watch: 90k 6-in-1 keychain multitool: $9.95 Dating for Dummies: $14.95 Giant in
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by motoford 14y ago
I just noticed Steve Mann looks a lot like the Hamburgler. Maybe this was all just a big misunderstanding.
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McDonald's says they were polite to Steve Mann(technolog.msnbc.msn.com)
2 points by motoford 14y ago|1 comments
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by motoford 14y ago
If you have a long trial period it gives the user too much time to slack off using the product, then not convert at the end of the trial. If someone is paying they are more likely to use the product and thereby making it more valuable to th
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by motoford 14y ago
I think you need a trial, but not 3 months. How long does it take someone to realize they can't live without your product? Make that the trial length, even if it's only a day.
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by motoford 14y ago
I always thought this was just a publicity stunt orchestrated by Twitter.
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by motoford 14y ago
Upvote for the story and for the last paragraph realization. Unfortunately many in our industry still don't understand that.
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by motoford 14y ago
I think their customer base of people who use Linux, might want to use Linux, or who are just plain disgusted by this behaviour is way way more than 1%. Remember that the people who will be upset by this (techies) are the same ones who put
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by motoford 14y ago
NewEgg has really lost their way over the past 2 or 3 years. I have gone from don't even check anywhere else to checking NewEgg last. Amazon almost always beats them on price now.
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by motoford 14y ago
When I see an ad like this I always click through to make sure the offending company has to pay.
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by motoford 15y ago
Good here
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by motoford 15y ago
TL;DR Groupon can't fail because they have guys from Amazon and a guy from Cisco running it.
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by motoford 15y ago
There are a lot of similar food scams. Ever had Red Snapper? Probably not unless you caught it yourself. If you have bought it in a store or had it at a restaurant, it most likely wasn't Red Snapper.
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by motoford 15y ago
Maybe we are blocking your ads and analytics until we see if we want you . Just who is needing who here ?
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Investigation of former Best Buy CEO continues(cnbc.com)
1 points by motoford 15y ago|0 comments
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by motoford 15y ago
I think it was pretty obvious from the article that the poll content is generated by the users, not the developers. It's pretty much stated or alluded to in every paragraph.
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by motoford 15y ago
In my mind it's different in that with certain groups of people, I want to be myself, and with others, I want to be semi-anonymous. To me it's more like being a member of multiple message forums, where you might have a different name, avata
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ShowHN: Multi-profile anonymous social networking
2 points by motoford 15y ago|2 comments
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by motoford 15y ago
I think this buyout is going to be interesting to watch for some time. With stories like this, how can OMGPOP exist at Zynga, a company that demanded employees give back options or be fired -- all because management didn't think they deserv
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Interest vs. Required work vs. Accomplishment(softwareasaliving.com)
1 points by motoford 15y ago|0 comments
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by motoford 15y ago
Sounds like they lost one guy and ran the rest off.
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by motoford 15y ago
The arc90 page is awesome. I'm amazed at how many people work at DropBox and especially amazed at how many Etsy has.
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by motoford 15y ago
This guy titles his blog post "Stop Brogramming" then spends the whole article defending brogramming and sexism. Definitely not front page material.
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by motoford 15y ago
I thought we all did this because it's fun. I don't see why people want to dumb it down.
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by motoford 15y ago
I like the idea, I hope the name is a "working title"

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