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by necrecious 16y ago
You guys don't but the credit card companies does. Perhaps I am reading my statement wrong from my processor, but I got a lot more authorization charges than transaction charges.
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by necrecious 16y ago
As most people have said, PayPal is incredibly easy to get started. I am still using their website payment standard which involves no coding to get started taking payments. You'll need code later for doing IPN and customizing and encrypting
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by necrecious 16y ago
Self promotion is a tricky thing. In an ideal world, value should be recognized through the process of your work. Unfortunately, the transparency of your work is a multiplier in how people perceive your value. That's why great coders aren't
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by necrecious 16y ago
Idempotency and tagging are the big ones for me. Makes automating instance operations easier.
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by necrecious 16y ago
iPod Touch is really interesting from an educational perspective. I am working with two different school districts who are using iPod Touches instead of netbooks. The amount of functionality you get for the price is amazing. The lockdown na
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by necrecious 16y ago
Thanks for sharing your info. I haven't sought coverage by those tech startup blogs since my customers aren't going to be visiting those kind of blogs. Looking back on my referral log, the highest is from a blog called geckoandfly which I'v
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by necrecious 16y ago
Where are you located? I am currently in Boston. My tech is going to require low level linux hackery to get performance to the next level.
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by necrecious 16y ago
Good job on Hackers and Founders last night. Kind of fun to be in the middle of college football fans discussing social media.
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by necrecious 16y ago
I've been torn between going to SF or staying in Boston. Interesting to see NYC might become a contender.
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by necrecious 16y ago
haha, it matches my app's 5 star and 1 star reviews surprisingly well. Most apps settle into the 3 star range for that reason.
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by necrecious 16y ago
Looking for a biz dev guy in the Boston area. Need to be knowledgeable in tech and specialist in customer development or corporate sales. My company has a SaaS iPhone app that is looking to grow customer base and expand into enterprise mark
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by necrecious 16y ago
More like video poker, you have to know how to play the odds to eke out a living but making bank is luck.
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by necrecious 16y ago
Perhaps the lowering of barriers for a web type startup also makes large IPO exits harder? Since any hacker can copy it in China, Russia, Brazil and Israel. Your perspective is that Super Angels are basically taking the place of VCs for cer
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by necrecious 16y ago
VC's have been hindered by a lack of IPO exits. I guess "super angels" are benefiting from the increased M&A activity. I guess the question is if IPOs will rebound and "super angels" will then fade into the background again as startups
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by necrecious 16y ago
Society places pressures on every one, male or female. It has been great for feminist movement to try to identify counter some of the pressure that has made women miserable, but there isn't really an outlet for men. In fact, I think pressur
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by necrecious 16y ago
Interesting analysis. Hopefully some VCs will backup the line of reasoning. It would also explain why the new type of programs like YC is exploring other economic incentives that is more aligned with the entrepreneurs.
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by necrecious 16y ago
I think this judge's decision should be used to instruct people about the difference 'idea' and 'execution.' Nothing like a few billion dollar price tag to make that clear.
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by necrecious 16y ago
I've argued that the best way to monetize something is about having features that saves people time. So Ars is completely correct in their approach. I am also using the same idea for my startup. So that's two anecdotal evidence that it is t
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by necrecious 16y ago
You mean virus protection software for your phone? :p
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by necrecious 16y ago
To automatically assemble a huge sprite and emit the offsets is also easy. Game engines has done this for almost 20 years.
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by necrecious 16y ago
I thought one of the biggest advantage of US financial system is for people to take risks with their business but can fail without a huge hit on their future, i.e. bankruptcy. Without this attitude, you'll have people that is a lot more hes
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by necrecious 16y ago
What if your business is going pretty much like you expected? I am actually kind of stressed out that things are going smoothly, does that mean I am not finding the weakness in my business fast enough? Or are things actually going smoothly?
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by necrecious 16y ago
It sounded like they were building two product instead of offering a taste of the full version. It is easy to figure out which feature to include in premium and which to limit in free, features that saves time. If you can view 100 house lis
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by necrecious 16y ago
ah, the misere game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misère
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by necrecious 16y ago
There have been other studies that shows that sugar replenishes self control.
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Care that Facebook is killing privacy? You might be an old fogey(wired.com)
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by necrecious 16y ago
They probably have a willing audience in cosplayer community. If only they also automate the painting process.
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by necrecious 16y ago
Recommendation algorithms are not that tricky, anyone can get 90% of the best algorithm in a couple of weeks. (OK, maybe not anyone, but my friend at Google did it for fun to compete in Netflix competition.) The thing recommendation engines
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by necrecious 16y ago
One of my friends said smoking was his secret weapon to networking. Because smoking is a habit cuts across hierarchies, you can meet a broader spectrum of people than just randomly talk to people at a networking event. Also smoking time is
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by necrecious 16y ago
Well, the problem is that Facebook hasn't found an as reliable revenue stream as Zynga. As a platform owner, it must suck that people are making more money off your platform than you. So you are tempted to co-op other people's revenue strea

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