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by owkaye 16y ago
"Anyone else leave a time bomb or easter egg?" Years ago I had a client who promised me thousands of dollars to develop a website. At first he tried to convince me to work in exchange for a percentage of the company, but when I refused he
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by owkaye 16y ago
Let me know when you have the rfhd&cs done. I'm designing a house that will use radiant floor heating and I'd be interested to see your system. My email is in my profile.
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by owkaye 16y ago
>> Why the split was never declared before you started working together? > We've gone back and forth many times. It's hard to decide on equity when circumstances change. No it's not, it's easy. I've always felt that two or more
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by owkaye 16y ago
> I think my co-founder registered an LLC ... Why don't you go out and do a little research, so you will know for a FACT whether he did or not?
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by owkaye 16y ago
They do not, and that's one of the primary causes of problems like this. Just because it's the intelligent thing to do does NOT mean that intelligent people actually do it!
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by owkaye 16y ago
> You can afford to grandfather old accounts if you can still at least break even on those accounts. They could have grandfathered the existing accounts for at least 6 months or so, but giving any user -- whether a paying customer or a
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by owkaye 16y ago
My haircuts in the Philippines were 30 pesos while I was there. That's only a couple years ago and prices haven't changed a bit, which means they are still only about 60 cents US.
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by owkaye 16y ago
Wishing won't do it. If you REALLY want to live in a place like that just move.
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by owkaye 16y ago
You should get out NOW so you can settle on a different company's services -- one that treats its customers better.
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by owkaye 16y ago
Even giving me 5 customers free would encourage me to try them, but they can forget that now -- because I'm not going to commit to anything close to $99 a month unless I actually have hundreds of paying customers. Just my personal point of
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by owkaye 16y ago
Of course you're not the only one who reads his emails. JabavuAdams is FOS as far as I'm concerned. I've been a developer for almost two decades and I always read my emails -- CAREFULLY. In fact I have every client agree with me from the
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by owkaye 16y ago
> We've considered meeting with the small businesses individually but that's just really time intensive. If you're not willing to work for it you'll fail. Sometimes you actually have to invest time -- lots of time in the right areas --
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by owkaye 16y ago
> I just finished my business degree and > want to get into tech start-ups. Do you have a specific concept for a business? Most people actually have a clear concept of what they want to do before they start asking how to find a pr
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by owkaye 16y ago
if not this one then one practically identical which I learned about here on HN. What others are creating a nearly identical service?
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by owkaye 16y ago
I registered last week to see if there's any value in such a service, but after doing a search I cannot find myself in their database. What's up with that?
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Ask HN: What would a viable eBay competitor look like?
2 points by owkaye 16y ago|3 comments
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by owkaye 16y ago
Do more boat designing, building and sailing.
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Ask HN: GoGrid or other server image providers?
1 points by owkaye 16y ago|0 comments
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by owkaye 16y ago
"Everyone around you treats you like you have a flexible schedule and asks you to do things during it." If you have any self-control you just ignore them or tell them you're not available, then you do what you're supposed to be doing.
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by owkaye 16y ago
Using the term "kick-ass service" once is probably too much, but you use it several times and it sounds very immature and unprofessional to me. Here are some other phrases I have a problem with: "It's super simple" "We look after you big-t
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by owkaye 16y ago
Maybe so. I've lived in the Philippines and it's not a developed country so this isolation problem is not much of an issue there (yet). But their culture is becoming more and more 'American' and gradually losing the closeness of friends a
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by owkaye 16y ago
I use gmail accounts so all my mail gets sent there first. Then I use POP3 to retrieve new messages as they arrive. I save the important downloaded messages in kmail on my desktop computer and I delete the rest locally. If I ever acciden
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by owkaye 16y ago
> We did actually look at doing this for spouses -- not to detect cheating (a cheating spouse will be even more motivated to subvert the system than a child), but to help out with stuff like "are you near the supermarket? Can you pick u
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by owkaye 16y ago
That answers showdead, noprocrast, maxvisit and minaway. How about notifo and delay?
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Notifo: showdead: noprocrast: maxvisit: minaway: delay:
1 points by owkaye 16y ago|3 comments
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by owkaye 16y ago
> What is half of what you're expected to earn? That's my question precisely. Maybe your expectations are out of line with reality? The programmers I used to manage overseas certainly had this problem. Nearly all of them fresh out of
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by owkaye 16y ago
I hope you don't do this, it just drags you down to an unethical level because you "think" they shouldn't pay you half what you expect to earn. Are you actually worth what you expect to earn? Does the company have a valid reason for offerin
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by owkaye 16y ago
In light of its recent meltdown I'm hacking the real estate industry to help stabilize the market, re-establish lost value, and avoid future foreclosures.
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by owkaye 16y ago
I seldom post, but I browse threads slowly, and I get the error page whenever I've waited too long to click the "more" link at the bottom of the page. It seems that each time I click the "new" link it resets a cookie (or posts a hidden form
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Ask HN: Unknown or expired link.
2 points by owkaye 16y ago|2 comments

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