owkaye

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by owkaye 16y ago
I think you should just charge $99 as a one-time fee and forget about the monthly payment options. Just make the service worth it, that's all.
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by owkaye 16y ago
What software are you using to deliver the auction status updates which appear directly below the image of the $20 bill?
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by owkaye 16y ago
>For most intents and purposes, interim storage of electricity is science fiction. Batteries are woefully inadequate, and the solutions that we do have, like pumped storage, have so long turn-on times that they might as well not exist f
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by owkaye 16y ago
The credit card companies dropped the ball years ago by not letting their card holders accept payments from other card holders in a hassle-free manner. If they had done this PayPal would not exist, and the world of credit card holders woul
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by owkaye 18y ago
"most people on the internet dont have twitter accounts - thus don't have a way to follow this tweets" Uh ... it seems to me that if people on the internet actually want to follow twitter tweets they will get a twitter account. I cannot und
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by owkaye 18y ago
"I had a conversation last weekend with one of my friends who always struggles to find good Ruby engineers ..." Well then, doesn't it see that perhaps he is creating his own limitation by focusing on Ruby? Just because a particular language
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by owkaye 18y ago
"If you only share a few hours per day, or not at all, the cycle times will be in terms of months instead of weeks." Interesting theory but I find that just the opposite is true in my Asian outsourcing business ... I communicate with client
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by owkaye 18y ago
It is very important that you recognize a simple fact here: Nothing -- absolutely NOTHING -- can stop an unethical coder from stealing the code you've hired him to write. A contract will never prevent a dishonest person from doing what he
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by owkaye 18y ago
"Regarding YC, I believe they offer a ton of value beyond the money." I'm sure they do, but finding a co-founder who is a programmer just to get into their program seems rather ass-backwards if you ask me. I would much rather own 100% of m
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by owkaye 18y ago
"$2500 for 2 months of work comes out to 8 dollars an hour. This isn't a good wage for a programmer anywhere ..." You're very wrong about this. I ran an outsource programming company in the Philippines for years, and $8 per hour is far hig
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by owkaye 18y ago
Since you have the money why don't you just hire someone to do the programming work for you? Then you'll own 100% of the business, you'll be giving an unemployed programmer a job, and you'll never have to deal with the issues that come up
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by owkaye 18y ago
But since he won't a competitor could make that killing.
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by owkaye 18y ago
Please post your email address here, or at least put it in your profile, so people can contact you privately instead of posting their own email addresses. I'm more than qualified, my email is in my profile (just click on my name) and I mig
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by owkaye 18y ago
Have you tried the "Smooth Wheel" add-on?
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by owkaye 18y ago
I've never understood why it's so popular in those countries. That's probably because you don't understand the cultures of those countries. Just because something is attractive to an American does NOT mean it's going to be attractive to
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by owkaye 18y ago
The fields are not all required, but the web page itself is certainly bad -- it's black with gray text that has so little contract to the background that I have to "Select All" just to be able to read it. They may be capable of doing great
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by owkaye 18y ago
I disagree. I don't know how you can say that YC attracts the best startups. All these micro-funding companies are so new to the game that none of them have enough of a track record to make any difference in the real world. Not only that,
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by owkaye 18y ago
I suggest that a platform which allows persons to independently form communities around common interests (when then could generate their own news feed or journal) will allow new group formation and allow each group to control what is or is
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by owkaye 18y ago
That's what I was going to say. Do it in a specific location, do a really good job of it, and make sure it really 'takes off' in that location -- and all the while you're doing this keep thinking of how you can enlist the support of others
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by owkaye 18y ago
"I can get a building security job and code for more than $11 per hr." You missed the whole point of the ad. The project is listed on getafreelancer which caters to the thousands of offshore programmers who could never earn $20 a DAY doin
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by owkaye 18y ago
He has clearly dealt with 'foreigners' in the programming world before. He knows exactly how to explain his needs and requirements in blunt detail, and this is an absolute requirement if you want to avoid wasting time considering losers who
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by owkaye 18y ago
Buy a 250gig Buffalo TurboUSB 2.0 external drive for $80 and it works out to less than $2.25 a month assuming a 3 year life span -- the duration of the manufacturer's warranty. Then you'll have all your data with you all time time so you'll
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by owkaye 18y ago
How about $2.25 a month for 250gig instead?
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by owkaye 18y ago
If you want easy, quick and accessible all rolled into one, try WebDNA. Nah, on the other hand I think you 'real' programmers would not be interested in using such a simple tool.
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by owkaye 18y ago
Maybe your teacher's goal was to encourage people in the class to learn Poseidon so he could hire them on a private project. Or maybe he/she was looking for a genius who would be able to figure out how to code Poseidon in such a way that it
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by owkaye 18y ago
"what if you could input a bunch of fetishes and it would automatically find the videos that have the most tags in common with your search?" Something like tiava.com?
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by owkaye 18y ago
"A small business is making money." If you mean generating a profit you're correct. Anything that's not generating its own profits is nothing more than a hobby. Twitter is only a hobby. So is Facebook. Neither are generating their own pr
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Tell HN: Term Sheets and Vesting
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by owkaye 18y ago
It's not all "America to Europe" you know ... there are startups in Europe that are innovating in ways the Americans haven't tried yet. Maybe not many of them, but my new business is based on one of them and it wasn't that hard to find. Th
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by owkaye 18y ago
We developed a business specifically to take advantage of the fact that we're in a depression. It's not that hard to do when you think about it for a while, and re-adjust your 'thinking cap'. Unfortunately it seems that many people don't

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