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by pearkes 14y ago
When I was using it, not all of their services were supported, and to get into the right account I'd frequently have to log out (which logged me out of every account). Another fun one was clicking on Google Docs links. It rarely was using t
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by pearkes 14y ago
Cookies are shared between standard windows (unless there's a way to disable that). Haven't looked into the profiles. Speed of switching would be the most important thing for me.
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by pearkes 14y ago
They certainly do. I've found that feature to be pretty buggy, personally. Command + tilde is faster than clicking a drop down and waiting for the switch.
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by pearkes 14y ago
I use Chrome's incognito feature to manage multiple email accounts. My work Google account goes in an incognito window, personal Google account goes in the standard window. I've found this works really well, and the different colors help my
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by pearkes 14y ago
Is there some sort of tool to generate Ascii graphs out there?
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by pearkes 14y ago
> I will ask a question early in the 5 minutes that is a complete tangent and has little to do with their goal. A star candidate will politely refuse to go down this rat hole and insist that we stay on topic. These types of "trick" ques
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by pearkes 14y ago
No marketing.
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by pearkes 14y ago
No ads have ever been purchased. All traffic is from word of mouth, believe it or not.
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by pearkes 14y ago
Not an essay service. Not morally questionable.
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by pearkes 14y ago
They buy a set product that is around $5 to $10 on average. They purchase this typically every quarter. It is not automatically recurring.
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by pearkes 14y ago
I serve university students. They stick around for an average of 4 years (no surprise there). They're mostly repeat customers, but of course I get a surge of freshmen every year. I love freshmen!
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by pearkes 14y ago
NO!
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by pearkes 14y ago
> So say more about this : "I'd like to focus my attention on other ventures." Yes, maintaining this on my own is trivially easy. Then you went on to describe hiring people, managing contracts, etc. etc. That is exactly what I _dont_ wa
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by pearkes 14y ago
I've gotten very good advice in this thread. It is also a pitch, because HN is a good community for this sort of thing. I'm sorry the title mislead you. Edit: I changed the title to better reflect the intent. Thanks for the feedback.
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by pearkes 14y ago
Nope.
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by pearkes 14y ago
Charges users. No ads.
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by pearkes 14y ago
Of course not, I would never do anything to jeopardize that. I'd only post if I could do so in a way that both parties approved.
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by pearkes 14y ago
I serve students in universities. The product cost they purchase is low (average product cost is less than $10), so they can afford it. I sell actual services. No ads. No freemium.
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by pearkes 14y ago
The reason is mostly because the business makes a surprising amount of money for what it does. In general when I ask friends/family how much they think it makes, they say, "I don't know, a few thousand per year." And these are people IN the
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by pearkes 14y ago
The service is completely web based and automatic. It requires no human intervention except in the case that technical maintenance is required. i.e. no shipping any products. The service DOES depend on web scraping, and this is what causes
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by pearkes 14y ago
Not an adult business. :)
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Ask HN: Selling my profitable side business. Interest/Advice?
45 points by pearkes 14y ago|50 comments
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by pearkes 14y ago
Probably just a typo, I posted after reading this: https://twitter.com/mdo/status/251806421715390464
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Bootstrap Maintainers Leave Twitter(blog.getbootstrap.com)
412 points by pearkes 14y ago|86 comments
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by pearkes 14y ago
This is exactly what I meant when I said: "everything within their control to protect a user".
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by pearkes 14y ago
It's the job of the web developer to do everything within their control to protect a user. There is no excuse for not hashing/salting passwords.
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by pearkes 14y ago
I guess that's kind of my point - there's no motivation to grok pydocs, because you don't realize there's a better way.
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by pearkes 14y ago
One of the biggest traps self-taught developers fall into is not recognizing (seemingly) complex problems have likely been solved before. A simple example in Python: for dog in dogs: print dogs.index(dog) calculate_dog = som
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Next Big Sound Re-Launch Video(youtube.com)
1 points by pearkes 14y ago|0 comments
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by pearkes 14y ago
People should totally be working on ads. Ad's are horribly broken in many cases. Mobile advertising, for example, provides little, if any, value to the user in it's current form. That's why I'm proud I work[1] on ads. Let's take a step in t

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