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   by plasma 15y ago

   Can someone elaborate on the idea changing after being accepted? Do you go a month of working on your idea, only to realise you're at a dead end - and be asked to think of something else? Do you fall back to one of your second ideas? Do men
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   by plasma 15y ago

   Usually 1,000 ad impressions is around $1.00 (varies greatly though, can be lower like $0.15c and higher like $4.00+). Assuming $1.00 per 1,000 impressions, and taking their 2.07billion impressions/month figure: Roughly 2,070,000,000 / 1,00
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   by plasma 15y ago

   He's referring to the upcoming feature in the second paragraph at http://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/faqs/#How_Storage_Gatew...
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   by plasma 15y ago

   I've looked at a few freelance sites before, but turned away because all the "Requests for help" want an e-bay clone for $200. It's at that point I think the entire site is rubbish (low quality offers for work etc), so I think you may want
5. 425.▲
   by plasma 15y ago

   It would be cool to have a "canary" system in encryption. For example, without having entered the 'everything is OK' password every week, the drive/encryption automatically destroys itself. So if the drive is ever compromised, or you are se
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   by plasma 15y ago

   I'm from Australia, but when I enter text into the "Near" box it says "Please match the requested format.". What format was requested? I tried a postcode, and suburb, neither work. Confusing as :(
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   by plasma 15y ago

   Thanks for this post, I will need to try it. I agree the few times I've been up early to code (even to catch up on some work) its been good, felt like I got extra hours to the day (well, I guess I did!) even before I officially started. I t
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   by plasma 15y ago

   It may just be people need a reminder sometimes - like someone taking you aside and saying "hey, did you realise how many interpreted your comment?". Imagine logging in to HN one day and seeing a black screen or something with your comment
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   by plasma 15y ago

   The best error messages are simple, explain the problem, and how to fix it. It's frustrating to see 'Windows Update failed: Error code 0xXYZABC123' - that's no help to me. Or see an error about 'A problem occurred trying to do this and that
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    by plasma 15y ago

    MySQL has a CSV storage engine, just give it the file to load and you can read/write using SQL.
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    by plasma 15y ago

    "its service" implies to me in a headline that they will censor customer's DNS queries.
12. 432.▲
    by plasma 15y ago

    This sort of thing needs to be shown on the blackout pages, so people can easily do something (call to action) instead of just leaving the page.
13. 433.▲
    by plasma 15y ago

    I'm not in America, but what about even just saying what key combination you should press to get through the menus to talk to a human? I even hate waiting for the slow voice to read out the options!
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    by plasma 15y ago

    Frustratingly I read that and it doesn't mention what SOAP is or why the site needed to be blacked out. It goes on to explain action is needed and that wikipedia is supporting the blackout, but I've not really learned anything at all :( It
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    by plasma 15y ago

    Unfortunately, like (every single debate ever?), there isn't enough time. A few people never got a chance to speak, Alexis is rightly looking a bit frustrated at not being able to respond at times. Why can't a debate last for 5 hours instea
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    by plasma 15y ago

    I'm not following SOAP very much, so this would bring some more attention to it for me (I'm not American). I think it would be important that any blackout actually includes a call to action though, not just a message saying the site is offl
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    by plasma 15y ago

    Appreciate it, thanks. I definitely have tests that run instantly because they just use a mocked database, and ideally all of my tests would do that because I agree having them run instantly is so much better than waiting around. I'm going
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    by plasma 15y ago

    > When you finish one thing, a hundred more things are left to do. Tell me about it! A good skill I've been improving on over time is the ability to say No and cut stuff out :) As for a future vision, we have a few general plans (some w
19. 439.▲
    by plasma 15y ago

    I used http://www.acndirect.com.au/ through my accountant.
20. 440.▲
    by plasma 15y ago

    I'd probably be doing Phone Gap myself too. I may even give it a go for the next product, just to see how well it works.
21. 441.▲
    by plasma 15y ago

    I didn't want to spend too much time with a product name, we were thinking up idea's and Cherry Pop was suggested and it just sounded good at the time. It had the hint to sex that we wanted, (plus, you're popping your cherry asking some pro
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    by plasma 15y ago

    > Jump into it. If whatever you build is successful (under whatever metrics that may apply), you can always consider some refactoring once you know better. Definitely, and that's what I meant by getting frustrated and just wanting to ge
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    by plasma 15y ago

    Before we started coding, we considered the (pretty cool!) PhoneGap system, but not Appcelerator (which we just reasoned as being similar to PhoneGap) or MonoTouch for that matter. PhoneGap was considered initially because of course it woul
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    by plasma 15y ago

    Thanks! 1. Yep, we'd love to do this, and is on our to-do. You could sneak in a cheeky game during work - 5pm may not come fast enough :) 2. Didn't even think of this, thanks! Re-branding the game to do other things in a related field is de
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    by plasma 15y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. Yep, we are going to look into that exact thing soon after we've had a few days break! :)
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    by plasma 15y ago

    > That doesn't sound like a good idea. You haven't tested the code that actually interacts with your PostgreSQL database. It seems that you're placing your trust in nHibernate to act exactly the same when working with SQLite or PostgreS
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    by plasma 15y ago

    Thanks, appreciate the response and good luck with your project. Would love to read your experience too. I've developed the iPhone application, the entire website you're reading (and back-end REST JSON API), sorted out business registration
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    by plasma 15y ago

    I'd love to hear what you think about the write-up, and whether you can offer any of your own tips on any of the topics covered - did I miss something? Any feedback on your thoughts as well on any of the points mentioned or what you would h
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    Idea to product in 4 months : End-to-end product and technical development diary(cherrypopapp.com)

    85 points by plasma 15y ago|30 comments
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    by plasma 15y ago

    Here are a few promotional codes for HackerNews. Android: CUP3XN937D MV6K7A33N8 PQHP9MLC7U iPhone: PN3MTJMALJ7P JEYAF7HFTLNP 6J33E3FWX6MM Redeem them by visiting http://cherrypopapp.com/redeem Let us know what you think!