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Ask HN: What metrics does your business need?
6 points by pmjoyce 16y ago|3 comments
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
As a press75 customer I have to say I've had a very positive experience. They're selling a high quality product and support seems to be good even though I haven't had to call on it myself.
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Theodore Roosevelt's The Man in the Arena: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in th
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Yeah, I hear Bootup Labs take a similar approach <joke>
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Writing copy to get comments isn't ideal in my eyes. The easiest way to attract comments is to be controversial or confrontational - it's a more tabloid format that is ultimately quite shallow and lacking in journalistic nutrition. Instead
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Agreed - it's a neat product that's attractively priced. I'd say whether you make any money on this depends on two things: 1) As already stated, increasing your range to appeal to a broad cross-section of customers and repeat customers. 2)
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Doesn't wseem to work for me. Entered a couple of different postcodes and constituency names but kept coming back with Sorry, we didn't find any results for this search. Postcodes resolve to a constituency fine on theyworkforyou.com
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
I can't seem to draw anything. I'm on an Android phone (Nexus One) using the built in browser. When I move my finger on the screen it attempts to scroll the window.
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
Thanks for the link - makes for a good practical starting point if I decide I need to do this by myself.
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
I'm more than willing to learn the basics - my fear is that the basics simply aren't good enough. I can be confident in the things I have done but being unaware of thing I should be doing and not is what would keep me awake. I totally agr
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[Ask HN] Server Security and Hardening. How to non Sysadmins do it?
3 points by pmjoyce 17y ago|6 comments
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
Sounds like you're starting with a manageable but potentially useful site. You've researched the niche a little and it sound like there could be a market. That's a good start. One suggestion - why not scrape or take some sort of feed (API
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
I've been toying with the idea of creating a basic API for my book site http://bookhu.com (book readership gender analysis). I'd be willing to prioritise it if you (or anyone else) were interested in integrating it.
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
"if you have a legit business reason for it then you can claim the cost of your rent as a business expense" I'd be a little careful about this. The advice I received was that the Revenue clamp down on things like this pretty hard. I use
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
You're thinking of the Sunday Sport http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunday_Sport They were famous back in the '80s for ludicrous headlines like "London Bus Found On Moon" and "Aliens Turned Our Son Into An Olive". I can't recall seeing
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
Could you elaborate on this? Would love to get an insight into the differences you're talking about. That's not to say I don't notice any differences but I struggle to see the multitude of tiny differences that, on aggregate, would make g
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
Had cause to re-read this 1994 article this morning after a discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1186066 - it's an interesting perspective that goes a little beyond the fanboyism often found in discussions on this topic.
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Umberto Eco - The Holy War: Mac vs. DOS(themodernword.com)
62 points by pmjoyce 17y ago|13 comments
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
I agree, it's about getting the job done. We have both Windows and OSX in our house. Most people (not to mind hackers), have no problem switching between both OSs or using both concurrently and that includes my wife yet she never uses the
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
I know it carries certain baggage with it but I love my second hand Aeron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeron_chair . As a freelancer I've worked in the offices of a good number of large enterprises and so trialled several office chairs. I
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Book Titles: Men, Women and the Words that they Choose(bookhu.com)
3 points by pmjoyce 17y ago|0 comments
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
The OP seemed to credit the number and quality of the backlinks gained as opposed to a SEO strategy per se. I understand that SEO is vitally important, but for getting high quality backlinks (which in turn generate a more back links) you'll
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
Anecdotally I observed a distinct gender gap in reading material preferences between the sexes. So much so that I wanted to test that and see whether this would be a reasonable way to segment reading material. My recently launched site [1]
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
Not a tech demo but I am starting bite size with small set of features. The bit that interests me is that there are some people who just don't like it and almost take exception/philosophically opposed to it [1]. There are others I can see
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
this is a perennial issue for me - I'm never sure how much weight to allocate to domain names, or how many bases to cover.
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
ouch - thanks
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
you're right - I should make it less generic and include some site specific detail.
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
Much of that was probably referencing the old version of the site - I don't think Google has crawled this latest version - it only went live a couple of nights ago. I've have tried to be a little better on the SEO side of things, I've inclu
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
At the moment the data comes from amazon but I'm just about to add a module that takes review data from goodreads. To answer your 2nd and 3rd questions; it came out of a requirement I had to be able to quickly segment/categorise books I mig
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by pmjoyce 17y ago
That's some high quality feedback (and bug reports) and some good suggestions. Thank you. I like the idea of blogging the data - something similar to what they're doing over at okcupid will put my mind to it. As for the competition - I'll

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