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Play by your own rules(medium.com)
34 points by pytrin 14y ago|0 comments
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by pytrin 14y ago
Programmers are not like scribes, they are like authors and writers - which are still here. Programming is a creative discipline, it's not just formatting one written format (specs) into another (code). Of course, the bad ones might make it
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by pytrin 14y ago
At my current startup[1], this is exactly what we're trying to address. We built a marketplace for open-source projects, trying to add a business layer around open-source development, so that developers could work on it full time, and provi
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by pytrin 14y ago
Preventing fraud is impossible, but you can minimize it to very low levels with a combination of filters, some of which you mentioned. This includes geo distance, public Email address, velocity, size of transaction and most important - prox
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C++, Ruby, CoffeeScript: a visual comparison of language complexity(cpprocks.com)
1 points by pytrin 14y ago|0 comments
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Worth noting this presentation was made by Hapyrus, a Hadoop specialized startup from 500startups. They know quite a bit about running Hadoop. Following the results of their tests they are now adding Redshift support to their services.
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by pytrin 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. Like you don't outsource dev, you can't outsource sysops, it's a core competency to a tech startup.
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Seer SEO Toolbox(seerinteractive.com)
124 points by pytrin 14y ago|32 comments
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It's not standard procedure in Israel. You were scanned by local airport security personnel, and each place has its own procedures. I had to go through something similar when leaving on a direct flight from NYC to TLV - additional security
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by pytrin 14y ago
You should check the article in one of the comments in this thread - Israeli methods actually reduce security overhead. If there's anything the U.S is good at, it's logistics - I'm sure they can scale it just fine.
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by pytrin 14y ago
You should read the article in the comment below yours to understand what I mean by "profiling". I did not mean special treatment by race or religion - crazy fanatics and terrorists come in all shapes and sizes.
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Interesting article, thanks for sharing
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I recently moved to the U.S from Israel. If there's a country that knows about Airport security, it's Israel, for obvious reasons. Let me tell you this - most of the security procedures in U.S airports are pointless and ridicules. Taking of
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by pytrin 14y ago
You know the language itself is open-source, right? this is like a drop in the ocean
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This was on the market for a long time as a binary. Now you can read the source and see how it works
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Zend Optimizer+ now open-source on Github(github.com)
44 points by pytrin 14y ago|31 comments
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by pytrin 14y ago
Amazon are amazing and have figured out how to scale customer service and satisfaction. Most large companies can take a note of out their notebook for handling customers
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by pytrin 14y ago
I'm the OP - I specifically mention the App Store as a counter example - my article is focused on business and developer oriented software - a completely different audience.
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by pytrin 14y ago
The article discusses products and not services, which are a bit of a different animal in more ways than one (especially in the one-time purchase vs subscription). On the other hand, a recent HN submission concerning a service showed simila
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by pytrin 14y ago
OP here - the main point is that most indie software is underpriced, mostly because the developer fears not making sales. We have thousands of publishers on our platform, and 99% of them underprice their software. I was giving an overview o
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Raise your prices to sell more(binpress.com)
50 points by pytrin 14y ago|24 comments
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The Real Cost of Software Development(techfounder.net)
48 points by pytrin 14y ago|5 comments
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by pytrin 14y ago
I think the unproportional returns of the really big hits are blinding investors, and even pg a bit in this essay. Yes, it's easy to look at it from that viewpoint and say - 3/4 of our returns are from 2 companies and 1/4 from all the rest.
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Thank you :) We hoped to get some feedback from people using current tools before we launch, and we're getting some already, so that's great.
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Yes, custom buttons who fetch the counters through the various (unofficial) APIs for each service. We'll be releasing a set of those on Github soon
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We want feedback from people who are building specifications with current tools, to help us make some decisions on the final featureset of the product. We wish we could show screenshots, but the interface currently is functionality only wit
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We're showing a product we're about to launch in a couple of weeks and are looking for feedback and to hear what the HN crowd thinks about this kind of service.
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Amazon payments would be a great alternative, main problem is that it's only available in the US (this is why Kickstarter is still limited to US projects btw). I'm not familiar with the details on Google wallet, but my hunch it's the same r
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Show HN: Lean Specs - Simple project specifications and estimates(leanspecs.com)
20 points by pytrin 14y ago|24 comments
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Paypal to me is the classical example of the incumbent growing stale and detached from its consumer base on which it built its business on. Sellers like Eliot are the bulk of Paypal's business - small businesses who needed a (relatively) ea

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