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by raquo 16y ago
I don't understand how it works from that website. Maybe it's evident to Kindle owners, but from the outside it makes little sense. E.g. the "(absolutely risk free)" in the "Lend a book" button as opposed to "(always free of charge)" in the
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by raquo 16y ago
GA becomes much closer to realtime once you realize that you do not see data for today simply because it is not selected by default. Select today and you'll see data with 2-4 hour lag only.
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by raquo 16y ago
Apart from litmus test, do due diligence: > Who else claims to solve the same problem? Examine them. > How do those people who are unaware of specific solutions to the problem solve it? > In theory is it easier to implement your
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by raquo 16y ago
Get personally cashflow-positive without a job with iOS or webdev contracting and/or my new top-secret analytics project, hehe :)
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by raquo 16y ago
There is no reason to disable new registrations (and that was the only tangible AND immediate effect of the shutdown) several hours before you could do it in a much better way. That sounded like a pure fail to me before the acquisition anno
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by raquo 16y ago
Or it may be done so that people don't get to know how certain events or phenomena are named in English and therefore search for them in Chinese rather than in English, and get much more loyal-to-China results on average.
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by raquo 16y ago
No way. You can't argue about market share, since it's minuscule. If you want your websites to run on _all_ mobile devices, you'll also need to support Opera Mini, Symbian's built-in browser and whatever else is out there. Those latter two
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by raquo 16y ago
I don't like existing application analytics services, maybe I'll have to make a simple one for my own use.
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by raquo 16y ago
If you can reliably determine a pirate, maybe you could add some ads to your app conditionally on that. I've heard CTRs are way better in Cydia apps when the developer asks for support (than in App Store).
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by raquo 16y ago
A big part of the fun of programming IMHO is seeing the results of what you are writing. I try to center my workflow around that – always having my app buildable, working in small increments, changing what feature I work on as soon as it st
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by raquo 16y ago
You know, most people I've met don't mind being called by their nationality or hearing a joke involving nationalities. Now, granted, I've met many more Russians than any other nationality, but I think we're more like the rest of the world i
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by raquo 16y ago
So far I made one iPad game which turned out to be pretty decent considering that I didn't even know what I wanted it to be when I began. Now I am myself sure I can build a prototype of pretty much anything not insanely complex (and I barel
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by raquo 16y ago
I was in your boat. Learning to code enough to make a prototype is the right thing to do, people will just take you way more seriously. Not that there are many alternatives when you don't have much tangible experience or success stories...
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by raquo 16y ago
Surely it's just my terminology obsession, but I prefer the term user acquisition because that is actually the goal of your marketing. For example, sending your app/game to review blogs is a standard marketing practice, but you can't rely o
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by raquo 16y ago
The business side of startups e.g. user acquisition is imho not covered enough on HN.
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by raquo 16y ago
I would also add that if your app requires Apple to update its internal approval guidelines it will take you forever to get approved. So if you're innovating on your app's business model or something like that - be prepared.
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by raquo 16y ago
You could extend that concept to patents http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1792087 and a lot of other areas. I'm not sure how common is restaurant poisoning (never experienced it), you may want try to fit this idea in other industries.
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by raquo 16y ago
Gawker uses only the first 8 chars of your password to generate the hash so you apparently don't need to know your whole password to log in. If your password began with "password" it makes sense why a dictionary attack or whatever revealed
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by raquo 16y ago
All these game bundles are so confusing. I can't even keep track of how many times I've bought which games already :)
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by raquo 16y ago
I think most humans default to disregarding the other end of most relationships unless something urges them to.
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by raquo 16y ago
Well, there's Cmd + ~ hotkey for switching windows of active apps in 10.6, and it can be added using some small app in 10.5
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by raquo 16y ago
That's truly relevant, especially if your app has offline access, and since Google is not famous for outstanding support / conflict resolution.
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by raquo 16y ago
Probably so that people think it's OK to apply from other country and do so rather than use some friend's or temporary address in the US to get the notebook.
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by raquo 16y ago
Lack of HN features is surely an Arc conspiracy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830171
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by raquo 16y ago
If you are known to reliably kill/torture/imprison/enslave people for X, MUCH fewer people will be doing X. Works in Russia at least.
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by raquo 16y ago
Marker Felt.
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by raquo 16y ago
Seeing my product used motivates me the most, even if it's only a handful of beta testers. Pushing updates that improve the experience is even more satisfying. I would say, get something out of the door asap and make it easy to give you fee
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by raquo 16y ago
I suspect that particular one has the highest "conversion" rate.
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by raquo 16y ago
Um... you could go into the scanner wearing a radiation-measuring device on you that sends data live to your server. I even doubt that would be illegal, although you'll probably end up on a couple lists.
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by raquo 16y ago
Tricking people into thinking they are getting a great deal by providing them with inadequate baseline is by far my favorite dark pattern, second only to "does not contain enriched uranium"-kind of labels on food products.

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