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by rick888 16y ago
"Can you point to any projects on which you have expended equally little effort with greater reward? Honestly, $25k a year isn't bad for a niche product that just became a real business (as opposed to a little project started on a lark) thi
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by rick888 16y ago
I don't know about that. I think it's because his target market generally doesn't have a lot of money and or there isn't that much of a demand for bingo card apps. Everyone around here says he is great in business. Yet, he's barely makin
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by rick888 16y ago
maybe this is why his main app has barely cracked $25K/year after 5 years.
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by rick888 16y ago
This is more common than you think. At my last job, I worked on their new e-commerce site (it was really just custom additions added to oscommerce). The boss decided to make every design decision by committee. One week one person would wan
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by rick888 16y ago
because you're annoyed, you want everyone to stop using the word?
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by rick888 16y ago
"I'm 28, and I could do that today if I wanted to. And surprise, surprise, I don't have a million dollars. That's my point. Figure out what you want and make it a priority. Don't spend your life working for a big payoff so you can then figu
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by rick888 16y ago
"It depends where his costs lie. If the ratio of piracy/buyers remains constant, and he is making money right now. Greater volume -> greater profits." I seriously doubt the buyer/pirate ratio is going to stay constant or increase with i
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by rick888 16y ago
"They will not fail, but the Open source alternatives will get more consideration." If you are willing to use an app that doesn't work as well, has less support, and you aren't willing to pay $1 or less (which is what I imagine the OP's app
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by rick888 16y ago
"If proprietary software made more effort to prevent unauthorized copying and use, it would really drive adoption of FOSS." You would think so, but it never does. Mostly because proprietary apps usually do a better job with support, easy o
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by rick888 16y ago
"Calculate the cost of fighting piracy and determine if subtracting that from the cost of improving your product is worth it. We decided that it wasn't We did however pretty much make the same deal open to everyone. Most people like the ide
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by rick888 16y ago
It may not be "stealing", but it's just as bad.
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by rick888 16y ago
I'm not sure what your app does, but you could make it more reliant on your servers and require an account. The app would be a front-end to your service. So even if someone pirated it, it wouldn't matter because they would need an account
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by rick888 16y ago
the ads on the page are larger than the actual list of repos.
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by rick888 16y ago
good point. However, I would say a vast majority of people in the UK have at least one TV in their home.
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by rick888 16y ago
I wonder if someone got fired over this?
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by rick888 16y ago
"Here in the UK we have the wonderful BBC. I can watch everything the BBC produces online in real-time and for the following two weeks" If I was forced to pay for a television station out of my taxes, like the BBC. It better damn well be a
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by rick888 16y ago
Open source projects are devaluing software developer wages in the industry. Many companies aren't going to need educated software engineers anymore because more and more software apps and code are given out for free. They will still need
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by rick888 16y ago
another fun thing to do is to look at exif data in jpegs. :-)
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by rick888 16y ago
"The sources of information you place value in purposely use that narrative in order to capture your attention long enough to sell their advertising partners' products. Fear is the most powerful attention mechanism available." Haha. You me
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by rick888 16y ago
It might work. However, you will have to worry about false alarms/people not telling the truth. In addition to this, we always don't know where we got food poisoning. This could lead to a situation where you, the site owner, are sued. Th
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by rick888 16y ago
I'm glad people are finally switching from php 4.X.
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by rick888 16y ago
It depends on the developer. Some are social and know how to talk to the customer. Others, like the one in this article, are anti-social and shouldn't be anywhere near the customers. I also don't like the idea of developers talking to cust
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by rick888 16y ago
A story like this still doesn't make me want to pick up hitchhikers. I used to live in the metro-Detroit area and there have been at least 3 or 4 cases in the past year where people have been robbed at gunpoint by alleged hitchhikers. This
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by rick888 16y ago
I got two emails today claiming to be from gawker, telling me to change my password. Both were phishing emails that pointed to a domain in China and another in India. These guys move fast
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by rick888 16y ago
"For example, if you take a material object from me, you deprive me -- directly and physically. That is the core justification of normal property, and there is no such justification for IP." What about identity theft? You aren't actually "
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by rick888 16y ago
"Only for white" hmm..so there are no whites in Russia? Most e-commerce companies where I've worked block both Russia and China due to massive piracy or credit card theft.
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by rick888 16y ago
"It doesn't hurt them. It fails to help them" This isn't true. When you don't attempt to prevent piracy, people think it's okay. They then feel they are entitled to getting your stuff for free...and the value will approach $0 (because nobo
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by rick888 16y ago
"They really do have a different moral status though. Copyright and IP are purely pragmatic commercial arrangements. Any wrongness in infringement comes solely from it simply being against the rules of a particular game we have decided to p
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by rick888 16y ago
"Open-source/free software" This isn't true freedom. I am not allowed to copy open source software into my commercial application without releasing my revisions. It's also funny that you mention open source, because it's eventually going t
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by rick888 16y ago
"$1 a song is still too much" too much??! really? $1 is hardly a lot of money for a good song. I also forgot to mention that we now have the ability to preview almost any song before buying with services like Grooveshark.

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