rockbilly

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by rockbilly 18y ago
This is a duplicate of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458357
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by rockbilly 18y ago
I'd disagree with their methodology. So, every Windows Mobile user who has downloaded Opera Mini to try it is considered an active Opera Mini user? Hogwash! Opera Mini has been downloaded 21M times which includes a substantial proporti
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by rockbilly 18y ago
* I greatly appreciate that the 30-day trial doesn't require a credit card. Bravo! Finally someone gets that right. * Why do you start at 3 brands? I'm guessing that there are enough users that would like to monitor a single brand maybe
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by rockbilly 18y ago
I think the point is that PHP grabs people when they're on cheap shared hosting and they continue using it as they build more complicated stuff.
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by rockbilly 18y ago
lol! I remember being called all sorts of things in the 70s. But now it's my turn! Damn kids! Get off my lawn! The fun part is you'll get to do it to the next generation.
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by rockbilly 18y ago
Banks can make money by exploiting market inefficiency but banks also create real value. A loan to start a business creates value if the business works.
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by rockbilly 18y ago
Crappy that they didn't respond to your ticket, but it shows the resilience of the open source model. You have the tools needed to fix and improve things yourself and then give it back to help others. No reliance on a vendor's timetable.
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by rockbilly 18y ago
That's pretty awesome. You could probably extend this nicely to send you text messages when the status changes.
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by rockbilly 18y ago
Or by using a framework, you will keep your code more consistent and within better practices.