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by rwhitman 14y ago
I agree with everything you've said. But I do know from experience that charging a reasonable late fee (not the audacious scheme OP uses) is a common, legal business practice that is effective at preventing certain types of delinquent pay
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Late fees are critical. In some businesses the accounting department will manage debt by paying off vendors in the order of who charges the most interest. If you don't have a late fee, you get shuffled to the bottom of the pile and stay the
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by rwhitman 14y ago
You basically have to hack / debug every website from Time Warner in order to use it. I swear I've whipped out chrome inspector / firebug attempting to use TWC websites at least twice. There could be an equally long blog post about the madd
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Isn't it obvious that sitting for prolonged periods of time is completely unnatural? We have evolved to run, jump, climb, not spend 8 hrs a day compressing our spines - it is only in the last 100 or so years that sedentary occupations have
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Except that the target audience for this launch campaign is other website owners / webmasters, not the senate or the general populace. I'm sure if they start doing anything in earnest for the general public the campaign materials will chang
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by rwhitman 14y ago
The async property doesn't work in IE
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Man made algae blooms to curb global warming?(wired.com)
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Is there a more secure cloud drive option for sensitive data out there that is as convenient as Dropbox or Google drive etc?
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by rwhitman 14y ago
There are a number of desktop wireframing applications - Omnigraffle, Axure, Visio come to mind.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I'm getting overwhelmed by all these nifty browser based prototyping tools coming out. Very cool stuff, but it seems like the market is starting to get a little saturated
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Your title is misleading because "Wordpress" as a general brand encompasses the open source Wordpress.org CMS workhorse, which most of us on HN typically associate with the name. Wordpress.com the cloud blog platform has lots of valid compe
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Squarespace is quite possibly the most frustrating CMS platform I've ever attempted to configure in my 10 year career. It is not a threat to Wordpress, or even Weebly for that matter.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
According to Wikipedia, Squarespace predates Wordpress by one month (April 2003). So "new" CMS is er kind of a uh load of total linkbait crap.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I was actually suggesting they were protecting the neighbors from a potential highly sophisticated criminal mastermind casing the joint to conduct an Ocean's 11 style vault heist of the property next door by drilling through the wall, but I
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Exactly. I think there are several other equally plausible explanations as to why this particular McDonald's would have security to prevent video surveillance. It is also next to a number of the finest luxury retailers in the world...
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Thats a shame, I'm sure hardware manufacturers are drooling at the prospect of embedding Android into hardware workstations
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Agreed, and I think we may get the full studio workstation on a tablet faster than the transition from hardware to software. We're probably only one new chip & iOS release away from a platform that can compete with desktop in terms of p
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by rwhitman 14y ago
While many of these apps are fun and increasingly powerful, I (sadly) don't think we've crossed the threshold where they are essential just yet. I think there may well be a point in the future where replacing an entire studio / live rig wit
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I completely agree. A lot of this is part of living in NYC as opposed to somewhere else. I lived in LA for 7 years and did not experience the same aversion to making new good friends there. I think there are some missing components to this
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I think this is much more likely to be what he's talking about than pneumatic tubes, as others have mentioned. Seems much more up his alley
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I have 2 products in a similar-ish situation, both of which I don't even remember where the source repo is to make a bugfix even if I had to.... But after a few outages that I had no clue about until days had passed, I did learn to sign up
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by rwhitman 14y ago
In order to further my procrastination this evening, I Googled the OP's username found a Twitter account that synced up with the OP's reddit interests (seems to be obsessed with magic the gathering), except that he's located in.... New Ze
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Yes rapid online sharing of prototypes is increasingly crucial. Every tool I've used that does this has some clunky flaw. If this were combined with a quick shortlink based share tool it would quickly become my goto wireframe app
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I've always seen Google's "Nexus" line of products as essentially prototypes that Google releases into the market to light a fire under device manufacturers to raise the bar for the latest Android OS. I would be surprised if Android isn't a
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Sigh, if only you knew how many startup sweepstakes have no actual prize...
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I like the Autechre album based version naming convention
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I'm not particularly knowledgable in this area, but shouldn't a revenue generating company with a $1B valuation be making more than that? 4X revenue is $732M
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by rwhitman 14y ago
The barrier to entry is that they have the largest marketplace. Anyone entering this space needs to acquire both buyers and sellers, and convince them that their network is more valuable.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Think about it this way - Google wants to get into the console gaming market but they know they can't compete yet. They need to innovate a new model. So they release whats effectively a prototype onto the market as a "media player" and let
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Hmm, maybe its actually a gaming console in disguise?

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