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by ryanackley 14y ago
Does anyone else find it a little disconcerting that Dwolla would effectively control the direct financial payments market if this did replace ACH? Obviously, this is what Dwolla wants but the larger banks must be able to see it. They're th
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by ryanackley 14y ago
Slightly off-topic. If you have a startup and you have a blog like this, why not have a very big obvious link to your main website?(i.e. mystartup.com instead of blog.mystartup.com). It seems like a no-brainer to me. It's great marketing fo
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by ryanackley 14y ago
I've learned over the years to try talk to people online as if they were standing right in front of me. Most adults would never call another person a name (in seriousness) to their face. It's good manners but also from a practical perspecti
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by ryanackley 15y ago
Our social structure prevents self-limiting behavior. For example, eventually the robot has to be re-charged. If it isn't contributing to society then why would someone give it free energy to recharge itself.
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by ryanackley 15y ago
Some constructive feedback for the website. There are three thumbnails along the bottom of the screen. I immediately assumed I could click these and a larger image would appear. When I see a new product linked on HN, I want to quickly look
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by ryanackley 15y ago
If you're building a project from scratch, I think you have to be more ruthless with your time than your objects. In the early stages of a product it's easy and cheap to refactor if you find your devspeed slowing down because of poor coding
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by ryanackley 15y ago
Reminds me of the GDrive story[1]. Basically, Google killed a Dropbox competitor project 4 years ago because "files are so 1990". Fast forward from where they thought the death of files was imminent and they're now preparing to launch Googl
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by ryanackley 15y ago
The first item on his list was a todo list. It's interesting because I once had (what I thought at least) was this killer idea for a personal task management app. I was psyched about it until I went and pitched it to a friend of mine and he
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by ryanackley 15y ago
I worked remotely for a year and half and later worked from home for my own business. From my own perspective, I found it unsustainable. Mainly, there are the psychological benefits of working around other people that the internet can't rep
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by ryanackley 15y ago
This appears to be specifically for chromium OS not the Chrome browser. If you look at the commit message it references a chromium-os bug. http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=23271 If you're interested in the long term p
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by ryanackley 15y ago
fix student loans I put myself through school on a student loan. I was very grateful for it. I was charged a reasonable tax deductible interest rate. So I'm curious about what is actually broken?
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by ryanackley 15y ago
If you don't plan on living in Australia permanently, be aware that your effective tax rate on contributions to your superannuation is 50%. You pay a flat rate of 15% on your contributions like everyone else. When you leave Australia perman
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The Rise of Developeronomics(forbes.com)
282 points by ryanackley 15y ago|118 comments
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by ryanackley 15y ago
I do agree that the US immigration system sucks. As an Australian, you may not realize the current state of immigration policy in your own country. I'm an American and I live and work in Sydney. I came in on the 457 subclass visa. Not sure
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by ryanackley 15y ago
What's with the popped collars? I'm an American living in Australia and I snickered when I first saw Australians wearing their collars popped. I eventually found myself doing it outdoors in the summer because the sun is so freaking intens
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by ryanackley 15y ago
"useless paid support" Sorry if you feel the support is useless. We try our hardest but that's your opinion and you're entitled to it. However, saying it's "paid" is flat-out wrong. No customer ever pays for support from Atlassian. It's inc
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by ryanackley 15y ago
It's a really really bad deal. Please listen when I say someone is trying to take advantage of you. You're taking on a lot of risk with no upside. If I'm reading it right, the best you can do is break even with the salary you could be getti
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by ryanackley 15y ago
There has been some schizophrenic behavior around version numbers at Mozilla lately. Version 5.0 should have been more like version 4.1 and now they're just getting rid of them? I can't help but see it as a case of Chrome envy. It's kind of
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Internet Explorer IQ story was bogus(bbc.co.uk)
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by ryanackley 15y ago
I'm someone who didn't grow up in the Northeast. I worked and lived in Boston for a short time in 2005. I found Boston people to be awesome. Just very friendly and sincere. I did find them to be a little more no-nonsense or cynical than av
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by ryanackley 15y ago
I think it's easy to get this impression but the reality is that there are many thriving software businesses with mature open source alternatives. I work for Atlassian. Our two biggest products are a wiki and a bug tracker. We have dozens o
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by ryanackley 16y ago
I was one of the first people to reverse-engineer the binary Word file format and was one of the early contributors to POI.I've spent a career writing code against various file formats. Unfortunately, most of the comments here are not based