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16y ago
Here's a reason: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629624
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16y ago
what do you mean?
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Show HN: Pomodoro-Timer
(musetheory.de)
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16y ago
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16y ago
So when will Facebook invent something new?
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16y ago
"Read. A lot. Don’t cherrypick things that seem to apply to you — read it all." <- That is why I read Hacker News.
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16y ago
I started studying marketing in order to start my own company some time ago and from the very beginning I remember one maxim that stuck with me: "If you cant be the best in a category, invent a new category." I think that makes sense and it
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16y ago
From their FAQ: "You are not required to enter your academic login. You can enter your courses into our system manually and you can verify your grades by mailing us your official transcript." I don't know how these transcripts look like in
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16y ago
Useful. The cloud has just gotten a tiny bit more convenient. I was a skeptic. Now I use Google Docs almost daily. In my opinion there is no more doubt that Google is right and that in 10 years there will be no more applications that we i
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16y ago
So the real advice is: Offer free accounts and then get rid of them.
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16y ago
Yes, but would those companies have become popular if there hadn't been a free version in the beginning? Would as many invest in an unknown product in the beginning to eventually make it known?
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Are you rich? If so, how did you get there?
(reddit.com)
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16y ago
4) Lazy marketing: Hm. What steps would you take to promote an iPhone (or Android) app, assuming it's a well-made app that doesn't fall into the categories 1) to 3)?
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16y ago
Interesting. So what number of daily views of hacker news can we estimate from the number of views on that youtube-video?
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16y ago
Hm.. thanks. I think I'll try that.
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16y ago
I like HN because I can learn about people's startups, often while they are still in development. But there's also other interesting stories here (like "Ask HN" or news stories from science and programming areas) that I enjoy. I don't know
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Ask HN: How do you relax (your mind and your body)?
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16y ago
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16y ago
I can relate. Lots of Benchtime and then suddendly you have to travel across the continent to do work you're not interested in. That's consulting in a big company.. To be fair, the first year I was part of a great team with an excellent bos
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17y ago
Ah, what a cool page that CommandLineFu is... :)
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17y ago
Install my browser extension! Each page-load will save a patch of rainforest! :)
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17y ago
For quality search results theres also still http://www.ask.com and http://www.alltheweb.com . I wonder why we hear so little about those.
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17y ago
Microsoft always seems to need one or two attempts before they make a really good product. Win95 -> WinME -> WinXP. Zune -> Zune2. Vista -> 7. They may not be as agile as Google, but a lot of smart people work at MS. I hope
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17y ago
Question: How exactly does this work? Is the player code (video decompressing etc.) part of the browser code or does it utilize players on my desktop (divx or even vlc)? It seems that html5-video is codec-independent. But the codecs have to
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17y ago
Excellent website, I'm impressed.
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17y ago
They already had the G1, another HTC phone with Android.
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17y ago
I wonder if VMWare will change licensing schemes. Yahoo's model was by going through "value added resellers" and "hosting service partners".