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by shail 13y ago
I think the best way to compare individual programmer vs pair programmers is to look at it this way: When you work yourself on implementing something, how will compare these two: YOU (60% of your capacity) vs YOU (>90% of your capacity)
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by shail 13y ago
If you don't mind, I would be curious to know how many signed up? Want to know the traction level of such a concept.
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by shail 13y ago
the two responses I have got until now demostrate only marketing kind of use cases. What else? Are people really microblogging on twitter?
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Ask HN: Is Twitter being a useful tool to anyone here?
3 points by shail 13y ago|7 comments
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Ask HN: Do you use RSS feeds to read your news?
3 points by shail 13y ago|2 comments
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by shail 13y ago
How will they ever start to exists in a new neighborhood?
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by shail 13y ago
I agree to this absolutely.
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by shail 13y ago
What if you are building for which the market already exists. You are just being another option in the market. Then I kind of feel that ship fast's meaning changes a little bit. Because now you know you will be compared with the earlier ser
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by shail 13y ago
I am really interested in understanding the WHY part of being stuck. Why does it happen? Is it because a person is perfectionist. Or is it because of fear of failure. Or a combination of both?
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Ask HN: Why should you ship fast?
9 points by shail 13y ago|15 comments
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by shail 13y ago
Wow, 3000$ for at home coding. If you are not doing anything which requires 4-10 cores etc. kind of stuff, my guess is that you should buy a decent laptop along with a docking station (or any decent desktop will do) and install LinuxMint on
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by shail 13y ago
Out the day I graduated.
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by shail 13y ago
web apps
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by shail 13y ago
If you were approached by one investment group, then there must be more who are interested. If you have more options the you can negotiate a better deal. I don't think letting the person, who believed in you initially, (even though with jus
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by shail 13y ago
lets do it.
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by shail 13y ago
Linode: 20$ pm DigitalOcean: 5$ pm
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by shail 13y ago
Thanks for the detailed reply. This clears my head a lot. I haven't sunk any cost yet. I am trying to find the best fit. Can I say for sure one thing that between dedicated vs VPS you will surely choose dedicated? Are there any downsides to
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by shail 13y ago
Write a blog about it. That way you will have told them about it and also your prospective customers. So win-win for both. They get to fix it and you probably get more customers. Obviously it can happen to you as well so be prepared.
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by shail 13y ago
This one seems to be a very interesting option. Anyone having any experience with OVH? Would love to hear that.
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Ask HN: $20 per month dedicated server?
7 points by shail 13y ago|9 comments
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by shail 13y ago
I am wondering how will you ban folks coming from a country. IP based? As far as I know HN code is open source. So if that is still true, you should be able to see it in the code.
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by shail 13y ago
Obviously the founders has a reason to borrow money from you (second time) but you too were already 75k down and would have wanted it all to succeed. So my guess is that your 50k further investment was partially in your favor too. So I thin
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Ask HN: iPhone design change, if you were Jony Ivy?
1 points by shail 13y ago|0 comments
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by shail 13y ago
I looked at your website and remember reading about few of your submissions such as trying to find a co-founder, web developer etc. I can help you with some development on that front (no fees). But I would like to know more about you as per
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by shail 13y ago
I agree, but looking at the way he has been trying hard to build something (doesn't matter whether he was building it for himself or someone else), I think he is pretty much a startup guy. Success is something unrelated altogether.
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by shail 13y ago
I looked at your website and remember reading about few of your submissions such as trying to find a co-founder, web developer etc. I can help you with some development on that front (no fees). But I would like to know more about you as per
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by shail 13y ago
My suggestion would be (considering you have been here for only 2 weeks), spend another month and a half and find out whether you are valuable to them and they are too valuable to you (as an opportunity) then and only then go to them and sa
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Ask HN: {Startup} Do you feel that you are doing exactly whats not recommended?
4 points by shail 13y ago|5 comments
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by shail 13y ago
I am trying to list some little less known movies here: 1) The Skeleton Key (I rate it as the best movie ever) (M) 2) Contact (best alien movie) 3) Flight of the phoenix 4) The Painted Veil 5) ...cant remember
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by shail 13y ago
Become a survival guide.

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