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by silencio 18y ago
coding with the boyfriend, couldn't stand the movies we were watching. :)
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by silencio 18y ago
nobody reads those reviews, but those reviews drag down your overall rating, possibly making you lose sales to a better rated competitor. colloquy's reviews are pretty much like that..except for the insane people leaving feature requests (a
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by silencio 18y ago
for iPhone: pinch analytics ( http://www.pinchmedia.com/ ). friend formerly worked there (full disclosure, really. :P) which was the main reason for going with this choice, and I tried to be fair when taking a peek at Medialets' Medialytics
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by silencio 18y ago
> They solve the transaction cost problem by making you buy $20 worth of points at a time... The transaction fees on a one time purchase of $20 is cheaper than on 15+5 or $1 20 times or even $0.05 400 times. The problem then is if the
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by silencio 18y ago
just asking out of curiosity: wouldn't $1 still qualify as a micropayment as well, i.e. a charge easily consumed by processing fees alone? as much as half of $1 easily goes to fees until you aggregate-charge the buyer (if that is even feasi
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by silencio 18y ago
Lots of room for improvement that is hard to get, perhaps. I'm most likely to leave reviews for professors if they were either exceptionally good or bad, and I'm too lazy to leave one for a mediocre one (the vast majority) unless I was alre
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by silencio 18y ago
Actually if I remember the Boston College change correctly, they weren't supplying students with email accounts , but were switching to an email forwarding service. The idea is that an .edu address is important and necessary in more plac
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by silencio 18y ago
Dang, I was searching for that :) That's where we got started. We also sent promo codes to..ars technica, engadget, appleinsider, tuaw, gruber over at daring fireball, chris pirillo (plus a few extra codes to give away to his viewers, which
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by silencio 18y ago
Sadly, good reviews don't do much on the app store for sales, unless you have a competitor with awful ratings. Colloquy has 4 stars (skewed by the couple of people who didn't understand what the application was (sigh...) and the couple of p
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by silencio 18y ago
haha, not flaming us for charging for an open source app? :) thanks though!
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by silencio 18y ago
don't do it. we (colloquy, the irc client) submitted promo codes and requests to review to multiple people and review sites, and there was only one website who did exactly what you state. none of the rest wanted payment of any sort (ars tec
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by silencio 18y ago
>Really a shame that common strategies... are important in Long Beach Long Beach is only a short half-hour drive from downtown LA, and I can't imagine that advice is any different anywhere else. Of course, I'm overly sensitive to this b
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by silencio 18y ago
It is going to take years if not decades to repair the damage this train wreck of a "study" has done in the UK where there is no longer herd immunity to measles and there has already been one death of a child who did not receive the vaccine
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by silencio 18y ago
But there is only so much space for romantic atmosphere inside a shop (the main issue, really), and existing automated coffee machines are..limited (then again, most people would probably just get ordinary coffee). On the other hand, that s
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by silencio 18y ago
hah, I was reading the page and going "why does this 'yingzi' sound more and more like chinese as I keep reading?" The English spelling system doesn't sound like that much of a pain compared to Chinese since some of the aspects of both sp
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by silencio 18y ago
Well, there's coffee shops that do that too :) Both pretty much have to get the word out to survive and that's one way to do it.
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by silencio 18y ago
Honestly I think it's a location thing. Valencia Street is a place where interesting businesses would exist..I've always been intrigued at the kind of businesses I see when I visit friends in the area. From personal experience (I've been in
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by silencio 18y ago
workspace! sounds like you're in LA...you should go check out blankspaces or theOffice ;) They both do have a monthly membership fee and to them, drinks are probably the least of their concerns with regards to profitability. Unlike a coffee
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by silencio 18y ago
Writing this for the second time this week on HN...I should just copy and paste ;) Coffee shops: expensive rent for owner because of prime retail location, foodservice business (therefore more requirements with less space to work with). Wor
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by silencio 18y ago
For me, opentable pretty much dominates as the one stop for restaurant reservations and makes my dinner date planning go much faster when used together with yelp for those nights we want to go somewhere nice and impossible to get seated rea
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by silencio 18y ago
Having shopped around for businesses like coffee shops and having considered opening a (hacker friendly) coffee shop in Los Angeles, I can't decide if even $20/person is enough for bottomless coffee, a sofa/desk, free wifi and power for a c
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by silencio 18y ago
I rip my hair out at this. I live close enough to Century City that I can generally walk to metro/santa monica/culver city lines if I can't take my car, but to most places I want to go to it's horrid and ends up taking more time and costing
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by silencio 18y ago
I just finished reading a 688 page (according to Amazon's listing of the paper book) scifi novel on my phone yesterday, it took me about a week of leisurely reading. It's only one such novel in a long, long, long list of ebooks I have been
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by silencio 18y ago
Even facebook in the beginning took that approach by limiting the schools you could sign up for.
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by silencio 18y ago
When it's not yet available...like on the iPhone.
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by silencio 18y ago
Pretty much yeah, as well as twitter search (without having to opt-in, which I believe hashtags.org still requires). But the author's main point seemed to be that hashtags are a solution for easily filtering and tagging tweets appropriately
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by silencio 18y ago
While the lack of tactile controls is a big downside to the iPhone as a gaming device, there are plenty of games that are playable without, and for very casual gaming for short periods of time even the ones faking controls on the touchscree
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by silencio 18y ago
A job provides income that pays for the house and the food on the table and clothes for the kids and more. Doesn't matter who tells who to get a job. It's a necessity. Losing weight is what is truly materialistic, as unless the person tha
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by silencio 18y ago
PEOPLE care about money because it is important for survival, even more so when you are in a family of, like the guy mentions in his comment, 4. Also, I'm still curious as to how you inferred from said story that his wife wasn't also work
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by silencio 18y ago
It doesn't matter what alternative platforms he decides to port to, just that he does it and actually releases the game so people can play instead of whining about people stealing ideas and how he can't show off too much gameplay until Nin

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