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by snoonan 13y ago
A name change is in order due to the fact that Fedex owns the Kinko's trademark for email service.
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by snoonan 13y ago
Almost no one uses RSS and it's bad for business. Regarding usage, we have 60k+ newsletter subscribers and maybe a few hundred RSS readers. Regarding business, I can't converse with you directly over RSS, so it has almost no busi
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by snoonan 13y ago
Watching these answers stream in on the spreadsheet really makes me think of what a realtime reddit or stack exchange could look like. Adding live interaction from observers (likes, comment streams, etc).
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by snoonan 13y ago
They pay corp tax on the profit they earn in their UK's operations. Just like every other company with operations in the UK. What percentage of your revenue do you pay in corporate taxes? None! You only pay a percentage of profit. (ext
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by snoonan 13y ago
Some of what Benny does is based on Boris Shektman's teaching at the US Foreign Services Language Institute. It's extremely pragmatic (borderline cheating) At time, really steamrolls the conversation with a set of trick and tactic
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by snoonan 13y ago
That's populist propaganda. Businesses are taxed on profit, not revenue. Even if they were 100% based in the UK, they'd still probably pay very low corporate taxes (if any) due to the thin margin. They actually do pay an enormous
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by snoonan 13y ago
I love this because it works on getting kids into the wonder and power of coding before they hit the CS meat grinder later on. Falling in love with it and getting some experience before they hit more rigorous learning down the road. It wil
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by snoonan 13y ago
A lot of the world doesn't subscribe to the individual-is-always-paramount view. This situation sucks, but helping the person starts with understanding the problem.
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by snoonan 13y ago
The EU VAT rules extend to most digital products and services for all companies anywhere in the world. Yeah.
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by snoonan 13y ago
The EU tax on digital sales really is hard to understand and comply with as a small developer. We're also thinking of blocking EU sales until we are big enough to afford to comply. How are people dealing with this?
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by snoonan 13y ago
I'm not sure if you caught the other post, but the discounted rate is the price we charged for a few years. Only after revising it UP did we hit a new higher plateau on revenues. Then discounting it these two times in a "sale&qu
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by snoonan 13y ago
No apologies, it's good advice! Anyway, for 2013, 51% of unit sales have come from 2 discount offer email events this year. The discount IS the old price we had for years, so it's not that this price is somehow magic on its own.
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by snoonan 13y ago
Thanks! We have 5 years of sales on this mature product and know the space well. It surprised us that the discount offers were effective since we had a handle on when people buy after first visiting, etc. The push made by the discount offe
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by snoonan 13y ago
Fair questions! increased unit sales and we're up over 20% in total revenue for the same period last year. We did our first back in March where we were actually declining year over year for this product. So we're confident to say
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Ask HN: Best practices around discount offers?
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by snoonan 13y ago
I would think the upsell happens in email before, during the shopping experience, or completely after the online checkout is done, not during the checkout process. Upsell during checkout is kind of a grocery store concept. At least those is
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by snoonan 13y ago
Would HN be excluded as a commercial site? :)
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by snoonan 13y ago
"Life form" subtilely connotes alien life, doesn't it? Especially when you put it in a sentence with NASA and Spacecraft. When they discover actual life on Mars and Europa, it's probably going to have a lot less impact
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by snoonan 13y ago
Right, the incentive is to reject the highest possible number of applicants. The system is built around reducing friction for applying while rejecting almost all of those people as cheaply and easily as possible. I wouldn't be surprise
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by snoonan 13y ago
Yeah, it makes it hard for those of us with a lot of audio and video to deal with. We still need to be on Amazon for those assets, though would very much prefer to have them available through a locally mounted filesystem on our Digital Ocea
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by snoonan 13y ago
This is very strongly backed in language learning. I love this concise example in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K11o19YNvk
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by snoonan 13y ago
Thirded! This is a better implementation for a framework. CBGV as-is would be better as an add-on app. This is a great example why framework projects could benefit from being a bit more democratic. Most people seem to be pulling their hair
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by snoonan 13y ago
My initial thought is that insect wings don't rotate, and so can't destroy themselves so easily. Cheap, powerful rotational motors comes with the risk of potential for self destruction. Flapping at that scale is a very hard proble
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by snoonan 13y ago
The article hits the nail on the head. Engineering for modularity will squeeze out the benefits at some point. It's not some evil conspiracy, but ever-shrinking electronics and tolerances. It's going to be the domain of robots and
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by snoonan 13y ago
Well, it was about 20 years ago and I was a self taught programmer pre-Internet days. I actually downloaded it from a BBS and had no outside references to work with. I spent probably 30 minutes 2 or 3 times a week for a couple of months. Mo
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by snoonan 13y ago
I went through this on my own back in a HS programming class! Glad to see it here. While the teacher was walking students through how to do loops, I got permission to hack away in the back of the room on this. I ended up building a BASIC-l
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by snoonan 13y ago
It's perhaps not safe to generalize the results from a study on Danish public workers. Billions work in deeply unfair, disrespectful management structures. Many are very harsh and dehumanizing by western standards. I would be interest
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by snoonan 13y ago
I love the idea and the value prop. Excellent concept! Imagine the press attention and resulting warp speed growth you'll be able to muster when this works just once for someone. You might get criticism over the design of your landing
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by snoonan 13y ago
1. Make a list of what I need to do that day. It's only things I absolutely need to get done, not extra or bonus. 2. Do nothing but the list until I have checked off everything from the list. For non-starter days, I use a modified pom
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by snoonan 13y ago
Let's not forget about affiliate fraud and valid, legitimate refunds/returns/chargebacks. You really shouldn't get credit for your affiliate sales until Amazon is sure they're going to get to keep the money. We have

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