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by snowbird122 17y ago
Clickatell is now lowering their prices: http://www.clickatell.com/us_price_freeze.php?cid=113216
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by snowbird122 17y ago
Will someone please explain what this means.
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by snowbird122 17y ago
For me the kindle is not so much about the hardware. It is more about the ability to buy most of the books I want for less that I would pay for the paper version, get them within 60 seconds, pay less than the paper version, and not have to
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by snowbird122 17y ago
Most people aren't like you. A common joke is: Q: How can I tell if someone is smart? A: If they are smart, they agree with me.
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by snowbird122 17y ago
I can't speak about Mahalo, but I have to say that I've become a big Jason Calacanis fan because of the podcast: http://thisweekinstartups.com/ He can be annoying at times, but I love the way he tells it like it is. Every episode, entrep
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by snowbird122 17y ago
How could you tell who paid and who didn't?
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by snowbird122 17y ago
Separating one table into multiple tables based on status has caused me a lot of pain over the years. Now I have multiple tables I need to join together more often than I would hope. Is this really the best way?
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by snowbird122 17y ago
How about slot machines that actually advertise "Pays out 95%"! as if it were a good thing.
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by snowbird122 17y ago
The mobile phone operating system battle is going to be fascinating over the next few years. I'm sure it will be studied in business schools for the the next 40 years. The stakes are extremely high and the market is global. Hardware, sof
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by snowbird122 17y ago
As a project manager managing multiple projects, I often need status updates from my team. I find that without a standard structure, people often fail to convey the most important information. I ask my team to report status in the followi
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by snowbird122 17y ago
That first sentence is beautiful. Well said.
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by snowbird122 17y ago
Great to see a story about an entrepreneur killing it time after time.
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by snowbird122 17y ago
Key point here: When you sell physical goods, unless you manufacture the goods yourself, you are a commodity, therefore, margins will always be low.
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by snowbird122 17y ago
iPhone programming may or may not be a fad, but mobile programming is here to stay. Apple has proven that there is a market.
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by snowbird122 18y ago
Printing needs the equivalent of the ipod or flip video camera: something that was redesigned to do the most common stuff really well and is dead simple easy to use
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by snowbird122 18y ago
Ray's argument against things getting complex would probably be something like: Why would things suddenly get "so complex" when the trend has been going on for millions of years. Douglas Hofstadler (Godel Escher Bach author) says that perha
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by snowbird122 18y ago
More information about the movie here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1117394/ The book (The singularity is near), which serves as the basis for the movie is one of the most thought provoking reads I have had in a long time. He looks at vari
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by snowbird122 18y ago
Well done. Make your own luck.
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by snowbird122 18y ago
I can't believe how much I enjoyed reading the 25 things my friends posted. As time goes on, people lose track of friends, but my friends shared enough for me to remember why they were my friends. Their personalities came out in ways you
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by snowbird122 18y ago
I can't believe how much I enjoyed reading the 25 things my friends posted. As time goes on, people lose track of friends, but my friends shared enough for me to remember why they were my friends. Their personalities came out in ways you
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by snowbird122 18y ago
What is a business model? It's how you make money. You can make money from advertising, thus it is a valid business model. See radio, TV, and PlentyOfFish for examples.
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Ask HN: Best format for video download
1 points by snowbird122 18y ago|1 comments
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by snowbird122 18y ago
I wish I could give you more karma on this comment. This sounds just like me and it is hilarious. I also find that people say "You know what I mean" to which I answer "yes". They interpret this as "yes and I agree", but what I really mea
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by snowbird122 18y ago
This reminds me of something one of my professors wrote about: "Don't get good at something you hate because then people will pay you a lot of money to do it and you'll never be able to stop". Lots of good advice on this board. I love Hac
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by snowbird122 18y ago
Looking at this from a strictly economic point of view, it is obvious that as the price of higher education continues to outpace inflation, a point must come when is negative expected value to attend college. Knowledge will be your reward.
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200 million app store downloads in the past month(apple.com)
2 points by snowbird122 18y ago|0 comments
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by snowbird122 18y ago
This kind of problem comes up all the time in a poker tournament. Each person has a different number of chips in front of them, and when they reach the final table, since so much money is at stake, they want to make a deal. How do you det
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by snowbird122 18y ago
Speaking of poker, I was once playing poker in vegas when the guy sitting beside me asked me what I did. I replied that I was a "technology consultant". He looked confused. I tried to explain that I wrote software to solve problems in th
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by snowbird122 18y ago
This is a smart move for Microsoft. They should have done this about 10 years ago though.
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by snowbird122 18y ago
I read this and it was ok, but when I read the title, I thought: I already know how to make my software suck. Why would I need any more tips?

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