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by stevejalim 17y ago
Yeah, I was a fan of http://domainpigeon.com/ for a while, but that got a bit too restricted for me (as it became more commercial), not to mention a bit unwieldy to browse through. Bookmarked!
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by stevejalim 17y ago
does it still hold true when you factor in the cost of replicating staff benefits? I've always found it hard to chip into pension etc when freelance (but that's just me)
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by stevejalim 17y ago
And working fine for me (am in UK)
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by stevejalim 17y ago
<lamejoke> Presumably a feature for Django devs</lamejoke>
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by stevejalim 17y ago
What's in the box? Unless the contents are basically the size and shape of the carton, why not just take them out and carry them in a few trips if the box won't make it?
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by stevejalim 17y ago
I'm quite a fan of http://kuler.adobe.com/ for colour schemes - hit the slider controls icon to get to the good stuff, where you can apply one of six rules to help you select related colours
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by stevejalim 17y ago
No, more that that person needs to flog stories to whoever will take them, even if that means being an X correspondent in country Y, despite their being little link. There's also a whole side-conversation about diversity of opinion and repo
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by stevejalim 17y ago
I think you're underestimating how many of the writers out there may be freelancers/retained freelancers, rather than staff hacks. Eg the Islington Twaddler's Silicon Valley correspondent may just be a desperate stringer, flogging stories w
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by stevejalim 17y ago
Perhaps "Why lazy journalists deserve low pay" would be closer to the mark. But that's less of a reader-baiting headline, common in much of today's journalism. Oh, the irony...
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by stevejalim 17y ago
Yeah, I agree about the fear-based thing. I certainly was operating from that POV for the startup I was talking about above - mainly cos it was my first experiences of it all, etc, and it was an idea I'd been sat on for years and was emotio
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by stevejalim 17y ago
Thanks 10ren - that's interesting (and reassuring) to hear. Kinda the answer I was hoping for, in fact.
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by stevejalim 17y ago
1b could be 'have a decently paid wife/husband/partner' - that approach is working for me, so far, tho I am still doing some freelance dev to keep things relativley fair
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by stevejalim 17y ago
Thanks for the view. In that light, one upside to my plan (no investment other than sweat from me and maybe a couple of others), is that if I take on the risk, all I'd be risking is lost time/opportunity cost, rather than venture cash.
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by stevejalim 17y ago
I get what you're saying, yeah. I'm not looking to protect my stuff via a patent (would rather just have a chunky customer base and be done with it), but wouldn't want to be blocked by someone else with a nitpicky patent about, say, videoco
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by stevejalim 17y ago
Ah, thanks. In a way, it's less about the polling and more about the discussion, but I'll bookmark it for the future :o)
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Ask HN: where do you draw the patent research line?
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by stevejalim 17y ago
Break the syntactic rules of a URL by having, essentially, an optional TLD and it'll just make things harder for people who are online, but don't quite get it (eg, my dad, etc)
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by stevejalim 18y ago
How about an iPhone app for when the oil runs out, that shows you which fuel stations still have fuel? ;o)
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by stevejalim 18y ago
That's what I was wondering. I was a big fan of Sandy, especially with its (her?) Twitter integration. Any chance of seeing that, I wonder? Emails are quick to send, but a tweet is even quicker for many people
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by stevejalim 18y ago
'Killer' ideas don't necessarily have to be unique. Just better, so they disrupt the existing market enough to get ahead. [edit - removed extra word]
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by stevejalim 18y ago
Very true, and I reckon the 'foundation to save the world' thing is a pretty commmon wish. (It's on my list, and on the list of a fair few people I know, but that could just be the circles I'm in). <naive> Perhaps we should all just
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by stevejalim 18y ago
Actually, not so... Most DVD players you buy here in the UK are locked to Region 2. You can buy multi-region players or remove the region lock with a code on certain players, but the mainstream are R2 only. Which is a pain. Indeed, simple r
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by stevejalim 18y ago
On this note, in addition to whatever maths/science/engineering subjects you get into, I'd recommend taking one or two modern natural/human languages - French, Spanish, Japanese, whatever (but perhaps not Esperanto because you'll get less c
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by stevejalim 18y ago
Discovered it yesterday, found it handy just 30 minutes later. Cheers for making this!
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by stevejalim 18y ago
I agree, the best of both worlds is still an option. Get to a level when you can afford to not be working for a client all the time, and then plan your time to spend, say, a fortnight a month doing client work, then the subsequent fortnight