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by svmegatron 13y ago
"Actually, I run a small agency."
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by svmegatron 13y ago
That's one of the beautiful things about advertising that a lot of us (well, I assume a lot of us - I can't be the only one, right?) did not realize at first. Especially over the long term, being respectful toward the audience le
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by svmegatron 13y ago
...which is probably enough to start making the site usable. I agree that it prevents not at all against even the least sophisticated of scripts, but in practice it will probably make an impact.
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by svmegatron 13y ago
I'd start with just using a cookie to prevent repeat voting.
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by svmegatron 13y ago
It's possible that they are working for only "20 minutes a day" in the same way that the Startup Guy is working "100+ hours a week." That is to say, the quoted number happens occasionally, but it feels like all th
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by svmegatron 13y ago
Are there one or two things you would recommend to help bridge that communication gap between a solo person and a megacorp? One thing I've observed (possibly incorrectly!) is that megacorps seem to "like" to do business with
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by svmegatron 13y ago
This is a totally awesome idea. You are still in trouble if the load balancer has problems or S3 has problems (unlikely, but not impossible!). It's always smart to have a couple of ways of failing over to something if your main sit
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by svmegatron 13y ago
Doxie scanner uses this to AMAZING effect for the Doxie Go: http://www.getdoxie.com/product/doxie-go/index.html The huge advantage to using micro-video is that it's much, much lower commitment. Because of thi
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by svmegatron 13y ago
I can't agree enough (with the sentiment about savings, though I guess I also agree that you pay $0/year for sysadmins). I think we must have a collective blind spot here - we're so excited to save money by renting virtual servers by the ho
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by svmegatron 13y ago
The carpenter made the mistake of answering the question he was asked, instead of the question the interviewer wanted the answer to. LOTS of interviewers are going to have zero experience in the field they are hiring for. It will behoove t
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by svmegatron 13y ago
I was all ready to get up into high dudgeon about hiring people who are capable but can't get along with others - but that's not what this article is about at all. The author wants to hire people of integrity, not yes-men, and makes a parti
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by svmegatron 13y ago
Job titles don't mean anything ... except to the next person to hire you . It's true that your job title doesn't influence your day to day work. But it's a mistake to think your job title doesn't play a great big part in 1) how your cowor
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by svmegatron 13y ago
I think that generally money is by far the easier thing to negotiate than terms. Even if just because a change of terms often needs to be approved by lawyers, whereas a change of $ amount can be approved directly by the parties doing the n
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by svmegatron 13y ago
It sounds trite, but have you tried contacting companies in the UK and USA? If written communication between you and the client is strong, it's often an advantage to the client to have someone working out of sync with them. At the end of t
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by svmegatron 13y ago
Awesome! I've been working on something similar: http://www.collectiveoffset.com/ I think this is an interesting concept and it will be cool to see how this space evolves!
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by svmegatron 13y ago
To add to this point, Weebly's audience and its users are almost entirely unlike the readers of HN. Weebly is a website builder for nontechnical people, and many of us here on HN know that nontechnical people regularly have exactly the q
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by svmegatron 13y ago
This is great advice, AND it dovetails nicely with the advice I've been seeing here a lot lately: send more email to prospective customers :-)
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by svmegatron 13y ago
On the other hand: if your job is to make websites, and the client wants a wordpress website, then you make a wordpress website. IMO the "design a website" requirement is the creative challenge, not the "slice into files for wordpress" par
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by svmegatron 13y ago
All good points, to be sure. I disagree about a standard "you need to cancel it" model of canceling being a laziness tax, but I can certainly see reasonable people disagreeing on that point. I should have explained my thinking on cognitive
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by svmegatron 13y ago
I agree with the other suggestions that this is a noble approach, but I'll also offer a competing viewpoint: 1. You are shooting yourself in the foot, revenue-wise. 2. The cognitive overhead of figuring out this unexpected pricing scheme is
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by svmegatron 13y ago
... or (and I think this might be a pretty effect) they fail to take into account unforeseen side effects.
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by svmegatron 13y ago
This is the most convenient and expeditious solution, but OP's suggestion is a cool and interesting hack.
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by svmegatron 14y ago
Very good point. OP, be wary of stock photos, especially if the model is wearing one of those asinine phone-headsets.
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by svmegatron 14y ago
In my experience "image beats text" is a really common result of an AB test. For an encore, I'd suggest testing an image of a (smiling) person in that same space.
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by svmegatron 14y ago
I agree 100%. Well behaved, traffic law-abiding cyclists don't seem to get materially less grief from drivers than scofflaws. Moreover, the event that triggers a response (honking, yelling) from a motorist is almost always behavior that
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by svmegatron 14y ago
This is an incredible use of the referly platform - interesting idea with a cool article, and then several affiliate links to books on the same subject. +1 great execution of this business model
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by svmegatron 14y ago
My understanding of the current state of affairs is that 'users who pay for apps' are still disproportionately represented on iOS. That is, there may be more users on Android, there are more potential customers on iOS. I could be wrong, th
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by svmegatron 14y ago
http://www.actionshotsapp.com Action Shots lets online retailers easily collect, moderate, and display photos of real customers using their products. We're also moving to help news organizations enable safe user submitted content. The mo
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by svmegatron 14y ago
Thank you!
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by svmegatron 14y ago
If you have a link to this, I would love to read it. It makes a lot of sense, and I'd be interested to read it in more detail

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