svmegatron

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by svmegatron 14y ago
I'm a happy customer, a shopify partner, and a developer on your platform. Thank you for an excellent experience in every possible way.
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by svmegatron 14y ago
Respectfully, I don't think your analogy holds. I think the situation here is more akin to keeping a muddy pig out of a concert hall.
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by svmegatron 14y ago
Oh hi, class of 2001 here, Ephs represent! & get off my lawn etc etc etc.
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by svmegatron 14y ago
I agree with you, and I want to call out a particular phrase you wrote as profoundly good advice: "If you want to start a [$ALMOST_ANYTHING] company, talk to the people that'd profit off of it" There's certainly more you need to know about
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by svmegatron 14y ago
I'd love to see this list too. I currently use airbrake & newrelic - what else is out there these days?
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by svmegatron 14y ago
He's not quoting the article; he's quoting The Princess Bride ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/quotes ).
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by svmegatron 14y ago
I'd add to this: never underestimate the power of making your site faster.
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by svmegatron 14y ago
If these become as popular as they seem like they should, I foresee long lines at the supercharging stations. I'm sure that 1. Tesla have thought of it and 2. They will milk the positive publicity from such an occurrence, but it could stil
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by svmegatron 14y ago
This will be AWESOME for monitoring daily backups on the large number of sites/databases that should be getting backed up automatically every night. They work reliably for a while and then I forget about checking them. Would be nice to
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by svmegatron 14y ago
Comments like this perpetuate the idea that it's somehow immoral to want to earn money. We spent all this time and energy learning a commercially valuable skill, which is going to make a pile of money for someone else. It would be foolish
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by svmegatron 15y ago
"So many new customers that the new-customer alert gets really annoying" is a great problem to have, though!
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by svmegatron 15y ago
Lost me after defining the worth of an astronaut to be $50 million, and the value of scientific knowledge obtained from a longer-lived Hubble to be incalculable. Even though I think the author makes a point worth considering, I found that a
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by svmegatron 15y ago
I already pay a subscription fee for my email, in the form of a $50 per year GAFYD account (of which I use only the email). Paying a subscription for an email program isn't my favorite idea in the world, but I'm willing to try it out in th
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by svmegatron 15y ago
I think what both authors in this back and forth are really saying is "this photograph is mine." One says "this photograph is mine, no you may not use it too." The other says "this photograph is mine, yes you may also use it." So good work
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by svmegatron 15y ago
Boat living high five! My wife and I lived on a boat for the last two years; we're back on land now while we downsize to a smaller boat. If there's a HNer out there who wants to try this, I have a boat for sale that's fully equipped for li
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by svmegatron 15y ago
In some ways I would expect exactly that. Starbucks' coffee speculators would probably know more about coffee than generalist speculators. The best solution might be for Starbucks to bring in a speculation consultant to work with them
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by svmegatron 15y ago
A handful of weekend and side projects: * http://www.coachulous.com , a web app for triathlon coaches * http://loanarranger.heroku.com , a visualization tool for mortgage/car/student loans * Aspect Ratio Converter ( http://itunes.apple.co
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Show HN: Iteration 2 of Loan Arranger, a visualization tool for mortgages
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by svmegatron 15y ago
"Just kidding, Grandpa!" Ha ha ha! Get off my lawn.
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by svmegatron 15y ago
That sounds like an awesome way to carve out a niche. Best of luck to you!
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Show HN: Loan Arranger, a visualization tool for mortgage/car/student loans(loanarranger.heroku.com)
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by svmegatron 15y ago
Cool! Can you put the graph and the text on a single page, and make them both bigger?
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by svmegatron 15y ago
All good questions! I'd also like to add: what percentage of that $42,000 does he or she get to keep? Er, here we go, the answer seems to be "it depends": http://themeforest.net/wiki/selling/getting-paid/payment-rat...
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by svmegatron 15y ago
I can't wait to read this book. After reading the sample chapter I think it will become required reading for CS nerds who want to explain why they like computer science to their families and friends.
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by svmegatron 15y ago
I think the "extraordinarily deep pockets" has much more to do with Google being able to afford it than the "thousands of employees" part. Although the thousands of employees might be a help in terms of providing coverage for time-sensitiv
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by svmegatron 15y ago
I don't disagree with you, but drcube's point is a serious and valid one. It also smells like an opportunity for devs and/or ad networks to provide much better targeting. Ad-supported games for kids should be able to get kid-appropriate a
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by svmegatron 15y ago
For now it's free. When I add paid plans, my intention is to keep a free plan where you'd download the receipts instead of getting hard copies in the mail.
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by svmegatron 15y ago
Thank you! Re: PDF attachments, it saves the attachment so that when you view your account online, the receipt shows up as a link (which you'd click to download/view the PDF). The PDF gets printed along with all the other receipts when it
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by svmegatron 15y ago
That's an excellent idea. I went with Facebook login because it was the simplest thing I could think of to do before launching - I will be adding "regular" account creation with email addresses very soon. It would be awesome to be able to s
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by svmegatron 15y ago
Thank you for the suggestion! I will think about adding that to it.

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