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by taprun 12y ago
Great idea! I like how you'll email me about upcoming opportunities. I just wish I could add my zip code and get opportunities within a fixed range of my address.
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Show HN: Google / Bing with whitelists
1 points by taprun 12y ago|0 comments
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by taprun 12y ago
Learn how to analyze a business problem and come up with a solution. See my blog for a rant - http://taprun.com/blog/business-of-programming
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by taprun 12y ago
This looks similar to idonethis.com There was a lot of discussion about it in prior threads. Long story short, I guess the need for your product is already validated.
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by taprun 12y ago
Could you point out some problems companies have when localizing for Korea? Being able to point out how others have failed, and how you can help us succeed would be a great argument for hiring you. (note: I'm not in a position to hire
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by taprun 12y ago
I made a list of some useful free tools: http://taprun.com/guides/seo/
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by taprun 12y ago
I once inherited a big desktop app. It was a mess (everything was in one package, all methods and data were public, it didn't compile and there was no versioning history). I started by breaking down the code into a few major sections
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by taprun 12y ago
Could he start a hacklab? Find an old warehouse, put in some big tables and some equipment then invite people to come in and learn about engineering? Some people got together nearby, got a government grant and setup a building to do just t
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by taprun 12y ago
It's not clear what pain you're solving, or what you system does. I think it has something to do with converting the format of my email, but I'm not sure how that help me. I'm also not sure why I'd want to give up
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by taprun 12y ago
It might just be a matter of picking out a better use case. How about if it listens for someone screaming for help and calls an ambulance? Assuming you can limit false positives, you could probably sell it for use with the elderly and the
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by taprun 12y ago
It's funny that no one mentioned the following: This guy is going to lie to his client and wants you to lie too, but you feel like you can trust him (to provide you with more work).
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by taprun 12y ago
One more possibility - as human populations get wealthier and more educated, their population growth rate decreases. Maybe by the time lifeforms get the technology to travel to other stars, they find that they don't need to expand. The
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by taprun 12y ago
This is a problem that I've been struggling with as well. I started calling myself a consultant, but I've found that seems to be a title that a LOT of hacks around here use. I think the best approach is to make a name for yourself
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by taprun 12y ago
In economics, I learned about something called a "trade-off". Basically, if you spend time learning something, you are spending that time not learning something else. I remember meeting someone who was fantastic at chess. He des
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by taprun 12y ago
Well run companies exchange something they have (money) for an outcome they want. Don't think of what you skills, degrees or characteristics. Think in terms of what you can provide. If you can't build software, can you build an
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by taprun 12y ago
Imagine these two scenarios: We spent $50 million dollars advertising our free app and got 600 users in three weeks. Is that good? No, it's terrible. We spent $0 in advertising and told one guy who wasn't even in our niche about
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by taprun 12y ago
Sometimes job ads are written this way to allow a company to say that no qualified candidate exists. They are then able to bring in an H1B.
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by taprun 12y ago
Do this the same way you'd get more people to buy it, if you were selling it. * Reduce barriers to entry - make sure that your product is easy to find, easy to install (or to setup an account), easy to use, easy to see its value * Figu
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by taprun 12y ago
You may find "The Ringelmann effect" to be an interesting footnote to this topic. It states that group members become less efficient as group size increases. I'd be very interested to see you point out a form of governance w
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by taprun 12y ago
You have a service that allows me to send in pictures of a whiteboard to get clean PDFs. OK, what's the benefit to me as a user? If you can't answer that question, you'll have some issues getting users to sign up. Does it s
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by taprun 12y ago
No, it's not too late, but I wouldn't necessarily think that a degree will be some kind of magic bullet. Rather than spending lots of money on a degree, just try to get some experience. Experience is more valuable than a degree
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by taprun 12y ago
I've been speaking to a whole lot of folks trying to start tech businesses lately. Tech guys all say the same thing - they can build products, but have no idea how to get customers. You are in a perfect position. Not only do you have
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by taprun 13y ago
I'm not an Aussie, but I saw two films starring Paul Hogan. I'm trying to make this transition as well. I think it basically boils down to the following: Ask lots of people what their problems are (lead generation, paperwork and
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by taprun 13y ago
Here's my response: nerds focus on long-term optimization whereas jocks focus on premature optimization (in computer science speak, think "Big O" values for 10,000n vs 2^n). As a result, nerds are seen as low value at the pre
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by taprun 13y ago
It sounds like you are trying to optimize for two goals: 1) Contribute to open source 2) Limit the amount of time you spend on tasks that don't contribute to your company The solution seems simple enough. Examine the open source tools
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by taprun 13y ago
As someone that has not used Twitter much and often made fun of it, your response was very close to my initial answer. Thinking about it more though, I would say that Twitter should not be compared to blogs. I think Twitter is more like IR
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by taprun 13y ago
I'd suggest trying to think about what types of things you want to build in the future and then picking a language that is used to build those types of things. I can shout "learn assembler" until the cows go home, but if you
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by taprun 13y ago
I would go see my ex-boss' boss and tell him that we're down two people, and while I can keep things going somewhat smoothly for a few weeks, things are going to start breaking due to a lack of manpower. Then, I'd tell him th
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by taprun 13y ago
Hi there. I'm looking at your site, and I don't immediately see anything that tells me why I should pay for an account. How will my life improve by giving you money? Will it bring in some dollars? Will it build my internet fam
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Are you a Remora or a Shark? (taprun.com)
1 points by taprun 13y ago|0 comments

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