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by thenomad 11y ago
I got radically different results on keyboard vs mouse, with keyboard being massively quicker. It might be a good idea to standardise just on keyboard or mouse.
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Open issues: lessons learned building an open source business(werd.io)
2 points by thenomad 11y ago|0 comments
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by thenomad 11y ago
How does your friend make her business work? I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in that too.
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by thenomad 11y ago
Good lord. That's a lot of traffic.
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by thenomad 11y ago
HN throws about 20k - 40k visitors over a day or so, in my experience (off the top of my head, without looking at stats). My stuff tends to be tangential to the primary interests of the userbase, though, so if you were very codey / tec
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by thenomad 11y ago
I've been a fan of static websites for a long while now. In addition to page load issues, they also more or less completely solve the Slashdot effect (aka the Reddit Hug Of Death, these days). A competently-configured Nginx server on a
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by thenomad 11y ago
My best guess on webapps vs, say, infoproducts is that there's more avenues for failure in a webapp. With an infoproduct, you've basically got: 1) Screwed up your market research, no market. 2) Screwed up your marketing, no-one h
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by thenomad 11y ago
I write infrequently over at http://www.strangecompany.org/blog/ . However, my best post recently was probably a guest-post over at Charles Stross's blog - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog
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by thenomad 11y ago
Do you specifically want to make a webapp, or is independence the most important thing for you? If the latter, I'd encourage you to look around at ALL the potential means of making money with your skills, not just creating a webapp. Th
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Don't Call It a Lifestyle Business(empireflippers.com)
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by thenomad 11y ago
This is a problem with hydroponics as a whole. As soon as you get out of the set-and-forget solutions like the Aerogarden, there's very little in the way of introductory material out there. It's dive-in-and-Google-all-the-TLAs tim
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by thenomad 11y ago
Whoa, Zbrush-style sculpt? Nice. Does it have a non-linear animation editor similar to Maya? If so, bloody hell. I might be giving this another go...
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by thenomad 11y ago
Lots of talk about modeling in this thread - how's Blender for other applications these days? In particular, how's its animation capability (both UI and features-wise)? Does it have decent importers and exporters for industry-stan
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by thenomad 11y ago
Depends what you mean by "need". If you mean "your business or life had a critical problem that could only be fixed by this tool", then no. If you mean "your business or life could be significantly impacted and impr
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by thenomad 11y ago
That'd be nice, but it hasn't happened yet. I'm not going to make a grand sweeping statement here, but certainly, I've found out about multiple useful products via adverts. I actively don't want them to go away comp
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by thenomad 11y ago
Relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3ohbh9/as_a_divorce...
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by thenomad 11y ago
1a. Split-test. A lot.
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by thenomad 11y ago
There are many, many headline formulae in the world ( some of my favourites were written in the mid 1920s, in John Caples' book "Tested Advertising Methods" ) but they still take time to iterate through and hone for each arti
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by thenomad 11y ago
If I could feed this an article and have it generate headlines based on the text of that article (and they were any good), there is a solid chance I would pay real money for that service. Headlines are an absolute pain, and as the article s
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by thenomad 11y ago
Oh, thank goodness. I was looking for a solution like this less than a month ago and couldn't find ANYTHING usable. Much appreciated, added to my list o' useful things.
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by thenomad 11y ago
For more insights into the weird and wonderful world of film crediting, I recommend listening to Robert Rodriguez' conversation with Tim Ferriss, around the hour mark - http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/08/23&#
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by thenomad 11y ago
Interesting - not very long at all after the AWS problems and Skype's recent outage.
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Ad blockers and the four currencies(fortressofdoors.com)
1 points by thenomad 11y ago|0 comments
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by thenomad 11y ago
I wish there were some examples in the article of their effectiveness, mentions of best areas for their use, etc. Currently, as a non-ML expert, my takeaway from the article was "there's a thing called a Random Forest. That's
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10k films, 40k novels, 15k games p/y – what now for creatives?(antipope.org)
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by thenomad 11y ago
What genre would you suggest an indie developer would be best advised to work in, out of interest?
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by thenomad 11y ago
Ah, that's a pity. Looking at their website they seem to have moved into the "if you have to ask you can't afford it" range :)
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by thenomad 11y ago
"I'd like to say I did something clever" ... "I then spent my afternoons all summer with a live chat widget on the site that automatically prompted a conversation to anyone who kept the page open for 10 seconds"
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by thenomad 11y ago
Professional visual artist (filmmaker) for the last two decades here. Much sympathy - what you're going through is genuinely tough. Suggestions: 1) Therapy, if you can afford it. You're doing this because you love art, right? And
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by thenomad 11y ago
I do indeed spend time in /new upvoting - seems like a decent thing to do. However, that's not a great technique for finding valuable content, in my experience - the signal-to-noise ratio is rather biased in favour of the noise :)

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