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by thenomad 12y ago
+1 for Distraction, and indeed most of BruceS's works. Incredible, visionary stuff. "Heavy Weather" is probably the book of his that's most similar to Distraction - also very very good.
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by thenomad 12y ago
Barbecue's a real microcosm in the food world. I'm a pretty learned foodie, but I had no idea just how widely barbecue techniques were spread around the world until I started looking into it a few years ago. I think the US can leg
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by thenomad 12y ago
I've been doing research into the options available in this space recently. GoToWebinar still seems to be one of the most recommended options. I wish there was a way to use the Twitch technology for business streaming - it's best-
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by thenomad 12y ago
I run a few servers with Bytemark's BigV, which is very good. Definitely a solid alternative for UK-based cloud hosting. A bit more expensive than DO but much more customisable also. I've heard good things about RamNode, especiall
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by thenomad 12y ago
That's a good sign. Established competition means that there's actually a real market need there for the thing you're thinking of building. Now the question is if you can differentiate yourself from the competition enough to
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by thenomad 12y ago
Yes. This. All of this. It's incredibly challenging to make a profit on a genuinely independent feature these days - close to impossible, in fact. And whilst YouTube apparently offers a new hope for video, the fact is it's its o
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by thenomad 12y ago
For a similar viewpoint on the whole "smaller countries" thing from someone who is rather more positive about Scottish independence, here's Charles Stross's piece on the Scottish Referendum: http://www.antipop
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by thenomad 12y ago
It's possible to have a lot of money and be legitimately very unhappy, all at the same time. The pressure of being as much of a public figure as he is, and the person blamed for anything wrong with the most popular computer game in the
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by thenomad 12y ago
I'd hope I could customise the question, and thus what activity was tracked :) I'm looking for something like http://last5.co/ , but not terribly, terribly buggy :)
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Ask HN: Is there a time tracker that will pop up?
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by thenomad 12y ago
Neat! This seems like a really good idea. I'd recommend focusing on a particular niche of developers who all gather in one place, and who have a strong interest in learning more and watching others code. Game developers would spring to
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by thenomad 12y ago
FYI, I'm in the target market for your product and after reading the sales page, I'm not entirely sure what your product does. So there may well be some potential improvements to be made there!
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by thenomad 12y ago
There's a few of us on HN, too. (I wear a lot of hats, but one of my bigger and more battered hats is that of Marketing Guy.) Feel free to email me - address is in my HN profile.
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by thenomad 12y ago
" People with actual Obsessive Compulsive Disorder do not laugh about it; they are in deep distress about it." This is extremely important. "OCD" has become a joke to many, but it's a horrible, debilitating ment
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by thenomad 12y ago
FBX is the closest thing to a standard right now. It's getting increasingly usable, particularly since Autodesk (the people who control FBX) more or less owns the pro 3D market. There's also Collada (which I have very rarely pursu
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by thenomad 12y ago
"The third route is to simplify the workflow required to get to the final realization of creation but that tends to be a magnitude more difficult than the typical act of creation." As someone who has been working on just that in
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by thenomad 12y ago
"How to feed yourself" is kind of the king of all real problems. Currently this is being marketed at people with money, but research into indoor / vertical farming is definitely attacking a real problem.
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by thenomad 12y ago
There are a few equivalents, but Roll20 appears to be the one that has the most traction. It's on my "to-try" list.
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by thenomad 12y ago
There are already a few projects working on both. Phillip Rosedale, the guy behind Second Life, is working on a next-gen equivalent. Janus VR, meanwhile, is busy working at turning the Web into a metaverse, and getting some rave reviews. As
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by thenomad 12y ago
Is their spam filtering good? That's the primary reason I'm sticking with Google Apps for now.
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by thenomad 12y ago
Define "substantial"? I've been involved with a variety of businesses that use Wordpress as part of their business, ranging from $xx,xxx a year businesses to $xx,xxx,xxx a year businesses. :) Also, by "run on Wordpress&q
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by thenomad 12y ago
I completely agree with this. Generally, completely passive income is massively harder and more time intensive to generate than minimal-time-investment income (which is what Patrick suggests above). I have both completely passive and minima
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by thenomad 12y ago
Honestly, I'm pretty happy with the current offerings on the market. If you could offer a lot more power for the same or less cost, I'd be interested. Other that that, I'm moderately unlikely to switch. Oh - specifically I&#x
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by thenomad 12y ago
A hungry crowd. And private access thereto.
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by thenomad 12y ago
A counter-argument: if you already love your blogging platform, you're probably not in OP's target market anyway. However, if you agree with the headline, you're definitely in the market for what Blot provides.
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by thenomad 12y ago
Competition is excellent validation. If there are competing products that have been around for a while and appear to have a budget (are they spending on advertising?), then people want the thing your product does. Now all you've got to
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by thenomad 12y ago
Yep, that's in the right ballpark: £40k - £45k is middleweight webdev level territory at least in my experience. London is obviously good. Bristol or Edinburgh also have thriving tech scenes, and I know some people who are trying to hi
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by thenomad 12y ago
There are lots and lots of rules for good visual composition, of which "good photographs" are a subset. Some people instinctively understand them. Some people have spent years painstakingly learning them, and now choose to break t
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by thenomad 12y ago
I'd slightly disagree here. If you can write good information posts based on information that has already been shared elsewhere, but do it in such a way that it becomes intelligible to a new audience, that's a solid and useful blo
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by thenomad 12y ago
There are rather good SEO reasons not to do that - specifically, if the blog becomes popular, the search engine ranking won't translate to the main site if the blog's on a separate subdomain. www.foo.com/blog/ is almost

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