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by thorax 18y ago
Was. http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/6986/R... Okay, it still is great in terms of features, and maybe for open source/public projects. But their flakiness in the past week and their management's communication issues
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by thorax 18y ago
This confuses me-- what does Apple spend on advertising? It's surely enormous.
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by thorax 18y ago
I've used Centos a lot with no major difficulties. I've also had great luck with SuSE, where I'm a big fan of AppArmor to help prevent zombification (assuming you're running any standard/open source web apps).
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YC Winter 2009 application is due today (Friday).
37 points by thorax 18y ago|24 comments
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by thorax 18y ago
That sounds like an argument to change how to make freemium more successful-- it doesn't sound like a counter-argument against the fact that they can be. Why don't more freemium services allow one-shot addon purchases instead of subscriptio
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by thorax 18y ago
I don't think it's apples to oranges, personally. Unless you mean "examples where it does work" versus "examples where it doesn't work" as a business model. I'm no expert here, but these guys seem to believe addon and premium content will b
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by thorax 18y ago
It's making billions of dollars in the gaming industry (particularly with the play for free, pay for added content MMOs). I don't think it's the fact that the concept of "freemium" is flawed for consumers, but you need to have very compelli
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by thorax 18y ago
Thanks for all the feedback. The Solved Bugs page does give an example of errors being solved, but it's actually primarily there to ensure that bugs people solve also get indexed by Google and other search engines. The importance of that is
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by thorax 18y ago
We only had friend and HN veteran upvotes as far as I know. :(
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by thorax 18y ago
Hey guys, we'd love feedback on our relaunch. Any thoughts you have are encouraged-- we've worked very hard on this. (If for some reason this submission isn't appropriate for hn.yc, please let me know what we can do to change that-- our pos
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Bug.gd relaunches, adds corporate solution sharing via ErrorHelp.com(blog.bug.gd)
5 points by thorax 18y ago|5 comments
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by thorax 18y ago
Yeah, we just saw that, too. We restrict seeing solved bugs for your company, so we intended to take that off the front page for users not logged-in. To see what it looks like for public solutions: http://bug.gd/solved
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by thorax 18y ago
That's a bit odd. That should only happen if our spam filter picked-out a really obvious spam comment of some sort over the past year. If you email us, we'll figure out how your IP address got flagged and fix that right away.
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by thorax 18y ago
We're very pleased with it. We actually managed to catch some spare time working with one of the designers of ClickPass's site (which I'm a huge fan of). Feel free to pass this site onto your old colleages at the school division. We may ver
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by thorax 18y ago
EDIT: Not sure why HN.YC killed this post. :( Would love to know so we don't do it again. We'd love your feedback on this. We've done a complete top-to-bottom overhaul of our error search engine, http://bug.gd . (You might remember you guy
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New Admin console for Google AppEngine(googleappengine.blogspot.com)
1 points by thorax 18y ago|0 comments
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by thorax 18y ago
I'm still not sure why it wouldn't be something that can double (or look like) an email address. It has drawbacks, but it wins on usability because everyone is doing it today. Even if Yahoo said your openid is: thorax@openid.yahoo.com peopl
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Reminder: Friday is the deadline for YC applications (Winter 2009)
2 points by thorax 18y ago|0 comments
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by thorax 18y ago
Makes me a bit sad to see this poll because I don't actually think about it-- when you enjoy being productive it doesn't really sink in that you're "working" quite so much. Doing some back of the napkin calculations, I work ~80 hours a week
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by thorax 18y ago
I very much appreciate what you wrote and am very glad it's available. There are lots of great take-aways for my company and, surely, for a lot of people. I'm in the middle of a major release or I'd respond more-- yet, I'm perplexed to come
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by thorax 18y ago
I was hoping to read that "kills the SMS market" meant finally one of the carriers destroyed the market in the sense that it was now free and all other carriers would have to follow suit. :(
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by thorax 18y ago
I'd say follow it if you hired quick/not-solid engineers in a quick bid for growth. But you should fight very hard to keep talented/experienced engineers around and happy. They very much could become your strategic advantage while everyon
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by thorax 18y ago
Good point! Let's hope they read the "posted X hours ago" part. :)
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by thorax 18y ago
I don't know what that means, but it might be interesting to note that you're one of the first people to mention this phrase on the internet: http://ri.ms/notime (Edit: HN didn't like quotes in the URL, so used URL shrinker)
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Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application.
21 points by thorax 18y ago|19 comments
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by thorax 18y ago
I'd be curious to see how this compares to Woopra and GetClicky -- both of these I'm a big fan of.
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by thorax 18y ago
I actually really like building client software. And web software. And services. And agents/bots. And scripting engines. Yes, those people exist, it's just not trendy to write lower-level OS-specific software these days. Maybe it never will
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Reminder: Ten (10) days left to submit your YC application.
2 points by thorax 18y ago|0 comments
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by thorax 18y ago
> The whole point of traveling is that you see something new. This is all probably great advice when you're talking about being a tourist. As someone who does business traveling a lot, though, it's really hard to argue some of these p
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by thorax 18y ago
It's also important to note that once people are using your product, it's a different sort of motivation you'll see. People count on you, they'll have feedback, nitpicks, whatever. You will see what needs to be changed and what can work a

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