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by utnick 18y ago
Agreed, I think 200$/hr is probably an exaggeration. Although as a developer I would love to hear otherwise. I found this post from a couple years ago about admob: http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/07/admob-ups-ante-in-mobile-a... The commen
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by utnick 18y ago
I don't understand where these ads he is displaying are showing up? Can someone with an iphone explain please
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by utnick 18y ago
Most of the contestants on that show have pretty prestigious backgrounds. They either went to great business schools or started businesses of their own, or both.
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by utnick 18y ago
really? a 50% ROI seems pretty good compared to traditional businesses
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by utnick 18y ago
Does that "92% paid" mean that 92% of the people that pledged ended up actually paying? If so, thats a pretty spectacular conversion rate.
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by utnick 18y ago
this article shows that you dont need a lot of time to build cool stuff
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by utnick 18y ago
I would guess that a signifigant number of people that read techcrunch have never heard of michael arrington, they just casually read it for the tech news.
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by utnick 18y ago
hmmm... up arrow gets the last command for me on ubuntu with putty and python 2.5.1 what other frustrating things are you finding?
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Morten Lund on Entrepreneurship(30sleeps.com)
3 points by utnick 18y ago|0 comments
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by utnick 18y ago
not sure how well known this is but I use 'tee' alot
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by utnick 18y ago
WOW, you are selling yourself WAY short. You are more than qualified for an entry level developer job FOR PAY. Its a programmers market out there, if you can communicate half decently and have a java cert from sun, you will be able to find
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by utnick 18y ago
the techcrunch comments are strangely positive, either you must be doing something good or techcrunch started moderating comments better :)
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by utnick 18y ago
how much do accounts cost? Couldn't find the pricing page on their website...
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by utnick 18y ago
the odds are in your favor out of the millions of species on earth, only one is technologically sophisticated. And the others aren't even close to being there. A crazy long series of luck or intelligent design got us to where we are.
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by utnick 18y ago
Are there really that many abandoned suburbs out there? In Texas, suburbs are still going strong.
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How to teach computer programming to blind people(brianbrowning.wordpress.com)
1 points by utnick 18y ago|0 comments
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by utnick 18y ago
its more like top 80 hosts that the blog author makes money on when you sign up for them
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by utnick 18y ago
Is there any evidence ( even anecdotally ) that drug use and spying are related? The government security clearance process seems to be very focused on recreational drug use history.
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by utnick 18y ago
Someone at our last ruby meetup demo'd a project he was working on called watirloo http://github.com/marekj/watirloo/tree/master It looks really cool Also just plain watir is a good tool for setting up some unit tests
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by utnick 18y ago
and use pygame to teach him how to make games and get him excited about programming
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by utnick 18y ago
its probably really hard for any of us to give good advice because there are so many personal factors and each of us has only attended one or maybe 2 colleges so we are all biased. you should just make a list of pros/cons and trust your ins
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by utnick 18y ago
guitar effects pedal
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by utnick 18y ago
on demand telephone opinion polling. have a mechanical turk type group calling people over voip... customers submit polls online, charge a few hundred $, promise really quick turnaround, have 'turks' make the calls for less than you charge.
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by utnick 18y ago
http://hackety.org/ , creator of a ruby gui toolkit and a bunch of comic book tutorials about ruby.
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by utnick 18y ago
there are a ton of people working at burger king or other restaurants, street vendors, bus ticket attendants, broadway ushers, and busboys that make less than that in nyc Its certainly not impossible. 15$ an hour is pretty good.
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Rethinking authentication for twitter (scripting.com)
9 points by utnick 18y ago|10 comments
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by utnick 18y ago
490 might be an ok sample, I don't know I've never taken a statistics class I mainly thought that 3 iq points is not a big difference in intelligence, pretty much a wash.
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by utnick 18y ago
sample size: 490 people iq difference between living and dead: 3 iq points statistically significant?
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Writing Domain Specific Languages(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
18 points by utnick 18y ago|0 comments
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by utnick 18y ago
A lot of people ( like me ) registered as a developer to try out the api but never officially released an app.

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