whichdan

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   by whichdan 14y ago

   That's a good point. Amazon's "Price for Both" is literally the price for both. Personally I always assume the "Price for Both" will be at a discount, even though it rarely is.
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   I wonder what the ROI would be if they hired graphic designers to make some really snazzy thumbnails for each item? By extension, I'd be really interested in how effectively they could push extra items, similarly to how Amazon does it. * "A
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   Link: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html Posted April 2001, and revised April 2003.
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   Is this an issue of how much bandwidth is costing NetFlix or something? I pay Comcast for a 105Mbps connection, I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to stream 5Mbps or even 5MBps. As an aside, my PS3 Slim's wireless card is really subpar
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   Lots of turntable.fm's "Ambient Chillout & Trip Hop" channel.
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   I'm guilty of this, and still debating redesigning my landing page without having enough traffic to even properly A/B test the current one.
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   I feel the same way re:subsidizing, and honestly if a website's ads are so bad that I would consider using an ad blocker, I would rather just avoid the site altogether.
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   http://easyendorse.com - easy way to collect/display testimonials on your website. just launched a few weeks ago and haven't had any coverage.
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   5,000,000th post - cool!
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    I had a laptop stand I was using for a couple weeks.. I found that it helped my productivity when multitasking, but when it came time to churn out code, it was harder to focus. Even then, I was only standing for a few hours at a time.
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    HN itself is the biggest bottleneck, IMO. A few days after the thread has been posted, it gets paginated, usually into 3 or 4 pages. Assuming you Cmd+F/Ctrl-F for a couple keywords (remote, state, city), you end up having to do 10+ searches
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    Hi all. I just launched EasyEndorse about a week ago, as a bootstrapped solo founder. I'm happy to field any questions/suggestions, and you're more than welcome to email me directly. I'm initially targetting small B2C companies (restaurants
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    Show HN: EasyEndorse, a simple way to collect testimonials(easyendorse.com)

    3 points by whichdan 14y ago|1 comments
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    I'm not sure exactly what happened, but there were hardly any posts on there last I remember. That, and most jobs are posted in the monthly whoishiring[1] thread now. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    Atleast consider replacing the up/down arrows with unicode ones?
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    Unless Heroku has changed, you absolutely should not host a production site using a free account. If your site doesn't get any traffic for a certain period of time, they spin down your instance. This means that the next subsequent view will
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    I'm always open to Finder replacements. I use TotalFinder to add tabs, but there's definitely room for improvement.
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    Check out FastMail.
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    Do you really see all that many paid PHP components? I've run across very few. Most of PHP's quality code tends to be wrapped up in frameworks, and anyone new to programming or PHP in general has the unfortunate task of dealing with somethi
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    I've been happy with Rackspace Cloud - their support is fantastic even for non-managed accounts. http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/servers/pricing/ They start at ~$16/mo, and only charge for outgoing bandwidth, but 200gb/mo can get a
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    I sent in a support request last March and received the same response. It's really a bummer, since I feel less "secure" using them without knowing that I can reach someone if something unfortunate happens.
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    Is Dropbox really that cheap? I'm paying $10/mo for a 100gb quota. The next plan up is $20/mo for 200gb, which I don't currently need. They're free to raise their prices, and until they do, there's absolutely no reason to consider them "che
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    Just filled out the survey. Small gripe: under "benefits" it was unclear if I should consider whether each feature is currently valuable, or would be valuable if I had it. Edit: I'd also like to second DanBC's comment about super easy e
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    Seconded. Their latest interface update puts them on par with GMail, and they have quite a few unique features on top of that.
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    Deploying any change to 400m+ users is extremely non-trivial.
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    I've been using Moniker for years and their bulk domain management is solid.
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    Did they compensate you?
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    I don't know much about cars, but I still: - check my oil - replace my windshield washer fluid - check my coolant - jumpstart my engine - (rarely) jumpstart someone else's engine I know most people on HN have already sold a company for seve
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    Just joined. I'd be down for a meetup as long as it isn't 30* out. Can we do something downtown? Cambridge is great, but it's an hour each way for me.
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    by whichdan 14y ago

    Do services like GrubHub or Foodler cover your area?