witten

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   by witten 18y ago

   Oh okay.. Understood.
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   by witten 18y ago

   I do find it a little funny that among the few comments that have been posted so far, some people are suggesting I make the fact that the product costs money more obvious, while others are suggesting I instead entice people with the "sign u
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   by witten 18y ago

   Okay, sounds like my unique selling proposition isn't obvious enough. I'll work on that.
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   by witten 18y ago

   I was sort of going by standard practice among other startups.. They all seem to be very up-front about their pricing and rate plans. Do you think that this is in general a bad idea, or do you think with my product in particular, it would b
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   by witten 18y ago

   I've been working on this product (with some unrelated consulting on the side) for nearly a year. Just to head off some obvious comments, here are a few things to keep in mind: Web browser support for the web-based product itself is fairly
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   Yet Another Review/Rate My Startup Request(luminotes.com)

   12 points by witten 18y ago|41 comments
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   by witten 18y ago

   I wrote a blog post on the very topic of so-called "rock star" job postings: http://coderific.com/blog/post/564
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   by witten 18y ago

   Reminds me of game companies that distributed their shareware games with similar tactics via BBSs. You can even see vestigial evidence of this today. Check out the Apogee / 3D Realms download page ( http://www.3drealms.com/downloads.html ),
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   by witten 18y ago

   The article also fails to point out that one of the reasons non-organic farming is cheaper is because it externalizes costs with pollution, land degradation, etc. You'd think that The Economist, of all magazines, would understand external c
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    by witten 18y ago

    I'm not arguing anything about P2P efficiency. Whether or not it's comparatively efficient, counter to a particular network design, or even "fair" to the ISP, it is the case that its use is growing. In a competitive market, those ISPs who u
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    by witten 18y ago

    I agree that today's current "power" users use way more bandwidth with their P2P traffic, as compared to people just viewing streaming videos. However, P2P is only becoming more and more mainstream. (One could argue that it already is mains
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    by witten 18y ago

    The dichotomy between average users and power users isn't as clear-cut as you think. I see power users (those who are actually using P2P now) as nothing more than early adopters of internet video and other online media. "Average" users have
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    by witten 18y ago

    Out of curiosity, what's the number of hours at which this discount kicks in?
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    by witten 18y ago

    101. Luminotes: A personal wiki notebook for organizing your notes and ideas. http://luminotes.com/ (Probably best filed under the "Getting Organized" heading.)
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    by witten 18y ago

    Try Luminotes? It's not exactly an "enterprise wiki", but it certainly tries to avoid features that get in the way. http://luminotes.com/
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    by witten 18y ago

    I'd say that if you're finding you always have work, or rather, if you have enough work, then you don't need to worry about turning away clients due to being too busy. As a consultant, it's a good thing to have to turn away work. You shou
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    by witten 18y ago

    I'm a one-man shop, with both an online product and an unrelated consultancy. If potential customers are banging down your door, and you're worried about not having the time to develop all of their software, then you need to raise your rate
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    by witten 18y ago

    And then as if the gods of scaling were taunting me, right as I posted this, my front-end web server ran out of memory and started thrashing. I had to hard-reboot it to recover.
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    by witten 18y ago

    That's what I've been doing so far. I'm trying not to fall into the trap of premature-scalingitis. But the original article points out that the need for scaling up does not always come at a time of one's choosing. And that's kind of scary.
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    Clinton ending candidacy, supporting Obama(washingtonpost.com)

    1 points by witten 18y ago|0 comments
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    by witten 18y ago

    This really scares me, because I have a site with the exact same beginning architecture on the exact same hosting provider.. I guess I had best get to work.
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    by witten 18y ago

    What do you think about the idea of running a head-to-head comparison with your competitors' products? Useful to prospective users? Not useful because of the obvious bias?
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    Luminotes versus Google Notebook(luminotes.com)

    2 points by witten 18y ago|1 comments
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    by witten 18y ago

    I don't think you'd absolutely need ubiquitous internet access if the underlying "cloud" was based on a network filesystem that supported disconnected operation. So some files would be synced/cached locally. And then when you went off-netwo
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    by witten 18y ago

    I'll cordially invite you to an Evernote competitor, Luminotes: http://luminotes.com/ Developed by a HN member, too. :)
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    by witten 18y ago

    At least in Firefox 2, corners made with border-radius are not anti-aliased and look pretty horrible. (Firefox 3 may fix this.)
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    by witten 18y ago

    The thing about support is that you don't need it -- until you need it.
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    by witten 18y ago

    Which leads to the question.. What type of laptop will all the hackers buy if Lenovo doesn't pull things together soon?
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    by witten 18y ago

    Here's the bash script I use with Mercurial to deploy: hg qpop -a ; hg pull ; hg update $1 ; hg qpush -a The $1 is a branch or tag argument given to the Bash script. That way you can easily specify a particular version to update to (or r
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    by witten 18y ago

    > I imagine a better, probably open source de-centralized protocol will come, and indeed good folks are working on it. Links?