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Re:Kalzumeus Software Year In Review 2013 on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @09:19PM (#7021268)
If you hire directly you can find competent employees in the Philippines with good english for around $2/hour USD.
Re:Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? on Sunday June 02, 2013 @03:43AM (#5807691)
Instead of charging students, you want to be charging the schools for licenses that cover all of their students.

Or, better yet, charge lawyers, REO brokers, etc where there is a large pool of customers that will not be phased to pay you a reasonable amount monthly and give it away to schools for free.

Re:New Theory on Why Stonehenge Was Built on Thursday April 25, 2013 @01:41AM (#5605873)
It doesn't seem like this is a new theory explaining why it was built as much as a theory explaining why there were people in the area to begin with.
Re:The other side of working for yourself on Thursday April 04, 2013 @12:18AM (#5490957)
This is one of the few posts I've come across that doesn't just focus on the self-congratulatory aspect of self-employment.

I've been self-employed for the past 8 months and I have struggled to find a balance between work, play, personal relationships, and health. It's nice to know that I'm not just terrible at this and other people have similar problems.

Re:The Jellyfish Entrepreneur on Thursday April 04, 2013 @12:04AM (#5490919)
Cool product!

1 quick suggestion: on your sales page food is listed in ounces. I think it would be more helpful and may increase conversions with impulse buyers to list that as "X months of food".

Re:AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others on Monday October 22, 2012 @02:39PM (#4684680)
We are running our sites across three AZs, all in US-EAST. Our three web servers (one in each AZ) are not even able to load static test pages from their EBS volumes at this time. We also have a Percona MySQL cluster across three AZs and we are seeing very degraded perfomance in the EBS volumes on all three servers as well. It seems like this is impacting more than a single AZ from what I'm seeing.
Re:Google Launches Credit Cards for Small Businesses on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @01:22AM (#4630096)
I've heard of Google offering trade credit for large advertisers, this seems to be a more mainstream way to accomplish the same thing while allowing them to charge 12% APR.

Seems like a fairly intelligent idea, but I can only see people with poor credit using this card long-term. Anyone with good enough credit to qualify for any good points card would be stupid to not use that instead.

I would advise a mix of both strategies. Auto-generated content can allow you to test a large number of keywords/niches, and you can go to town creating better versions by hand once something has proven itself to actually be worth the effort.
She mentions exercise later on in the article, and implies that she exercises regularly.
Re:Evernote CEO to entrepreneurs: "don't do it" on Friday April 27, 2012 @05:59PM (#3901200)
"You can't win if you don't play" isn't any less true with the lottery, you're just looking at much worse odds than other, more preferable, situations.
Re:Don’t Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup on Thursday April 05, 2012 @02:29PM (#3803885)
Don't be so sure. Google has been known to ban Adwords accounts for ads that were deleted years ago because the content of a domain that has obviously been allowed to lapse and been re-registered by someone else has changed.
Re:#1 CSRF Is A Vulnerability In All Browsers on Friday March 30, 2012 @06:23PM (#3778409)
Is this what's happening with "hacked" twitter accounts that don't ever seem to have had anyone access them or change the password and seem to suddenly start spewing bizopp spam for a day or two?
Re:New iPad is official: 2048x1536 retina display on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @02:54PM (#3676846)
Interesting thought. I just heard a rumor that Apple was buying up 7" displays, so this makes a lot of sense.
Re:Modafinil and Startups on Monday February 27, 2012 @09:02PM (#3641496)
I'm not the person who you directed your question to, but Piracetam and Choline help with increased cognition, focus, memory recall, and mental stamina. I haven't taken Phenibut, but it appears to reduce stress/anxiety.
Re:25 bucks from Google for your search data on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @04:22PM (#3568541)
I'm willing to bet that would work out to FAR less than $25.