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Re:Ask HN: How do you bill your clients? (for your app) on Sunday October 26, 2008 @03:22PM (#344499)
billingcircle.com ? ariasystems.com ?
Re:Ask News.YC: How hard was it to learn to be a self-starter? on Saturday October 18, 2008 @10:11AM (#336447)
Ive always had a f-u attitude. I never listened to the teachers at school. It started in middle school, I realized my grandfather owned his own business and was his own boss. In high school I slept in class except when an assignment was due, i skipped class and came to school wasted.

At that point, I started reading books (I was about 15), my first was rich dad poor dad (which had no real substance besides widening my prospective). Then I started reading real estate books, then 'business' books, automotive books, medical books, biographies, books on philosophy & finally programming books (where ie settled for now). Along with that I started making friends with the 'smart' & 'creative' kids at school, which led to meeting 'rich' & 'successful' people and being able to observe, what I thought, were their strong and weak points.

I feel that 'self-starting' comes from awareness that you can do whatever you want and become successful. How you reach this awareness, I'm not sure (my path was basically family, books, new people).

disclosure: i am on my mobile, so my grammar and spelling may be more off than usual.

Re:Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck on Saturday October 18, 2008 @09:50AM (#336438)
On average the wealthy attend better schools, receive tons preparatory courses, are providing with learning assistance, receive better health care and endure more plastic surgery than the not-wealthy. Do you disagree with that?
Re:Ask HN: Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? on Thursday October 16, 2008 @01:58PM (#334724)
I actually look forward to them cause I tag them so if I forget my login info I can just refer back to it.
Re:New official Apple program for teaching iPhone dev at uni on Friday September 19, 2008 @10:07PM (#309670)
love the euro slang 'uni'!
Re:Logged in or out, Facebook is watching you on Thursday July 17, 2008 @11:46PM (#249435)
that was my first experience as well. i didnt mind it.
Re:Ask HN: Recommendation for a good UI/UX expert? on Thursday June 19, 2008 @01:50PM (#221969)
Hey man I need to find a good one too. Too bad Tony Wright isnt for hire!

Ask YC: Server Administration?

I've never had to set-up my own server before, thanks to hosting providers (like media temple / dreamhost / etc).I recently realized I am deficient in that area and would like learn the basics, enough so I could (hypothetically) buy a slice from slicehost and set it up.Does anyone have any good primers/online tutorials?

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already have some
Re:Facebook Responds To MySpace With Facebook Connect on Friday May 09, 2008 @10:22PM (#186137)
I think this is an awesome move for them. I wanted this from Open Social, and asked Kevin Marks for it. I didn’t get it.

Facebook is giving it to me soon, and I love it. I think it will really allow for mashups to begin integrating data on a completely new level.

I think all they really need is something like facebook answers, I believe that can be more focused than a search on google/yahoo/msn.

Cause then, they [facebook] are armed with Demographic info, and 50% of the time, a deeper level of focus.

Personally, I love the UI, awesome design, awesome execution. Bookmarklet is sweet as well.

But, I don't know why I need to use this? Why will this help me? What would I store in there?

Currently, my bookmarks menu bar is pretty sufficient.. Is the idea to bookmark stuff I don't know a lot about so I can learn about it via wikipedia?

Re:Those Xobni guys are ballsy on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @10:56PM (#184146)
Yes, and I was saying that xobni should build out a platform for developers to create VALUE ADDING applications to gmail, yahoo & hotmail, like To-do lists, contact lists, crm's, etc...

Kind of like how facebook is a platform...

Re:Those Xobni guys are ballsy on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @07:14PM (#183979)
> Which is exactly what IBM Lotus Notes/Domino has been since 1989.

No, like gmail, yahoo & hotmail.

Re:A faster instant domain search on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @07:11PM (#183977)
kind of like... squurl.com as well
Re:Those Xobni guys are ballsy on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @04:57PM (#183850)
If I was the xobni guys...

I would make email a platform; as in, make it easy to develop apps for e-mail.

Like To-do lists, contact lists, crm's, etc...

Re:Super Sweet API's? on Monday May 05, 2008 @03:36PM (#181750)
Anything, examples:

zillow's api twitter's api google's search api indeed's api

basically data outputting api's

Re:Ask YC: Why don't you write a blog? on Monday May 05, 2008 @08:51AM (#181387)
No time for promotion.

But I do post every once and a while.

Re:New York Times: Xobni launches public beta on Monday May 05, 2008 @08:50AM (#181386)
I wish!
Re:Being fun on Sunday May 04, 2008 @11:17PM (#181173)
++

awesome dance, no homo.

I liked simulscribe and spinvox sucks or at least their api does...for $200 they should have better documentation.
Re:Ask YC: Feedback on startup: wirenode.com on Friday April 18, 2008 @11:31AM (#167285)
I personally like homepage layout, I think your conversion rate could be really high for blog conversions, but, as browngeek said, there is no instant gratification.

I'm not to tempted to create my own cause I don't know what's entailed. I do know it takes 5 minutes now and that's not time I have right now.

Maybe you should make the "Start creating mobile pages" link bring you to a blank mobile page where you can become invested and then force the user to sign up once they have everything they want; like their layout, pictures, url..etc.

Good idea though, and you're off to an AWESOME start.

YC: What is competitive pay in SF?

I'm looking at a few jobs in SF on craigslist and no one seems to list compensation of any sort (salary, bonus, equity) for a Front-End Developer or PHP Developer.Any idea what average salary is for someone with 2+ years and plenty of demo's?

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Re:Ask YC: Feedback on my new project http://www.askurpals.com on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @06:05PM (#165703)
I was suggesting you create a facebook application so that way you can get users faster, cause then they only have to click instead of enter a form and sign up for yet another internet application.

AND you could integrate with clickpass. :)

Re:What sites would you pay to use? on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @05:24PM (#165663)
I'd pay for any site that helps me make money, directly or indirectly.

Gmail, Google, Adwords, and Hacker news fall in to that category.

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