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Just a guess, but between his indep contractors and volunteer moderators (as well as all those members), I'm betting he doesn't feel too alone. I have a tendency to say "we" when t…

This is true, and is basically what I pay my nanny. I clearly could not afford to do this if I worked in a less lucrative industry. In that case, I would most likely stay home.

I did for awhile, first for my local employer where my team was in the office and I worked from home, and then from a distributed company. These were both full time, and then I did…

Low pressure and also you have to sacrifice a goat just to actually GET anything to do. Went stir crazy.

This is sort of what happened when they asked for the new features, we responded with estimates for that work and explained why it wasn't included ... they got pretty upset. Implie…

This is good advice, and I think that's what went wrong in this case. We were told to estimate based on what we had, even though we needed to go deeper. The rationale was that we c…

Well, the problem is that they insist on neither: that both the price stay the same and that the extra stuff is required. Rock - Me - Hard place. BUT I do feel bad in these cases b…

Okay, I swear I am not new to this but it gets me every time. 1. Client gives requirements for software, we quote a price (hourly, not fixed price) to complete it. 2. Client comes …

Based on the description of the design here I was expecting it to be a lot worse. The design is okay, but yes, A/B tests will let you know for sure. But the building-the-site-first…

Yep, this plus look at the ones for sites that are similar to yours. Of course, you cannot copy those but they can give you ideas of areas specific to your app that wouldn't be cov…

I have to agree here. Personally it is too buzz-wordy for me and I wouldn't really be interested. Can you find like one or two solution statements in regular, even overly-simple, w…

I think this is a good idea because it is both simple and useful. There are lots of possibilities and I like that you already have the option for private or public flashcards. Here…

Assuming you are talking about the Tim Ferris 4 hour workweek ( http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/ ) then yes, but that's not really the problem. The problem is the unreliability of …

Love it. I'm a mom and I already know I'd use this. Currently we use a combination of Facebook and email to get stories and pics out to people. So it would be nice if we could cont…

You know I like HN and reddit and other things but ever since reddit has been down all I can do is keep hitting refresh going, oh noooooes, please come back.... It's the whole deni…

A few more suggestions I thought of: literotica.com is similar to fanfiction.net except focused on erotica and some crossover into romance or other. Some of the authors there have …

Just an idea, but you could whitebox the software and sell it to congresspeople to use on their websites. You are right that without the traction they may not want to affiliate the…

I pretty much suck in a group setting. I mean I can follow okay, of course, but I rarely interject anything. This used to bother me but now I have mostly accepted this is the way I…

Love this idea. Would definitely love to fund some of my fav authors, esp ones that post on free sites in spare time. I am wondering how this would work though. As a reader I'd tot…

What can I say, I'm a lists girl. There was actually a social lists site some time back, but I can't remember it now. I think it allowed you to make and share lists of anything, no…

This looks good. Fulfills requirements, but a bit cluttered. Will try using for awhile and then upgrade to ads free. Thanks!

I want to be able to post lists of links that share a common theme. Like "how to become a better writer" or "essentials to starting a business" or stuff like that. It would be like…

I'm looking for a service that will notify me via email when an author I like has a new book out. Ideally this would be hooked into Amazon since I get all my books through there bu…