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> Things need to be reasonably priced for reasonable people to pay for them. A high price does not entitle you to get a free copy. If you don't want to/can't pay for something then…

> I don't understand what gamers want from companies like Ubisoft? The average gamer being in his teens I would say gamers don't know what they want. But in the end it boils down t…

Fun Fact: You can get the API secret key out of twitter's official client. Which will allow you to use their xauth system (no browser oauth required - only enter username/password)…

> man ssh doesn't imply being "LEET".

If you don't know "tricks" like this ... what are you doing on HACKER news?

Great. I perceive webdev as pretty boring. I hope using an exotic language like clojure will make it a little more interesting for me.

Start writing a game. You will learn a lot more from the problems you have to solve for your game than from a dozen project euler websites.

Yep, I too don't understand the fascination with puzzles. I love solving real problems but I hate those idiotic puzzles.

> worked to get a high karma Wow, why would anyone consider a score on any internet site so important? I certainly wouldn't "work hard" to get internet points.

It should be pretty hard to automate spam comments (without the comments getting downvoted to hell). Whereas automated submission of stories is super trivial.

> I think showing veteran users in another color would really help a lot to set the tone. Why should we set apart veteran users? Only because they are longer here doesn't mean they…

> community leaders That's where I stopped reading. I don't need or want a leader who can lead my thoughts. Also: Meta discussions are never productive. They only waste time.

> market sabotage by people selling apps at 99 cents The real sabotage comes from Apple who are encouraging 99c ents applications. It fits well in their strategy to commoditize sof…

Hmm, getting me to buy a mobile app for $1 is really hard. I consider most of them time wasting toys. On the other hand I'm perfectly happy to pay $15/month for a useful web servic…

> Is There Hope for the Paid App? Yes, there is. But not on a market where $2 is a premium price. If you want to make a living from software products you should stay away from mobi…

> It's important to recognise that we're talking about a shovelware market This. Where $3 are considered a high price you realistically can only produce apps that are worth their l…

Those guys are the typical case of the "free" brainwashing. They see taking money as something filthy and immoral to do. It's how you start thinking if you grow up with everybody g…

> and sold to a corporate buyer for $120m. That's a great business plan and not lottery at all!

> Literally anything can break with an update on Arch. I can confirm that. After the 3rd time such a thing happened to me I switched to Ubuntu. Arch is a testing bed for people who…

> specifically Zuck’s idealism (perhaps even naïveté) that focusing on building great products will lead to solid long-term businesses Nothing against that. Also I find it a good t…

I bet this has been done before and is available as a C library ...

In these cases monetization simply means: sell the start up to a bigger idiot.

> Long Tail Market Oh, don't get it wrong. The long tail market is there. But what many people get wrong is that you don't make meaningful money as a producer in a long tail market…