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stackthat

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About stackthat

Sole founder of a medium sized startup (angel funded) that develops an awesome application.

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    Comment #1885767

    You won't like the answer but don't convince, VB.NET is much easier to learn your younger crowd, .NET has more job opportunities and switching to F#, C# from VB.NET is much easier.…

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    Comment #1879204

    I agree, although to be completely free either you'll be next big thing (or fairly big) like delicious in this case or you'll have a premium version.

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    Comment #1879178

    Upgrade to support can be a revenue stream for a small startup but in the long run obviously you can't rely on that. Hardest bit about fremium model is where to draw the line.

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    Comment #1851519

    I wonder who's going to drop a auto-run USB worm into them...

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    Comment #1838012

    Almost all the time, also I feel even more guilty for not helping them out enough.

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    Comment #1779066

    Never heard anyone sells offline cheat for money? Care for an example if such a thing ever happened?

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    Comment #1779062

    What you write is totally different from what article says. That article states that Blizzard also bans people who plays offline/single player games, I'm sure everyone is fine with…

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    Comment #1774609

    One big question is if you need confirmation button then should you put a "Cancel" or "No"? or both?

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    Comment #1772187

    That's the obvious plan isn't it? Sure iPhone won't be in the list but that's because of Apple not Adobe.

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    Comment #1771247

    This is a big deal, if Google improve Android Store as well then new Android - AIR apps can be a new era for Android.

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    Comment #1769731

    I mean select

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    Comment #1769081

    Better solution would be getting rid of "break" and breaking by default like VB but no one would like that...

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    Comment #1769079

    switch in C syntax is terrible implemented, VB done this one so much better. That's one of the reasons why switch is not that popular in C languages (people tend to do crazy if-the…

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    Comment #1766367

    Is there any point in this post beside of the fact Steve Ballmer mentioned about this guy vaguely in his talk?

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    Comment #1766358

    They didn't integrate into the Outlook though, they did integrate into Windows Desktop Search

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    Comment #1766357

    Does it? Since when? Do you think 37Signals potential customers feel good about feel-scammy-website? Maybe casual average-joe might like it (Only God knows why) but I don't think t…

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    Comment #1756452

    New website looks like Scammy Ebook 2.0, you know those yellowish scam/drity/spam marketing ebook sale websites, somehow that's what it reminded me.

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    Comment #1755196

    It's no big deal but use a professional voice-over (costs about $500) in your video, it'll look much more professional.

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    Comment #1753219

    I think spotting, for example lookout outlook plugin acquired by MS, which seems clearly to me MS needed such solution and lookout already solved it nicely. So why re-invent the wh…

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    Comment #1753119

    Focusing one specific problem and solving it in the best way possible (this doesn't mean hardcore-awesome-superb-crazy coding) is still a pretty killer thing to have. That's why it…

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    Comment #1750666

    Someone was actually trying to do this in UK (saw them on Dragon's Den). Good idea but needs marketing power.

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    Comment #1747588

    So you think a startup's 35% of success is based on their name?

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    Comment #1747270

    Mint is a great name agreed but what's the actual impact? 5%? 10%? 50%? Possibly not even 5%