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Ask HN: Does explaining your program's complete design reduce sales?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3674312I'm working on my very first Android application; and, I've been considering talking through the different parts of my design; and how and where my code is growing organically to support the different ideas that I have.Since I'd basically be explaining every feature and design decision I make from here on out, this leads me to a question. Would I lose sales from my application? I'm very interested in selling it.It's an active wallpaper that plays the Game of Life. I know the market already has one, but I was going to be adding more features to it that would make it more interesting and perhaps a good wallpaper.Mar 7, 2012 4:49 AM
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Ask HN: What's the point with so many stupid people in the world?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2997502Have you ever tried to sit and write code in a bar? It's nice. It's a hell of a lot more conducive to creativity than working in an office cubicle. You got your drink, you got your smoke. You sit at a table with wifi and a plug and you're invincible until about six drinks in. You look out over the patio at the mountains and you think...this is what life's all about.Then at about 6pm the soccer game starts. Suddenly, the owner of the bar comes out and unplugs your laptop, turns on the TV, and cranks the volume up to 7000000. Even though there's no one there. You say, "Man, that's too loud." And he says, "when they show up, that's what they're gonna want."Sure enough, about 3 minutes before the game starts, the patio goes from empty to packed. People are trying to move your table, your laptop bag. Then suddenly they're all staring, slackjawed, at this stupid TV that's blasting the same shitty commercials it was showing yesterday, last week, last month.HN readers, I'm sitting in that bar Sep 14, 2011 7:22 PM
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Real Value vs. Perceived Valuehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89032e2cd74bd0ac11e9897f3c0ab3&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2Freal-value-vs-perceived-value-20857.html&c=12858280516847855523&mkt=en-usAll businesses have the goal of making a profit, which requires selling goods or services for more money than it costs to develop, produce and distribute them. The selling price that a business asks ...Aug 29, 2011 11:41 PM
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The Importance of Soft Skills in the Workplacehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a898043dda14ff8a5e4c1cd22ba4305&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2Fimportance-soft-skills-workplace-10111.html&c=17172126469652181780&mkt=en-usWhen it comes to skills in employment, the first line of emphasis is typically towards abilities, training and knowledge of specific skill sets. These are referred to as hard skills. Soft skills are ...Jun 7, 2011 12:00 AM
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I've got a Facebook fan page, How do I get more people to join it?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2427998Hi all,I've created a fan page for a small family business my family and I run (we have a small music studio). As the relatively 'technical' person in the family (I know just enough html to color the background of page) I got the job of running our facebook fan page.I started reading all those "10 tips for the best…" tutorials out there on the web, but from some reason I am pretty skeptic. I keep feeling people are trying to sell me their services.What I'd like to hear is some good advice from people who perhaps succeeded themselves in building a good facebook fan page. Also, I would like to unfold the mystery behind the real figures. I understand that everyone these days must have a faceook fan page, but how much money \ how many customers can I really expect to gain from this?Thank you,Apr 9, 2011 8:20 PM
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Ask HN: Is that important for a developer to have an impressive personal page?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407157I am a Python developer with good design background. I am willing to expand my freelance activity in Python web development area now. I have seen tons of visually appealing impressive personal pages of web designers. Those that are more web graphic designers working with HTML/CSS/JS than hardcore programmers. I bet you saw much of them too on the web. They have professional look and feel giving you an image of the person. I tried to find something similar for the programmers to inspire myself for creating my personal page. I searched for 'web developer portfolio', 'web developer personal page' and some other keywords on Google. I didn't find anything as impressive as web designers' pages. All I could see were some boring CVs or something like CVs, sometimes with a small photo of a person and more or less average look. Obviously everyone is the best at what he is the best and programmers sell their technical/analytical skills. They can show perfectly structured code to impress a potentiApr 4, 2011 4:15 PM
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Tesla Sparks w/RSS Readerhttps://market.android.com/details?id=com.simplyusefulapps.android.wallpaper.teslaHey hackers and geeks,Simply useful apps just released a live wallpaper for Android which has full interactive fun effects that resembles great Nikola Tesla's famous experiment with electricity, and electromagnetism! Touch anywhere on the desktop to get electrocuted :)Their url: http://simplyusefulapps.comAwesome!Feb 10, 2011 7:33 PM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dc6c58f54919a4c4434ccbb65d20&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dd8d3d714dc1aa0eef2f1e04f7e4&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e093f2194f3fbebc2002da0500da&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85de84dccd4cd6904986038ea2e4d4&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d7d0d8284d21a882a7629d294cc3&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e1d0684a4f28b5da92ad166a91cb&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d959fe2142f28b62d2dbc69338ee&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e2c30302453c918710cb0d8cd0ed&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d75ec97049bcbf637063a0a9aae5&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e4d8b0684f1ca9a8c86028835c51&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85db6ee0944e1eada92217546bc61a&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e4dceb6040c2842b2729668e6381&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d83997c74e8c91f1abbb9a09eb06&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
