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famfam | 15 years ago | on: Reddit needs help

Nice game. I logged in to play it a bit. I'd love to hear how the game is doing for you (e.g. paying for itself, ramen profitable, ferrari profitable). I'm actually in the middle of developing a browser based "MMO" myself right now. (Nothing deployed yet.)

famfam | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where is the discourse re: overseas manufacturing?

Don't understand why you can't imagine someone wanting these jobs. Are you suggesting that this is most menial form of labor on the planet? There are far worse jobs to have. There are far worse jobs that are performed in abundance everyday (e.g. fast food).

Anyway, regardless of where the work is in the pecking order, it's still work, it's still opportunity, it's still income. People who take pride in their work will take pride in their work in any context.

I know people personally right now who would be happy to have the job. When you can't find other work and your savings have been depleted by healthcare bills, I don't know what would stop you.

famfam | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where is the discourse re: overseas manufacturing?

Are you suggesting that everyone in the US has their pick of jobs right now? Do you really think with how desperate times are people wouldn't be willing to work in a nice air conditioned factory for $8/hr? And how about the supervisor positions, the industrial engineer positions, the HR positions, etc etc that are paid above that wage. "No one will do the jobs" just seems like FUD. I've never seen any proof of it. I don't know where the basis for the argument comes from. It almost seems... classist?

famfam | 15 years ago | on: One-Line Website

Thought: do data urls work in .css files? e.g. background: url(data:....); ? Because then you could have one cacheable file (everything.css) that sits along side your pages (use background images instead of plain old imgs), so you would only have to download them once, not on every page load.

famfam | 15 years ago | on: One-Line Website

I thought the favicon could be a data url? Isn't that how they implemented Defender Of The Favicon?

famfam | 15 years ago | on: Traction Trumps Everything

My takeaway: it's easier to get money than to get traction. A powerful and sobering thought. I've never been present at the attainment of traction. I've either worked for big companies who already established traction long ago, or startups that could never find it. In my projects, no traction. It's starting to feel like the Moby Dick to my Ahab. TRACTION WHERE ARE YOU?

famfam | 15 years ago | on: Programming is an easy way to procrastinate

I don't think #1's easy at all. I think identifying real problems is actually incredibly hard. Sure it's easy to dream problems up ("you know, I think my pet needs a microblogging service...) But to identify real problems requires a reasonable amount of domain specific knowledge. For developers, their primary domain tends to be ... software development. And at least for me, there's something strangely unpleasant about work that's so meta/recursive. Not to mention, you might be up against open source, if you're trying to build a saleable product.

I mean if you've done your homework on #1, #2 should flow from it, minus bureaucracy/long sales cycles/etc. And so should #3. If you've really solved a real problem, people should see your value.

famfam | 15 years ago | on: Programming is an easy way to procrastinate

This is so spot on. A lot of people seem to have the mental model of: "hey! i love programming!" dot dot dot (several miles of dots) "hey! i want to be rich!" - "i can program my way to being rich!" No, you can't. You need to design, program, market, and sell, minimally, your way to being rich. Actually, you need to OUTdesign, OUTprogram, OUTmarket, and OUTsell your way to being rich.

I get the feeling a lot of people here have built thing after thing they throw on the scrap heap because after they're done building it, it's like "ah crap, I have to like, MARKET this thing now?"

Maybe I'm just projecting...

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