sammcd's comments

I'm working on a registrar that just focuses on domains. I want to be the Chipotle of domain registrars. Life has been happening and putting me behind, but if you are interested I'd love some more people to e-mail when I finish it: http://nameptr.com

Sorry for the shameless plug... but this the third or fourth post I've seen, and I had to mention that I am working on something :)

I'm working on an iPad app now. There are many things you need the device for.

First, the lower amount of memory is very important for testing how your views load and unload.

Second I've noticed pretty big differences in how the screen looks on my MBP as opposed to on the actual device.

Interesting. I didn't even question this part :). 80% of people here make money off of software. If I was being funded by an iPad app it definitely would be that important.

I don't see how these two points are mutually exclusive.

It very well could be an executive order not fix it because of the security issue.

"And you can accomplish in a few short minutes what it takes a dedicated programming team weeks to put into beta"

Ouch man that hurt.

But seriously Wufoo is looking much more impressive than the last time I saw it. Had no idea you guys could process payments. Before watching that video I would only recommend Wufoo to friends if they had very simple form needs, nice to know that you can do much more.

I remember an episode where this american life explained why health insurance came to be like it is.

I was specifically interested in the fact that they said during WWII wages where not allowed to increase, so the only things that employers could increase were benefits. This was the biggest factor in making Health Insurance employer-based.

Sounds like you live in an area where Groupon hasn't been widely accepted.

In Dallas the most common deal (that interests me) is $10 for $20 food at restaurant X. It is quite obvious how this is a good deal for me.

I also once used it to purchase 2 opera tickets for $25. After I went to the opera I found out these ticket would have normaly been $115 a piece. Although I did research a bit and call the opera before purchasing try to make sure I was getting a good deal.

Also remember that the doc connector is a revenue source. I'm having trouble finding a source right now, but if I am remembering right Apple sells the actual dock connectors to accessory makers.

I work at a company with a 2 person group and it fared much better than an individual plan.

In no way did I say make a fake company. You'd have to start a real company to do this.

I think she could buy insurance if she really wanted.

I've thought about this a lot because I could easily be in this situation. If I did anything on my own I would need a group plan quickly. You only need 2 people to create a group.

So you can buy insurance its expensive, here is how you do it.

1) Start a company.

2) Hire another employee (this costs a lot)

3) Make a group health insurance policy for the company.

There you bought insurance.

I know this is stupid, but I'm just the kind of person that when someone says "You can't do XXX" I automatically have to see if I can do it.

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Looks like I kinda missed the point.

Although I'm not planning on leaving paypal any time soon. Their fees are just simple. Merchant Accounts have so many different fees you have to keep track of, and on top of that you have gateway fees.

I like the site and think its helpful.

I have to say it isn't for my case though. I'm using Paypal's website payments pro for my current app, and that comes with a monthly fee not factored here.

Also when I looked at using a real merchant account, these fees vary greatly and no one I was looking at was as cheap as 1.8. All the merchants I looked at were more expensive than Paypal percentage wise. I also feel like this doesn't account for some batch fees I saw.

Not to mention that many times with merchant accounts you are paying a merchant fee and a gateway fee.

I'm a a bit curious about "Apple's TextPlus" I don't think Apple has an app called TextPlus.

While we are talking about outsourced app support just wanted to mention http://aptfolk.com/.

While they don't have much info on their site, I've heard from friends who use them that they are pretty good. Apparently they charge somewhere around $25/hour so they are a little easier to get started with if you have a smaller budget.

But it is in the modern day recipe:

"To this day, Coca-Cola uses as an ingredient a cocaine-free coca leaf extract prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Coca_.E2.80.94_cocain...

I'm pretty sure they are only interested in books purchased on the device. If you don't purchase it on the device they don't get a cut.

From what i can tell it looks like the satisfaction rate has declined since this went live. I wonder if the fact that this is public info has changed the responses some how.

Most all of the special vehicles and secondary markets I have heard of require you to be an accredited investor to participate. You have to be somewhat wealthy to be an accredited investor ($200,000/year income or $300,000 if married)

I've heard these arguments a lot, but I've never seen anyone point to a specific case where someone with under a $50,000 a year income ends up with these stocks. Other than employees of course.