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They mentioned rewards cards, like the kind used at grocery and drug stores.

It's called remarketing. If they're showing you an ad for a product you actually bought, they're doing it wrong. It's supposed to show you an ad for something you looked at, but didn't buy.

You have to make it both easy to cancel, and easy to find out how to cancel. If they have to look for more than a few seconds or you make them jump through hoops, they're going to just do a chargeback.

>Obviously that did not stop recurring billing

Obviously? If I get a chargeback from a customer, I cancel their service.

I was about to pull the trigger with eNom as a reseller before I read this. Any recommendations? I'm currently using OpenSRS.

Depends on the boat! A friend of mine just bought a beautiful 38' sailboat to live aboard. It was less than $90k.

Exactly. You have to figure out how long that gravy train needs to last in order to reach financial independence.

Rewrite your resume to de-emphasize the entrepreneurial stuff. Once I changed my resume to make it look like I was an employee rather than a founder, I got plenty of traction.

Oh, definitely. When I was freelancing, I wouldn't start a project without a 50% deposit. I also made sure that 50% was enough to cover my expenses and sanity.

I do, when they're particularly annoying.

Workers with this mindset also tend not to think of their jobs as an exchange of labor for money.

Braintree and Stripe both allow you to store card numbers without creating a subscription. I would either go the prepayment route (allow the customer to re-load a balance, then draw it down with usage), or set billing/time thresholds (bill the balance every X days or whenever the total hits $Y). I use several API services that use the reloading method, and Google Adwords does the billing/time threshold.

A 10" Shark prybar. They're under $20, and it's one of the most-used items in my toolbox.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6726962

This is the first thing I've read about it that makes sense. Thanks very much for sharing it.

>They give estimates of days versus hours for even the simplest of asks, and when outsiders hear how long it took for our team to fix a bug or add a new feature, they are shocked.

Unless you're a developer who is familiar with the codebase, then you literally have no idea how long it should take to implement these changes.

Try http://in.linkedin.com/in/sarvjeetahuja (works for me without being logged in to LinkedIn).

OP may be referring to the trend toward larger watches for men. I blame Panerai.

I think you're showing VPS pricing (not dedicated servers).

I just picked up a WASD (http://www.wasdkeyboards.com) with Cherry blues, and I love it. I'd previously used a flat Apple keyboard for years and I was concerned that it would be a difficult transition - but it only took a few minutes to get acclimated.

In my experience, most support calls are not conversations.

I saved about a year's worth of living expenses before I quit my job, but I was probably being overly cautious. Just know that there are lean times (and slow-paying clients), so it's advisable to have enough saved to cover those shortfalls.

This is a good one (often about the business of photography): http://www.aphotoeditor.com/

I'm not talking about line cooks. I'm talking about executive and personal chefs. I know several, and they all make high five to low six figures.

My recommended mitigation strategy would be to stick to things that computers do badly, and save as much money as possible. If someone asked me to pick a (potentially) lucrative career that won't be replaced by robots or computers in the next 50 years, I'd tell them to go to culinary school.

Thanks for this. This reminds me a lot of an old Slate piece (http://www.slate.com/articles/life/a_fine_whine/2005/12/bitt...) about owning a coffee shop.

Be advised that the Das is no longer being made by Costar. They've moved to an unnamed OEM in China, and most people feel that the new keyboards aren't as nice. There are lots of other good mechanical keyboards out there, though - Filco, WASD, etc. I have a WASD and I love it.

>Last night I read paper books. Today a professor talk about the books and used a blackboard. I took notes on paper with a pen. Why has nothing changed since my dad went to school.

Wait, what? My wife is a professor. In some of her classes, a significant amount of student work is done online. Students have the option of buying an electronic textbook. There are required online discussion sessions, online exams, and interactive online supplemental materials (videos, self-guided exercises, etc). I wasn't in college 12 years ago, so I guess I can't be sure - but I would be surprised if these things were commonplace in 2002.

Noooooo. Zero chance. I mean, it's very cool that your daughter is thinking about this stuff, but I would never allow a stranger to watch my toddler.

Yeah. I have a nice burr grinder, and I loved the ritual of preparing coffee every morning. Then I had a baby. The Keurig machine we got as a Christmas present two years before got pulled out of the closet, and we've been pod people ever since.

I use Rackspace. It's $2 per month per mailbox, and the service has been great.