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Wow. What a transformation. I understand the product very well now. The video is a fantastic addition (some kinks need to be worked out, but others have addressed those).

My suggestions: 1. Use consistent bolding and hightlight features (and terms) or actions of your product.

  For example, USE <b>#HASHTAGS</b> TO ORGANIZE YOUR
               <b>CHATS/LISTS</b>
  OR 
               USE #HASHTAGS TO <b>ORGANIZE</b> YOUR 
               CHATS/LISTS

2. Use direct rhetoric

  For example, USE #HASHTAGS TO ORGANIZE YOUR
               CHATS/LISTS
  vs. 
               ORGANIZE YOUR CHATS/LISTS WITH #HASHTAGS

3. Reference quotes from your users. I.e., "quote" - John, Scrum Master for MyApp.com.

4. Shorten the hover-over text for BOOST PRODUCTIVITY, CONSOLIDATE APP DATA, etc. Make it short and sweet.

Biggest feedback: My original comment was I couldn't see the vision of your product. Now, it is very clear. Kudos.

I agree with your assessment. I don't think this product has the type of competitive advantage needed in this highly saturated communications market.

I think you can use this to lead to better things. Iterate on the product, get some feedback, and attack it again. In the meantime, blog throughout the process. Get your voice out. If you generate interest about your product before you release it, you can generate more momentum when you launch.

Good luck!

If anyone wants to discuss, I wrote this blog post.

It seems like my options are the Custom Search API from Google (with severe limitations) or the Duck Duck Go API (which I'm not sure if it provides the total number of results).

Any other ideas?

Thank you for posting this. It was a fascinating read.

You're calling your students "broken"? Can we start there?

This is good advice, thank you.

It's worth noting the offers are from companies in the same city. Anyways, I agree. The prospect of opportunity and ownership has always kept me attached this company, but it seems like they have been using it to bait me to the company.

1) I am concerned with accepting this much risk. 2) This could be nice, especially if the company's profits were to skyrocket. However, my family has a few business owners and I know from experience profits can be low during explosive growth years. 3) I am strongly considering it. A few of my colleagues have similar fears.

Thanks. I will research the answers to these questions.

After thinking about this, if someone from my company were to read this they would be able to identify me. I'll take my changes I guess.

Thanks for the heads up. Not sure how to submit anon though.

I am hiring and training people, so I am in a leadership role already. I work closely with the CEO and CTO daily to design the software. I am constantly creating new efficiencies and I negotiate the business contracts with some of our largest clients (2M+ annual). I don't know how much more I could be considered a leader within this company.

He does pay a bonus, but it isn't defined, meaning I don't have objectives that I am trying to meet and based on those defined criteria a bonus is awarded. The bonus is historically pretty good (10-20 % of salary), but I hate the uncertainty. I'd rather have the income now.

Do you think it would be unreasonable to ask for a retaining bonus?

-After your update: I've noticed he likes to toy with people. Regarding my position, I'm the lead calculation architect (no one in-house is capable and the system is very complex). And we are thinking of creating a new software branching off the existing product (we have one product atm) that will address the market share we don't touch.

On-site only. Small, lean, highly successful software company (more than 20 years old). Lots of positions available!

- Analysts - Developers(application, internal, and UI) - DBA - Network Engineer

https://www.moneyguidepro.com/careers/

I propose we form a group and apply some stochastic techniques to robustly analyze and create some brackets. The $500 million lump sum could be split among all participants. Any takers?

Seems like this research could benefit from a complementary studies and shouldn't stand on one test alone.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll read this tonight!

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not paying (it's not really free as far as I can tell).

Thanks for the suggestion - in fact, I'll use it! I think I'll setup a wordpress blog tonight and limit myself to about 30 minutes to get content on a vanilla page. Then tomorrow, and in the future as needed, I'll invest the time needed to get a more intensive platform established (like Octopress as mentioned in an earlier comment).

Ok, that sounds like what I might do. I really wanted to get it setup tonight, but it's late already and I have training tomorrow in about 7.5 hours.

So, the more I look at Github pages the more I like it. I think Jekyll could be really fun but I need to get this up and running, with a day of content tonight. And I need sleep. So... thoughts?

The argument for both sides are valid. My use of 'brilliant' to describe this story and the emotions attached cone from a personal experience with a C&D letter; my sister's fledgling in-house one-employee business was served a C&D letter for a naming dispute that had very little legal basis. However, my sister did not have the legal experience or money to fight this battle. Fortunately her business is thriving now, but it caused her countless sleepless nights and anxiety, so when I saw this article my first reaction was to send it to her.

The title is misleading! I was so excited... and then abruptly disappointed. :(

I performed a line quality test (it failed):

http://www.dslreports.com/pingtest/64474bb63856/3123715?r=71...

Here are downstream/upstream power levels:

DCID Freq Power SNR Modulation Octets Correcteds Uncorrectables Downstream 1 8 561.00 MHz -2.91 dBmV 37.36 dB 256QAM 27285151766 778 1019 Downstream 2 1 519.00 MHz -3.37 dBmV 37.64 dB 256QAM 19274768929 1183 4486 Downstream 3 2 525.00 MHz -3.39 dBmV 37.36 dB 256QAM 19591285152 1152 5588 Downstream 4 3 531.00 MHz -3.60 dBmV 37.09 dB 256QAM 20693153371 1653 6611 Downstream 5 4 537.00 MHz -3.54 dBmV 37.64 dB 256QAM 19632522571 1589 6033 Downstream 6 5 543.00 MHz -3.45 dBmV 37.94 dB 256QAM 21582618321 1185 6468 Downstream 7 6 549.00 MHz -3.43 dBmV 37.94 dB 256QAM 22146242524 1182 5274 Downstream 8 7 555.00 MHz -2.93 dBmV 37.94 dB 256QAM 21833121210 1057 5449

UCID Freq Power Channel Type Symbol Rate Modulation Upstream 1 10 37.60 MHz 49.00 dBmV DOCSIS1.x (TDMA) 2560 kSym/s 16QAM Upstream 3 11 30.80 MHz 48.50 dBmV DOCSIS2.0 (ATDMA) 5120 kSym/s 64QAM Upstream 4 12 24.20 MHz 47.25 dBmV DOCSIS2.0 (ATDMA) 5120 kSym/s 64QAM

Hate for the sake of hate? You've clearly got issues.

About f*cking time, but is it enough? No, but hopefully we won't need to worry about things like this in the future. Progress is progress and I'll take it.

Miley Cyrus has more votes than Edward Snowden. How can that be?

Thanks everyone, these are really helpful comments. I work the best in the mornings, so I'm adding a suggestion to my own post: Figure out when you work the best, and use that time to your advantage. Work with colleagues during your toughest times and motivate each other. Tackle administrative tasks when you're not at your best.

Now I'm going to take my own advice and get off HN.