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Regarding pricing have you explored whether or not companies W, Y or Z might be interested in buying your product? Until you explore other buyers you are limiting the range of offers you may be able to get. By only entertaining what company X might buy this for you have already agreed to a price range which is $some amount of money that's an obscene deal for company X to $the maximum company X might be willing to pay. The max may or may not be a good deal for you though. It may be a bit too late in your case to pursue other options - or you may feel like company X has the resources to give you the kind of deal you are looking for in which case +1 to drewcrawford's answer.

A friend and I sold an app (all IP, etc) several years ago and I've sometimes regretted not exploring other options, and also not iterating for a few more months to see if we could have made the product more valuable. At the same time though, the offer came out of the blue and both of us were more than happy to get some dough for something we had been hacking on in our spare time.

Regarding #2, get a freaking lawyer and a CPA ASAP. When you are talking about $*M, you should have no trouble ponying up now so you don't get screwed later.

This is not FU money. FU money is not worrying about having to work.

having enough money to tell anyone regardless of who they are, FU!

This book is one of the worst pieces of business writing I've ever read. Not that I've read a ton, but read this instead: http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Success-Behind-Unusual-Workpl...

Good to Great features abstract bullshit with virtually no concrete practices. If you're not a details person, by all means read good to great and use a divining rod to try to steer your company to success.

The other issue with not using a type="password" is that my phone puts caps lock on for filling out that field.

Also, on my iPhone the <3 for favoriting a song does not show up, however it is great that the music keeps playing in the background.

I don't want more obscure, I want don't play me fucking runawaydroid.

EDIT: I see. I should hover more often.

Also, where are the affiliate links? I want to buy some of the songs I've heard! :)

I like it a lot. - Where's the music coming from? - I would like a dislike song button though. If I never hear runawaydroid again, I'll have lived a full and happy life.

It's definitely a solid phone. When I got it (pre-order) I was worried about the hinge for the screen, but it's held up remarkably.

Yes, I'd been running a pretty recent Cyanogen mod, but not one that was 2.1. I had been thinking about using a 2.1+ mod but haven't had the time to sit down and figure the whole process again. The keyboard on the G1 is great, but that's about it. After installing and using Cyanogen it always felt like the phone was laggy for doing the important things, answering calls, etc.

The best phone I've owned so far for functioning as a phone was a RAZR v3. The best smartphone up until about a year ago was the G1, but with limited ram the hardware has been unable to keep up it seems.

I'll pay you 10 dollars to take my G1.

- Keyboard shortcuts or bust.

- Signup link too hidden. Man I hate most web service signups. if I try to log in and you don't have the email in your system, maybe you should just create an account for me and send me a verification w/ whatever password I entered in the verification email - or require that to not have my account deactivated shortly I must click on the activation link sent and set my password.

I think the best thing to do is to sit down and come up with a list of parts of the app that need to be touched to complete what they are asking for. When you lay it all out, even at a skeletal level, clearly there are a lot of moving parts right? We sometimes get the taunt that "oh come on, it's only another if statement", but besides the shit code and maintenance nightmare that kind of thinking/implementation causes, when we lay it out for a few minutes the complexity becomes apparent - add a column to the database here - oh crap that migration will take 20 minutes to run - oh crap, we need to make sure that field is going to be indexed properly, create the frontend to modify it - oh crap, it has to work for the clients still using IE6?, oh crap! they need it to print nicely too? etc...

There's no need for anger or to become irate - it's a matter of education. I'm sure there's many a HN reader who has poo-pooed non-technical business types for the perceived easiness of their jobs, and for some posers it's deserved, but you don't really know that until you take the time to understand the other person's reality.

STFU and just start to do it. Open a todo.txt file, write down small goals that will eventually lead to the completion of your über spreadsheet. As you finish items on your list move them to a done.txt file. Try to do at the least one thing on your todo.txt every day. Don't wait for the weekend either, this should be a daily exercise. Humans respond well to habitual activities, however it takes a lot more effort for someone to get in the habit of something that does not have an immediate reward (working out vs. smoking) but once you get in the habit of that non-immediately rewarding thing, it becomes part of your life.

For bonus points tell me how you plan to become filthy rich with an Excel spreadsheet.

Sheldon Brown anything gets upvoted by me :) The amount of information and detail of it that man put together about bikes on the internet always amazes me.

37 signals job board, desperately seeking a Ruby job in NYC after building and selling a small Rails app created with a friend in our spare time. The specialized job boards seem to have worked pretty well for me, the interviews (the good ones at least) are all about what you have done passionately.

no shit.

The main reason Apple would never have this 'unknown sources' option is that it opens up the device to alternative app stores and opens revenue streams they don't control. Too bad, because that would be awesome ;)

Time well wasted.

Mine worked about 5 minutes after I purchased it.

recommendations? and not swype please.

It's kind of funny - people seem to be fairly split down the middle between our posts, even with all the up and down voting.

What I was used to before I got the G1 was a Samsung Trace, which could not be considered any sort of "smart phone". No Qwerty keyboard, tiny screen, etc. I did not actually use the original iPhone until about a year ago when a friend gave me an unlocked 2G when she got a 3GS.

I don't know much about the subject of text input, but there are two distinctly different implementations between android and iPhone. Android tends to be more predictive, but less enthusiastic about what it thinks you mean, and hence less corrective. I find the more decisive autocorrect on iPhone OS to work out much better for me. It's less about picking out words from a suggestion list and more about just banging away on the keyboard and trusting the software knows what I mean.

The whole leapfrogging thing implies (to me) that you are not only doing more things than someone, but also doing them better. Yes, FroYo has added a ton of great features to android, however I still feel that Apple has not yet been leapfrogged in the most basic parts of design for core parts today's mobile experience.

The most obvious of these to me is text entry via touch screen. There can be no claims of leapfrogging until I can use an android device's touch screen to SMS someone without pulling (what little is left of) my hair out.

Next is the whole activity response/switching thing. Yes, blah blah, tradeoffs for multitasking, whatever. Why not have a way to turn off non-system multi-tasking in favor of super lightning quick responsiveness on android? It's enough to almost throw the phone across the room when you are trying to answer the phone and key presses don't register.

In terms of industrial design, there have been no great leaps by any of Google's hardware partners - Every single android handset I've used has felt like a cheap, disposable piece of junk (G1, Hero, N1) or a giant tank (Droid) compared to the first generation iPhone. I haven't played with the incredible yet, so I still have hope, but not much.

Google and Apple have taken two different approaches to mobile. Google is trying to throw as many different features into android in as short a time as possible, and Apple is set on perfecting each detail before incorporating more. This is fine, it's two different philosophies.

After my prolonged experiences with the G1 and the original iPhone, I'd much rather live day to day with software and hardware that has been developed to Apple's design and usability standards. (I'm talking about the system software here, not 3rd party apps) I hope in the coming year Google has a chance to go back and spend time polishing what they've accomplished so far instead of continually heaping feature upon feature onto android.

If Google can get back to user interaction basics and stop mucking around with some of their other tangents, they could make android great, not just passable.

Or maybe I was just too abused by my time with the G1 to judge this argument fairly anymore, definitely possible.

Highly recommended. http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Android-Application-Devel...

omg, you invented a/b testing!? and they stole it? Call the REACT team.

don't drink soda. eat more vegetables, eat less meat.

I far too often have made the typo

[~] pythong zsh: command not found: pythong

guess I could zsh: correct 'pythong' to 'python' [nyae]?

but it still makes me laugh.

It is totally ridiculous - they cannot bar you from coding in your spare time. Instead of having a "startup" have a "hobby". Don't say a thing to anyone you work with about this, find someone else to be the public face of your "hobby" if you get to the point you need someone to do that, and by no means use your employer's time or equipment to work on your "hobby". Also IANAL, and you should talk to one, stat.

I think you should bite the bullet and recommend a few text editors on Windows, Mac and Linux. Or one cross platform one. Some poor bastard is going to end up wondering why test.py.doc isn't running - and I don't think it's fair to cast them off as too stupid to program for that.

let me save everyone some time. use multi-line css, minified for production.