amoore
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Comment · 13 years ago
Finally, a way to get rid of my old, hazardous, household chemicals and get paid at the same time!
Comment · 13 years ago
YAPC::NA (the North American "Yet Another Perl Conference") is my favorite tech conference to attend, probably because it seems to be rather "by perl developers, for perl developers".
The YAPC conferences seem to have come about after the original perl conferences became OSCON. The perl community developed something specific to perl again, and something that was more intimate, casual, and affordable. There are YAPC conferences all over the world, like YAPC::EU and YAPC::Asia and others.
My experience is only with the North American one, and it's typically 3 days of technical sessions with one or more optional days of more formal classes before or after it.
A conference ticket is cheap, say $100, and you can get a dorm room for cheaper than a hotel room if you like. That's part of the effort to make the conference affordable and open to anyone.
Another, more recent part of that effort seems to be adopting a more formal code of conduct. I think that's popular with a lot of technical conferences these days. Recently, Schwern, one of the prominent members of the perl community withdrew from the conference and described why here: http://blog.schwern.net/2013/05/15/yapcna-2013-withdrawal/ The article linked from this HN post seems to be a reaction to that.
Anyway, YAPC::NA is in Austin this year, and should be a great conference. Check out http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/ if you want to read more about it.
Comment · 14 years ago
- Double your rate
- get a written contract
- get paid in regular intervals
- document everything
Comment · 14 years ago
It certainly sounds at least like export to me. Are they therefore illegally exporting munitions and crypto?
Comment · 14 years ago
Auction ends in a couple of hours. No bids. I wonder if they'll really shut it down.
Comment · 14 years ago
turd sandwich.
Comment · 14 years ago
flippa is a cesspool of worthless sites, scams, and con-men.
But, there are some occasional transactions that are worth looking at, if only to get ideas of things to build.
Here's a recent sale of thecupcakeblog.com: https://flippa.com/2736282-over-1000-ad-rev-199k-visits-475k...
Those come along about once or twice a month.
Comment · 14 years ago
super! I may make use of that tool to find a few names. Thanks!
Comment · 14 years ago
Did you consider attempting to sell your business? What prevented you from doing that?
Comment · 14 years ago
You may be on to something there. Sometimes I see sites for sale on Flippa, but from the comments I can tell that some potential buyers have discovered something negative in their research that I would have overlooked. I'd pay for an extended, honest, third-party analysis of some current flippa offerings. Help me value sites I'd consider buying, and I'd see value in that.
Comment · 14 years ago
Great article. I love to see what sites do well on flippa, but some of them boggle my mind. Perhaps it's because not all buyers or sellers are rational, but I have to also think that there are schemes and scams that I'm not aware of at work there. I'd love to hear explanations for some of the sales I see there.
Flippa is a marvelous wasteland of make-money-fast sites being marketed as make-money-fast schemes themselves. Although there are diamonds in that rough, surely there is another place where people go to buy or sell more established, traditional web-based businesses. Where is that place?
Comment · 14 years ago
your twitter profile lists sendicate.com, which appears to be unrelated to your venture at sendicate.net.
Comment · 14 years ago
brilliant! I may "embrace and extend" this idea for my workplace. I'd build a browser extension that notices when I load a new trouble ticket and makes an entry in my timecard for it. If I used paydirt, I'd love the thing you just built.