Blankwood

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   Reddit founder interview on techcrunch(techcrunch.com)

   2 points by Blankwood 15y ago|0 comments
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   by Blankwood 15y ago

   I don't think it's realistic to always get down payment up front.
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   by Blankwood 15y ago

   I guess my initial question would be how many hours did you work for him? If it wasn't a lot of time, just accept that you aren't getting paid. If you did put a lot time into it, then I would push more but make sure you understand why you a
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   What Apple hopes you didn't notice about iPad2(cnn.com)

   16 points by Blankwood 16y ago|28 comments
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   by Blankwood 16y ago

   Part of the reason they don't join forces more often is that the IP lawyers often are kept busy by looking at other large company portfolios. Their business is both offensive and defensive.
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   by Blankwood 16y ago

   Or google groups!
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   by Blankwood 16y ago

   Wha about search for sites like posterous or Tumblr?
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   by Blankwood 16y ago

   Can u tell us a bit more about the use case you are trying to build for? thanks!
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   by Blankwood 16y ago

   How long did it take you to build it? Can't you use Twitter search to do this though?
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    by Blankwood 16y ago

    What do you get if you win? :)
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    by Blankwood 16y ago

    Right. You could use other non google alternatives and create your own specialty search, charging for better, faster results like realtime updates for court cases. Indextank is one such engine, and beats google on being realtime and fully c
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    by Blankwood 16y ago

    Just saw that you also built trendistic. How big is that index? Am trying to get a feel for the size of index to make a compelling contest entry.
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    by Blankwood 16y ago

    I see I can get a free 1million size account for the contest at heroku. How big is that for this type of application, like you show in the tutorial?
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    by Blankwood 16y ago

    Wait a minute, can I use heroku/indextank to build a better search for hacker news with this? I like the real time part of what i see Reddit has with indextank. Can we include votes to help sway search results? Or is this a project that HNs