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by Drbble 15y ago
So about $5k then? That is an incredibly cheap ad buy.
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by Drbble 15y ago
With something like friendfeed there may be IP issues that may force a buyout, but what about cases (like TeachStreet/Amazon) where the acquirer may prefer to just hire and pay the engineering / management talent, and not pay a chunk to the
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by Drbble 15y ago
It is the startup-as-job interview. Technical success (at least as an "artist portfolio" for engineers), but business failure (relative to the rather high standard of a Facebook engineer income, and which wouldn't necessarily be failure in
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by Drbble 15y ago
Scattered thoughts: Nice idea. I stuck with Phonegap in the past, because I cared more about portability (including desktop/open web HTML) than features or profits for my little Set playalike game 3qual. Which has a larger audience for game
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by Drbble 15y ago
That's half the price of every similar Manhattan apartment I have seen. That is a DC price, not an Upper East Side price. Long term rent control?
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by Drbble 15y ago
My understanding was that vendors just pay the entry fee to game Angie List reviews.
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by Drbble 15y ago
You aren't wrong in how you describe the players' actions and motivations, but thinking like this in the legacy and and Android markets is what is turning everyone into Apple's customer. I got fooled by the "Android is open" marketing. Then
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by Drbble 15y ago
Eve focuses much more (industry leading) on in-game economics as a gameplay aspect , but not as exceptionally much on converting game money to real money. Second Life has a rather sophisticated and officially supported currency exchange wit
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by Drbble 15y ago
For everyone lamenting not being able to take this class . Taking the class is the least important aspect. Going to college or equivalent and learning and practicing how to think hard are all you need classes for. Anyone who has completed
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by Drbble 15y ago
What causal effect do taxes have on any of this?
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by Drbble 15y ago
Those changes weren't detrimental to the wealth of congresspeople.
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by Drbble 15y ago
EC2 pricing was so absurd that everyone was using spot pricing for 50-80% off. This adjustment just gets more people back on the standard pricing scheme and makes tracking financial easier for Amazon.
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by Drbble 15y ago
EBS is like the Matrix part III and Star Wars Episode I... It is best if you ignore the rumors that it exists.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Next time you gear up for a major upgrade, try less time blogging for HN, more time talking to your users about the features they care about.
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by Drbble 15y ago
What is this all about then? A new kind of recruiter spam?
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by Drbble 15y ago
Oh that's why posters are saying the Wolfram AMA "ramparted". I had thought they meant that people were ambushing Wolfram (with "ramparts").
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by Drbble 15y ago
Thank you! "policy vs mechanism" popped into my head when this debate for going, but I didn't write it up well like the above post did.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Scaffolding is part of rails, so fixing the bug does involve patching rails. "Windows has no security vulnerabilities itself, since you can edit the exe of any malfunctioning app. A security conscious app developer is responsible for auditi
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by Drbble 15y ago
HTML isn't what bugs you. Unauthorized loading of remote content is what bugs you. That's a misfeature of your (and most people's) mail reader.
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by Drbble 15y ago
To win this fight, you need to convince users (and not just the techies on HN) to care. You aren't going to convince site operators to hamstring themselves over an issue their users don't care about. (Even if you do, unless you win over eve
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by Drbble 15y ago
You could also just tell Facebook to not email you.
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by Drbble 15y ago
The vast majority of users don't understand any tracking technology, period.
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by Drbble 15y ago
You are right in principle, but this isn't a tricky detail about email. This is fundamentally how Facebook and Google run their businesses.
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by Drbble 15y ago
If github users quit because a hacker deletes their stuff, maybe that's harm the hacker did to github. But if github users quit because a hacker shows them github is insecure, that's harm github did to itself. Don't blame the messenger.
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by Drbble 15y ago
You can't chop off half of someone's sentence and then debate the leftover part. Not at an "and", at least.
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by Drbble 15y ago
It's obviously not "breaking". In fact "breaking" is the difference between burglary and theft, and theft insurance is way more expensive than burglary insurance (which I experienced today reading an insurance offer) , because theft is near
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by Drbble 15y ago
But parent is also right metaphorically. Once the car starts moving, consuming energy and filling traffic, it is not longer invisible to the world.
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by Drbble 15y ago
And I enjoy getting a free lunch by grabbing a sandwich that someone irresponsibly left on the table when they went to the washroom. The alternative is everyone paying for lunch.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Taking them up on an offer is not abuse. They do fine (ab)using the money you park with them.
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by Drbble 15y ago
"caveat emptor" is the problem that civilization solves.

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