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by Murkin 16y ago
If they have the money to hire a full-time employee, how will it be different than having a tech-co-founder do the job ? (Its cheaper equity wise) In other words, what can a co-founder do that an employee cant ?
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Ask HN: Why do web-startups need tech co-founders?
25 points by Murkin 16y ago|67 comments
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by Murkin 16y ago
-1 On the community - StackOverflow alone is enough to find / get you answers to 99% of your questions in seconds. +1 On the extensions - They almost never work out of the box and require extensive changes (or usually rewrites). Seems like
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by Murkin 16y ago
Now you have conclusive proof that you are, indeed, not God.
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by Murkin 16y ago
"I am very lucky" Might not look like a great competitive advantage, but looking back, is a major advantage of many a successful startup. Might as well put it in...
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by Murkin 16y ago
Actually each cell (each bit) is reset to an initial state. It is still blazingly fast, as the erase is: 1) Done in large chunks 2) Done in parallel (most SSDs have multiple dies) 3) Does not require data transfers out of the driv
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by Murkin 16y ago
There is a reason why there was no performance degradation: They ran the tests on "dirty" disk both times. To clear an SSD, specials methods must be used: They are vendor specific but the SECURE ERASE command (ATA spec) will mostly do.
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Ask HN: JavaScript dev environment ?
49 points by Murkin 16y ago|36 comments
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by Murkin 16y ago
Am I the only one who finds it a bit premature to start giving advise with zero experience after 60 days on a job ?
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by Murkin 16y ago
Or just do this at home(we did at work). No need to ruin a speaker. 1) Mix cornstarch with water in shallow plastic bowl. 2) Hold the bowl firmly against an office-grade subwoofer 3) Turn bass+volume to max 4) Start experimenting with musi
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by Murkin 16y ago
To save time, the gist of it: 1) Author emails Steve Jobs about algorithm to improve Appstore's discover-ability problem. 2) Steve replies. 3) Author gets strung along by a semi cooperating engineer. 4) A month and a few emails later, he is
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by Murkin 16y ago
Apparently these things are getting standardized: "BS EN 50131-8:2009" Alarm systems. Intrusion and hold-up systems. Security fog device/systems And are supposed to be installed in a way that prevents "man traps".
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by Murkin 16y ago
Nothing like trapping a desperate and potentiality armed criminal inside a shop, scared and confused. Those two policemen had some balls to go in there, even with guns out. (Extra points if the crook chokes a bit and then sues the shop owne
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by Murkin 16y ago
Curious to know, has anyone here got any gigs via the spreadsheet ?
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by Murkin 16y ago
Had similar experience with a friend. He got a product up and running but then his tech co-founder had to quit (personal reasons). He reached out to me, and I connected him with a very good and experience web-developer (who had a full time
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by Murkin 16y ago
A painful lesson we learned (2 men startup) is that you can't be co-managers. While I coded, my co-founder was out making deals. I would sometimes help and after two occasions where I agreed on something (rather small) but that collided wi
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by Murkin 16y ago
http://www.fiddme.com/
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by Murkin 16y ago
When traveling a year ago I discovered that: In south america, many of the one-way flights costs more than return. And it was cheaper to fly from Rio to Bogota via (get this) Miami !
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by Murkin 16y ago
I think the scientific term for this guy is "Crazy MOFO". Not clear on the liquid nitrogen test. How exactly did he deposit it into his mouth ? And given the severe irregularity of the tongue, there surely were multiple points of contact no
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by Murkin 16y ago
+1 On the event board idea. With some supportive upvotes we got the first HN in TelAviv to around 40+ members. Afterwards we weren't as lucky with timely upvotes (being a rather small community) so I am relying on our existing 90 user Faceb
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Ask HN: Self improvement programs
6 points by Murkin 16y ago|3 comments
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by Murkin 16y ago
I couldn't disagree more with this guy. Maybe he should take a peek at 100 years ago. It was said that movies are the bane of society. Instead of the immersive story telling of books. Here, moving pictures replace the imagination and wisdo
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by Murkin 17y ago
Or simply "Cover my ass" jobs. Before middle management makes a big decision, they need to prepare the ground work of excuses they will use if the project fails. Expert report is an excellent tool to show your boss and shift the blame. (And
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by Murkin 17y ago
Cheese and Milk get a MUCH longer shelf life with "Pasteurization" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurization ) which has nothing to do with additives. (Basically intense heating for a very short period of time)
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by Murkin 17y ago
Clickable: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106386552725158
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Tell HN: TelAviv meetup next week
16 points by Murkin 17y ago|1 comments
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by Murkin 17y ago
I keep hearing that, but how much would you pay for a transcript of such a video ?
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by Murkin 17y ago
It took me a bit of time to see what is the real big difference between Quora and the rest: IDENTITY. People on Quora use real names. Presumably this affects greatly the type and quality of the content published.
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by Murkin 17y ago
I, and quite a few other people, went for http://www.webfaction.com/ Excellent support, intuitive management-console and lots of install scripts for various dev platforms.
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Tell HN: HackerNews Tel-Aviv meetup #2
6 points by Murkin 17y ago|0 comments

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