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by OzzyB 14y ago
Why on Earth is this not on the main/US homepage. Moog is a icon across the whole tech music industry, having him remembered on the com.au homepage as an Australian doesn't do him and his legacy justice. Would we celebrate Einstein only on
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by OzzyB 14y ago
Today was a Friday. Markets usually sell off on the last day of the week before heading into the weekend; i.e. traders don't (usually) like holding positions for two days more than they have to. I think it's important to factor this into an
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Unless the lead spokesperson is a leading political figure.
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Roger that, that's what I thought you might plan on doing. Let's hope they solve the SSL issue soon -- since I'm also a fan of GAE! Btw, thanks for sharing, it's been quite inspiring to read.
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This is what saddens me the most. We are no longer able to have any real discusion about anything anymore because pretty much everything can be stuffed into a "partisan" pigeonhole. -- Shrinking Middle Class == Partisan -- Faili
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by OzzyB 14y ago
And how are you going to handle SSL encryption for your checkout/cc page? Going to use a separate hosting service for that part? I see that you're running on App Engine, hence the question...
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Sure, I can speculate: They could very well be Factoring [1]. Since the Kickstarter payout is pretty much guaranteed at such-and-such date, they could quite easily "unlock" (factor) some of their future Accounts Receivable for a small perc
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by OzzyB 14y ago
Easier Conspiratorial Answer: "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." The banks get to learn about their tech and keep abreast of whatever "new groundbreaking innovations" they have, whilst pretending to play along.
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For reference, Quick Tally[1], has been operating a service along these lines for over a decade or more. It isn't web-based, and IIRC they offer/sell a voting widget to TV producers that can be given to audience members to vote with. Worthy
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Okay I'll bite: Look at where that G+ button is. It's big, its first, and it combines, as-one , an already existing feature -- the "Like" button. The G+ button isn't optionial, placed in a "secondary" position (i.e. to the right), or a
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by OzzyB 14y ago
Just to focus on the form and not the substance for a moment: "We were in pursuit of a great idea. A jackpot of an idea that elegantly solved an audacious problem. An idea with clean lines and graceful curves, horizontally and vertically d
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That's very unnerving if it's true, because, by going along with "Groupon is worth $6bn because Google offered that to us and we turned it down" , implies Google had a hand in creating that extremely high perception before their IPO. If Go
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One thing that upsets me when such topics arise is the non-mention of how Health Insurance plays a huge part in all this. This might be something that UK/EU folks might not be able to empathise with, but for US workers, the need for healt
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I don't think your off-topic at all. I think your point speaks to the core of the issue at hand, which is, companies only want to hire folks who have mastered a particular skillset that they only deem important to them at that specific poi
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by OzzyB 14y ago
Cookies error MacOSX Lion, Safari [SP], Skype is installed and on, don't know what else I can tell you...
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by OzzyB 14y ago
I'm not sure how far "Vorsprung durch Technik"[1] would go as a competitive advantage with regards to your particular choosen hosting provider -- it will always just be hosting to your end users -- but I like the sentiment :) [1] http://en
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It's incorrect, until enough folks start using it, then the Oxford Dictionary gets an update :)
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But you're forgetting one very important aspect in all this: The Developers It's not a question of whether one particular language is better, or more "hip", than another; or whether Google could simply run-off and create it's own new lang
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Wow, oh wow, that was absolutely fantastic. Cheers!
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+1 For Amazon for kindly reimbursing the overage charge. -1 For Google for creating what is the biggest threat to content providers by enabling easy-to-use DDOS attacks across the entire interwebs. </hyperbole> Seriously, is this wh
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by OzzyB 14y ago
This is my theory. After watching Steven Hawking's series on The Universe, he talked about Black Holes and how they keep growing and growing; sucking in more mass and getting denser and denser, whilst at the same time amasing more gravity
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Good point. The only thing I can think of is that they don't have to give too much for free -- they just have to give more than their competitors. Dropbox gives 2gb for free, so 7gb from Microsoft is more than enough to be a competitive a
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by OzzyB 14y ago
Lets imagine we both have a very rich uncle that gives each of us $50m to invest in startups. We then go off and invest $250k in 200 startups each. After 12 months we find out that all my investments failed and I lost all my $50m and luck
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Take all the info you have on your site, dump it into a PDF, give it a title, and sell it as an e-book on Amazon -- let the site die. If someone out there thinks your information is valuable, they can pay $15-25 bucks for it; at least then
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Maybe the lack of comments is because the topic hits a little too close to home . I would also venture that, for HN folks around these parts, the more people looking at their smartphones and not engaging in real conversation, is well, good
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There is a forum/website out there call "GearSlutz"[1], that has a huge & healthy community based around, well, gear . The amazing thing I've learned from lerking there from time-to-time is that some folks are actually seeding, promoti
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I like this, but I don't understand it. How you can end up with Number of days without work since 1979: 0 Isn't the reality more like the fact that you have to constantly obtain new skills, thus making you only "hireable" part of the time
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1,019 people +1'd this That's what I see under the NameCheap listing, which is number 2, Wikipedia is #1, with GoDaddy at #3. The GoDaddy listing doesn't seem to have any +1s under it. Could this be the effect of Google using G+ data to
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by OzzyB 14y ago
Do NDAs usually come with a time limit? i.e. if you sign that NDA it becomes null & void, in say, 6/12/36 months? I think one of the main reasons folks are adverse to signing NDAs, especially the "my idea is so great that I must protect
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As a personal exercise please go and watch this documentary: Startup.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/ And then ask yourself if what happened then is anyway similiar to what is happening now. For starters, I think you will realis

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