Ryan_Shmotkin

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by Ryan_Shmotkin 10y ago
The answer is in your example. Patio's business was barely profitable for a few years until closing down. Growth or death is true for most businesses, just need to decide on the growth acceleration
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 10y ago
Also: ReactJS: Under The Hood — ReactNext 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsKYAa1ZXpQ
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Working with Enterprise(blog.itlater.com)
2 points by Ryan_Shmotkin 11y ago|0 comments
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 11y ago
MongoDB ?
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
You can put money into realestate, gold, gov-bonds and hundred other places that don't have 3x monthly fluctuation. And people in cyprus are not trying to protect their spare change, its their whole savings. Would you put your life savings
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
Anyone knows if there is a way to "short" bitcoins ?
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The Bitcoin and the Taxi driver(blog.itlater.com)
15 points by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago|20 comments
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
He is comapring apples to oranges here. The language PHP to the _framework_ Rails. He didn't find the language (ruby) unsuitable, but rather the framework (rails) too heavy. This might of been exactly the same if he tried PHP with Zend/Symp
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Ask HN: Got talent overflow
10 points by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago|7 comments
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
I am lost.. can't understand how to use it at all. Very nice graphics but UX is terrible
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
Can someone explain whats the catch ? Looks like I can host my $22 github account for free on bitbucket.
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
Most of my (ex israeli military) and extremely talented people didn't even look at web startups but went to work for companies "doing real products" where "there are complex challenged". They view 99% of web startups as glorified TODO apps
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
And work on all browser for all people. Or wait.. they don't for most http://caniuse.com/websockets
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
Case in point HN own launched geeklist, impossible to unsubscribe and GMail spam still somehows ignores my repeated clicks.
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
Thats what up at previous discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4042495
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
Reminds me how Diaspora changed everything a year ago. Its cool and stuff for developers... But did anyone actually think of the other 500 Million people who are supposed to use this ?
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New from Amazon: Provisioned IOPS for EBS(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago|0 comments
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
By this reasoning, copyright infringement is not theft and should be tolerated. Who said we didn't think of using "scrolls" or "apple" as our company name independently ?
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
Great tool, just tried buildin mockup for client. Few issues: * There is a problem moving labels in buttons/tables using the keyboard. Everything jumps * The labels in editing and preview don't look the same * Please add "Undo/Redo" * Can't
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
A very cool idea, but I get an 'uncomfortable' feeling from just watching the video. Going to be very hard mentally to play.
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
why stop at credit card processing how about a Facebook Credit Card !
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Seriously? Ads?(blog.dinkevich.com)
283 points by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago|212 comments
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
How can anyone can seriously consider this article where the reporter constantly compares shares prices now to.. the height of the tech bubble of 2000 ? How about comparing profits ? Oh wait.. didn't Balmer double that..
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
Tsk tsk.. ruby 1.8.7 by default
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
Not actual project by author but rather him testing various project others made (which is great) Anyone up for blogging about his expirience with RubyMotion ?
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Sensu - open source monitoring framework(portertech.ca)
4 points by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago|0 comments
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 14y ago
No, you don't. If the amount of wealth increased (or even stayed the same) with less man-power required. We as 'humans' have lost nothing. (But rather gained some free time to pursue other interests). Only possible problem is that this mig
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 15y ago
The number one reason for 'poor' memory is actually lack of concentration. The reason you start forgeting the name of the person just introduced to you is that you are thinking of a 100% other things, like what to say, do I know him, what t
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Ask HN: Freelancer? How do you track your time/billing
4 points by Ryan_Shmotkin 15y ago|3 comments
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by Ryan_Shmotkin 15y ago
It many cases the developers share (if not enough) are supplemented by a large additional bonus with a long vesting schedule. "Golden handcuffs"

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