_almosnow

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by _almosnow 12y ago
assets != profit They had 1.2B for funding, then they IPO'ed, then they even made some weird stuff like [1] (which looked like a really desperate 'running out of cash' decision to me), sum all of that stuff up and you can eas
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by _almosnow 12y ago
I was never hooked into twitter, and could never understand what is up with some people wanting to advertise everything they do through there. However, for a lot of time I've used twitter for something that I felt it was really valuabl
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by _almosnow 12y ago
revenue != profit they've been operating w/ a net loss since (probably) forever
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by _almosnow 12y ago
This looks very useful, thanks, and thanks again for making it open source and free. Have you run some tests to measure (degradation of) performance?
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by _almosnow 12y ago
I had at a chance to read about your project when the site was still up. Does it require another super-tcp compatible port on the other side (YT, Dropbox, etc...)?
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by _almosnow 12y ago
Also a very early symptom; millions of dollars spent on building a (software) product that could be easily developed by a competent guy over a weekend.
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by _almosnow 12y ago
Yes he is, and it looks like that to me as well. What's the deal with Paul Krugman being a Nobel Prize winner? [1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_accomplishment
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by _almosnow 12y ago
I'm with you, one would be so valuable that even if you bought a considerable amount in all of them, the net gain would easily overshadow the loss of the others. Kind of how VC money works btw...
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by _almosnow 12y ago
Derailing the thread a little. "Always do the math" is a very nice piece of advice that I got from who knows where. More often than not you nail it.
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by _almosnow 12y ago
That is because 99% of newbie questions are already answered... and when someone just asks the same "what is a pointer in C" question, without even taking time to search if it's already been answered, it pisses off the commun
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by _almosnow 12y ago
"Stop wasting hours searching Stackoverflow..." Terrible choice for an opening phrase to your website. You are putting yourself in a position against SO which IMHO is one of the few websites that are actually really helpful for t
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by _almosnow 12y ago
How would it be illegal for someone to paint your house for free?
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by _almosnow 12y ago
I second that, very well explained it would be nice to have a set of tutorials aimed around this field, like the ones of the matasano crypto challenges.