alexro

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   by alexro 15y ago

   I wonder how this article has managed to get on the front page. All the recipes can be summed up like this: 1) learn to do something on the laptop 2) ??? 3) profit
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   by alexro 15y ago

   networking and account management is what makes XP more pro-business than pro-consumer. And all the servers - Windows 2000 to 2008 are based on the same kernel basically.
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   by alexro 15y ago

   In 2000 MS killed their consumer-oriented OS: Windows 95/98/Millenium and focused on a more business-facing product, based on Windows NT. It looks like they are now introducing a for-consumer version again, this time probably with a really
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   by alexro 15y ago

   Dropbox aim at the mainstream, AeroFS will be harder for a non-techie to get.
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   by alexro 15y ago

   It doesn't need to be on the same network.P2P can work across the web, so it's easy to sync between say a web server and a home pc, or between spouses' laptops.
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   by alexro 15y ago

   Ries' own startup IMVU proves you wrong.
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   by alexro 15y ago

   Yep, there is no silver bullet. Think, try, learn from mistakes - that's what lean is all about.
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   by alexro 15y ago

   I don't disagree with you, I just think that YC is all about young energetic people willing to put the effort in, so pitching a 2 days old idea with passion is kind of showing off some energy !
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   by alexro 15y ago

   So, with no money left and no business model in sight and (most important) no enthusiasm about Facebook killer and with G+ in the wild, is that the end of Diaspora?
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    by alexro 15y ago

    Not to take away anything from the presenters, but ... Isn't "Hook - Appealing imagery - Polished, theatrical presentations" how the bubbles get inflated?
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    by alexro 15y ago

    8.67
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    by alexro 15y ago

    You can have a design where your previous version of a record gets automatically copied into another table along with the timestamp of the operation. Then you can slice this history however you want. All with no additional app code. But I w
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    by alexro 15y ago

    Yeah, right. Adding more pieces to the puzzle makes it more interesting to solve!
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    by alexro 15y ago

    And not the last thing is security and permissions to access different parts of data. I see no way to have it easily implemented in the event logging system.
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    by alexro 15y ago

    I think that the best thing DB-s provide is the separation of skills. I can fully concentrate on the programming side and just be aware of the db side, and the DBA-s will handle setup, replication, migration, analytics, ad-hoc queries, back
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    by alexro 15y ago

    For how long your offer is valid? I'd like to give it a hit in about a month or two. And, can you hint on the area you are comfortable making calls in, i.e. whole country or a state. Thanks!
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    by alexro 15y ago

    I'd like these areas touched in the article: 0) Not important, just interesting. On the moral side: did you reason going solo as to avoid loosing money/control and generally didn't bother or was it just that you didn't find someone accepta
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    by alexro 15y ago

    There isn't. It's just that MS is a bit more expensive than L * (LAMP for instance).
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    by alexro 15y ago

    Opa is definitely something, but isn't going anywhere without the support of existing database servers. I don't really need that much of automation to create a prototype - and that's what Opa is only good at in it's current form, unfortunat
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    by alexro 15y ago

    Software is eating the world and we are part of that world, so software is eating us too! But unlike lawyers, doctors and bankers we don't have artificial barriers make the industry protected.
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    by alexro 15y ago

    Don't you think that the real reason for their prosperity is that doctors, lawyers and bankers create their wealth collectively and sometimes collaboratively robbing people? They create work for themselves with some hardwared awareness of t
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    by alexro 15y ago

    One explanation would be that people at work couldn't keep going on 60 hour week, so at some point decrease in productivity is unavoidable. That means the businesses will start recruiting to get back on track with 'normal' productivity.
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    by alexro 15y ago

    What do they offer that AWS doesn't? They don't look like cheap either
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    by alexro 15y ago

    You probably don't have a family in the US if you come on H1B, but nonetheless, someone trustworthy can serve the board... Say, YC or other incubator can form a board that will formally control the founders but in reality it's in the incuba
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    by alexro 15y ago

    Is just paying a salary to yourself for the full-day duties not enough to count you as a 'normal employee'? How they could ever envisioned business owners being equal to other employees?
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    by alexro 15y ago

    Just pass on them - these 'employers' are not worth working for anyway.
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    by alexro 15y ago

    Oh year, I was looking in the text but didn't notice the header. So, just evening then.
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    by alexro 15y ago

    What's the timeline of the event? It's Monday, so must be full day + evening?
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    by alexro 15y ago

    What about: After I found my great co-founder(s) we had never had to bother with other employees.
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    by alexro 15y ago

    I dunno if MBAs can be so high about themselves, but I will start giving even less credit them now.