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by aston 18y ago
That ruling only applies to the RSUs they give out to employees. If you check out the last page, it's quite explicit that normal Facebook shares and options aren't exempt.
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by aston 18y ago
In the interest of keeping Facebook private, I'm sure they would have given out the shares with some sort of stipulation against selling them without Facebook approval. Once too many people have shares, the company would be required to IPO.
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by aston 18y ago
I'll concede those points. If you really want to see where music is going, you should just pay attention to what white people are buying .
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by aston 18y ago
I was this close to downmodding you for saying Elvis invented rock. Chuck Berry, dude.
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by aston 18y ago
I think the last quote I got from them on it was, really roughly, "good idea; bad business."
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by aston 18y ago
Autotune is just another tool in the producer's toolkit. And by tool, I really mean instrument. Like any instrument, you can't just use it and automatically make a blockbuster hit. People have tried... Good music is good music, no matter ho
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by aston 18y ago
Authorize.net, basically just an API front for the real money handling, is only available through 3rd-party resellers. My best guess is that 37s's bank is one of those and is also providing the merchant account. I know that you can just gra
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by aston 18y ago
The main difficulties are the high per-transaction fees and the reasonably large percentage revenue cuts all of the concerned parties take from you. The more you charge, the larger the percent of your revenue you keep.
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by aston 18y ago
There are lots of payment processors with API's. Authorize.net is one of the better ones (as is PayFlow Pro).
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by aston 18y ago
For those interested in the final gradient technique, it looks like they're just using a div with a background color of #f9f9f9 and a bottom border of #eee, then sticking it (absolutely positioned) at the top of the box that also contains t
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Heyzap (YC W09) launches: The forming of Heyzap and some lessons learnt(immadsnewworld.com)
53 points by aston 18y ago|67 comments
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by aston 18y ago
I just learned about the --forest switch for ps. If you use it, you'll get a tree representing all of the parent and child processes running rather than just a straight up list.
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by aston 18y ago
If you're making money on merch, your business is your brand, not the t-shirts themselves. The article's only critical of people who think they're witty enough to sell t-shirts based just on the screen-printed content.
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by aston 18y ago
Yammer took very little funding relative to Twitter, especially if you ignore the fact that the engineers and product designers on it were stealing time from their core work on Geni. The comparison unfortunately falls flat once you go to th
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by aston 18y ago
10 people is still a pretty small company, all things told. You can draw the line for "startup" wherever you like, but a million dollars goes pretty fast for most businesses.
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by aston 18y ago
This isn't the best place for this discussion, but the short version is that you can't take the amount of capital VC's are dealing with and invest it in tiny ways because you don't have the ability to manage all of those investments. Also,
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by aston 18y ago
Might be a little too early to call it an absolute win for the home team. But then again, they are profitable already...
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by aston 18y ago
This entire essay hinges on the assumption that Microsoft's priced Windows (and Office?) inefficiently. Implicitly, it may also hinge on the presumption that the true dollar value of OS software is basically zero. I'm not so sure on the fir
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by aston 18y ago
A decent helping of NIH syndrome probably had something to do with it. Facebook engineers are pretty decent, and they like doing things in-house if at all possible.
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by aston 18y ago
Hacker news?
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by aston 18y ago
Zuckerberg is the only person out right now rocking the tie + Northface fleece look. Not sure it's going to catch on...
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by aston 18y ago
Boffery needs to check in with these folks for possible cross-promotion opportunities...
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by aston 18y ago
Looks like there might be some planned synergy here between muxtape and Normative, Jakob Lodwick's music label. Reggie Watts--one of the featured artists--is signed to the label, and Lodwick is an (the?) investor in muxtape.
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by aston 18y ago
One interesting point is that any constitutionalist strict enough to claim that the oath must be taken verbatim would pretty much be claiming nullification of every presidency. The oath as written doesn't include an allowance for the insert
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by aston 18y ago
Paypal is more demanding than most payment options about the prominence of their brand. They require, among other things, that you use their BIG, BRIGHT ORANGE Paypal button and that if you offer other payment options, the grouping needs to
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by aston 18y ago
People often accidentally a whole word from their sentences intentionally for humorous effect. Maybe not the best test of whether someone's read a tweet...
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by aston 18y ago
If you like that piece, you should go ahead and read Gladwell's new book Outliers.
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by aston 18y ago
They even got two episodes added back that weren't there before (The Gang Gets Whacked, pts. 1 & 2). Sweet.
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by aston 18y ago
Yeah. Considering it's mostly Joel's writing that has pulled people towards the forums (and thus the job board), one could make an argument that the $1 million should mostly be Joel's anyway.
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by aston 18y ago
Why'd the domain preview turn the IP into "104.9.102.66"?

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