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by ben1040 15y ago
Pardon my ignorance but how often do insiders get their stakes cashed out after funding rounds like this, as opposed to using the money for operations or growing the business? My lack of knowledge about corporate finance and the part of tha
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by ben1040 15y ago
I bought the Doxie on Amazon and it arrived today. I paid extra for Saturday delivery because I was really hoping to use the long holiday weekend to get through the pile of papers lingering around my house. Turned out mine has the same gri
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by ben1040 15y ago
I'm surprised it's missing the standard stipulation that the code is not to be used in nuclear facilities or life support systems, and that it not be exported to Iran, Cuba, Syria, or North Korea.
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by ben1040 15y ago
I was on vacation in SF a few years back and discovered from a sign in my hotel lobby that Tufte was giving a workshop there the very next morning. I immediately signed up. You'd think it would be really weird to spend $400 to sit in a hot
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by ben1040 15y ago
Here's a few examples of these forms I found from googling: http://lagunaskincenter.com/RegistrationForms.aspx I agree to the mutual privacy agreement and authorize the office to retain full copyrights to any communication or online post
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by ben1040 15y ago
I've been a Prime subscriber for a little over 3 years. I use it for everything . It's really dangerous, combined with the mobile app. For example, my wife and I were talking over lunch the other day that we needed a new weed-whacker f
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by ben1040 15y ago
Pandora is 6 skips an hour ( More for Pandora One I think) If you pay for Pandora, you get six skips per hour per station. Free users get six skips per hour, across all stations.
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by ben1040 15y ago
$8 a month to still have TV shows with ads in them? Not only that, but most of the good/popular shows are "web only." So even though you're paying them good money to have the ability to watch on your TV or mobile device, tough luck.
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by ben1040 15y ago
From an business uptime perspective, forced "downtime" of employees through vacation is actually a good way to force the creation of backup systems for business process. Or, when combined with a minimal vacation time bucket, forced vacati
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by ben1040 15y ago
I've also seen similar language described on other websites' TOS; didn't Facebook have a debacle about this too at one point? It was explained then that it was necessary basically because distributing uploaded/shared photos to CDNs and the
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by ben1040 15y ago
Although Nokia sells over a billion phones a year, this proves that you can target a narrow sliver of a huge market with futuristic innovation and still gain the majority of the profit available in the whole market. Apple even pointed thi
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by ben1040 15y ago
Thanks for this! Been meaning to pick up the Coffeescript book anyway so this just makes a great deal out of it.
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by ben1040 15y ago
My work day is usually 8 hours of implementing whatever idea I came up with while in the shower that morning. If nothing comes to me during the morning routine, I'll have a really crummy, unproductive day. I might be able to take an hour
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by ben1040 16y ago
When I read this, it brought back memories of being back in '98 or so, when I got the first cable modem Charter had to offer. It came in the form of an ISA card that used my existing dialup modem for the upstream and the cable for the down
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by ben1040 16y ago
I'm really surprised by the way they communicated things yesterday. Slicehost has been marketed toward hackers and geeks for years, so you'd have to expect that those people are going to demand technical information up front and are going t
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by ben1040 16y ago
AT&T's app sideloading ban makes Amazon's app store moot at present, and it certainly puts AT&T in a bargaining position to request Amazon implement these carrier specific blocks too if Amazon wants access to all these AT&T devi
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by ben1040 16y ago
I wrote a streaming media app and I request that permission so I can mute audio when a call comes in. I don't need or want users' other personal details, muting audio on a call is just what good apps do. I hate how shady my app looks on the
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by ben1040 16y ago
Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for. Also laughing hard at the irony of the title.
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by ben1040 16y ago
A couple months ago someone posted a link on HN to a pretty cool looking tool that automatically would generate a Puppet script based on your server environment (packages installed, etc). I didn't save it, and I can't find it now from goog
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by ben1040 16y ago
This isn't that new; PDANet has been blocked on AT&T in this manner for at least a year (from my experience having tried to download it when I first got an N1). Searching for it in the Market yielded nothing when an AT&T SIM was in
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by ben1040 16y ago
Last year, the "TBA" talks covered products/APIs that were announced during that day's keynote. Some of these included the Android push notification service, prediction web API, and storage API.
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by ben1040 16y ago
I've owned the original 12" Powerbook G4, and the first-gen MacBook Air (no SSD). With both of those I ended up with some buyers remorse about six months later, feeling like I was making some huge performance tradeoffs for the portability
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by ben1040 16y ago
Any idea if this will still subject participate libraries to publishers' rules surrounding e-books, like HarperCollins' idiotic 26-circulation limit?
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by ben1040 16y ago
I like the theory they posit about the social expectation to look busy. It's why I often take a walk down to the university library to work. There's a long-standing social expectation that when you go to the library, you're there to do ser
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by ben1040 16y ago
In the extremely likely event of a water landing, your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device!
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by ben1040 16y ago
My internist's hospital group uses Epic, and while I'm sure it cost a pretty penny to license the feature, you can download an iOS app to view your test results, request appointments, send a secure message to the doc, etc. I could really se
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by ben1040 16y ago
I probably would buy one of these, if I hadn't already bought a Kindle a month ago. I spend hours with my Kindle, but only a few minutes on the home screen. I keep the device in a case and I couldn't tell you what "screensaver" images it d
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by ben1040 16y ago
Great advice. When I get free t-shirts from work or conferences, they're pretty much reserved for being something to wear when I'm painting or mowing the lawn. One such shirt never even made it out of the office; it's still been neatly fold
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by ben1040 16y ago
It's not shown in the example on the link, but the Android Facebook app's home screen uses the bottom half to show a stream of recently posted pictures from friends. I suppose the article's author must not have many friends who feel like sh
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by ben1040 16y ago
If I remember right, at least a year ago when I first got my Nexus One, Grooveshark was also hidden on Android Market if I had an AT&T SIM in my phone. I could only see it and download it if I pulled my SIM out and connected via wifi.

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