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by bkrausz 16y ago
Haha, a reasonable request. We're working on a good way to let people demo our technology. Part of the problem is that this is computationally intensive, and we didn't want all of TC killing our processing servers. The other part is we fo
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Thanks! We didn't even realize this was one of the extra benefits of our technology, but it seems to be a pretty important one: people have reported completely forgetting that they're being tracked when using our early prototypes.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
They use their own computers and webcams, providing a much more natural environment for testing. That's one of the reasons we can offer such a low-cost service. If anyone is interested in being one of our users, sign up at https://www.gaz
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Good point, we'll add some example links to the site. In the meantime: http://www.gazehawk.com/img/techcrunch-heatmap.png http://www.gazehawk.com/img/wakemate-heatmap.png We pay $2 for trying right now, $4 for actually completing, and
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Most companies I've been at/seen have at least $5k referral bonuses. At one company I knew of one employee who had gotten $25k in one year: definitely nothing to balk at.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
How are you precomputing the images? I thought GMaps provided a way to input data and get a heatmap, but apparently I'm mistaken.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I don't think Reddit is doing it now (since they said their boot process is not automated) but there's a lot to be said for spinning servers up and down according to demand. I'd be curious what Reddit's utilization graph looks like. There
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by bkrausz 16y ago
1) Conde Nast owns them. To say they don't have some involvement in all of their decisions (even if not directly) is a bit naive. 2) You're right, I mis-spoke and should have said "they may be" instead of "they're". That being said, I wou
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I understand the budgeting logic but you're telling me you can't stagger the 3-year buys so that they work within your budget? It's a 15% savings long-term, seems definitely worth some number futzing.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Actually they're even lower, since the 3 year instances are so much cheaper than the 1 year over time. (1820 * 57) + (910 * 23) = $124,670/yr in reservation fees Changes to (2800 * 57) + (1400 * 23) = $191,800/3yr in reservation
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I definitely treated my 23andme profile as a piece of entertainment, and don't think people should take it too seriously. I found someone who may be a distant cousin, and a few interesting traits, so I'd consider it a slightly more informe
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by bkrausz 16y ago
My college degree - partially for the name that led to great internships/jobs that gave me insightful experience, but mostly for the friends (including my cofounder), social experience, and general maturing that happens there. 3 years &
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I was trying to think of how to ask that myself. I guess just auto-deleting whatever they post (if that's actually what's happening) is better than banning them, since a ban would alert them and they can just make a new account. This lets
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Damn, you're right! Stupid orders of magnitude...
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by bkrausz 16y ago
You can't gzip headers, only content
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by bkrausz 16y ago
The 2 header lines are 163 bytes (including /r/n). Quantcast (probably very wrong, but the best estimate I can find) says they get 277K visits per day. Not sure what their pages/visits are, but it's that times 43GB/day.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
That's true of any job: if it's their hardware they can do what they want with it. Tons of jobs have similar monitoring policies.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
That's unfair: YC doesn't bias against "outsiders". The point of YC is to find smart people with good ideas from anywhere. For example: you hear stories about people flying around the world to interview. One of their main benefits is the
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Isn't it just as likely that people were still ordering but clicking "Yes" to the remove insecure content option? This would mean the orders still came through but Google Analytics wasn't getting called and recording them.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Alert boxes tend to be horrible in terms of usability, but it is the only way to actually require a second step, since anything else you do will be constrained to the iframe and you can just clickjack a second time. I think the solution the
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I'm not sure if this is even possible to fix, given the same-origin policy on iframes. Facebook can't tell where the iframe is placed on the page, and I don't think they can tell if it's 'position:absolute'd. It's a tough problem.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Code rewrites are always a bad idea...they just need to refactor instead. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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by bkrausz 16y ago
11:00: wake up, shut off alarm 12:00: wake up again, shut off second alarm 13:00: phone rings/roommate knocks on door to actually wake me up 13:30: stumble into shower, check email, catch up on RSS 14:00: lunch (or breakfast)
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Firefox keeps a copy of every image on screen decompressed in memory anyway, that's one of the downsides to using large sprites, they can take up a large amount of RAM. I doubt non-sprited base64 images compare in size issues. See the disc
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by bkrausz 16y ago
While I agree a sales website would be useful, it can often be a lot of wasted effort. Startups can pivot significantly before they launch, and building up a sales website before you launch could be wasted effort if you end up targeting a
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Weird that it didn't get filtered out by the HN de-duping. Something to do with the > & <?
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Thank you! For some reason I always take flak for this position, great to know I'm not the only one who feels this way.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
From my Quora post on PHP[1]: "PHP is just like every other language: it allows you to write horrible, insecure, stupid code. It also allows you to write clean code." Really, the language doesn't matter. Find people who write good code an
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Minor bug report: The url has > & < stripped rather than escaped, so I needed to resubmit with the > & < replaced with > and <
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The Origin of the <blink> Tag(montulli.org)
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