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by bkrausz 16y ago
Yes, but always good for a chuckle followed by a deep thought or two :).
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by bkrausz 16y ago
640 microbes ought to be enough for anybody.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
It'll be a fair bit less than half, probably around $50k. Shameless but very relevant plug: http://nerdlife.net/diasporas-upfront-costs/
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by bkrausz 16y ago
In the modern West, major studies indicate a prevalence of homosexuality of 2% to 13% of the population[1]. On any given day 4% of the population has sex[2]. That means that in order for same-gender sex to outnumber straight sex, every day
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by bkrausz 16y ago
They also power most of the meta search sites, which Google is easily positioned to become (and link to actual OTAs for booking). Huge conflict of interest. However, ITA is not the only option out there, and given the concerns I bet ever
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by bkrausz 16y ago
That is the best research-to-length-of-post density I've seen on HN to date. Kudos sir.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Specifically, my merchant account charges $30 per chargeback and they say there's trouble if more than 1% of your transactions are disputed, regardless of the outcome. Also it's a huge pain in the ass to dispute, even when the merchant is o
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Lego for Grownups(gizmodo.com)
2 points by bkrausz 16y ago|0 comments
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by bkrausz 16y ago
It's possible another user of that DNS name (they do get reused) linked to it at some point and Google picked it up.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Every website should have a similar redirect rule in there somewhere (I implement it in PHP). If someone hits yoursite.com, you probably want to redirect them to www.yoursite.com. I whitelist my domains such that if someone goes goes to a
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by bkrausz 16y ago
When I interviewed with them and friends would ask what the company did, I would say "you know how in 24 Jack Bauer would call up CTU and say a name, then they'd find out everything about that person instantly, from their address to the las
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I totally get the sentiment and agree with all the reasons (to varying extents), but quitting my last job, where I was in almost the exact same position, was incredibly difficult. I wouldn't have been able to leave without another incredib
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Agreed...I don't immediately discount the company because everyone seems to do it, but I wish it would stop, since that does nothing to inform me of what kind of company I'm looking at.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
The question of what to reveal on official documents comes up fairly often. On the on hand, telling the truth can cause unnecessary trouble, on the other hand, lying is technically illegal. I'm amazed at how often people are strongly ince
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I have a small ecommerce site that has an ~1% conversion rate. If I'm reading your post correctly you have about a 1% user conversion rate, so I would say you're average based on my dataset of 1 other site ;). You really don't know what yo
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Pretty strict, normally all merchant account agreements mention that you can't process cards for anyone else or any other business/purpose/website other than the one listed. They like to keep a tight eye on that.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
The problem you have is that flight data is incredibly fast-changing and computationally expensive to get. So in order to get enough data for this you need to do a lot of long queries very often. Companies that provide pricing information
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Unfortunately most places (AFAIK) don't actually have options between high-speed ISPs (I'm excluding DSL). The market doesn't work so well for utilities...I'd almost prefer government regulation, just not in this direction.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
When my cofounder was finishing his Masters thesis and went dark for a week (no IM, limited email), I would use dropbox to communicate vital things to him. I just made a file called "did you remember to sign this", and he would `echo "yes"
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by bkrausz 16y ago
> Titles are for insecure people that need to have their egos re-inforced... Can't agree more...I'm glad I got over the need for titles with my first (and maybe second) girlfriend(s). I can't think of a time when my cofounder and I will
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Thankfully Slicehost resizes fairly quickly...some more RAM can't hurt.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Impressive...the first time it's had problems in a while. Fixed, thanks for the heads-up.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I looked into it...he's a little high for just flat cost, but there is a lot of labor I didn't account for: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1382563
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Diaspora’s Upfront Costs(nerdlife.net)
24 points by bkrausz 16y ago|10 comments
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by bkrausz 16y ago
What's really weird is that they have a point difference...
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by bkrausz 16y ago
What are your monthly payments? I imagine anything under $500/month is doable (I have $250/month and just quit my job: by the time I run out of money I'll know whether or not my business will work out, and that's really all you need). EDIT
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by bkrausz 16y ago
That should keep YC going practically indefinitely :). Assuming the data at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1... is complete. And assuming a $17k investment for 6% from all the companies who have exited (I know
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Admob does some awesome things with some special code in your app: adding it will track conversions from Admob ads into downloads. Other than that there's no good way I know of to track download conversions.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Even if Zuckerberg is as much of an asshole as many say, nobody deserves to have this kind of publicity. How he chooses to live his live is between him and the people he interacts with. Something like this is unnecessary fuel to the Faceb
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Sounds like a perfect use for the workatastartup.org domain name :).

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