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by bl4k 16y ago
I can't help but agree with you. In anything I write, I am either paid directly, have my own ads up against it, or I am contributing to a community with a broader goal of making information more readily and easily accessible - where there i
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by bl4k 16y ago
The bad things about this case is that whatever happens to Mr Assange, or how he is perceived in the media and by the wider world, directly impacts the credibility of wikileaks itself (like it or not). A site that is built on a great ideal
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by bl4k 16y ago
Did you give a verbal ok, or did you sign something? (a document that would have handed over your rights to the publisher and where you would have relinquished all commercial claims). Were the publishers upfront with you about selling your
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by bl4k 16y ago
Paul, Jason is right, because it happen to a company I was involved with a few years ago. Facebook was in it's early days (I am trying to be as vague here as possible because I do not want to give away who was involved), and they had a prob
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The Great American Bubble Machine(rollingstone.com)
2 points by bl4k 16y ago|0 comments
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by bl4k 16y ago
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
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by bl4k 16y ago
am I the only redditor that doesn't want this guy to buy the site? CN may be bad, but this guy isn't exactly the epitome of professionalism (edit: also not sure if the reddit guys will be up for both cheeseburger owners and cheeseburger wag
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by bl4k 16y ago
On Business and Tech co-founders, you are correct. I commented on the article and said as much, since even the most cited example of Apple involved two technical co-founders (one of whom just happen to nail the business part, but he relied
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by bl4k 16y ago
Every experienced entrepreneur has this happen to them at least once in their lives, usually many times. You think you are so close to being acquired, only for it to fall apart. A startup CEO tends to spend all his/her time either raising m
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by bl4k 16y ago
If you look at the most popular open source server software, a very large proportion of it is written in PHP (popular by install base) with applications such as Wordpress, PHPBB, PHPAds, Drupal, Gallery, Zencart, Joomla, SugarCRM, MediaWiki
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by bl4k 16y ago
sessions are a one-time token. passwords are an all time token. biometrics are a forever token.
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by bl4k 16y ago
For a company with $50M in revenue and $50M raised in venture funding, $100M is not a very big acquisition. It is interesting that despite the big revenue figures, it is never mentioned if Like.com is profitable - so we can only assume th
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by bl4k 16y ago
Interesting anecdote about the Android acquisition: Larry and Sergey bought the company without telling Eric Schmidt about it[1]. Google moved into the mobile market on a whim. Google's strategy seem a lot more planned and methodical from t
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1975: The First Digital Camera(blog.iso50.com)
2 points by bl4k 16y ago|1 comments
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by bl4k 16y ago
Chris Anderson and Wired manipulate facts to forward their theories with whatever new theory and bandwagon they are jumping on. The data cited in 'The Long Tail' was not accurate[1], and actually supported the counter-argument. 'Free' was s
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by bl4k 16y ago
Somebody I know very well was making small talk with Steve Ballmer and asked "So why did you guys get rid of Ensemble Studios, I have lost hours of time with those games and loved them". Steves response was: "who?" Gives you an idea of how
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by bl4k 16y ago
Terrible advice and tribalist. Your platform doesn't matter, work what you are comfortable with rather than spending months being awkward because some random guy on HN told you windows sucks. You didn't even give a reason why OS X or Linux
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by bl4k 16y ago
Something to be wary about as an entrepreneur: the angel investors who are now raising larger funds will have to invest in more companies, which will result in them being able to spend less time and less energy with each startup. The tradit
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by bl4k 16y ago
the Apple case of having a biz co-founder in Jobs and a tech co-founder in Woz is often cited, but Jobs is really a tech guy who knows his biz stuff. He made most of the tech design decisions at Apple and NeXT including ObjC, Rhapsody, Carb
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by bl4k 16y ago
Who remembers the Intel processor ID debacle of ~10 years ago? http://www.schneier.com/essay-187.html There were similar privacy concerns when it was found that Microsoft were able to generate unique identifying fingerprints of PC's, whic
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by bl4k 16y ago
I don't think 'Facebook will fail because other companies have failed' is the right answer.
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by bl4k 16y ago
Related from last week, my own Ask HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1580464 One of the comments in that thread pointed to this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... Which points out that th
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by bl4k 16y ago
hire contractors (or setup a team) and isolate them from the rest of the business. happens in both small and large companies all the time.
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by bl4k 16y ago
Advice: This would have been a good opportunity to tell me what Flattr is rather than making the assumption that I have been eagerly following along with your progress and am as excited now as you are. (Edit: Found the homepage, read it, st
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by bl4k 16y ago
Relevant question on Quora: Why did the web services (Web 2.0) group at Yahoo faill after acquiring Flickr, delicious, upcoming, mybloglog et al: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-web-services-group-at-Yahoo...
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by bl4k 16y ago
I once tried to deposit enough money in my bank account to cause a buffer overflow. I could never get the shell code to exec though.
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by bl4k 16y ago
I have nothing against RoR, but I don't think it is a good choice for the goal of having an easy self-install application. If you look at the popular self-install apps, such as Wordpress, PHPBB, Drupal, etc. they are all written in PHP. The
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by bl4k 16y ago
well I was speaking from experience. Two Stanford comp sci grads, were hired based on that (I didn't hire them, but I did have to manage them). Both turned out to be net negatives to our team. Big learning experience to look beyond the scho
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by bl4k 16y ago
you need to re-evaluate how you are handling characters. you aren't escaping and encoding properly. there is no point in just smashing the little bugs that people bring up because it will still leave other things open. time to re-eval.
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by bl4k 16y ago
I would never work for a company that measures a person based on what school they have a degree from, and I never have.

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