blackswan

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by blackswan 9y ago
This is great. I manually monitor usage quite regularly at my meter (unfortunately not easy to get a smart meter in my country yet...) but it's just a number and you need to work out the current instantaneous usage. This just gives an
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by blackswan 16y ago
Amazing what putting a flashy UI around an outwardly boring piece of software can achieve. LIBOTS has been around since 2003 I think... Mint and Yodlee, Hipmunk and Orbitz - I wonder what other unglamorous services could be improved with a
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Where Realtime Worlds went wrong(lukehalliwell.wordpress.com)
1 points by blackswan 16y ago|0 comments
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by blackswan 16y ago
They even used the same stock photos.
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by blackswan 16y ago
Elon Musk left SA when he was 17.
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by blackswan 16y ago
I think it would be a good idea to be able to flag articles on HN with a distinction of being either spam or linkbait. I personally feel this article lacks sufficient specific insight to not be linkbait, especially considering both the "lis
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by blackswan 16y ago
Well done on launching! What sort of software powers this? Could you tell us more about the technical side of how your system works.
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by blackswan 16y ago
I agree with what you write re: bargaining with the leasing agent - a couple of my friends have got really good deals recently by simply saying "I'll take it now if you include 3 parking bays and give us a shorter-term lease" or equivalent.
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by blackswan 16y ago
I think this is something that is highly variable - based on personal requirements, cost of living in your country and your acceptable minimum standards of comfort. I think techniques to minimise burn would be more interesting than actual r
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by blackswan 16y ago
Google says "...we think there is room for more competition..." - but now they own both how most people find tickets and the service that provides the link between the airlines and the internet. My guess is that they will keep with their ma
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by blackswan 16y ago
Allowing such easy changing of the homepage is a great idea - it helps contextualise what the app does into something that might be useful to a user really fast. Good luck!
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by blackswan 16y ago
I agree that many gamers are keen for StarCraft II - but I think that the OP was describing StarCraft as a "disaster" in the context of how Activision usually approaches marketing its games. There is a new Call of Duty almost every year - k
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by blackswan 16y ago
It will be interesting to see whether use of these stations declines over the next few decades. Surely global adoption of the internet has made it the easiest place to hide clandestine communication?
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by blackswan 16y ago
This is really amazing considering that Atlas took 13 launches before it reached orbit successfully. Edit: It's also good for Obama's space plan - putting a new rocket into orbit on it's first launch is a pretty powerful way to demonstrate
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by blackswan 16y ago
Someone should do a speech like this on the life of the travelling salesman...
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by blackswan 16y ago
This is definitely my approach as well. I have a BMW and take exceptionally good care of it - and feel that this is the best way to deal with the fact that cars depreciate. Get a really well built car and use it for a long time. Due to the
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by blackswan 16y ago
Only if the value you are getting from using the asset is not more than the amount by which it is depreciating.
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by blackswan 16y ago
Owning an expensive car is actually not as bad as the author suggests. Once you get beyond around $80K cars depreciate at a much slower rate than other cheaper cars. One reason for this is that the more exotic a car is the lower the mileage
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Key Elements of a Massively Scalable Startup(startup-marketing.com)
1 points by blackswan 16y ago|0 comments
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The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City(viceland.com)
143 points by blackswan 16y ago|43 comments
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by blackswan 16y ago
You have to be pretty confident about the inevitability of your success to do this to Sequoia! One of the crew's edgiest pranks in those days was a presentation made to the blue-chip venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital, known in the Valle
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Sex and Cash Theory [SFW](gapingvoid.com)
1 points by blackswan 16y ago|0 comments
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Steve's Job: Restart Apple (1997)(time.com)
4 points by blackswan 16y ago|0 comments
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by blackswan 16y ago
I think all the adverts lower the tone a bit. One of strengths of HN - especially when it started - is that it was an altruistic initiative by PG. I'm also not so sure about the design - did you consider using Arc? Download it here: http:/
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by blackswan 16y ago
I remember when all my friends joined Facebook - it happened between high school and university. A couple of them had MySpace during high school but everybody had Facebook by the end of the first year of university. Back then I distinctly r
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by blackswan 16y ago
It's actually like seeing only a small selection of Larry and Sergey's searches - not all of Zuckerberg's content is public. He says so in one of his status updates that is public.
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Dan Ariely: Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes) (youtube.com)
1 points by blackswan 16y ago|0 comments
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The Age of Facebook(techcrunch.com)
28 points by blackswan 16y ago|14 comments
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by blackswan 16y ago
I'm no expert on the matter but I believe the problem is that GS misrepresented one side of the trade. So having a short and a long side to the trade isn't an issue - the problem is that GS misrepresented Paulson's hedge fund as an independ
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The Best Steve Jobs Videos(dkbmdev.com)
2 points by blackswan 16y ago|0 comments

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