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by blantonl 15y ago
Taking down www.FBI.gov is not that big of a deal. It is almost certainly an externally hosted CMS that is completely independent of any day to day FBI operations. This is analagous to claiming victory by DDOSing a blog.
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by blantonl 15y ago
This is the absolute best response to this post that we could ever have expected. Nailed it.
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by blantonl 15y ago
I've been on HackerNews for a little over 2 years, and in that time I don't believe I've ever flagged any submission. I guess I've always thought that the voting process would always take it's course. Curious, if pg is reading this, how of
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by blantonl 15y ago
Unless you are someone who cannot afford the legal fees that would allow you to challenge said legality/enforceability. Which is pretty much anyone.
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by blantonl 15y ago
You know, this assertion cannot be decided by one individual person, such as yourself. The fact that he attracted customers to his platform (paying or not), that aggressively used his service means he solved a problem. The issue was his abi
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by blantonl 15y ago
I do agree with this. Especially in this case if you outsource some of your marketing "expenses" to social platforms ("Like buttons", "tweet this", etc)
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by blantonl 15y ago
It is probably a case of us arriving to the same result by taking a different path. As I go back and reread your post with a broader viewpoint thats what I'm thinking?
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by blantonl 15y ago
I do not agree with this. The percentage of users that convert should be a closely watched metric that is very important to any freemium business.
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by blantonl 15y ago
I run and manage a very large freemium service, and I will tell you that the percentage of users that convert is a highly watched metric that is very important to my business. I agree with the fact that there will always be consumers out
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by blantonl 15y ago
can someone explain the reason why this concern is unwarranted?
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by blantonl 15y ago
But from the article and with my financial hat on, when the large instance is stopped and left in a standby role, are you still paying for it? You aren't paying for the CPU time, only the S3/EBS storage space that the image occupies (whic
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by blantonl 15y ago
As a large scale AWS user, I'm not sure I can agree with any of these recommendations. Don’t use micro instances for real work There are some use cases where micro instances work in production environments (such as MongoDb arbitrators etc
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Amazon releases object expiration for S3(docs.amazonwebservices.com)
3 points by blantonl 15y ago|1 comments
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by blantonl 15y ago
When one anonymous person tells the other anonymous person that they were not responsible for the anonymous person's action, you better believe it.
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by blantonl 15y ago
Listen, no matter how large or small a domain is - it is still a single entity. Wikipedia moving off of GoDaddy is the same as thisisthebestdomaineverwtf.com moving off of GoDaddy. Unfortunately, it is going to take a lot more to make an
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by blantonl 15y ago
Considering HN is all user generated content, does pg have a perspective on SOPA's potential impact on HN?
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by blantonl 15y ago
Josh, you are failing to recognize other reasons why a business might still consider using Paypal as their merchant account provider. Here are ours: 1) Costs. We pay 2.2% + $0.30 USD per transaction vs. Stripes' 2.9% + $0.30 USD per tra
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by blantonl 15y ago
When you go public you are opening up the kimono to the public. It appears that Facebook feels they are ready for that public financial scrutiny. It will be fascinating to see how Facebook generates revenue, spends money, and maintains net
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by blantonl 15y ago
The Government understands the impossibility of eradicating strong crypto. Its objective is instead to prevent unbreakable encryption from becoming routine. Wow! While this article was from 1994 this is a telling quote.
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by blantonl 15y ago
But you're forgetting that this time it's different. I'm betting this quote was used in the Color pitch-decks to Venture capital prospects.
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by blantonl 15y ago
If these businesses learn anything (Yelp and Groupon I'm looking at you!), it should be that quickly growing a sales force that is paid on incentives is difficult and should be closely managed. Otherwise the newly minted hundred(s) person
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The Geek-Kings of Smut(nymag.com)
23 points by blantonl 15y ago|4 comments
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by blantonl 15y ago
I've heard so many complaints from developers about the delayed source release, however I've never known Google to withhold source code for Android. Could the slight delay in release simply be due to legal issues such as scrubbing patent is
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Ask HN: Why should Facebook do an IPO?
7 points by blantonl 15y ago|5 comments
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by blantonl 15y ago
As a former frequent business traveler, I can tell you it is amazing what even one timezone will do to you with regards to sleep. I reside in the CST, and traveling to the west coast would take me a few days to acclimate, and then I would
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Groupon IPO begins trading, up 40% at the open(google.com)
2 points by blantonl 15y ago|0 comments
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by blantonl 15y ago
He designed new fluid monitors and x-ray equipment. He redrew that not-quite-special-enough hospital unit. It is scary to think what Steve could have accomplished if he lived into his 70's.
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by blantonl 15y ago
because Rackspace is very expensive. They are awesome, but they are expensive on the dedicated side.
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by blantonl 15y ago
100tb.com?
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by blantonl 15y ago
former IBM SE here... SE's at IBM are, technically, technical sales people. they are the ones that accompany the salesman to keep him honest and answer the tough questions.

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