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by blantonl 15y ago
I still pose the question "why?" In social media, the reason you created your account is to socialize. I don't understand why in the context of developing and managing a business, one needs an anonymous profile.
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by blantonl 15y ago
Why on earth would you want to remain anonymous on social platforms as an entrepreneur? Frankly, most of your businesses' success rides on who is running the show, and investors and customers want to know about who is running the show. Even
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Apple reports Q4 earnings EPS $7.05 vs $7.39 (EST)
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by blantonl 15y ago
Moe, my takeaway from this was.... roll your own :) In all seriousness (kinda), many thanks for the great write up on the current state of provisioning tools.
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by blantonl 15y ago
Not to discount Businessweek's release, but the reality is that media organizations devote enormous amounts of time to prepare for the imminent death of a popular/famous figure. I'd bet that weeks of effort were put into what consists of B
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by blantonl 15y ago
Writing a new programming language is fun, but don't expect it to replace PHP. That's going to be impossible unless your rewrite is shipped from php.net and replaces what exists now. I wholeheartedly agree. "phpreboot" isn't PHP, it is a
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by blantonl 15y ago
In high-risk markets, and new merchants, it's not uncommon for funds to be held. But apparently this was neither. We really can't tell from the OP what market this guy is in, and what he is really selling. He is deliberately vague.. "I r
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by blantonl 15y ago
If either of these new groundbreaking services gets very popular and attracts the eyes of the scammers, they'll be backed into the same corner that Paypal and every other merchant provider is in.
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by blantonl 15y ago
Marissa Mayer actively uses G+, publicly.
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by blantonl 15y ago
more importantly, at what point did a group of folks, presumably sitting around a conference table, make the conscious decision to execute this type of strategy? Motorola and Cisco have jumped in, and expect others with vested interests (Go
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by blantonl 15y ago
I certainly don't disagree that there are opportunities to game the "system," but in startup environments there are lots of people keeping a close eye on development and production environments. Someone gaming it will quickly be exposed. J
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by blantonl 15y ago
One way to reduce outages and bugs would be to put an incentive plan in place that pays bonuses to the folks on-call for each time they fix a problem while on-call. This would have two effects: - Management would strongly encourage the de
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by blantonl 15y ago
A huge flaw of Mac OS X is the lack of a proper package manager. Mac OS X does provide a package manager - the App Store.
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by blantonl 15y ago
A past discussion that seems to be playing out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2980323
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by blantonl 15y ago
Dont about the downvotes. It's probably because you haven't used the timeline features yet. As a current user of the timeline feature (it is available to Facebook developers), I am amazed and almost creeped out about how easy it is for me
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by blantonl 15y ago
Interesting to note that Facebook Timeline uses Microsoft's Bing maps for all mapping presentation. Direct shot across Google's bow? I'm a Facebook developer and followed these instructions from none other than TechCrunch to get my timelin
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Tell HN: New Facebook Timeline uses Microsoft's Bing Maps
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by blantonl 15y ago
Sounds good. I own and operate http://www.radioreference.com and we have a large live audio streaming platform for scanners (2800+ feeds). Something like what you've developed definitely interests me. Great work!
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by blantonl 15y ago
Very interesting concept. What hardware are you using on the back end to accomplish this?
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by blantonl 15y ago
7. Cancels IPO 8. Insolvent in 6 months 9. Layoffs 10. Lawsuits
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by blantonl 15y ago
For one, Yahoo would obtain significant talent. And they would gain an enormous amount of users that use Yahoo's services. I'm curious, why do you think Yahoo's properties would be a better fit with Facebook?
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by blantonl 15y ago
A Microsoft acquisition looked attractive, but I would argue that a Google acquisition would be far better for both. Google would foster a culture totally different from Yahoo's, and at the same time thrill the existing Yahoo employees - wh
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by blantonl 15y ago
You hit the nail on the head. Google seems to have figured this out by bringing back a product guy (Larry) to lead the company. And Google is still investing tremendous amounts of time and talent into innovation. It is scary to see how thes
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by blantonl 15y ago
I don't like Yelp, so here are some random unsubstantiated complaints about the reviews about Yelp itself. I'm inclined to agree with you about the original poster's perspective but it is hard for me to get past the serious accusations an
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by blantonl 15y ago
Bootstrapped startup owner here... I am of the opinion that if a business on the Web needs millions of dollars to get off the ground, then it's probably a business that isn't worth getting off the ground. I realize that there are exceptions
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by blantonl 15y ago
For those of you that were not around during the dot.com implosion in 2000-2001, pud (the author of this blog post) ran the notorious site http://www.fuckedcompany.com which gave an awesome view into companies that were going down the tub
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by blantonl 15y ago
Definitely a Desert Hawk: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/products/DesertHawk/index.html
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by blantonl 15y ago
many Apple shareholders would agree wholeheartedly with this statement. With that said, all that cash they are sitting on is really interesting, considering they've been hoarding it for a while. Jobs was criticized for this in the financia
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by blantonl 15y ago
Don't discount philanthropy and how that factors in to someone's sense of gratification. Take Bill Gates for example. He has accumulated far more money then he could ever spend on himself, so he went a different route and pledged to give m
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by blantonl 15y ago
I think it is time for the major forums software providers to really give a hard look at MongoDB and other NoSQL soluations. I'm looking at you Vbulletin and phpBB . We use MySQL extensively on our platform and much of our data is relat

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