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by bluelu 18y ago
I think the story is a little strange with the divorce forcing a freeze on the invested money. It sound more like the investor didn't want to pay, as there are 10 other similar products/sites and their application cost much but didn't deliv
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by bluelu 18y ago
It's true that it's easier to donate something with one click. It's also not new to me taht some people don't like them. But money business is a hard business with all the illegal money laundring going on around the world. I wish you the be
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by bluelu 18y ago
I think 2 is a great idea! ( allthough hardly doable as another person already explained)
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by bluelu 18y ago
So what's the difference to paypal then? If you ahve to cashout to paypal, why not add a donate paypal button at your website instead of te tipjoy button.
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by bluelu 18y ago
Sorry.I thought that many people fail at university, so you prove that you are somehow more capable of learning. Few was not well chosen. However, I observed in recent years (at least here in Switzerland and also other people told me about
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by bluelu 18y ago
A degree is a proof that you were able to complete something where other have failed, and that you are willing to learn and learn fast. It also proves that you are not completely dumb, since few people fail at university. Even without degre
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by bluelu 18y ago
That's true. But I also see and advantage herein. You don't have to save the credit number and other sensitive details, so they can't be stolen on your servers.
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by bluelu 18y ago
Amazon also has a biling service (flexible payments service): http://www.amazon.com/Flexible-Payments-Service-AWS/b/ref=sc... I don't know if you can charge each month however.
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by bluelu 18y ago
Imagine a Twitter with groups. They would need at least another 5 engineers to programm this ! ;)
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by bluelu 18y ago
His approach isn't so good, as it creates a copy for the same message sent to multiple users. Better safe the messages in a central store by id and only write the ids to the different pages. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=188080
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by bluelu 18y ago
In the early days, I can still remember my perl scripts failing with the "Premature end of script header" error. If they would have patched perl to ignore the newline encoding, nobody would have used php. I can imaging lots of newbiews turn
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by bluelu 18y ago
Congratulations on the first invoices! I know, it's pretty hard to work on something alone. Sometimes you feel great, but sometimes you simply feel discouarged. A friend is also quitting hist job now, but he still has to prove that he has t
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by bluelu 18y ago
A friend also told me taht he had no time working on his 20% project, because he was so busy doing the other stuff. And I suspect the bonus depends on the regular work, and not on your pet project ;-). Hell, not even the inventor of python
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by bluelu 18y ago
The fault lies in the system. Nowhere else in the world it's possible to create an official document (like a driver licence) or a bank account without proper authentication.
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by bluelu 18y ago
If you can run your server in Europe, I would recommend hetzner.de. At least twice as cheap as the amazon web service.
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by bluelu 18y ago
Even if you master a programming language and have no clue about algorithms, it won't work.
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by bluelu 18y ago
Huge P2P networks for large content distributions will never work, as the internet isn't build for that. Imaging everyone would be driving directly to the farmer to buy egs or milk. The roads would be crowded. A centralized technology is mu
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by bluelu 18y ago
A working solution is here: http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/res/show.html?what=barcode http://people.inf.ethz.ch/adelmanr/batoo/
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by bluelu 18y ago
Google's search business might be bigger than Windows, but let's not forget that the way we access the internet could change as well. A new protocol for accessing/finding information (no webservers anymore) could put google out of business
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by bluelu 18y ago
I bet their factz are only based on simple keyword / keyword matching! They are probably running out of money and need something to show off to get more funding! :)
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by bluelu 18y ago
This doesn't increase much the complexity... Not thinking long about it (5 minutes), but this is how I would do it: Not going muhc into detail (I don't use twitter, just had a quick look at it). 1) 1 replicated system where you can fetch me
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by bluelu 18y ago
If he can't scale a simple message passing system, what can he scale then? It's not that they are doing rocket science at twitter. He probably was the wrong person for the job. In the good old days, every message over ICQ was sent over thei
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by bluelu 18y ago
This reminds me of me playing games. When I was playing a game too much, I deleted it right away with all the save games so the hussle of reinstalling was too big and I lost interest.
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by bluelu 18y ago
You also get no loan from a bank or (free) state financing without a business plan. They don't invest their money in hot air :-).
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by bluelu 18y ago
Animations a little bigger on this site: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/staerk/algorithms/SortAnimat... I don't know who was first ;)
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by bluelu 18y ago
I once paid a guy to write articles and submit them to these article sites. There were a few visitors coming from those sites at the beginning, but it didn't help much. (This has also been 2 years ago, things might have changed)
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by bluelu 18y ago
Unfortunately you can't get paid through tipjoy... Thought about moving your country to a different country where you could actually process payments easier than in the US?
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by bluelu 18y ago
There is also http://www.doodle.ch/ . For a weekend, it's a nice result. :)
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by bluelu 18y ago
or move your company to a country where software patents are not legally enforceable (eg. the rest of the world) Also you can not be sued for using someone's patents. You can be sued if they give you notice that you are using their patents,
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by bluelu 18y ago
So how does he know? Did he sign off both deals?

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