brianr

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   by brianr 18y ago

   Thomas Edison?
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   by brianr 18y ago

   Here's something related that I definitely would pay for: a subscription-based service that provides reliable proxy servers in a wide variety of countries. There was a thread recently about this sort of thing-- http://news.ycombinator.co
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   by brianr 18y ago

   http://sivers.org/blog
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   by brianr 18y ago

   This is awesome . They must be raking it in.
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   by brianr 18y ago

   TradeStation is $0.01 per share for equities (for the first 500 shares; $0.006 after that), $1/min per trade: http://www.tradestation.com/brokerage/commissions.shtm
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   by brianr 18y ago

   It's worth noting that Kleiner Perkins, as one data point, got out of the web startup business some time ago That may be their PR, but they're very much still investing in web startups. Here's a list of their investments: http://www.crun
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   by brianr 18y ago

   In the ideal situation, each unit in RTS game should have its own AI. That should be straightforward to parallelize, no?
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   by brianr 18y ago

   +1 for Pylons. We're currently serving around 20 million dynamic requests a day via pylons from a handful of servers; pylons probably won't be your bottleneck. What I like about it: python, promotes good code organization, relatively small
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   by brianr 18y ago

   Companies that have no revenue buying other companies that have no revenue and rejecting purchasing attempts from other companies who have no revenue You're probably right about the first two, but not the third. Facebook brought in ~$150m
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    by brianr 18y ago

    Possibly make their point of contact an engineer rather than an HR person. There are definitely benefits to this, as you mention, but taken to the extreme (all recruiting is done by engineers), it's a pretty high cost to the company's pro
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    by brianr 18y ago

    yes! send me a line - email is in my profile.
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    by brianr 18y ago

    We've been generating revenue since we launched our first product. It's a lot easier to make money when it's been a part of the thought process all along.
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    by brianr 18y ago

    We're hiring! Looking for exceptional, detail-oriented engineers and product managers to help us take over the social world. We're profitable, too. Jobs page here: http://www.lolapps.com/jobs.html (sorry for the lame-ish job descriptions)
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    by brianr 18y ago

    see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=366447
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    by brianr 18y ago

    Thinking abuot it, advertising on LinkedIn makes a lot of sense for them: they want business users to move away from MS Office and onto Google Docs, which runs much better on Chrome than Firefox or IE.
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    by brianr 18y ago

    The problem with that construct is that trueaction itself must evaluate to true, or the expression will evaluate to falseaction, which most likely is not what you want: >>> 0 if 1 else 2 0 >>> 1 and 0 or 2
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    by brianr 18y ago

    How hard it is to live on $1/year clearly depends on how much money you have in the bank, or other resources you might have. In absence of that (or if your net worth is actually negative--say, you have a lot of student loans), then it's jus
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    by brianr 18y ago

    I don't think that's a fair comparison. Those "real CEOs" generally have a high net worth to begin with, something that's not true of (I would guess) most startup founders.
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    by brianr 18y ago

    Yeah, that's been on my list for months. Maybe I'll get to it this weekend...
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    by brianr 18y ago

    I wrote a message queue server that uses the memcached protocol (so I could use memcache client libraries to connect to it), similar to Starling/Sparrow. Starling and Sparrow kept falling over from the volume of connections, so I decided to
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    by brianr 18y ago

    Most of these don't look like bugs, but here's a search to match "if (... = ": http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=if\+\ (\w%2B\+%3D\+&sbtn=Search Can anyone think of a better way to match the subset that are more like
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    by brianr 18y ago

    C makes perfect sense for nginx, as it's a web server , not a web app .
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    by brianr 18y ago

    Work laptop?
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    by brianr 18y ago

    People aren't as dumb as you expect. You're right--they are about 10 times dumber. Have you been on Facebook or MySpace, or read YouTube comments lately?
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    by brianr 18y ago

    Here's an example in python: >>> import random, operator >>> nums = (range(5)*2) >>> random.shuffle(nums) >>> nums.pop() 1 >>> nums [0, 4, 0, 3, 2, 4, 3, 1, 2] &
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    by brianr 18y ago

    I just wanted to reiterate that this is GOOD advice. Design your product to fit the viral channels; don't try to fit the viral channels into the product you already have.
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    by brianr 18y ago

    Google?
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    by brianr 18y ago

    nice, i'm there.
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    by brianr 18y ago

    PDO is good.
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    by brianr 18y ago

    This is probably overkill, but Amazon Web Services offers something called "Grep the Web" which you can use to run offline regex searches of the web: http://www.amazon.com/Alexa-Web-Search/b?ie=UTF8&node=26...