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by carson 16y ago
90-95% profit margin isn't exactly realistic. Not that people and some companies don't hit that mark but it is rare. A much more realistic range is probably 30-35% if you are in the tech world and much lower if you are in the world of physi
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by carson 17y ago
I think you have it there. Developers probably need to be ready to submit their source code along with their binary. That is my guess on what will happen when one sees the "denied because it isn't hand written." What this will absolutely st
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by carson 17y ago
I also wonder what "fantastic IDE" he is referring to. I constantly hear people talk about visual studio being great but I don't believe they have ever stepped outside their world to try some of the Java IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA.
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by carson 17y ago
I wonder if this might lead Facebook to start caching images on fan pages like they sometimes do for images in apps.
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by carson 17y ago
I completely forgot about these guys but I think they have been doing this for a while. I can think of a number of reasons you might want to do this and one of those would be to use the Apple HTTP video streaming software that was released
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by carson 17y ago
In the end will this debate really matter at all? So many browsers are already supporting html5 features like canvas and the video tag.
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by carson 17y ago
It is probably there to allow the members to talk freely about internal projects that they don't want to have exposed externally before they are ready.
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by carson 17y ago
I'm not sure the comment was about valuation it was about the purchase price. The buyer has to pay what the company is willing to take and part of that equation is how much the VCs that gave them $6M want for a return.
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by carson 17y ago
It may not be too high if you look at the VC money they had raised. $6M had been invested so if that was a 50% stake then you are looking at a 4x return for the VC. Isn't that about right?
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by carson 17y ago
I would be up for building some StackScripts myself but I hate to have to buy a complete plan to do it. I really wish Linode would offer a more fine grained billing.
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by carson 17y ago
Ahhh, they should have held off on that wiki link.
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by carson 17y ago
It would seem they forgot to make the project public on github.
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by carson 17y ago
If this is true and it is just a compiled version of PHP how much better is that going to be than APC or eAccelerator? There must be more to it than just compiled PHP.
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by carson 17y ago
This will probably spur B&N to do the same thing for the Nook. Or maybe Amazon saw that coming since the Nook is an Android device and that seems like an obvious advantage for developing apps.
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by carson 17y ago
This is probably a little better comparison of CPU performance between the difference platforms and a couple others: http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison