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by chris_l 16y ago
Pretty dodgy economics going on. Wouldn't BPs expenses on cleanup so far already have been taken out of the stock price (re statement at the end of the graphic)? I expected it to be about the value of the oil lost... that's probably a lot l
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by chris_l 16y ago
I guess that depends on the specialisation (see other thread in this post). Maybe something like "software decision help", "scientific research service", "professional math help", "software evaluation", "Matlab debugging"...
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by chris_l 16y ago
True, I'm still working on sharpening the idea. Here's a specific example task, and at the upper end of the size/price spectrum: Let's say you want to write a Twitter search engine and adopt existing FLOSS software as far as possible (my po
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by chris_l 16y ago
Care to elaborate? I'm not sure of the size, but there are 100.000+ related monthly searches on Google (under $.20 per click), which is how I hope to reach customers.
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Ask HN: Feedback on business models
1 points by chris_l 16y ago|9 comments
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by chris_l 17y ago
According to the quote, the shape of the experiment was changing...
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by chris_l 17y ago
Every guy does that, and pretty transparently to boot. The end.
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by chris_l 17y ago
The awkwardness of your 10s silence is entirely in your head. They might have the same problem, but you wouldn't notice if they didn't. Familiarity is about being able to be in someones presence without it becoming awkward. A lot of attract
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by chris_l 17y ago
Vote me up because I read the dilbert strip today
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by chris_l 18y ago
I'd like to see custom search by relevant fields, e.g. location, (computer) languages, areas of experience, positions held, interests Business networking site XING also has user's list what they are currently looking for and offering
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by chris_l 18y ago
YC isn't in that business really. But as the source is open, we could do it ourselves...
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by chris_l 18y ago
Actually it feels to me like it's been around for much longer than 2 years... don't know what that means though
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by chris_l 18y ago
The background is that after doing some thorough evaluations (and debriefings) for my last startup, I thought this must be re-done over and over by founders. So I'm considering making some kind of for-pay info-product aimed at tech founders
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Poll: How do you support technology decisions?
1 points by chris_l 18y ago|2 comments
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by chris_l 18y ago
blog posts, other forums
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by chris_l 18y ago
information on project/product website
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by chris_l 18y ago
commercial reports
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by chris_l 18y ago
word of mouth, personal advice
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by chris_l 18y ago
hacker news
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by chris_l 18y ago
Just because you don't "extract" any value, to use the MBA term, does not mean you did not deliver it.
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by chris_l 18y ago
I posted this because I think this is the best place to collect some opinions about the likelihood of the official story and speculation on what really happened. Such a collision in 3d underwater space seem exceedingly unlikely, without add
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Nuclear submarines collide in Atlantic(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by chris_l 18y ago|2 comments
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by chris_l 18y ago
You can deliver value without being paid for it. For example by raising a child.
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by chris_l 18y ago
The idea behind this is not immigration but empire. The countries you mention have or still do identify with the latter, the US less so.
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by chris_l 18y ago
Insensitive clod! ;)
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by chris_l 18y ago
gapingvoid.com, especially "How to be creative" bill clementson's lispy blog
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by chris_l 18y ago
Thanks, the latter two sound good. Pin seems to be a too generic acronym to Google it, what does it stand for?
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by chris_l 18y ago
Thanks, meanwhile I have just stumbled up on ptrace which also looks promising. My application is to visualise the execution of programs, for which I want to ideally capture everything the processor does and generalise what I see...
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Ask HN: How to programmatically observe program execution?
4 points by chris_l 18y ago|7 comments
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by chris_l 18y ago
"Top words being used online: the" Is this some kind of parody?

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