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by codexon 16y ago
Google's only unique offering is search All the other stuff, maps, email, translate, etc... were incremental improvements of already available and competitive free services. You also neglected to list the dozens of flops that Google undoubt
812.
by codexon 16y ago
Python equivalent: locals()[somevar]
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by codexon 16y ago
Then how do we categorize a startup if not by age (Facebook is already 5 years old) and size (hundreds of employees, billions in stock)?
814.
by codexon 16y ago
What should they use instead of EC2?
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by codexon 16y ago
You shouldn't trust that website. http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.amazon.com And this really does need to go on the front page because far too many startups are using Facebook Login, and the recent partnership with YC to get YC sta
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by codexon 16y ago
Some snippets of interest. Control maximum speed: /js/Tadpole.js line 12: this.maxMomentum = 3; Send a message: app.sendMessage(string) Message length: /js/WebSocketService.js line 113
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by codexon 16y ago
Reddit had quite a bit more downtime and lag problems (frequently 12+ hours) than Digg before Digg went to v4. So while 100 employees for Digg might be overkill, 6 employees is too few.
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by codexon 16y ago
This is what I was responding to: I seriously don't understand how people were defending his writing style. I explained that his writing style is defensible because he doesn't care about the general audience. And if there were more people
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by codexon 16y ago
I'm inclined to think not, because you have to be an accredited investor You "only" need $1 million in net assets (minus the house due to recent law I believe) to be an accredited investor. I would really be surprised if Joel didn't have
820.
by codexon 16y ago
Maybe you would, that's why you're complaining about it. But my whole point is that there's more people like him that don't feel like writing perfectly. As you just admitted, it takes extra effort to write for your audience instead of writi
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by codexon 16y ago
Let's be honest here. If you had as much money as Mcclure, would you waste as much time trying to please people by bending over backwards with perfect grammar, lack of slang, and an apologetic tone? Everyone starts writing to please other
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by codexon 16y ago
Why would he be angry at a teacher making $60k/year then if his business was raking in much more than that?
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by codexon 16y ago
Here is the reason why. 1. Businesses started pushing the cost of job training onto colleges. Then everyone had to go to college. 2. Colleges realized they were selling too cheaply when students could pay off tuition by working summers. The
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by codexon 16y ago
Can someone explain the appeal? I normally enjoy indie games with low-end graphics like Dwarf Fortress or Adom. My first impression as I logged into a server was a giant landscape of multicolored blocks devoid of any meaning whatsoever. The
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Evercookie: A cookie that undeletes itself from 8 different storages(samy.pl)
391 points by codexon 16y ago|108 comments
826.
by codexon 16y ago
It shows a wage increase for women, but a wage decline for men by 17% over 30 years.
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by codexon 16y ago
I really didn't think this article had any new insight. It simply boiled down to: let's capitalize on this Groupon buzz and say we won't make the same mistakes. Their article on Bill Gates was simple link bait.
828.
by codexon 16y ago
Anyone wonder why Redfin is getting so much coverage on HN recently? They don't seem to be a YC company. I just took a look at their Wikipedia entry and noticed that they received investment from Vulcan, founded by Paul Allen. No wonder the
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by codexon 16y ago
An industry based on caveat emptor, a lack of trust between actors, zero sum games, and the love of a quick buck over all else leads to an ugly future. That's how capitalism has worked for hundreds of years. It was only relatively recentl
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by codexon 16y ago
I agree with you there. Digg's traffic was higher before the change to v4. I think what may have happened was that they looked at Reddit's plea for money as an excuse to commercialize, and took it too far.
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by codexon 16y ago
No, people are anti-tax because they believe government is an inefficient way to Get Stuff Done. This is a common euphemism for "you don't deserve my money because all my money came from hard work and all your poorness comes from your laz
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by codexon 16y ago
IBM mistakenly asked Microsoft for an 8088 version of CP/M (the predecessor to DOS). Gates then bought a clone called 86-DOS and slapped the MS label on it. If MS didn't exist, someone else could have easily replaced them. It was also mainl
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by codexon 16y ago
Michael Phelps was born with his flipper-like feet, does that make him any less of an Olympian? No, but it makes the victory tainted by circumstance rather than hard work. Who would you be more receptive to in a lecture about hard work: Y
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Microsoft advertising IE9 to the anti-IE Reddit crowd(reddit.com)
2 points by codexon 16y ago|0 comments
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by codexon 16y ago
I thought he was being sarcastic when he said it looked random. Isn't that why he is asking for input?
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by codexon 16y ago
I never said Google bought Youtube out of kindness. I said that Google had the option of letting Youtube weaken, and buy them at a discount...or fully letting them die out and have Google Video dominate. Each decision with a different risk/
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by codexon 16y ago
I doubt every other company on that list could have made it successful. Even Google with all its "dark fiber" bandwidth has not been able to make it profitable after 4 years. Viacom is simply not interested in running a money losing venture
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by codexon 16y ago
And by the way, do you know what will happen when facebook/YC screws people over? The word will spread like wildfire. Apparently the word doesn't spread to people like you, considering the long list of people Zuckerberg has screwed.
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by codexon 16y ago
It is important to consider Zuckerberg's history. Given his history of screwing over business partners and friends, it's almost a certainty it will happen. There is already a negative image of him in the startup community, so Facebook doesn
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by codexon 16y ago
Google could have waited until the bandwidth costs and the lawsuits from Viacom ate them alive. Remember, Youtube hasn't even become profitable yet. Google already had a capable clone. They just lacked the community because they were a late

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