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by coopdog 14y ago
There's a great alignment I think between having the consumers themselves invest the money. I read somewhere that VC's who invest in startup's actually lose money on average. The reason they're doing it in the first place is because they re
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by coopdog 14y ago
Hell yes, stay off the wall. That's the reason most people don't use Facebook login, they're scared it will put something on their wall. If Facebook had any sense they'd force the API to ask permission and show the user what will be posted
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by coopdog 14y ago
There's actually a really interesting book called Mr China by Tim Clissold. It was based about 20 years ago but a real eye opener for what it was/is like to do business there
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by coopdog 14y ago
I think he means more people using it (classic network effect) Maybe put out ads and have as free weekend or something? The idea is that everyone arrives there at the same time for a short period until there's enough people that it's always
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by coopdog 14y ago
The whole business model is that users don't care if they're tracked, so let's track them (and others) and do things for them that we couldn't before I can see Google fully implementing DNT on the basis that users don't care, and for the fe
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by coopdog 14y ago
Do you have any more information on Melbourne incubators? I know of AngelCube, is there a 'best' startup community? I'm still yet to even find a good online forum for startups (nothing like news.ycombinator even) How do they sell/fail? You
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by coopdog 14y ago
http://webintents.org/
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by coopdog 14y ago
I think the web could handle a fully re-imagined stack. So long as it adhered to well defined standards and kept dns, with buy in from the major browsers the two stacks could co-exist.
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by coopdog 14y ago
What I love about web apps is that they're so ephemeral. You open it, try it, close the window, and it's gone. And it only comes back if you ever go to that domain again Downloading an app, worrying about spyware, having something run const
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by coopdog 14y ago
Definitely this. A terrorist with an engineering/chemistry/biology degree/knowledge could do a lot of damage in todays society. It's not hard to imagine if you let your mind wander (the explosive homemade uav into a stadium would be pretty
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by coopdog 14y ago
I don't know, I regard it as pretty hackerish to solve 'the money problem' once off and spend the rest of your life hacking. Getting crazy rich and becoming a rockstar entrepreneur, not so much, but automating the rent and bill problem once
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by coopdog 14y ago
And if that's true, why aren't there more php articles and comments on HN? Are php developers that uninterested and apathetic about their own language?
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by coopdog 14y ago
It's also a good thing to have a company finally fail rather than just not quite die perpetually. It frees up their engineers and other talented people to go pursue a company with maybe a bigger or more contemporary vision for adding value
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by coopdog 14y ago
Does Taiwan count as part of China? A brief look at the Taiwan-China relationship shows it's a more difficult question than it initially seems
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by coopdog 14y ago
Definitely written for generals, but if the claims are true (and it wouldn't be difficult for a general to send and engineer to check it out and report back), they definitely should be thrown some money for more research
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by coopdog 14y ago
I lost it at ying yang
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by coopdog 14y ago
Integration with the small couriers systems would be a problem. You'd probably have to design the thing end-to-end then get them to migrate (note: I'm only just discovering EDI, it might be thai this isn't as big a problem as it appears)
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by coopdog 14y ago
I agree, putting https on an ecommerce site actually does increase conversion. Even a silly ' this site is secure' increases conversion, so people do notice and care The problem is the classic tld one. With https you know it's the same doma
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by coopdog 14y ago
I'd say they're pretty great competition The teams who finish will probably have an mvp, maybe a pivot or two, hopefully some user traction. That might be enough to get to VC's in this climate. Or even just bootstrap and own the company 100
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by coopdog 14y ago
Why on earth would he want non-geeks.. I understand there could be a bias, but on the other hand these people are making interpretations of the law that could have very large consequences for a long time. Self described non-geeks are going
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by coopdog 14y ago
And do they still 'infringe' if it's classed as fair use?
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by coopdog 14y ago
I've always said if I was loaded and single I'd pretend to be poor until I found the right girlie Then it'd be like.... surprise : )
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by coopdog 14y ago
It's been well known in HR for a long time that money is just a 'hygienic' factor. Pay your employees too little and they'll be bitter, but paying them too much doesn't make them more motivated or more loyal in the absence of other positive
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by coopdog 14y ago
Agree At it's best there's a brilliance to it. What's your idea? "Does it really matter? Throw me something horrible and I'll still execute flawlessly" At it's worst: I can't think of anything... tell me what to do. Obviously these people g
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by coopdog 14y ago
Assuming the songs are on the phone, it should fail gracefully Any functions requiring server access should inform you that they are no longer available, while the game bit itself should still be playable Obviously login wouldn't work any m
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by coopdog 14y ago
I don't know. If decentralisation of control, increased use of bottom up feedback, and less corruption to increase the innovation cycle is really the way forward, I don't feel that the current Chinese model of government has any significan
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by coopdog 15y ago
Sounds like they have you under their spell.. (but seriously I'll probably check out those sites now : P)
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by coopdog 15y ago
Why do I suddenly feel like buying pepsi..
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by coopdog 15y ago
Hungover yeah not good, but I find a beer or two can give you a different perspective on something that's exactly what you need sometimes. Like how you solve problems in your sleep or in the shower, sometimes just saying 'screw it' and doin
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by coopdog 15y ago
A lot of people are saying this is due to latency, but it's really not. Is it any surprise that any country wouldn't want their data stored on US servers? Canada does the same. The USA just wants to eat it's cake and have it too. That being

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