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by corry 14y ago
+1 for OVH. Beastly machines at great prices, data centers in Canada / Europe (for people who can't store stuff in the US cloud), pretty good support.
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by corry 14y ago
Agreed. As is often brought up in PHP threads, the biggest thing is universal adoption of PHP in web hosting. People learning how to stitch together web pages aren't going to grab a VPS, learn the complexity of managing the server, and use
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by corry 14y ago
This is true, but for most startups the 'advantage' is that cash now is much more valuable than cash later (since it can be plowed back into growth). It's not that it's more profitable for us to strike sweetheart lifetime deals (it's actual
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by corry 14y ago
Anyone else tried testing the security claims of CF? This particular test looks pretty bad but it's just 1 case...
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by corry 14y ago
You know, it's funny - before I quit to do my start-up full-time, I thought that 'quitting to do my start-up full-time' was what people talked about when they said "starting up is hard". After a year of success (pilot customers converting,
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by corry 14y ago
Ah, Bolivia! I lived in Cochabamba for about 5 months and loved it - walking, buses, taxis - so easy to get around. What's the dev scene like down there?
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Ask HN: Good dedicated server in Asia?
1 points by corry 14y ago|1 comments
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by corry 14y ago
Regarding (1): The question isn't whether gov can run it 'efficiently', but if gov can run it MORE efficiently than the current system. Based on the US's position as highest per-capita spender on healthcare + the underwhelming quality of ca
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by corry 14y ago
I disagree. If God was integral to his experience, why should he self-censor that? I'd much rather read a truthful account of his experiences than a white-washed one. Thanks for sharing, Paul.
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by corry 14y ago
Kudos for the nice design. I think this minimalist, flat, spaced-out, subtle-palette approach is great for for tools that people spend their whole day in.
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by corry 14y ago
Apologies, I didn't mean it to be patronizing (which I suppose just makes it that much more so). My point is that most people I've come across in my grandparent's generation can barely use a computer without significant coaching/training. M
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by corry 14y ago
A big take-away for entrepreneurs in the developed world is the rapidly aging nature of our population - and the opportunities that may exist because of it. The huge glut of baby-boomers retiring (while there are much fewer young people to
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by corry 14y ago
Good point about re-segmentation. They have to define the category in which they compete such that they are #1 (classic '22 Immutable Laws of Marketing'). Part of the problem in the "we're aiming for #3" statement is that it's not clear wha
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by corry 14y ago
If he had said "we're aiming to be #1 in 2 years", he'd look completely out-of-touch with reality - employees deflate due to a clearly unattainable goal, investors get concerned about an unrealistic strategy, etc etc. Picking an achievable
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by corry 14y ago
Very cool, definitely an area where there needs to be lots of work done. What is browser compatibility like? Is IE8 supported? Edit: removed reference to HTML5/canvas, didn't see any in the source HTML.
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by corry 14y ago
Your last point is the key point. Any organization progressive enough to be using Google Apps for anything is unlikely a locked-down IE8/XP environment. i.e. a venn diagram between Google App using orgs and IE8/XP lockdown orgs will have ve
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by corry 14y ago
Good point, that would be the 'proof of life' in this case (at least for Romney and PwC).
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by corry 14y ago
The ransom note has pretty specific language: "Romney's 1040 tax returns were taken from the PWC office 8/25/2012 by gaining access to the third floor via a gentleman working on the 3rd floor of the building. Once on the 3rd floor, the team
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by corry 14y ago
A possible motive is to force Romney's hand to release it himself. It still makes him look bad - but not as bad as a bidding war between his supporters and detractors.
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by corry 14y ago
Sadly, I think another locale is off the table too. Would be better than the US, but still "not in Canada". Thanks though - hopefully you're right and we see some developments soon.
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by corry 14y ago
Not to hijack this thread - but does anyone know of an Amazon-like 'cloud' provider that's located in Canada? AFAIK, none of the providers listed here have the option to store data in Canada. Basically, I want to use S3 and EC2 for most thi
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by corry 14y ago
Have you checked out http://daytum.com/ ? Simple tracking for lots different things.
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by corry 14y ago
My father-in-law once got a call from a security system rep. They had a long conversation about his current system, which seemed to have ALL the features (would go off if any window moved, any person came near the house, always on, very li
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by corry 14y ago
But of course correlation != causation. My guess: the real independent variable is wealth, so wealthier countries (e.g. the secular West, with the exception of USA) will have both higher IQ and lower religiosity. It seems obvious to me that
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by corry 14y ago
In my experience, non-tech B2B audiences respond very well to 'traditional' marketing - postcard mailings, magazine ads, etc. IMO there are 2 aspects to doing this well: (1) USE IT AS PART OF AN INCREMENTAL CAMPAIGN. Use the traditional stu
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by corry 14y ago
The decisions listed (buying a house, retiring, paying for college, etc) are all fairly infrequent, separated by many many years - so not much value from return users. I think getting $$$ from people for that is going to be very very tough
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by corry 14y ago
Anyone who enjoys reading about the psychology of pricing should immediately check out Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely if you haven't already. See the outline/overview here: http://bookoutlines.pbworks.com/w/page/14422685/Predictably%
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by corry 14y ago
I took it as "bounce up" = reboot, refocus, jump to a better / better-suited position, use it as an opportunity for growth / moving up. "Bounce down" = settle for something worse quickly, victimize yourself, take it too personally, etc. Man
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by corry 14y ago
Hey guys, here's some general feedback. Disclaimer: I'm not in your target market so take it with a grain of salt. (1) Can this stand on it's own, or is this stuff usually a feature of whatever HR system is already in place? If people alrea
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by corry 14y ago
I think it's simpler than that: (1) People learn to play guitar by playing popular songs. These popular songs feature a subset of chords in certain combinations that sound good (eg. C->G->Am->F, C->Am-F-G, Am->F->C-&

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