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by davidu 12y ago
The average wait time in NYC is between 5 and 9 minutes depending on time of day. But many people would say it feels worse than that at peak times (and it likely is). People finding cabs on 5th avenue at 6pm know there are no cabs to be had
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by davidu 12y ago
There's a lot more work involved in preparing a data room than just incorporating. You need a finance person helping you to get things organized. All invention and assignment agreements, all IP transfer agreements, all your financial
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by davidu 12y ago
You're right. Maybe something wrong in Wordpress then, it's supposed to redirect you. We killed that page. I'll open a ticket.
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by davidu 12y ago
I've tried twice to make a shirt on Zazzle, neither time using copyrighted material, and both times, having my custom shirt rejected for copyright violations. Whoever runs that department is being compensated or measured the wrong way.
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by davidu 12y ago
We removed that page when we updated our website. Google is surprisingly slow in this case to update their results. No idea. Nothing we're doing on our end I don't think.
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by davidu 12y ago
DNSCrypt meets this need and is based on the same crypto from DJB. If you're running a full-blown resolver, I'm not sure if DNSCurve works if you forward to us... I'd have to find out.
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by davidu 12y ago
8.8.8.8 is incredible. Google's resources to get that > My resources to get that. :-(
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by davidu 12y ago
At the very least, we didn't want users being infected from ad blocks that we, were ourselves, serving up! :-) But I'd argue it's one less vector for infection, and an important one at that.
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by davidu 12y ago
Except that isn't accurate. I get that's how you see it, but that's just not true. It's ridiculous to say we broke things for many people. Our growth numbers tell a different story. Doesn't mean DNS nerds didn&#x
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by davidu 12y ago
We support DNSCrypt which will encrypt your DNS traffic between you and us. That's the last mile, at least. We support DNSCurve for the other hops, but almost nobody else does.
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by davidu 12y ago
Your analogy is right. Thanks for the note on DNSCurve. Expect more work here and with DNSCrypt in the future.
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by davidu 12y ago
We hope users will consider our enterprise security services, naturally. As more than 10,000 businesses already have. That business far eclipses the money we were making from ad revenue and has the nice side effect of directly aligning us
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by davidu 12y ago
You should see my other response in this thread. Maximizing ad revenue put us in an arms race for a cause we don't even believe in. So why continue it? Our time is far better spent elsewhere.
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by davidu 12y ago
We said browser changes over the years ate into that revenue stream. In other words, as our traffic volume quadrupled, we were essentially making similar amounts of money, rowing four times as hard for each dollar. Part of it was the brows
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by davidu 12y ago
With the proliferation of real-time auction and backfill ad networks, the ability for a bad user to inject javascript or malicious Flash ads into the ad creative space carried on major sites has grown dramatically over the last few years. I
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by davidu 12y ago
Our compensation doesn't differ widely between our YVR and SFO offices. YVR rents and housing is very expensive. More than SFO in many areas. The comp rebate is nice, but not why we are in YVR.
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by davidu 12y ago
Just to provide a counter-point, some people ebb and flow in their energy and ability to produce high-quality work. Some people prefer working odd hours. They siesta during the day. Some people go on three-day benders doing amazing thing
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by davidu 12y ago
One way to look at this is that Square is responding to the pain points of small business owners (who generally dislike Yelp) even for things not directly payments related. But another, more cynical, way to view this is that Square has hire
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by davidu 12y ago
We know that a number of very high-traffic, high-volume startups in Silicon Valley have gone great distances with CDB... OpenDNS included. :-)
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by davidu 12y ago
This is extremely well done. It's almost believable.
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by davidu 12y ago
Follow-up: They renewed me. I downgraded my account. Rather than give me until the expiration of my term, I've now been downgraded immediately to the free tier. Now I'm going to ask for a refund.
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by davidu 12y ago
They renewed me without any reminder. I had forgotten about the service. That's irksome. And I'm willing to bet a VERY LARGE number of the renewals were people just like me. There is no business there, and worse, they auto-rene
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by davidu 12y ago
Companies that sell a product, especially an "enterprise" product need more people. Instagram is engineering driven. Growth there is engineering driven. Companies like Box have sales people, account managers, sales engineers, code
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by davidu 12y ago
Wouldn't you want to time the market? That's not hopes fading, that's just smart business sense.
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by davidu 12y ago
I'm generally a fan of Fred's posts, but this one is odd. At least he calls it out at the bottom. For starters, he's neither an investor in Square nor Box. There is zero evidence that Square was even prepping their IPO. As
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by davidu 12y ago
There is zero evidence that Box's IPO "hopes" (or even their plans) are fading. This was a decent article with a flame bait title.
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by davidu 12y ago
Unfortunately, in the market of transaction processing, that's not an indicator of success. Transaction volume is. It is the only metric of success.
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by davidu 12y ago
bug bug, sorry. fixing now.
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by davidu 12y ago
We're fixing that now. bug bug.
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by davidu 12y ago
Cool, cool. Nice work.

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