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by dotBen 11y ago
for no particular reason other than to extort money out of customers Yeah, isn't it terrible that there are companies trying to get money out of customers... :P My comment is tongue-in-cheek but the macro point here is why should a c
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by dotBen 11y ago
DO has really benefitted from Linode stalling over the past few years. I admire Linode for remaining a bootstrapped business but it feels as though the owners lost their fighting spirit and energy... Perhaps because the small pool of Linod
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by dotBen 11y ago
Interesting article but it fails to mention a significant source of liquidity for startup shares (both currently and historically) : Acquisition by a publicly traded company. IPO isn't the only way to obtain liquidity, but what's
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by dotBen 11y ago
As a hiring manager, I use LinkedIn either to primarily source engineers or to validate the experience of an engineer that I found via some other means (open source project, coding event, etc). To some extent, if you don't have a Linke
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by dotBen 11y ago
I think it was "no one was fired for choose IBM" :p
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by dotBen 11y ago
Just to point out -- the California Labor Commission’s ruling is non-binding and applies to a single driver, it's not a class-action or applies to anyone else. Reports of the demise of Uber due to 'all partner drivers now being em
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Uber updates app for deaf and hard-of-hearing drivers(blog.uber.com)
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by dotBen 11y ago
WP Engine ( http://WPEngine.com ) laregly solves any of these lingering concerns, or makes them irrelevant. It is also relied on by many, many Fortune 500's through to YC Startups. (Disclosure, I'm a confounder but not
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by dotBen 11y ago
Some things are highly valuable but just don't make sense to monetize. Bit Torrent is a great example of that. BitTorrent Inc is evidently scrambling to find a way to monetize the core technology having raised money and promised inves
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by dotBen 11y ago
Why would Amazon want to help you fall asleep while reading a book. More awake time, more books read, more $$$ :) Mostly a tongue-in-cheek comment but somewhere deep in the halls of Amazon I bet that discussion was had...
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by dotBen 12y ago
privacy filter is v useful, but technically doesn't prevent shoulder surfing if someone is looking at your keyboard for your password
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by dotBen 12y ago
While it's great that Murray Cox has made the data 'Public Domain' I'm sure AirBnB would probably have a different view as to whether he is in a position to decide such a license upon scraped data from the AirBnB site.
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It’s Already Over and Uber Has Won(buzzfeed.com)
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Adam Curtis – Bitter Lake, BBC(bbc.co.uk)
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The whole point of the exercise is not to just ship volumes of units, but build an ecosystem (just like what Apple and Google are doing too) . A budget phone doesn't work because it won't be geared up to play the music and video
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by dotBen 12y ago
I guess my main question would be - what's your differentiator over DO?
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by dotBen 12y ago
There is no scientific proof Hep C can be sexually transmitted, many studies have concluded [0]. It's a little concerning the author of the article, an OB/GYN doctor, is asserting otherwise. My British education, from the 90'
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by dotBen 12y ago
Backing up to the cloud means your data is open to interception by the government that service technically and jurisdictionally stores data in. I assume the consideration here is that the Chinese government (via Xiomai's cloud) is to b
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by dotBen 12y ago
A number of Revolv's electrical engineers were not part of the acquisition, and didn't receive job offers to migrate with the team Google/Nest. (I assumed because Google planned on shutting down the project and most of their
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by dotBen 12y ago
Wondering if Google will clarify the upgrade path for those of us with Android L side loaded onto our phones. My guess is it will require a re-flash back to KitKat so that Lollipop can be auto-upgrade over the air. In which case I might as
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by dotBen 12y ago
Uber | Full Stack Engineers - secret innovation project | San Francisco So, you already know what Uber is and can guess what we have going on engineering-wise: mobile apps installed on millions of devices, incredible real-time messaging sys
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by dotBen 12y ago
I'm curious what kind of eavesdropping is feasible on this band. It's not clear if there's encryption built in, especially if low power, and the long distances make for some attractive triangulation opportunities too.
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by dotBen 12y ago
That's still an acquisition. Companies get acquired for a variety of reasons and not all of them are because the parent company wants it to succeed/improve. The only reason Twitter bought Tweetdeck was that Bill Gross was threate
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by dotBen 12y ago
http://blog.svpply.com/post/31008753911/ebay-inc-acquires-sv... "One thing we do want to make clear: Svpply is not going away. We’ll continue to bring our users new products each day" Sounds oh so famili
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by dotBen 12y ago
While some may be disappointed this launch is not being broadcast, I've actually been more surprised by the overall amount of openness and transparency SpaceX have shown - a great example of which is the recent Dragon II manned-capsule
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This is a great write up, thanks for sharing Matthew. I find the WBC just as abhorrent as you do but I'm glad you're taking a neutral stance. Great work. For those wondering, Matthew (eastdakota, founder of CF) said: "If th
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by dotBen 12y ago
I wonder how they will determine who they want to provide coverage to? Especially as there is no oversight or transparency as they are saying they will not publish the names of who they cover (which makes sense from a technical perspective
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by dotBen 12y ago
Similarly one of my cats let out an almighty howl last week, and when I went to investigate I saw a spider sitting next to his paw -- my conclusion he had been bitten by the spider. By capturing it I was able to look up the species to tell
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by dotBen 12y ago
So End-To-End utilizes Elliptic Curve-based keys Could someone better across current cryptographic trends than I comment on that choice? We know the NSA has found weaknesses in certain implementations of elliptic-curve based cryptography i
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Mapping the interiors of buildings using magnetic fingerprinting(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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