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by dotBen 14y ago
guess-post=puff-piece-for-his-company issue aside, the article is kinda just stating the obvious... which is that you should geographically place your startup where it makes most based on the type of company you are building. Many folks a
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by dotBen 14y ago
Is there really a problem to solve here? I have cleaners from a notable SF-based cleaning firm come every two weeks. Sure, I have to call them up if I want to reschedule or whatever but it's really no big deal. Interacting with a human bei
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by dotBen 14y ago
Use cases of supersonic sky dives... pretty much limited to space launch aborts. There's also a lot of military applications. Most of the previous records were set by Joe Kittinger, Felix's flight communicator, in 60's as part of militar
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by dotBen 14y ago
hate to break it to you, but Sun hasn't existed as a company since early 2010...
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Mapping Silicon Valley's Own Private "iWay"(allthingsd.com)
1 points by dotBen 14y ago|2 comments
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by dotBen 14y ago
Billy Bob's Bike Repair, because I know I can bring their site down. I also know that I won't be able to bring down CF or sites running behind their infrastructure so no g33k cred to be had, etc.
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by dotBen 14y ago
I don't understand why a co-editor of TechCrunch would ever write "this is the story that no one was writing" . Er, if you were wanting someone to write it, why didn't you commission them to write it already? That's surely your job!?!
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by dotBen 14y ago
You have to turn off your phone when the plane door is shut while at the gate, but you can turn on your phone when the plane touches down during landing. I was told this is more to do with the FAA wanting to do everything possible to "encou
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by dotBen 14y ago
how would/could you derive that?
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by dotBen 14y ago
The 'name and shame' angle is really curious - the lawyers threatening to do this are instructed by the copyright holders -- ie the companies that own the rights to the pornography in the first place. The rights holders probably produced t
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by dotBen 14y ago
Perhaps it's just a poor video for an otherwise awesome project, but it just comes across as a load of disconnected ideas. What's the 3D dome for? How does the drone delivery work? It has a social-good and humanitarian angle - awesome, but
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by dotBen 14y ago
Here's another awesome Google Doc in this area: A Google Spreadsheet that will harvest all tweets containing a given search string. The code is interesting, and I had no idea Google Docs had the equivalent of CRON: http://mashe.hawksey.inf
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I'm leaving the UK(ryancarson.com)
2 points by dotBen 14y ago|1 comments
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by dotBen 14y ago
Or perhaps c) there's one of many reasons why the site wasn't reachable at the time from the university campus where the person reported in from. They went home, it works from their home ISP. We're not seeing any other reports of downtime o
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by dotBen 14y ago
Yup, we're switching to multiple providers. The fact that there were already multiple geographically redundant IPs should have averted most issues, but someone made a highly-coordinated attack on the provider at all their IPs. We learn and
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by dotBen 14y ago
Yeah, our DNS provider Zerigo had a nasty DDOS attack over Sunday that many sites got caught up in, including us. As you can imagine, mitigating DDOS on a nameserver is tricky due to the nature of the requests coming in - harder to Deep Pac
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by dotBen 14y ago
That's strange, we've not had any notifications of downtime from our own monitoring. I'll investigate now, but not sure what might be causing that.
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WP Engine launches git deployment for WordPress(pandodaily.com)
91 points by dotBen 14y ago|39 comments
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by dotBen 14y ago
another critical error is damage to the egg (or any object) from each 'successful' drop. An object that survies from being dropped from height x may not survive being dropped a second time from height x.
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I was fired from Facebook gym for asking student not to use her cell phone(elephantjournal.com)
8 points by dotBen 14y ago|0 comments
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by dotBen 14y ago
Vice magazine is a curious beast, aspiring somewhere intellectually higher than Maxim or FHM but more casual and less stuffy than GQ. But for any geeks/intelectual types (most HN'ers I'd assume) it's not going to push your boundaries given
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by dotBen 14y ago
I assigned the bit.ly link http://bit.ly/filmpolice to this pdf, so that you can call it up on your phone if you needed it at the police station, etc.
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by dotBen 14y ago
Or FB's IPO is some kind of threat to GM's stock price/marketcap/etc and they want to do something to try to take the wind out of the IPO.
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by dotBen 14y ago
I worry less about the missed opportunities to join Facebook. I worry more about the impact this sudden injection of cash into the local economy is going to have on the rest of us (a group most economists would call "the middle classes"). W
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by dotBen 14y ago
If the primary motive for question-mark headlines is link-bait, surely this can be more easily solved by getting your headlines from a better source of news? Don't feed the trolls, and all that.
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by dotBen 14y ago
Awareness of the incident aside, the comments on this thread just remind me of this well worn mantra: Asking developers and entrepreneurs (as awesome as they might be) legal questions is about as useful as asking my lawyer engineering que
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by dotBen 14y ago
Well yeah, this is TV... the same way they filter out the smartest and the dumbest candidate contestants for game shows and use the middle quotient. You never/rarely see an entrepreneur enter 'the tank' who is Harvard MBA trained and shit h
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by dotBen 14y ago
...but at the cost of everyone else in the room's time combined? Maybe if the person asking the question has no other opportunity to speak publicly and be heard, they should try to solve that instead as that is surely a more fundamental iss
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Rumor: Hulu Will Soon Require Viewers To Have A Cable Subscription(techcrunch.com)
2 points by dotBen 14y ago|0 comments
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by dotBen 14y ago
Thinking about scraping this data and calculating performance-to-€ ratio to identify good deals/unclaimed bargains etc. Perhaps even calculate the mean average price a given server spec sells for etc. If they have an affiliate scheme that w

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