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by dotBen 14y ago
yes, and investors ultimately only care about one of them.
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by dotBen 14y ago
In Britain two fingers (with the palm facing the person making the gesture) is basically synonymous to the single finger. Two fingers the other way around means victory. There is plenty of argument as to the etymology behind that, so I won
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by dotBen 14y ago
Surely this depends on your commute. If you're trying to get from Marin to Soma (in SF) which is mostly stop-go and local streets, that's a very different commute than Soma to Mountain View on the 280. I certainly wouldn't want to dictate
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by dotBen 15y ago
If I may answer that with a link, this is why we start at $29/mo (and most people pay us more), and why we're not trying to compete with the $5-$10/mo type hosts: http://wpengine.com/special/
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by dotBen 15y ago
It's $1MM year (although we're now way past that milestone)
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by dotBen 15y ago
My ISP, Sonic.Net, provides a free VPN to all customers. If you are in the Bay Area you owe it to yourself to use Sonic.net, they really are one of the best ISPs (along with Web-Pass) in the US.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Yup, it was probably the blood sugar. People can downvote me as much as they want, I just didn't feel mentally 100% and decided it was best to stop. YMMV
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by dotBen 15y ago
Geeks need to be mindful that any diet that is essentially starving the body of calories to shed fat (which is what dieting is) is also starving the brain. I spent most of January trying to get an already flat(ish) stomach to the next level
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by dotBen 15y ago
Yet another reason to run a VPN over any unknown network, such as hotel wifi. Aside from people sniffing your traffic it will also protect you from MITM attacks - be they benign like this or potentially more serious.
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by dotBen 15y ago
"If Facebook wants a team so badly that its very busy CEO who is about to take his company public is spending his time personally courting them, maybe it’s worth keeping." Or maybe its simply that Yahoo! doesn't know how/isn't organizatio
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by dotBen 15y ago
Right now none of the major satellite-owning countries will ratify an agreement on the sanctity of space - and specifically satellites. In real terms that means any country could shoot your satellite out of orbit regardless of whether you'r
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by dotBen 15y ago
tsa != dhs
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by dotBen 15y ago
"Why do we do such a bad job of developing people who are good managers/leaders AND understand technology?" because there is the opposite fallacy which is also derided: the one where the best engineer in the team is promoted to be a manag
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by dotBen 15y ago
er, I don't see what is ethically wrong with it if the organizers are charging people to attend - like Scott says, the organizers can make $250k from tickets to see him speak. What is ethically 'troublesome' is when conference organizers li
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by dotBen 15y ago
Marketplace, which uncovered the discrepancies and is linked to above, is an awesome little 30 minute show broadcast in the evenings on public radio. Although it is rooted in finance news, they end up covering all sorts of interesting busin
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by dotBen 15y ago
he whole idea of Milk was to try lots of things and see which stuck. Maybe it's because most HN'ers don't have that kind of luxury of scope with their own startup endeavors, which understandably causes a level of resentment? Sure, as a fo
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by dotBen 15y ago
I guess I'm going to sound like a Debbie Downer* but this feels like a great example of when talented software engineers have too small a universe of personally experienced problems, and end up building solutions for things that don't reall
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by dotBen 15y ago
Think about how many of these cables are tapped by governments, and the technology + skill needed to implement that tapping.
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by dotBen 15y ago
How do they power the repeaters? I thought the cable itself was just fiber optic, thus no electricity transmission
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by dotBen 15y ago
No because Face.com will only search from a master list of photos you provide. If you go the route of using your Facebook account, it will only identify faces from the pool of your friends. Technically, they could go further but they don't.
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by dotBen 15y ago
There's going to be a day, and I mean a specific day, when Facebook, Google or someone launches a product that lets you search for all instances of your face on the Internet. You'll type your name in, confirm some images of your face and th
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by dotBen 15y ago
Unless you're a big enough company to have staff lawyers, you almost certainly don't want to incorporate outside your home state. If you're looking to incorporate a future/aspired venture-funded startup you need to incorporate as a Delawa
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by dotBen 15y ago
If you like Shark Tank, check out BBC's Dragon's Den (which the format is based on, and in turn, the BBC's format is based on a Japanese show of the same name). The BBC version seems a lot less "Hollywood", and admittedly a lot fewer deals
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by dotBen 15y ago
I used to unknowingly use the phrase communicated in the headline of this post until someone told me it originates from the era of black slavery and thus has a racial connotation.
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by dotBen 15y ago
When a tech-audience orientated website like HN stops using OpenID, I think we can say that OpenID is firmly dead. Sad, I think HN was one of my last consumers of my OpenID account.
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'm incredibly biased because I'm part of the WordPress community, but IMHO the static-posting model employed by Jekyll (and I guess fading-stalwart Movable Type) is fundamentally flawed for two reasons: 1) you are penalized for writing mor
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by dotBen 15y ago
Yeah but this doen't appear to be a US court order seizure
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by dotBen 15y ago
Actually, that does, thank you.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Not hating on the project but seems like a problem over-engineered. Most startups will happily send you a pile of stickers for free if you email them, or at the very least send a stamped addressed envelope.
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by dotBen 15y ago
There are a number of popular private DropBox shares of computer science and startup ebooks that do the rounds in these tech circles. Yes, we're talking about books that are not legally free When I go to a startup's offices or a friend's

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