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by dotBen 15y ago
As an indie music lover, I totally agree. As a GOOG holder, I fear that isn't a big enough addressable market to make it worth while. My personal view on this is that if Google can't get first citizen rights with the music industry like App
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by dotBen 15y ago
"The future of TV first involves someone like Apple or Google working with the content providers and the ISPs to provide a solution" Won't happen. The music industry handed, well, the music industry to Apple on a plate. The wider media wa
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by dotBen 15y ago
I spent 6 years reading internal BBC emails. Can't comment for the rest of the BBC, but nothing comes close to the integrity of BBC News. >But the BBC gives preferential treatment to the BBC Go read any BBC news story right now and scro
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by dotBen 15y ago
Rugby rules are orientated around 'safe tackle' (eg no above the waist). The defensive side of American Football is very much brute force orientated especially for the larger players.
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by dotBen 15y ago
The problem is, and always has been, on the content side. Most people in the mainstream still want to spend their time watching mainstream shows - and no mainstream US-based content holder is interested in offering internet-based streaming
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by dotBen 15y ago
Exactly, I fear this too. I like Sarah Lacey, and I think she does have integrity. But I can't help but feel this is the investors simply moving up the food chain to protect their startups. Rather than rebutting against the media when the
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PaperKarma, Craigslist and unintentional disruption(benmetcalfe.com)
1 points by dotBen 15y ago|1 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
Many of us would say and do crazy things on Usenet (in my defense I was aged between 13-17 when I used Usenet) . News servers would delete the posts after 30 days and there was little to worry about, or so we thought. ...until Deja News c
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by dotBen 15y ago
I think the issue is not whether EveryMove can afford to pay developers what Microsoft does, but specifically that at Microsoft (or any big company) you may not have the kind of experience of actually building a product and bringing it to
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Musings about so-called ‘acqhire’ talent acquisitions(benmetcalfe.com)
3 points by dotBen 15y ago|0 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
In social software you, the operator of the service, never delete anything. Everything is a datapoint - valuable now and potentially further valuable in the future. The contract a user makes with most social sites is that the social site ca
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'm concerned Zynga will work out who he is and decide to retaliate a) out of spite and b) to re-affirm a culture of fear to keep other ex-employee's quiet. He mentioned he quit in August (I wonder how many engineers quit in August? Single
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by dotBen 15y ago
This is basically my response to the "My US border entry nightmare" YC post earlier in the day ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3545548 ) Which became too long as a comment, so I blogged it.
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What visa type do you need, exactly, to legally participate in Y Combinator?(benmetcalfe.com)
5 points by dotBen 15y ago|2 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
Well, presumably he does have the right to become POTUS if he was born in the same hospital as John McCain seeing as John McCain was a presidential candidate and thus his eligibility was already predetermined.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Right now America doesn't. You're making a philosophical argument in the context of a US Border cross where predetermined visa categories have already been established.
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by dotBen 15y ago
I think it's great they want to open the system and let developers play around with these. But I'm just wondering - I don't believe there is a wifi chip in them and it isn't clear whether its possible for the customer to get the device onto
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by dotBen 15y ago
For those wondering, at current exchange rates and with the VAT removed, the price for non-EU customers is US$65.29/m
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by dotBen 15y ago
Austin, TX [US/Canada/EU remote ok] - WP Engine ( http://wpengine.com ) The only managed WordPress platform invested in by Automattic, hosting WordPress for the likes of Foursquare, Asana, Soundcloud and many big name household brands. Secu
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by dotBen 15y ago
I think to begin with ValleySwag were open to either receiving shirts or printing them (esp as it was all local companies in SoMa)... but over time I think they decided to only do print-runs with their own suppliers, presumably to add to th
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by dotBen 15y ago
The guys who run GetSatisfaction used to run ValleySwag (an identical service). It's cool to see ideas coming around again and finding (hopefully) new feasibility.
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by dotBen 15y ago
everyone could have recorded it and might be watching it back repeatedly at their leisure, removing any chance of Mr Eden ever monetizing it Technically those some members of the public could have done that from the original video on YouT
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by dotBen 15y ago
Actually, we don't have this 'corporation are people' bulls * in the UK (Sky News is basically Murdoch's Fox News UK).
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by dotBen 15y ago
All good points. Part of me, in making my overly-simplistic moral argument, is assuming that his summer months are reflective of seasonal fluctuations and not a consistant representation of his income.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Not speaking for this individual in particular but in general its unlikely that businesses like this are going to report all of their earnings, are they? You can audit a cash business but with no receipts whole transactions never happened
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by dotBen 15y ago
"Mongo" != "Mong" 'MongoOut' would be fine 'MongOut' is not.
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by dotBen 15y ago
It's probably worth noting that in other parts of the English speaking world, the word "mong" is derogatory and offensive. I'm not sure if "MongOut" is a derivative of MongoDB, but if you're aiming at a maintream global audience you might w
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Pseudonyms on Google Plus? Wrong.(zdnet.com)
1 points by dotBen 15y ago|0 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
No they're not for any kind of border or government interaction... everyone really must stop perpetuating this. It's a federal crime to lie to a border agent or government agent, and the EFF specifically says not to do this - see comment ab
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by dotBen 15y ago
Honestly I think this same observation is true of engineers (good ones you can give them the direction and they'll go work out how to solve whatever problem they're having, the bad ones will look at you blankly and you end up doing the work

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