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by dotBen 15y ago
Timing also seems opportunistic here too. Hard drive scarcity has increased due to the floods and subsequent production issues in Thailand. In addition to raising prices, like you would in a traditional supply/demand model, this would seem
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by dotBen 15y ago
Right now eBay is already sitting on this data. In addition to the sale/non-sale price data, recently they've began to encourage (and sometimes force) you to very specifically categorize the item you are selling. Combine with geolocation d
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End of an Era: The Golden Age of Tech Blogging is Over(web-strategist.com)
5 points by dotBen 15y ago|0 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'm sure there are PR flaks that would list that as a skill. It's not a million miles away from startups and tech companies encouraging their most personable employees to hang out on HN and other places to help increase the profile of said
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by dotBen 15y ago
Have you played with a Fire? Amazon totally forked Android and ripped out all of the google bits, all of the default UI and made it into their own OS. It's Android in that it will run Android apps but that's it. In all other ways, Amazon's
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by dotBen 15y ago
This assumes that the kind of traffic you want to your startup is from industry peers - ie people who read industry websites. I'd offer you'd be much better off using your resources to gain customer-traffic rather than industry-traffic. Sp
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by dotBen 15y ago
"Professional commentary" and "community"? You must be looking at a different website at the domain 'techcrunch.com' than I am.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Note that many of the higher-profile founders (eg Dave Morin of Path, Kevin Rose of Milk) are notably absent from their company's contributions. Also it's one thing to be beholden to investor shareholders, it's another to have to take par
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First Round Capital's [awful] 2011 Holiday Video(firstround.com)
2 points by dotBen 15y ago|2 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
I would write the check right now if this was passed into law. Plus I already paid the US the tax on earning the $100k net (ie more like $150k) Also, this is what it costs just to get an E2 visa right now.
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by dotBen 15y ago
A parent can't 'over-rule' a federal law. "Hey Mr Food-N-Liquor owner, I give you consent for you to sell my 18 year old alcohol" etc
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'm not aware of any unpatched vectors to perform arbitrary code execution in WordPress Core. Sure perhaps via a dodgy plugin (and then ok you could run a SQL query directly to change the privilege level of a given user). XMLRPC ships in a
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by dotBen 15y ago
Actually, simply saying "WordPress is insecure" without reason or explanation isn't very productive at all. WordPress Core has so many eyeballs looking through the code, and some great full-time engineers working on it, that's it's actually
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by dotBen 15y ago
As a WordPress fanatic, I just want to point out that - other than keeping your WordPress Core, Themes and Plugins up to date (which should be obvious by now) - none of the vectors described are actually WordPress related. If you have an in
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by dotBen 15y ago
Ok, so if a bunch of folks write about a given scientist - 2 being friends of the subject, the rest not - then by this logic the resultant copy they create as a collective should be objective. Great, problem solved.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Well for a start, I didn't downvote you - just replied. I think if you take your aspect of the argument to it's logical conclusion no one that has any reason to be editing a wikipedia page on a given subject can be wholly objective on that
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by dotBen 15y ago
As apposed to someone saying "I've spent many hours enjoying videos staring adult performers Belladonna and Sasha Grey so YES, I have close connections with the subject. And I believe I can objectively write a good article about them." ...
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'm wondering if Chris is talking about Series A+ with this. If you raise anything less than $500k angel it's going to be very tight to make that last 18 months by the time you've hired a few developers, covered expenses, etc - esp in SF/SV
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by dotBen 15y ago
But that also doesn't really ring true either because a "lack of profit" doesn't necessarily mean that an acquiring party will shut said service down either. I doubt Friendfeed makes Facebook any money, and was clearly a talent acquisition
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by dotBen 15y ago
The issue of BigCo's closing useful small services just to harvest the developers post acquisition is certainly a valid one that's worthy of debate. However, the premise that this only happens because the startup in question was "free" does
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by dotBen 15y ago
I knew someone who worked at GCHQ doing the kind of work they are hiring for with this. He was constantly looked over for promotion, and after some time pushed his superiors to explain why. After some back-and-forth it was revealed to him '
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by dotBen 15y ago
It's pretty standard for CEOs and executives of publicly traded companies to delete all email -- not just locally, but ensure their entire email system, backups, etc are set to expunge an email entirely from the system as soon as they delet
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by dotBen 15y ago
That's fair enough I guess. I'm a non-citizen so the distinction between a right and a power is of little difference to me. A power can only be revoked by a citizen, and I'm not one.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Under the current economic climate, many graduates don't even find grad-level work and end up taking under-employment - the competition for the grad jobs that are out there is driving down salaries. I also know people who 10 years after gra
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by dotBen 15y ago
Sadly, there is a flaw in your argument in that you are not (I presume) a law enforcement officer/similar. Law enforcement, DOD and other similar agencies are always going to have rights that normal citizens don't have. Whether they should
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by dotBen 15y ago
Just to point out this was posted to HN by Girish Mathrubootham himself (the Founder/CEO of FreshDesk). It's worthy of debate, but we'll all feeding this PR stunt (and if some people feel Girish is a troll, then you're feeding a troll too).
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by dotBen 15y ago
As a British native who began his career in the UK and later moved to San Francisco, I can tell you that the going rates for developers (can't really speak about designers) is a lot lower in the UK than in the US. It's part of the reason
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Sprint.ly: New software development management tool from Joe Stump(sprint.ly)
93 points by dotBen 15y ago|51 comments
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I think one thing any founder or shareholder of a "cloud-based" startup can take away from this is that the Big SaaS Co's are getting itchy feet and are needing to invest (read:buy) some bleeding-edge cloud technology to feel that they stil
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The BBC Microcomputer and me, 30 years down the line(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by dotBen 15y ago|1 comments

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