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by dotBen 15y ago
Aside from whether this is ethical or not, its not legal in California. Even interns have to be paid at least minimum wage.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Content is licensable. If you join affiliate programs you get sample content to use for free, too. Don't get into user-generated - too many legal and ethical issues.
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by dotBen 15y ago
What I've read lately about porn sites suggests that the days of easy money are gone What has disappeared are the "gallery sites" that were easy to make - often by hand - or using basic CMS's like wordpress. Most of the people who say it
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by dotBen 15y ago
I've not because I don't actually have any projects in this space - my partner (Violet Blue) does and I help her with the technical side of her sites and as someone with a media/tech background I find a lot of it quite interesting.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Affiliate deals with content sites - which are more than just advertising because they tend to have insane revenue sharing deals for the lifetime of the lead - often 50% split of membership fees for the life of the subscription. So from jus
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by dotBen 15y ago
Applying your startup skills to projects in the adult space will certainly help you wing your way to $1000/m v easily. Big data/machine learning of all the meta data associated on tube sites, repurposing content for tablets, recommendation
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by dotBen 15y ago
The OP url is currently dead, but in general I think Google IO has been very promising for developer. I remember last year sitting through a large part of the key note that covered a very broken Google TV demo and also a large enterprise ap
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by dotBen 15y ago
I wonder whether a service like this is actually better off without 'big music's approval'? It all comes down to whether you see a cloud music service to be a purchase orientated service or a playback/consumption service. If the latter, the
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by dotBen 15y ago
I don't doubt they are launching this but I'm surprised Google is launching such a consumer-facing product at a developer conference. Perhaps there is a developer/API angle but I doubt it. It would be like Steve Jobs launching a new versio
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by dotBen 15y ago
I actually thought this post was going to be about the 'death' of the Product Manager role in general. It's something that is implied all the time on HN - that product management is everyone's job but not discussed enough. (I was toying w
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by dotBen 15y ago
It may be that the exploit isn't previous version. The current version appears to have been built by the most moronic team of developers ever who knows what crap made its way into the new client.
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by dotBen 15y ago
I get same. Sometimes companies release minor updates that are reflected for fresh downloads but don't have the auto-update mechanisms in existing clients to download the update --- usually to save on bandwidth costs. However, for a securit
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by dotBen 15y ago
For me domain experience counts for a lot - and is crucial at all points in the process... from problem discovery + solution development through to how you go sell and market your service. What domain experience in the b2b-facing world do y
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by dotBen 15y ago
It is nothing to do with S3, in fact that is arguably one of the most robust parts of their stack. EBS and EC2 have mostly been to blame.
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Detailed info on the forensics the DoD will use to test Bin Laden's computers(news.cnet.com)
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by dotBen 15y ago
I don't think anyone could give you a firm yes/no on that. What is your major? Have you done anything that sets you out from the crowd (ran a successful startup already, etc). To be honest, the answer might be "stay in school and complete
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by dotBen 15y ago
My advice to you is as follows. Make the decision now, at this stage in your life/career, whether you want to be a developer or not - and stick to the plan that follows. If you do, then you need to work hard to obtain the level of proficien
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by dotBen 15y ago
Or someone made an elaborate marketing decision to not have the email sent to TechCrunch team so that then someone internally at aol would leak it to TechCrunch and in turn TechCrunch would be excited to leak it to the public. Thus making
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by dotBen 15y ago
I wasn't aware Ocado was loosing money - they were definitely my delivery service of choice when I lived back home in London. I think something similar an independent company based on Whole Foods (rather than Waitrose) -- would be successfu
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by dotBen 15y ago
I think it was Amazon that used doors as desks (apparently some folks still do for the novelty factor) http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/when-petscom-had-aeron-ch...
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by dotBen 15y ago
The sales-pitch of these "Programming tools for non-programmer's" is usually that all of the developers at your company are busy and you need to get something done so you can do it yourself. The problem is that the type of apps you can buil
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by dotBen 15y ago
Some of this has to do with how you define success. For dating, in the Quora said someone said "well Grindr is doing well". They have traction, in a niche community (m4m) but I'm not aware of any revenues. Context is another - online groce
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by dotBen 15y ago
Sony has repeatedly stated that its PSN servers and SOE servers are not part of the same network, so it remains unclear just how these two attacks are tied together then Sony says: "While the two systems are distinct and operated separat
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by dotBen 15y ago
Problem is, Twitter don't see twitter as a protocol.
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by dotBen 15y ago
your comment missed the word "another" :)
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by dotBen 15y ago
MG stated in the comments of the disclosure piece Mike ran that other than the small amount of aol stock he received during the TC sale/becoming an aol employee, he doesn't hold any interests.
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by dotBen 15y ago
As such, I'd be surprised if Arrington's angel investments didn't run afoul of AOL's ethics policies. ... Basically, I think he wants AOL to fire him. Nah, I believe him when he says he wants to stick around, esp because "they pay [him] g
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by dotBen 15y ago
Thoughts on whether Twitter will actually maintain Tweetdeck post-acquisition? For me, I have a feeling they will mothball it for three reasons: a) The aesthetic and visual approach of Tweetdeck doesn't fit in with the way Twitter wants its
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by dotBen 15y ago
"Product management is everybody's job" that's true for perhaps the first 5 employees. And big companies sure they have managers. I'm still left puzzled for the companies in between.
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by dotBen 15y ago
So I'm kinda confused. The instance goes down, you lose your data. That's the main reason why Amazon build EBS (granted it has issues of its own) I'm not quite sure how, in production, this setup really helps you because you KNOW that y

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