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by dotBen 15y ago
The whole point of the post is that he moved off of EBS for various performance and stability reasons.
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by dotBen 15y ago
I believe there are various things you can do (note IANAL, or accountant) such as take procedes taxed as a dividend (lesser tax rate) or even not take the money out of the company and reinvest or buy an asset and net out zero taxable prof
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Ask HN: Wither Product Development/Management, as a defined role?
2 points by dotBen 15y ago|2 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'm firmly in the camp of "pay for legal/CPA advice" rather than asking here. But I've sort of been through this and the short answer is that the time to consider how you would minimize tax was when you formed the company. Assigning the sto
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by dotBen 15y ago
wget --spider is probably your friend
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by dotBen 15y ago
I don't think the author wrote the piece to fill article space because she is sitting across the dinner table from me and we've been discussing it all evening :) The issue - which has already been reiterated above - is that the Ts & Cs
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by dotBen 15y ago
Based on my knowledge those numbers are off. In terms of what we can talk about publicly, Google had a search deal with MySpace that was worth $900m over 3 years. Your quoted numbers combined over the three years the contract was in effect
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by dotBen 15y ago
News Corp is still walking away from this in the money. Sure they bought the thing for $580m and now selling it for $100m, but they had many many good years of $750m-$1bn revenue ( ok we don't know what profit looked like given Fox Interact
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by dotBen 15y ago
I go to bed often around 4am, and get up at 10:30am. That actually means I'm awake for 30mins more a day then Elle does with her 5am - 10pm routine. And I get to work during my most productive hours - late afternoon and after dinner. So I
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by dotBen 15y ago
For many outlets (blogs, news websites, whatever) this policy simply wouldn't be tenable. As Michael points out at the top of his piece - he is conflicted. However, this is TechCrunch and TechCrunch is, well, TechCrunch. It's hardly objec
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by dotBen 15y ago
It's not security through security because I've discovered their SOAP end points that powered this front end, and from that discovered a ton of other Brierley clients that are vulnerable to similar issues. Now trying to work out how to make
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by dotBen 15y ago
Yeah, but Blackberry - that old, stodgy enterprise phone your dad uses - has the best image of all phones in street culture. We touched on this in another HN thread recently, but back home in the UK there is even a popular garage track call
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'm pretty sure in the handset division, Motorola is making good revenues with the Droid family. They are still some of the most popular handsets, certainly on Verizon. What impact the failed Xoom has taken on their bottom line, I don't
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by dotBen 15y ago
...which is what confuses me as to why these figures are being promoted as away to be help salary negations of (presumably) US Citizens. Surely when that discussion happens the boss is going to say "yeah the other company is paying higher
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by dotBen 15y ago
Because US Citizens intentionally have more rights then non citizens (says a non citizen living in the US)
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Jack Dorsey is leading product "full-time" at Twitter(venturebeat.com)
3 points by dotBen 15y ago|0 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
Given this is a common problem that all tenants of the system face, I'd like to see Amazon offer a more holistic approach to faul-related instance migration. Essentially, if Amazon offers that functionality rather than individual scripts, i
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by dotBen 16y ago
Sure, I'll comment on the feasibility of this: it's a ridiculous idea. One of the features that allows AWS to scale is that it runs on a unified and consistant hardware platform. Take a look at the recent Google Data Center video or the Fa
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by dotBen 16y ago
Wow, I never knew web filtering software had moved beyond the obvious (pornographic, malware, etc) to "no useful content". That be considered true for most of the Internet, and yet there's nothing wrong with that. The internet isn't just f
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by dotBen 16y ago
DanielRibeiro: Do you happen to live on Minerva st? Totally OT, but some of your personal information was encoded in the Google Maps url you distributed!
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by dotBen 16y ago
Yes, but the point the parent comment is referring to is that Google (apparently) abandoned Microsoft Windows completely - across the entire company. Even admin staff, accounts staff, the computers used to book free massages etc. Some how
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by dotBen 16y ago
My bad - that's what it is. American doesn't fly to LHR directly from SFO.
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by dotBen 16y ago
I'm confused - your url is for a thread about Java but this best practice document is python-orientated
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by dotBen 16y ago
I see your point - however I read from it that the author was more referring to the load/level of activity on the server that your requests make should be indistinguishable from human traffic. IE if the server's log files have 100's of requ
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by dotBen 16y ago
I took a look at the FoundersCard during it's beta, I guess. Seems to make sense if you have AT&T and don't have another corporate discount applied to your account. However, I'm not on AT&T and when I have to fly one of the 'big car
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by dotBen 16y ago
Columns is nothing original to TweetDeck - hootsuite, seesmic (desktop + web), cotweet, peoplebrowsr all have 'em.
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by dotBen 16y ago
Yes, I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if they acquired Tweetdeck with the view to staff up a London office and close out Ubermedia, and in the process mothballed Tweetdeck itself.
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by dotBen 16y ago
Someone should do a 'where are they now' from that video. Joe Kruas (the guy with the 6-day old spagetti bowl) founded Excite and JotSpot (which was acquired by Google) and now is a director of product management at Google.
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by dotBen 16y ago
I would like to see some analysis of which users are posting those urls. A few months ago I did a cursory analysis of all techcrunch links submitted to HN and found that 40% of the links were submitted by the same 6 people - who submitted v
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Flipboard: Threat and Opportunity(mondaynote.com)
3 points by dotBen 16y ago|0 comments

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