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by dpifke 18y ago
This sounds similar to vortex generators, which are small strips of metal attached to an airplane's wings to smooth the airflow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_generator
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by dpifke 18y ago
I thought Boxee "won" the technical cat-and-mouse game by emulating Firefox? According to this, it's been working since 3/25: http://twitter.com/ishuluonboxee That said, given the proclivity of the major studios to sue anyone and everyon
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by dpifke 18y ago
If you sell the shares in the US without complying with securities law, investors can sue you (personally, not the company) to recover their money if it goes south. The fact that the government can order the transaction be unwound at any t
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by dpifke 18y ago
You really need to talk to a securities lawyer. If the above could be construed as advertising your share offering, you've just triggered one of the requirements for SEC registration. The legal fees involved would be in the tens of thousa
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by dpifke 18y ago
This essay is referenced in the book Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg. (As a relative newbie to Python who has in the past coded in a bunch of other languages - including Java - I had actually been meaning to look it up.)
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The stock market loves Wednesdays(crossingwallstreet.com)
7 points by dpifke 18y ago|4 comments
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by dpifke 18y ago
Whenever I read an article in the newspaper, I have to remind myself to filter it through the lens of all the times I've been misquoted or have caught glaring mistakes in stories about which I have first-hand or subject-matter knowledge. As
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by dpifke 18y ago
If they're paying employees to write bad reviews without regard to their actual experience, it's libel. If it's an extortion scheme as the article implies, it's tortious business interference. There could also be issues under the Lanham Act
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by dpifke 18y ago
Some of the behavior of which Yelp is being accused in this article is plainly illegal. Which makes me question why these "anonymous sources" are talking to a reporter at an alternative weekly newspaper instead of a lawyer. Color me dubio
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by dpifke 18y ago
I think the last item on the FAQ is probably the most interesting for hackers: Q: Is the spending data on recovery.gov available in a format (like XML) that developers can use to create mashups and gadgets? A: Not at this time. But, as n
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by dpifke 18y ago
I highly recommend the Igor Naming Guide, to anyone who hasn't read it: http://www.igorinternational.com/process/naming-guide-produc... (A bit surprised it hasn't been linked to in this thread already.)
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by dpifke 18y ago
Maybe I misunderstood your comment, but I would recommend the opposite for most startups, namely company name == product name == brand name (i.e. trade name). Why? Because it's hard enough to build consumer awareness of one name, especiall
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by dpifke 18y ago
At the Federal level, long-term capital gains tax, since it's the profit from selling shares (not options) in the company which I owned for more than a year. At the state level, California treats everything as regular income. It's consider
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by dpifke 18y ago
I think a lot of us keep our COBRA coverage from previous employers. I took this route for about six months before getting around to pricing an individual plan. Which, surprisingly, was about 1/3rd the cost for way better coverage than wh
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by dpifke 18y ago
One of the VCs at a panel I attended in the last year or so said, "if your business plan depends on noone knowing you exist, you have a problem." In all seriousness, the execution is way more important than the idea, and execution is a lot
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by dpifke 18y ago
The way these deals usually work is that anywhere from 2 to 15% is kept in escrow until 12-18 months after the sale. I was involved in the sale of a company last year, and was told specifically by our lawyer not to count on seeing all of th
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by dpifke 18y ago
I know one of the people involved in this, and the lack of financial realism ($100 to quit your job! Woo hoo! Pay us for advice! Sounds good!) is par for the course. My experience with the Portland "startup" scene was that there were a l
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by dpifke 18y ago
I'm curious how they measured and came up with 80%.
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by dpifke 18y ago
I would recommend "The IT/Digital Legal Companion", which discusses the things to think about and provides some sample licenses: http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Legal-Companion-Comprehensive-... ...followed by a review by a real lawyer. :)
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by dpifke 18y ago
In theory, it offers better separation of content from presentation. For example, a news article that renders in one column on-screen and two columns printed. Or that renders as columns for a sighted user but is read aloud in the correct
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Tech Reporters From 1981 Ask: Will People Ever Read Their Newspaper On A Computer?(alleyinsider.com)
3 points by dpifke 18y ago|0 comments
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by dpifke 18y ago
Funny story: when I first decided that I wanted to work for an "internet company" in 1996, nearly all of my interviews were with porn companies. I was a young kid with very little formal experience, so it follows that folks closer to the f
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by dpifke 18y ago
Warning to folks who this is true: trademark and copyright law are different entities. There's no such thing as "fair use" for trademarks.
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by dpifke 18y ago
Nice layout and idea. My girlfriend spends an inordinate amount of time online "browsing pretty things" so I think you may be onto something here. Reminds me a bit of a more-visual and more-female version of Thrillist. How are the items s
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by dpifke 18y ago
While I agree with most of this article, one consideration not mentioned is the time and trouble involved with an office search/build-out/move. Having been through this countless times, it always seems to be a bigger than expected drain
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by dpifke 18y ago
Would like to think that my comment here inspired this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433084 :) As mentioned there, there are a couple of commercial products besides Google Website Optimizer, one being Optimost (now part of Int
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by dpifke 18y ago
I'm working on a startup.
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by dpifke 18y ago
Spring's dependence on XML files always bugged the hell out of me. I like to be able to see what a piece of code does by looking at the code . Every time I tried to get excited about Spring I instead felt like at I was more and more at t
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by dpifke 18y ago
We played with multivariate testing at the last company I was at, using an expensive platform built by Optimost (now part of Interwoven): http://www.interwoven.com/components/pagenext.jsp?topic=PROD... (We also paid a company that did opt
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by dpifke 18y ago
I've seen his collection on TV a few times. They used two of his tanks in an episode of Mythbusters, and the restoration of the Panzer tank mentioned in the above article was chronicled on a program called "Tank Overhaul": http://military

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