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by draz 15y ago
"Generally, Google and companies of similar size are audited every year. Thus, the IRS actually has a permanent office within the Googleplex compound because they audit them year-round" I think this statement is incorrect. The auditors hir
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by draz 15y ago
I keep seeing Redbox mentioned. Financially, it's a rational decision to split consumption between Netflix and Redbox. But I believe that most of the appeal in Netflix is the convenience of getting the movies at home, without having to go
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by draz 15y ago
Hi Manuel! I didnt mean for it to sound the wrong way, as if I'm ungrateful for the work you have done. As I've mentioned, it really is good, and it got me up and running and experimenting with Node.js quickly (for which I'm thankful for!)
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by draz 15y ago
I've read the guide a few weeks ago, and it's absolutely great! I certainly learned a lot, and it saved me a lot of time Googling for answers. I think it would be a great addition to the book to discuss some of the frameworks that take Nod
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by draz 15y ago
hmm, are there no copyright issues involved with using another company's logo (I suppose I'm assuming a trademark was filed)?
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by draz 15y ago
"Display advertising on the web has surely been around for longer than Flash?" True, but pretty much only as static displays. I do agree, though, HTML5 isn't a game changer, just another means to deliver moving content (only open, and not
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by draz 15y ago
I think the biggest issue for adoption is overlooked -- advertisers and monetization. Flash has been around for so long that the infrastructure has been built around it, and it's quite stable. As more companies learn how to harness HTML 5 f
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by draz 15y ago
Review the following interview with PG: http://tcrn.ch/js0Zzc :-) good luck!
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by draz 15y ago
I think you should go for a Ruby on Rails / Groovy on Rails / whatever framework. My reasoning? They encapsulate a lot of the configuration files that you don't want to deal with (ugh, Spring is just annoying, with all those XML files... a
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by draz 15y ago
i always thought of email as a way to get you to get a username, which is just a "gateway drug" into other services the company offers. For example, all of a sudden it's easy to find yourself on the Picasa site, and upload pictures doesn't
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by draz 15y ago
Columbia University offers a Core Curriculum (specifically, Contemporary Civilization class) to address just that: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/classes/cc.php You should browse around the other Core Classes, they're good
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by draz 15y ago
sounds cool, though, with 25 deployments a day, it seems like you're just deploying quick fixes. How involved could changes be with such small time intervals? I applaud the approach though. Also, could you also talk about how you track all
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by draz 15y ago
Interesting.... Could anyone be more specific? Plenty of "serious" firms ask about last salary earned (in fact, if you were to fill out an application on line, you may not proceed, as these fields tend to be mandatory). Is your advice to s
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by draz 15y ago
<quote>there's no way they can find out (legally)</quote> Really? Is that really true? What about all the forms one signs, allowing for background information check (education, employment information, etc)?
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by draz 16y ago
sure, though rendering random shapes on the screen might be easier and will achieve the same results (utter confusion by pharmacists, nurses, etc, and subsequently poor patient care)
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Twitter is no AT&T -- YET(siculars.posterous.com)
1 points by draz 16y ago|0 comments
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by draz 16y ago
I agree that IBM has a "high purpose." Though, I'm not convinced. Given that Google also tries to branch out to other domains, why shouldn't IBM do the same? Google offers enterprise search boxes, it is (try to get) involved in the healthc
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Ask HN: is IBM the new Google?
3 points by draz 16y ago|7 comments
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by draz 16y ago
ok, and your startup is....? We'd need to know, at the very least, what the domain is, so people could advise you about pitfalls/things you should look out for.
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by draz 16y ago
and to that NASA will respond, "$8 billion isn't cool. You know what's cool? $1 trillion." Ugh, where are the flying cars I was promised, by 2000...?
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by draz 16y ago
"... and I sure was articulating like they do on national television" Not sure what they trained their algorithm on, but this articulation might have been the culprit. If they have a corpus of "normal people" speaking Dutch, and then you g
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by draz 16y ago
Congratulations! Never been in this situation, but I tend to be the suspicious type :-) I'd be careful, if I were you, and make sure they're not just trying to size you up and get info about your business (maybe they want to start a competi
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by draz 16y ago
I went to college for one year, left to work for 3 years, and then back to school. Obviously, no right answers. However, take into consideration that when you do come back after a few years, all your friends will be out of school, and you
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by draz 16y ago
you can structure your agreement with IBM/Accenture/etc based on deliverables. If they don't hit the deliverables by a certain deadline, they take on the extra costs. That's why they charge a lot up front -- as an insurance policy to guard
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by draz 16y ago
how do you guarantee that the particular female friend had a crush on you and not on another guy (and just happened to be using the site for him)? :-)
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by draz 16y ago
I just assumed that the person did not know the crush's address. But I suppose he can still employ affiliate programs if the person DOES know the crush's address.
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by draz 16y ago
could you give some examples? bjonathan could benefit from learning more about the other services (what worked for them, what didn't). I remember back in the day there was a Facebook app that did something like that. Though I'm not sure ho
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by draz 16y ago
An idea for you: give users the option to send flowers (or anything else, for that matter). When the email is sent to the crush, it might say: "your secret crush would like to send you flowers. please fill in your address" or something. Th
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by draz 16y ago
Fair questions. A bit of a background first. My co-founders were: an MBA student with a healthcare concentration (Wharton), an MD/PhD student (Columbia), and me, the techie (grad student Columbia). Unfortunately for the start-up (and fortun
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by draz 16y ago
A few years ago I was involved in a start up in the medical domain (software, not hardware). My cofounders and I got "funded" by winning business school competitions. Although the amounts are not huge, getting funded was big help for 2 main

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