drewvolpe

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   by drewvolpe 15y ago

   The point of the article is that U.S. doesn't have a pure capitalistic system. Banks can take huge risks and, if it works out, they keep the profits, and, if it doesn't, the government bails them out. Banks receive the benefits of both cap
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   by drewvolpe 15y ago

   I'm surprised how strongly this seems to have affected those in the HN community. This is a very pro-YC and pro-startups group, and the most popular answer is "I never will (because of these events)".
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   by drewvolpe 15y ago

   This is from your post on how to do a backup: == ...Gmail will only let you down a few hundred emails at a time. You can repeat the command (let getmail finish each time before you run it again) until all of your email is downloaded. == You
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   by drewvolpe 15y ago

   This doesn't include the most important service: GMail.
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   by drewvolpe 15y ago

   Yeh, I put them on the list because I do think they'll slide into the third slot. Their deal with Nokia gives them good reach, especially in emerging markets. Also, they have a huge warchest of funds and the patience to loose piles of mon
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   by drewvolpe 15y ago

   I do: cloud computing and mobile. 5 years from now, it won't be a windows world. Consumers will be spending most of their time using iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile devices. On the server, a large % of apps will be written on a layer abo
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   by drewvolpe 15y ago

   Beat them at their own game ? BankSimple is a front-end for existing banks. They will still get their cut and control much of how this works.
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   by drewvolpe 15y ago

   http://www.bankfox.com/savings is a good comparison site. I would check out Ally, Schwab, and Capital One.
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   by drewvolpe 15y ago

   I used Fink and then Macports. Both were miserable. They did a terrible job with dependencies and many common things (MySql, memecache, ..) either weren't in them or wouldn't install properly. Homebrew concerned me because it defaults to
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    by drewvolpe 15y ago

    I moved back to Linux after a number of years on a macbook mainly because of package management. As a developer, it's too useful to be able to do 'apt-get install foo' for almost every piece of software and have it just work.
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    Google gets into the recruiting business for startups it invests in(blogs.wsj.com)

    4 points by drewvolpe 15y ago|0 comments
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    by drewvolpe 15y ago

    There might be good work going on there, but, us users, see little progress in the last few years. Facebook is only two years older than twitter and, in addition to a basic status feed has added an amazing amount of functionality: photos,
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    by drewvolpe 15y ago

    It is interesting how quick the Googlers were to dismiss Motorola's test. Rather than understand what their potential customer looked for in their product, they simply said "we tested it in San Francisco and our results were better".
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    by drewvolpe 15y ago

    Yes, exactly. And that's what the fight is over. Google doesn't want to get cut out from having android phones send them the wifi points they see as Google needs that data to build their database. Apple used to use Skyhook and more recent
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    by drewvolpe 15y ago

    Google and Skyhook both do the same thing: their code can locate a device via what wifi access points it can see. This requires significantly less battery than GPS and it also is much more accurate in buildings and urban areas (where GPS d
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    by drewvolpe 15y ago

    We're using it at my startup to send emails to users (welcome, password reset, etc.) and have been happy with it. It's worked as advertised, has been reliable, and is dirt cheap. We used the django-ses app which is great: you "pip install
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    by drewvolpe 16y ago

    Fix the patent system.
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    by drewvolpe 16y ago

    I use Libyan Spider for Locate.ly. Their site has been having some issues the last couple of weeks, but I was able to re-register it last week without a problem.
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    by drewvolpe 16y ago

    I was in last year's class. I don't believe the endorsement points matter that much in the application. I spent almost no time on them and we got in. I think they're really more of an excuse to engage with people you otherwise wouldn't.
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    by drewvolpe 16y ago

    Boston, no remote work Locately (early-stage startup, funded by Hacker Angels) http://www.locately.com/ Our software analyzes location data from mobile phones to understand where people go. We then sell this research to large retailers (T
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    by drewvolpe 16y ago

    If you like your name then I wouldn't switch. Techniche is not that common a search term and as you start to get more traffic and mentions, you should be able to overcome it quickly. In our case, "cardio" is a very common search term. Als
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    by drewvolpe 16y ago

    I'm the author. We actually bought Locately.com. We looked at both new domains and ones that were being sold for less than $5k (tip: the listing price is always way above what the owner is actually willing to sell it for). Of all of the n
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    by drewvolpe 16y ago

    We bought Locately.com. I don't know if we're not creative enough, but it was much better than anything we were able to come up with which wasn't registered. And having a better name is definitely worth the small amount of money we paid f