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by eli_s 18y ago
Really love the idea. I'm sure you will get loads of attention from the hiking community. It's a great niche to target too - I imagine its quite underserviced with lots of enthusiastic people who can help promote your site. Something to loo
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by eli_s 18y ago
It's really weird that you say "you are more apt to read a post when it's short paragraphs". I was actually annoyed by the short paragraphs as I was reading and ended up skipping to the end.
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Ask HN: Server Anti Virus
4 points by eli_s 18y ago|4 comments
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by eli_s 18y ago
wow that looks really terrible
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by eli_s 18y ago
The text editor is impressive in its own right, but what really gets me excited is the possibility of window toolkits to start popping up. Nice responsive UI deployed though the browser - I can picture the future possibilities already :)
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by eli_s 18y ago
It really surprises me how many companies seek VC funding. I can't imagine giving away part of my business. I understand that for some businesses to work they need to start off big, but IMHO loads of YC and other VC backed businesses just a
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by eli_s 18y ago
Looks good to me - from what I can tell bike riders seem to be pretty tight bunch so if you get a few on board they'll probably recommend you to their friends. On this page: http://motolistr.com/listing/316 The 'Email Seller' box is after
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by eli_s 18y ago
What is the point of all the AJAX? All your content is virtually invisible to google, and given that you're looking for ways to get traffic i would have thought natural search would have been very important. I think you need to think a lot
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by eli_s 18y ago
Wow - not allowing tables for tabular data - this just shows how much kool-aid some people have drunk
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by eli_s 18y ago
That's a whole different kettle of fish altogether! If you're building an application that requires JS then you have the power to completely modify the DOM, reorder elements, position absolutely and adjust position based on screen size etc
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by eli_s 18y ago
"He completely misses the fact that CSS2.1 has had display: options to do table-like alignment for years. These are well supported in modern browsers, except for IE6 and 7" haha are you serious? What percentage of people are using ie6 &
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by eli_s 18y ago
I think it's pretty obvious that often tables are better and more intuitive to use for layout than CSS. The problem is that we've been told for so long that tables for layout are bad that it makes one feel kind of dirty using them. Web page
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by eli_s 18y ago
It really bugs me that extjs is never on these types of lists. It blows the competition out of the water!
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by eli_s 18y ago
All of the businesses you mention solve real problems that other business people are willing to pay to have solved. The way I see it social sites need to climb a very steep peak before they have any chance of making money from ads - how m
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by eli_s 18y ago
This is really obvious advice, but people need to hear it. There are loads of developers working on the next great social consumer facing product that will revolutionize the way people interact yada yada yada - the only downside being that
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by eli_s 18y ago
Wow this has lots of grammatical errors - made it hard to read. Sounds a bit optimistic too: "if you put heart & soul and are with the right team there is good chance you will succeed" Even if you're with the right team and working on
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by eli_s 18y ago
I think the author makes a very good point. "the fact that offering free, advertising-supported services to millions upon millions of people is not a lean and- mean undertaking" and "They figured that the revenue and profits would come even
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by eli_s 18y ago
"By the way, are Facebook's numbers even public? How do you know they're losing money?" - http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/07/technology/hempel_threepoint... "[FB] Revenues for 2008 are expected to be about $275 million this year, according
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by eli_s 18y ago
How will they make money? They need to make a LOT just to repay investors. The path to profitability is far from clear from my pov. A business does not choose to run at a loss. They are currently running at a loss because they have failed
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by eli_s 18y ago
sounds great. how will your service make money?
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by eli_s 18y ago
Monetization will make or break Facebook. If they can pay investors back along with a healthy margin and continue to bring in revenue then they will stay. Personally I don't think there is enough advertising money available regardless of ec
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by eli_s 18y ago
One day facebook will have to work out the monetization issue. They have accepted loads of investor money, and all those investors will one day expect a very healthy return. I think their success in getting more investment money comes fro
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by eli_s 18y ago
Allowing developers to create their own semantics as they see fit does not create a more semantic web. The whole point of having semantically meaningful documents is so that machines can better understand them. Having a system where each
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by eli_s 18y ago
It's good to hear people talking about creating value. Hopefully the days of useless social networking, sheep throwing, farting phone vc fueled exit strategy bullshit will be over for a while (until the next bubble).
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by eli_s 18y ago
Today's universities are yesteryear's technical colleges. Universities used to produce intellectuals now they are primarily geared towards producing worker ants for modern "factories". I'm a CS graduate. I don't consider myself a "Computer
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by eli_s 18y ago
"it's not a physical good that we ship that we're "giving away", it's a utility with a small marginal cost per user" you just contradicted yourself. You're saying you don't give anything away and yet there is an associated cost to providing
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by eli_s 18y ago
It depends which sector you target. If you make software for business users there is never an expectation that a service is free. Small costs can quickly balloon when you reach figures of a million plus. The SEO is certainly a plus, however
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by eli_s 18y ago
Great article. It really surprises me how many people are building products that rely on the "get huge then make money from advertising" model. Personally I couldn't imagine investing years on a project without a reasonable expectation of g
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by eli_s 18y ago
I couldn't care less whether the small fish get media coverage or not. What buoyed my spirits is that there are market players that make a comfortable living from web app development - which means there's a chance for the rest of us too ;)
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by eli_s 18y ago
Except that there are no interesting links on digg any more. It is close to 100% blog spam. Sites like this have to stay small to be useful - it's sad but the same thing will happen to HN if it gets too many readers. Luckily these type of s

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