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by emmett 15y ago
We use HaXe at Justin.tv. It has some very nice points, but "code once, deploy everywhere" is ridiculous. So many of the crucial APIs are platform dependent that there is absolutely no way your HaXe application is going to be portable.
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by emmett 15y ago
I think you may have reacted to what you thought he said here, rather than what he said. The management within a company (considered as a class, rather than as a singular entity "the company") does indeed bargain collectively with the worke
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by emmett 15y ago
This title violates two HN guidelines: "In titles, please don't describe things by their relation to YC unless they're actually associated with YC." and "Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation p
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Vitamins & Painkillers: a contrary view(eshear.posterous.com)
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by emmett 15y ago
Links, please. I believe that rackspace servers are cheaper/more powerful per box, but an order of magnitude on both sides is absurd. What you are claiming is that $100/month on AWS would cost $1-2/month on SoftLayer. That's just not credib
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by emmett 15y ago
Right, I think we're in agreement. VC backed companies are usually shooting for fast growth. If you hitch your wagon to a VC backed company, you might be getting in early on the very first Google ad buys when they were underpriced. Then aga
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by emmett 15y ago
Companies don't spend through all their money because a VC makes them. Companies raise VC when they see the need to spend lots of money. The aspersion on all startups that have raised financing as likely to be unscrupulous and play fast and
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by emmett 15y ago
That's pretty much the reason, yes. Justin.tv and TwitchTV are very similar, both technically and in terms of UI. Socialcam, while related, doesn't really share so much. It made more sense as a separate company.
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by emmett 15y ago
Pretty much. Empirically, most startups with more than 3 founders collapse due to intra-founder strife. (Obviously there are exceptions. I am a co-founder of one of those exceptions, since Justin.tv has 4 founders. But it's a good rule.)
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by emmett 15y ago
I'm hoping this is a situation where google hopes they'll lose but they'll force apple to argue public ally against ridiculous software patents. But this is probably giving Google too much credit.
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by emmett 15y ago
So anyone who owns a whole-market stock index is prohibited from making political comment of any kind, because they "have a financial interest in a company benefiting from the likes of Monsanto"? Think about what you're saying. No one has d
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by emmett 15y ago
1) Please don't preface your comment with a statement about people downmoding you. All that does is make me think, "well, the following opinion will probably be poorly thought out flamebait". It's also against the site guidelines. 2) There'
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by emmett 15y ago
What political speech exactly is censored in the US today?
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by emmett 15y ago
For most users, "your own hard drive" is a terrrible solution. They do not have a VPS that they use as a file intermediary (they don't even know what a VPS is), and they don't know how to keep backups, and if they did the backups would prob
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by emmett 15y ago
Projected usage. It can be done, but you have to be an expert basically.
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by emmett 15y ago
It just goes to show that all advice and success stories are purely situational. It should reinforce the message that it's necessary to actually test whether adding a payment option (or anything else) really improves the situation or not.
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by emmett 15y ago
This is awesome news. Massively advances the current state of the art in open source search. Definitely considering replacing our search backend at TwitchTV with this...
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by emmett 15y ago
Hacker News is not generally a place for light humor; that's probably why you're being downvoted. Even more so, it's DEFINITELY not a place to complain about being downvoted. Complaints about being voted down earn a downvote from me, always
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by emmett 15y ago
This kind of political bombast doesn't belong on Hacker News. Please don't drag us into a war of the Blues and the Greens.
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by emmett 15y ago
You don't have to choose what dishes you get. You don't even have to choose what restaurant you get food from. You tell them "6 vegetarians, 2 vegans, 1 person with a peanut allergy, 12 other people, we need food wednesday and friday for lu
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by emmett 15y ago
A bunch of new accounts having the conversation that these new accounts are having is highly suspicious to say the least.
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by emmett 15y ago
Sock puppets are not welcome on Hacker News. Please don't do this.
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by emmett 15y ago
I don't think he said they had the highest status...I think he said they were the best paid. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but it's a very different claim. (I too have heard differently)
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by emmett 15y ago
Don't take this the wrong way, but ... really? I find that hard to believe. Pretty much all programming is in the short term unemployment producing, since pretty much all programming is automation. Automating a job means that no one does it
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by emmett 15y ago
Seems to me that Google would of course want to buy Yahoo, they would be most able to monetize the search. The question is whether the government would allow it, due to antitrust.
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I think we just forgot to turn them off. Certainly we're not doing it for the money :-)
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It's important to keep in mind that the total amount of money going into early stage startups is still a rounding error on larger economic investment. Numbers that feel personally large, like "$40 million" are actually very small in economi
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by emmett 15y ago
Reddit? Whatever became Google maps? Hotmail? Android? There are plenty of startups which have thrived after acquisition. There are also spectacular failures. M&A is risky, but can have a very high payoff.
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by emmett 15y ago
I wish this wasn't a video. When someone gives a talk, rather than just posting the video, won't someone at least post the slides? Or better yet, a transcript?
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by emmett 15y ago
The answer is simple: yes. If you find dealing with purchase support emotionally stressful, definitely outsource it. Just make sure you receive weekly reports so you can keep your eye on trends.

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