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by esers 16y ago
Exxon is a special type of company. It was one of the largest, most-profitable companies in the world 100 years ago (then known as Standard Oil). Exxon is still one of the largest and most-profitable companies in the world today. And, given
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by esers 16y ago
There doesn't seem to be a Chrome equivalent to "Live HTTP Headers" for Firefox. Viewing, logging, replaying, and manipulating HTTP headers is an absolute _must_ for many web developers. Wireshark is fantastic, but having this feature embed
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by esers 16y ago
What I'm getting at here is: What is the SugarCRM of Enterprise Search? I've tried Googling for "DIY enterprise search", but I haven't come up with anything. All I've found are these very heavy (and very expensive) systems from Autonomy, et
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Ask HN: How to search through 1M scanned TIF images?
11 points by esers 16y ago|6 comments
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Ask HN: Is the WSJ's "Pro Edition" a good business model?
3 points by esers 16y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Which companies have a purpose bigger than their product?
7 points by esers 16y ago|9 comments
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by esers 16y ago
Good point.
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by esers 16y ago
Great response. Thank you. I was thinking of doing exactly that -- charging just under $5k/month for a data service. It seems, however, like that might be a poor decision.
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by esers 16y ago
How about paying for subscriptions to web apps with your corporate CC? As an employee at a corporation, would you have an easier time charging $400/month to subscribe to a web-app or charging $4,800 up-front for a yearly subscription?
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Ask HN: How much can you spend on IT w/o getting approval?
26 points by esers 16y ago|14 comments
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Ask HN: Monetizing vertical search by charging for premium content?
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Ask HN: Who can create custom-branded decals for Netbooks?
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Ask HN: Strategies for monetizing a vertical search engine?
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by esers 17y ago
I think its worthwhile considering the possibility that work is broken. It's easy to accept the status-quo. Before the Internet, consumers accepted that there was an inherent trade-off between selection and convenience: you could either hav