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by especkman 19y ago
Is the GNU Documentation License that Wikipedia is published under viral in the the same manner as the GPL?
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by especkman 19y ago
You can't keep everything secret and still hope for investment/acquisition/partnerships. That said, it seems like they'll have too much info for too long.
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by especkman 19y ago
Intriguing idea in the abstract, the current implementation isn't quite grabbing me. Getting more content would help, but if I were you, I wouldn't be too eager for a lot of users just yet. What you need are a dozen or so people who are i
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by especkman 19y ago
Is apple also preparing to execute the leakers?
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by especkman 19y ago
According to the presentation deck, they have 3 DB servers. It's not clear to me what each of them do, but one of them apparently gets activity logging writes, and the other is a slave that they use to do analysis queries on that data.
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by especkman 19y ago
4-5 years ago, a friend was entering the CS program at the University of Washington (AKA Microsoft's back yard). He picked up a spiffy new dell laptop. A month or so later, he sold it and bought a powerbook. A disproportionate number of
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by especkman 19y ago
Live Journal, Wordpress.com...
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by especkman 19y ago
I have plans for two projects dealing in physical goods. For one, I'll probably use cafepress for production & fulfillment until volume justifies reshuffling my supply chain. For another, I'm going to advertise a blog we already have that
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by especkman 19y ago
I'm just not feeling it. I think it is better to think of labor unions themselves as startups that eventually consolidated. They gained control of a resource that was in demand by a growing industry, manufacturing. They grew by competi
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by especkman 19y ago
I don't quite buy the analogy. Manufacturing was a profitable business (particularly the auto industry) during the union heyday. The same can hardly be said for most startups investing in infrastructure during the dot com bubble.
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by especkman 19y ago
This reminds me of an old Slate article about a study that compared the % of Harvard MBAs who were working on Wall St with performance of the stock market and found an inverse correlation. The greater the % of Harvard MBAs working on Wall
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by especkman 19y ago
Lots of dedicated hosts will include a 2-5 TB of transfer a month for $100-500. Media temple will sell 1TB chunks on shared hosting for $20/month. I've seen dedicated hosts that price bandwidth above their included allotment at $500 per TB
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by especkman 19y ago
Because there is more to building a tech business than just tech?
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by especkman 19y ago
To me, a web design expert needs intuition about usability, an eye for graphic design, and the skills to use photoshop to create mockups and then turn them into clean and robust CSS & HTML. You can bootstrap some of those by starting out wi
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by especkman 19y ago
A whole lot of it. Consider the influence of GMail and Google maps as recent examples.