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Nokia Announces 41 MP Phone(venturebeat.com)
10 points by ew 15y ago|2 comments
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by ew 15y ago
This could be the partner that dropped them. Article on how a Paxum, a payment processor, stopped working with TradeHill because of the risk: http://www.betabeat.com/2012/02/13/banking-partners-force-pa... Here is a quote from Ruth Blair,
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by ew 15y ago
Trade Hill's official blog post of the matter: http://tradehillblog.com/2012/02/13/tradehill-suspending-tra...
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by ew 15y ago
They did. They worked out of Vina del Mar, where I lived for 6 months during my stint at Start-Up Chile. The TH guys are a good group, really smart, and doing progressive things. It's unfortunate that they keep getting screwed by the paymen
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Vancouver's Cloud-Based Legal Management Platform Clio Raises $6 Million(techvibes.com)
1 points by ew 15y ago|0 comments
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by ew 15y ago
We're trying to do something similar and our OAuth token expires after about 5 minutes from authentication. We can't seem to automate things from a CLI because of this and I'm curious how Send To Dropbox does it.
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by ew 15y ago
Great idea! How do you deal with the OAuth process to actually send files when the client isn't online with their browser?
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by ew 15y ago
The reason FTP is still so pervasive is that FTP clients use a similar interface to the file browser on a computer. Your average person has no idea that the command line even exists. Yes, FTP isn't a very good protocol, but the interface is
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Kuala Lumpur requires WiFi in restaurants by April 2012(muniwireless.com)
2 points by ew 15y ago|0 comments
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GymPact (Start-Up Chile 2011) Launches(techcrunch.com)
4 points by ew 15y ago|0 comments
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by ew 15y ago
They had to implement the Return Value Agenda program because a lot of the teams in the pilot project outright refused to participate in any way other than work on their startup. Christian, an ex-staffer with Start-Up Chile told me that the
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by ew 15y ago
Really it all boils down to there being no VC opportunities. The only angel/VC investor that was formally arranged for us to pitch to has left the country. In fact, the Demo Day needed to be arranged by us instead of SUP staff taking the in
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by ew 15y ago
Every time someone asks me if I'm coming back I answer that I would love to have a reason to, and I really hope the small business ties I have made here will pan out. As it stands, being an "internet company" (as you mentioned in a differen
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by ew 15y ago
You do realize that VC funds try to invest in startups that have that 1/10 chance of being a massive success. They don't wilfully throw their money at 9 crappy businesses that they don't think will succeed and really just hope for the 1 the
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by ew 15y ago
As it stands I have little (actually zero) incentive to stay here after January. I'm distanced from my partners, friends, family, and investors who actually spend their money. I'm also not interested in spending 3 months, and a lot of money
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by ew 15y ago
They are getting better with each iteration. For example, when we first arrived nobody knew whether it was acceptable to pay for something using PayPal. That took months to clear up and me and others directly asking for clarification. The h
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by ew 15y ago
The program is not bullshit, it's just that the government isn't in the business of throwing money away. There a lot of legitimate startups here that have gone from an idea to a proper product with actual customers. There is, however, a lot
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by ew 15y ago
Split test that!
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On (Startup) Chile(hervalicio.us)
119 points by ew 15y ago|58 comments
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by ew 15y ago
Unless we can effectively teleport, there won't be any interstellar commerce. Everything is too far away. Interplanetary, maybe, but within our solar system.
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by ew 15y ago
That was almost as good a read as the main post :)
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by ew 15y ago
The best part of all of this is that it's already happened... about 28,000 years ago! Remember that our telescopes can only pick up what they can see, and they can only see light that has reached us.
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by ew 15y ago
You do realize that by having your buyer PayPal you the money you basically lost $50 on PayPal deposit transactions. I would have had him send me a corrected cheque instead.
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by ew 15y ago
It was definitely an interesting read, however, I feel that fundamentally, for humans to reach the point where space combat is even feasible we will have solved so many more important problems that there won't be a need for fighting in the
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by ew 15y ago
1024 resolution is completely broken.
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Testing shows proposed 4G network interferes with 75% of GPS devices(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ew 15y ago|0 comments
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by ew 15y ago
Man up and phone them. From the sounds of it, however, it appears that you didn't get the job.
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by ew 15y ago
Even at the speed of light the closest potential planets we could colonize at 4.5 years away. Now think about communication. Telling your parent's "hi" would take 4.5 years in either direction, even if we could ensure the signal gets back.
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by ew 15y ago
Other than Mars, any future humans living on any "M" class planets that we discover will be one-way, multi-generational trips. Unless we can travel instantaneously throughout the universe, exploration is pretty pointless since it'll literal
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by ew 15y ago
Instead of a per-mile tax it would probably be more productive to just increase vehicle registration costs by $250, which is the average fuel tax paid each year per vehicle.

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