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by foxylad 14y ago
Good points. I felt that his comment implied he didn't like the salespeople because they were salespeople, which does say something about how much he respects sales as a profession. However, on re-reading the original I see that he might
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by foxylad 14y ago
I learnt lots from working closely with sales people ( I didn’t like them very much , but that’s a different matter) That right there tells me you'll fail running your own business. I'm not a sales person, but I respect them (well, the go
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by foxylad 14y ago
Why? Garish formatting? A really simple editor that only had the formatting options allowed by markdown would be functionally equivalent, and the great unwashed would find it much easier to use.
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by foxylad 14y ago
Any doubts about Google's intentions are easily negated by using Chromium.
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by foxylad 14y ago
A domain registrar is going to have a fairly technically literate customer base, but bitcoin is edging towards the mainstream faster than I'd expected.
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by foxylad 14y ago
Good summary. 1, 2 and 4 are really about trust - if we trusted some institution implicitly, they could run the perfect online bank for the world. The first real banks got started in the 19th century when Quakers started them, because peopl
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by foxylad 14y ago
I salute you sir. Excellent article, amusingly written - and (pardon the pun) right on the money! Money transfer is essentially subtracting from a number on one bank's hard disk and adding it to another on a second bank's hard disk. OK, it
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by foxylad 14y ago
First, if deflation makes loans less appealing... is that such a bad thing given recent history? Second, our economies have always grown so far , but this is not a law of nature. Our population is stabilising, and much recent growth is eff
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by foxylad 14y ago
It seems to me that the beauty (and probably the downfall) of bitcoin is that it is equivalent to cash. If you're careful, you can use it anonymously. No charge-backs - just like cash. You need to use the same care with bitcoin as we used t
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by foxylad 14y ago
Our three sites are now free of Like buttons. It would be interesting to see how many disappeared today.
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by foxylad 14y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5185600 . Every page with a FB Like button on it went to that FB error page.
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Facebook like button Fail
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by foxylad 14y ago
This is a rumour that MS is taking a meaningful look at porting Office to Linux. All it takes is one OS exec to say "you're doing WHAT?!!!" and this meaningful look will be quietly stopped. Even if they do port, I'd expect it to be br
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by foxylad 14y ago
Wow! Simple but effective. I can't test multi-user right now, but assuming that works I'd love to see this in Google Apps.
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by foxylad 14y ago
You don't have a will? I've had one since I had anything worth passing on, including physical and virtual possessions. I'd equate it's importance with an effective backup strategy - something every diligent person does. So I wouldn't read a
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by foxylad 14y ago
I didn't understand why everyone was wittering on about sustainability until I read "Collapse" by Jarod Diamond. It illustrates how dangerous it is to ignore sustainability, and how rare it is in human societies. It seems to me that we have
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by foxylad 14y ago
Maybe I'm a lot more cynical than I thought, but I think this is the best definition of a startup in this thread. I'm continually amazed by stories on HN where people invest significant portions of their lives and/or wealth with no idea of
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by foxylad 14y ago
I have no problem paying for a Google Apps account where I actually use Google apps, but at the moment you have to have a Google Apps account to link a domain to an Appengine app. Some of our apps have two or three domains showing the same
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by foxylad 14y ago
This. As a non-US entity, we pay a substantial tax to PayPal/Visa/Mastercard for US-denominated payments. I don't mind paying taxes to the government for civilisation, but I do object paying large corporates for what is in essence toggling
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by foxylad 14y ago
My wife has used a Galaxy Tab exclusively for the last year, despite her laptop being an arm's length away the whole time. Tablets cater for her browsing and light email use with no problem at all, and that laptop will never get replaced.
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by foxylad 14y ago
Only a severely paranoid person would take the time to write a year's worth of blog entries on the off chance he became a fugitive. Even then, what advantage does it give him? Some misdirection, certainly, but simply disappearing would be j
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by foxylad 14y ago
Appengine. You're a development shop, not scalable system builders. Deciding to build your own systems has already potentially cost you the success of this product - I doubt you'll get a second chance on HN now. If you were on appengine, yo
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by foxylad 14y ago
Frankly no - I see that event as the watershed when the appengine community suddenly matured. Thousands of people who were using appengine as free hosting disappeared, leaving those who actually understand the value proposition appengine of
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Ironically Appscale just released version 1.6.4 just a few days ago, although that doesn't necessarily void your argument.
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by foxylad 14y ago
"Stealing" as applied to physical property involves two elements: it must be unauthorised by the owner, and it deprives the owner of the thing. So I wouldn't define your password as stolen, just "known". As soon as the perp used it to take
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by foxylad 14y ago
Neither would I, but IF this happens it'll be the other way round - Dotcom would be giving Pacific Fibre $200 million. Their spokesman says they need a cornerstone investor with that amount to get the project off the ground. Sadly New Zeala
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by foxylad 14y ago
I was wondering the same thing a couple of days ago. The iPhone5 hasn't got the buzz previous releases had, and the iPad mini seems to be less and later than comparable android 7" tablets. Apple is also putting increasing energy into patent
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by foxylad 14y ago
Not wanting to shill for Google, but we've been very happy with Appengine's reliability - particularly since moving to the HR datastore. Have other Appengine users had any significant downtime apart from MS datastore issues?
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by foxylad 14y ago
I'm another happy banking Kiwi. Sometimes it's easy to forget how lucky we are.
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by foxylad 14y ago
Yes, this might make securing your device easier. But more and more, what I value is on the network - not my local hard drive. Be it a local network git repository, my ISP's email system or my cloud based apps (including my bank's internet

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