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by gridspy 16y ago
Who cares if the votes are say 1 minute out of date? Even caching a 2000 comment thread for a minute would significantly speed up that page.
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by gridspy 16y ago
Chargify customers are strongly locked in because Chargify stores CC data.
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by gridspy 16y ago
Okay, so the government should cut domestic spending, reducing the amount of cash available to government agencies and their suppliers? Or did you mean it should raise taxes to collect more funds, essentially putting a drag on the economy a
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by gridspy 16y ago
If not bureaucratic fluff, what is to blame for the great success of organisations such as SpaceX while Nasa has done less with more? Still, I concede that we must be cautious about potential silver bullets. Good point on the "libertarian u
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by gridspy 16y ago
The first person down is going to be a paramedic from the surface. It would be natural for this person to be the last one up.
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by gridspy 16y ago
Governments actually have very little control of the economy. They can tax stuff to discourage it, or adjust interest rates. Pretty much anything else they do has horrible side effects that are very difficult to predict and often take years
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by gridspy 16y ago
Thanks for the heads up. Honestly we have a massive TODO list and our front page needs an overhaul.
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by gridspy 16y ago
Let me just add here that I second jacquesm's assessment. You really do need to stop worrying about the technology and start worrying about your marketing. I love the point you make about the extended leverage open-source and outsourced cod
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by gridspy 16y ago
To expand on your point, They aren't looking for people who know the current bleeding edge (in scaling, say). Instead they need people who can continue to define the future bleeding edge.
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by gridspy 16y ago
If a robot makes a meaningful contribution to your website / service, do you really care if they are a robot? If you could tell which comments are insightful / relevant / interesting / unique it wouldn't matter which ones were produced by h
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by gridspy 16y ago
It is as hard to find great students as it is to find great masters.
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by gridspy 16y ago
The ongoing space exploration efforts will also serve to inspire up and coming young scientists. Their efforts will help to advance technologies across the board.
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by gridspy 16y ago
Show your parents the recept.
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by gridspy 16y ago
Congratulations WakeMate on making it this far. I fully understand how very hard it is to create a hardware product, it takes much longer than you expect to get to the great quality level that hardware requires.
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by gridspy 16y ago
Changing the design to accommodate a new flash chip is a pretty big spanner thrown into their works by an outside requirement. Also, that authentication chip was probably a major headache. Imho, they have some pretty good reasons for the de
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by gridspy 16y ago
Show her how hard you can work on your startup in your current free time. If you are serious she will quickly see that you are much more committed than the most extreme workaholic.
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by gridspy 16y ago
For about a year I really wanted to spend more time on my startup, but my wife pointed out that we needed a steady income to support our family. Naturally, she was right - I wrote about it here : http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/2010/02/part-time
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by gridspy 16y ago
It would suck to have that proposal in print if she said no. Talk about a constant reminder.
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by gridspy 16y ago
Not to mention - most couples think it all going to work out.
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by gridspy 16y ago
Okay, so lets pretend that you are right about vanishing money. You are failing to take into account the productivity gains you get from proper rest. 1) Tired workers make costly mistakes, often countering any extra production they may have
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by gridspy 16y ago
That other 90% doesn't drop off the planet. It goes to a company that splits it into profit and expense. Both are spent by different people, but all the cash goes back into the economy. The profits might be spent on luxuries, the costs on m
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Out of 'the Garage' and into an Office(blog.gridspy.co.nz)
1 points by gridspy 16y ago|0 comments
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by gridspy 16y ago
It sounds very likely that you have faulty ram (use Memcheck) or an overheating graphics card. It could also be an old Motherboard BIOS. I say this because I have had the same thing (crashing games) on my own computers and eventually traced
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by gridspy 16y ago
The main price is waiting for steam to login and initialize before you can start loading the game.
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by gridspy 16y ago
If you traveled back 2000 years with a helecoptor, or modern weapons, or a bulldozer - you'd be a higher power.
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Firmware Auto-Updates for GridSpy(blog.gridspy.co.nz)
2 points by gridspy 16y ago|0 comments
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by gridspy 16y ago
Those success stories are notable because they are the exception. There are literally hundreds of thousands of successful businesses out there, big and small. One of my favorite companies (Hubbards, makes breakfast foods) was founded by Dic
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by gridspy 16y ago
Completely true. However it is extremely rare for multiple startups to go for _exactly_ the same niche. Also, most customers you approach will never have heard of either of you - unless you are in a tiny market your competition has very lit
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by gridspy 16y ago
Don't worry too much about a large company seeing what you are doing and moving into your space faster than you. Large companies go through several stages of copying ideas 1) What a dumb idea, that will never work 2) That company seems prof
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by gridspy 16y ago
Closing your eyes doesn't help, the strobes still seem just as bright. The light really does come from everywhere at once.

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