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by gstar 17y ago
Melbourne is brilliant. With all the banking (and money) in Melbourne, wouldn't it be the logical place for the startup ecosystem to thrive in Australia? I really hope it does - if I ever go back to Australia, Melbourne is where I'd probabl
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by gstar 17y ago
concur for patio11 - in fact, upon reflection, his is really the only username that ever pops out at me. I tend comment on HN without consideration for usernames.
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by gstar 17y ago
It's certainly an interesting approach! Depending on the volume, it could have the benefits you described - but it may get a bit old when the volumes increase. I'd engineer the crawler to talk to a persistent message queue, and load the da
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by gstar 17y ago
MongoDB works very well for us with 100GB of data per collection, although we did run into a severe bug with .count not using an index, totally killing performance (we're talking 60 seconds to return). Inserts and indices, however are very
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by gstar 17y ago
Direct link to ZDNet: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39760362,0... I can't help wondering if this Shalowitz guy actually believes what he's saying. He fails my clown test - he answers a question with the one-worder "Cor
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by gstar 17y ago
The service itself is great, but it's getting a little bit pricy for what it does. I really like that you get a web-based terminal for the console session, if you need one. The host I use in the UK (Tagadab) doesn't have that - but they hav
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by gstar 17y ago
For my toy stuff, about £30 for a smallish VPS in the UK, $20 a month for the smallest slicehost in the US, and I also have dreamhost (about $120/pa) that I use to host screencasts and things. I'd never put anything critical on there, thou
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by gstar 17y ago
Actually, I was really disappointed. The engine bay shot killed it for me, those K&N filters on top of the rocker covers, silly anodised aluminium pressure fittings and the crazy angled radiator support just lack symmetry and grace. Th
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by gstar 17y ago
It's interesting to see these opinions from someone who has been close to Seedcamp, even though at the end of the article the author discloses a bit of a vested interest in criticising. Anyway, I thoroughly agree. From my perspective, runni
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by gstar 17y ago
That's the most heartfelt thing I've read from Gordon Brown (or his aides) .. fantastic. I'm very pleased that the apology was made.
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by gstar 17y ago
Probably only me - but to my mind that's a shame. It's only my opinion, but I think Flash is nuts for anything new except video at the moment. I think Flash is: - slow - fairly unstable, even on Windows - a privacy nightmare (cookie syste
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by gstar 17y ago
Cute - excellent chart and interaction. Just be careful you don't offend the dons with your scraping. One criticism: Flash?
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by gstar 17y ago
I don't have pictures. I can describe, though. Two disks were mounted in a frame linearly, both screwed to the frame, with the power/sata connectors toward the middle of the frame, and one drive upside-down. These cassettes were removable
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by gstar 17y ago
Are your target boxes virtual machines? I always prefer the strategy where mirroring the data happens before the disk is presented to the VM. Have a look at GlusterFS and see if that might be an option? I know it wasn't playing nice with
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by gstar 17y ago
They might have missed a trick here. To address vibration, acoustics and gyroscopic effect, what I've seen done in highly dense enclosures is to rotate every second drive around 180 degrees in a bit of a shotgun approach to balancing stuff.
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by gstar 17y ago
In Australia, whenever I had a CT scan I was provided with a CD-ROM full of data in some kind of medical format. In my experience, patients usually transport imaging data/films between the imaging bureau and the medical practitioners thems
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by gstar 17y ago
I agree - slight oversight. Thanks for all your advice, though - appreciated.
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by gstar 17y ago
In the UK, there are any number of dire warnings on the IPO (intellectual property office) website about disclosing your invention before patents are applied for. Not sure if the principles are the same.
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by gstar 17y ago
Thanks, Jacques. Does your opinion change at all if this management consultant was a referral, and they have had three successful exits and are listed as an inventor on a series of patents?
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Ask HN: Patents. Disclosure. Investors?
4 points by gstar 17y ago|8 comments
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by gstar 17y ago
First thing I looked at was the iPod touch. It said the firmware (which I read to be the OS) wasn't based on open source software. It's not the prettiest site in the world, either. Were you planning on making affiliate commission? I can't
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by gstar 17y ago
Ha. I double dare you to ask an Australian how you spell colour or authorise. They'd argue with you about them not being English 'details' but rather American 'misspellings', too.
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by gstar 17y ago
Go to the US, and ask for a 'glass of water' anywhere. Honestly, hardly anyone will get it first time - and usually you have to break down and ask for a 'wadder'. Same with Butter. There are some major differences that aren't obvious - us
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by gstar 17y ago
Difficult. IANAFD so this may be slightly technically inaccurate: We got them to actually draw something (called a flat) from a half-drawn garment, draw a full flat from scratch, identify trends from a series of photos, pick textile colour
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by gstar 17y ago
Xapian is amazing - it's incredibly fast, and I much prefer it to Lucene and friends. I'm using Xapain with Django right now, but the framework I built to smush them together is hardly elegant. Can't wait to try this out.
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by gstar 17y ago
Grinning much? So THAT must be what it's like when you earn or spend $50mil!
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by gstar 17y ago
Gruber is polarising, but that's precisely why he's so successful. Much as I think he's a bit obnoxious, I read his blog regularly. I really admire his respect for his craft (vs say, techcrunch), as well as the niche he's carved out for hi
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by gstar 17y ago
Not depressing at all, completely representative of the job pool. The technique you're using isn't common - a lot of traditional companies don't interview on skill and technique (like Google do). Backing up your 70% of failures, we recently
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by gstar 17y ago
Working out sales strategy has turned out to be the most difficult thing for our startup for precisely this reason - none of us are sales people! My partner and I are both very introverted, and although we have a great product (i think), w
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by gstar 17y ago
Fair point, so perhaps I should wind it down a bit: it's certainly the least ethical website I've seen launched on HN.

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