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by gstar 18y ago
Being extremely consistent with applying your brand is half the battle won. So many startups, particularly the web2.0 variety pollute their brand. Also, your brand isn't just your logo - it's your entire look and feel. Those facebook busin
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by gstar 18y ago
Sounds like systemic lipservice-style management to me. I don't buy it at all, and I've only encountered this from MBA-types in our US office.
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by gstar 18y ago
It depends. I have an industry website with a very narrow focus, and get about 80% verification rate. I'm considering dropping email verification, but I believe that 80% I get now is a very good rate. Biggest thing to consider is your MTA.
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Ask UK YC: Have any England startups been able to get an EFG loan?
1 points by gstar 18y ago|0 comments
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by gstar 18y ago
Have a look at the graph on the wikipedia page - should help you visualise it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm You want a curve, so that if the number of reps is higher, the suggested increase is proportional. Maths is easy. Let's
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by gstar 18y ago
You just want a logarithm maybe?
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by gstar 18y ago
I've had an idea to build a list app for a while, but the devil is in the details. My mental list (ahem!) of features went like this: - It needs to hold lists of key/value pairs of any size (bit like memcached, or a list of dicts in python)
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by gstar 18y ago
Lotus Elise or Mitsubishi Evo X?
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by gstar 18y ago
Cappuccino is squarely in the "Uncanny Valley" according to Atwood, but I disagree with his analysis. If you look at 280 slides, it doesn't behave quite like a mac, but it's still intuitive. People understand the WIMP. I think he's conflat
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by gstar 18y ago
Pressflip ( http://pressflip.com ) is basically that.
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by gstar 18y ago
I could tell you about all the old stuff I listen to, but as for new stuff I _highly_ recommend Ladyhawke
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by gstar 18y ago
I vote turn it off in the morning - that way you don't start your day with procrastination, and folk in the UK get a nice mid afternoon break.
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by gstar 18y ago
My understanding is that the bundle needs to be signed, but also the code needs to be signed to execute. You can't sign code on the device. So this is bullshit.
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by gstar 18y ago
Maybe its just more security theatre. And lobbyists (isn't the front-running vendor a .NZ company?)
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by gstar 18y ago
Michael Malone has a bit of a reputation as a ball-breaker, and although I don't think much of his ISP I am thoroughly impressed that he's spoken out about this in public. Could have been a bad move though, as I think the government will do
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by gstar 18y ago
Yes, I use Barclays and have one of their nifty chip and pin devices. What if the "something you have" was your mobile phone?
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Ask HN: Why no 2-factor authentication for web apps?
4 points by gstar 18y ago|6 comments
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by gstar 18y ago
Admittedly it's a placeholder (under construction isn't very web savvy) - but it's coming.
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The new US administration's web savvy is going to make the rest of us look bad(change.gov)
2 points by gstar 18y ago|2 comments
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by gstar 18y ago
This will be ideal. In fact, there's already a wikipedia article about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_brother_where_art_thou
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by gstar 18y ago
Congratulations - so a significant departure from code tools then?
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by gstar 18y ago
Surely there is some chair that is less than $500 that is excellent. Can anyone make a suggestion? I'd really like to buy my wife and I a decent chair each but I'm not sure we can just drop $3600 on 2 office chairs.
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by gstar 18y ago
Completely open hardware and completely open software, and an immutable audit trail of operation would go a long way to solving the problem.
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by gstar 18y ago
Rubbish - that's classic Jobsian misdirection. I'd put a tenner on Apple coming out with a netbook-esque device in the next 9 months.
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by gstar 18y ago
True. That he can make a living from it baffles me, though. Fair play to him for managing it.
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by gstar 18y ago
Target disk mode saved my ass just last night. But I'm all for progress. Also, if you consider the waste that went into fitting almost every single mac since 1999 with unused firewire ports, it makes you cringe. If you have a pro audio int
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by gstar 18y ago
Crikey. Maybe the new PM speaks Mandarin a little bit too well!
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by gstar 18y ago
I accept that sometimes some people have problems with communicating when there's a crisis ... it could be pride, or maybe deep personal problems that can just cripple them and make them feel unable to face the world. But what you don't do
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by gstar 18y ago
This is spam
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by gstar 18y ago
Look at this blog post - despite what it says (Django) it's fairly generic Python. http://boomby.com/?p=3

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