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by holdenk 17y ago
It doesn't hurt to get in touch with them and let them know you are about to launch to give them some time before hand to prepare (if they are even interested in covering you). You can always follow up on launch day (unless they explicitly
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by holdenk 17y ago
I don't know about that. I've got a small network of friends still in school doing two different startups, and I enjoy talking to him about how its going, even though they are currently much more successful than I am (I wimped out and took
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by holdenk 17y ago
Except exclusive content deals could be viewed as Microsoft using its leverage in an existing monopoly to unfairly compete in the search engine space.
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by holdenk 17y ago
A quick google search has a bunch of people indicating it is "free" and I don't see much a TOS. Is there anything to prevent me from encrypting my data and using this as an tertiary backup?
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by holdenk 17y ago
So the problem with 7mbs at 50 with 20:1 over subscription rate is, your assuming the local loop is over subscribed (which if its DSL it isn't), and the last mile is frequently the most expensive component. As far as T1s go, those are a dif
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by holdenk 17y ago
Regardless of if what the author did is deserving of sympathy, I think most of us can agree that the correct course of action is fixing the security bug rather than trying to cover it up. I mean we all know how well that works.
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by holdenk 17y ago
Where are you getting this 512kbs for $50 per month from? When I do a quick back of the envelope calculation using relatively recent wholesale bandwith costs and backhaul costs I get much more reasonable numbers. Wholesale bandwidth pricing
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by holdenk 17y ago
Maybe you and I are using different local Google's but for me googling for "Bug Tracking Software" both with and without quotes brings up Fog Creek in the first 5 (as of Nov/3/09). On .com atlassian is 2 bellow Fog Creek. On .ca it brings
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by holdenk 17y ago
FatELF seems like a bad idea for Linux. The "benefits" listed on http://icculus.org/fatelf/ fail to persuade me to want to pay any additional cost.
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by holdenk 17y ago
Well since the iPhone platform is similar to Apple's desktop platform, if I were Apple, before I went ahead and made concessions to Adobe I'd want to see some proof that they wouldn't mess up the user experience. So far Adobe has shown they
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by holdenk 17y ago
Personally I think this is more a case study in how not to do PR. We have a company (well city) announce they are moving to a competitors product. Do you 1)Give them a call and try and see if the relationship can be salvaged? 2)Failing that
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by holdenk 17y ago
This reminds me of a company in Ottawa that posted a job offer in the TXT records for their domain. Admittedly that company shortly later on went bankrupt in a billing dispute with Bell Canada, but still pretty cool.
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Ask HN: Good product sites?
1 points by holdenk 17y ago|0 comments
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by holdenk 17y ago
I've been using Ubuntu @ home and Debian for servers (and RHEL for day job), but I'm considering dumping Ubuntu. dontzap and stuff like that is crazysauce.
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by holdenk 17y ago
You can try something like http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx , it checks a bunch of RBLs all at once.
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by holdenk 17y ago
I could be wrong, but from looking at the authors data, and the writing, it seems as if the author is "massage" his interpretation of the data to fit his hypothesis (which could very well be valid). The author suggests "You can draw a strai
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Ask HN: User/lead acquisition for young singles?
6 points by holdenk 17y ago|2 comments
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by holdenk 17y ago
VPNs however add considerable latency as well as cost and complexity. Its not like there is no down side to using VPNs. If your using SSH and a web browser which isn't susceptible to the current SSL exploits, I don't see why I would want to
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by holdenk 17y ago
I wonder if its any different from http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer . Hopefully someone posts once theres something there.
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by holdenk 17y ago
I decided to use haskell as it has been awhile since I've touched it, I made the mistake of not compiling with -O for the first question (and it did not complete in the 8 minutes). When I re-ran afterwards (sadly no points) with -O it compl
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Ask HN: Anyone doing Google Code Jam?
5 points by holdenk 17y ago|4 comments
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by holdenk 17y ago
Could you explain how this is a nice gesture?
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by holdenk 17y ago
I hadn't thought of putting the QR code on the site, neat idea :)
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Ask HN: How to promote Android applications?
2 points by holdenk 17y ago|2 comments
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Last week I wrote a sitemonitoring Android application(blog.holdenkarau.com)
1 points by holdenk 17y ago|0 comments
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by holdenk 17y ago
One of my first jobs during University involved automating windows interoperability for a small Linux distribution. I must agree with the author, "Interoperability with Windows is hard. But somebody has to do it.", I'm just glad I don't hav
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by holdenk 17y ago
Reading some of the threads, people are suggesting that they go out and cut AT&T fiber (hopefully people are too lazy to do this). But in all seriousness, if this does turn out to be an attempt at filtering, does anyone have recommendat
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by holdenk 17y ago
Most of the time I see people looking for different payment processors, security doesn't even seem to enter the list. Is this something that we need to consider when picking a processor, or are they all pretty much equal?
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by holdenk 17y ago
How is this different from eclipse+ADT?
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by holdenk 17y ago
I'm working on two things right now ( http://web2.0collage.com & http://pcfspam.com ) I'm hoping to wrap up the first (a lot of it was an experiment into how to do basic PR) and get started on the second after exams.

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