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by htsh 14y ago
Why not hire a devops guy & rack your own hardware? Or get some massive computing units at amazon (just as good but more expensive)? This reminds me of the excellent 5 stages of hosting story shared on here from a while back: http://bl
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by htsh 15y ago
I believe a mistake of omission is different from being unable to distinguish a period and an apostrophe. Also, we are commenting online with each other, not responding in an official capacity to customer service inquiries.
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by htsh 15y ago
I know a bunch of sports fans of all sorts but mostly I know me, and I know that I have a DVR & all kinds of netflix videos to catch up on that compete for my (damn-near-zero) entertainment time with the NFL. Personally I gave up the NF
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by htsh 15y ago
You are stating another reason more than refuting his. I'm not disagreeing with your reason but his point is that this is big from Congress' perspective as we can now safely say that there are 0 internet companies in support of this. Wherea
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by htsh 15y ago
(i meant "did not" rather than "did" in paragraph 4 above. apologies for the confusion & for posting this but it was past the allocated edit time)
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by htsh 15y ago
The thing I can't help but wonder is whether the average NFL or ESPN viewer would just sit tight if they knew their internet was about to get a lot more limited and/or expensive? My point is that if the law is really as bad as we think it i
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by htsh 15y ago
well should is a strong word. and if you are a startup it's very possible that you don't depend on a fair use / DMCA Safe Harbor argument now but will in the unpredictable future so it's unlikely a client will ever get rejected for that p
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by htsh 15y ago
My point is simply that if a startup is paying a law firm & that ESPN is paying a law firm then maybe the law firm cares more about ESPN's business in case of conflicts. I do not think that is as unreasonable as your hysterical response
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by htsh 15y ago
These aren't just employees who signed these letters independently. They were asked by a client to sign onto the letter which agrees with the clients interests. They sign these precisely because the client of the firm paid them to. While
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by htsh 15y ago
This does not change the fact that ESPN's law firm working with other big law firms wrote large chunks of this bad law just the way their clients wanted it. Or that lawyers at law firms don't just willy-nilly write or sign these letters for
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by htsh 15y ago
PG, I know you aren't inviting them to your demo day, but I hope you can commit to not not doing business with the law firms on this list and also not sharing law firms with these old-media dinosaurs like ESPN and the NFL. If ESPN hires a
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by htsh 16y ago
We've been using the flow control helpers in async.js to help us with the nesting issue: ( https://github.com/caolan/async ). We use the waterfall most, as it allows one to run an array of function in a series with a callback at the end of
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by htsh 16y ago
Also, imho, having a Linux client early helped quite a bit with gaining street credibility amongst hackers/nerds. I know this is the reason I started using it instead of competing services.
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by htsh 16y ago
Disheartened with technology during the lull after the first dot com bubble burst, I went to law school. After finishing up and working at a law firm for a year, I realized that I'd rather fail at startups than do that for a living.
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by htsh 16y ago
Exactly -- feasible, yes. Sustainable, no.
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by htsh 16y ago
I would not be surprised if AT&T matches the price in the near future. Seems like the least they should do unless they like losing customers..
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by htsh 16y ago
re: AT&T's plan, I think they mean two gigabytes, not two gigabits?
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by htsh 16y ago
Agreed, though there's still something to be said about strong default settings. And there's a huge difference between something asking for a password than something installing something drive-by without any notification whatsoever. From a
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by htsh 16y ago
Perhaps this is something they can get a micro-volunteer to help them with.
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by htsh 16y ago
It makes sense from a marketing perspective considering how well the Android brand has caught on. Also, Android is a more fully-featured OS considering it has local apps and storage as compared with the cloud-dependent ChromeOS. It's likely
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by htsh 16y ago
I couldn't help but wonder whether this has given us good reason to login via oauth with facebook or twitter to these sorts of sites? After watching how Gawker handled all of this, I think I'd rather leave my security in the hands of the en
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by htsh 16y ago
The link hasn't worked for me since last night. I can see a cached copy, but that's it.
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by htsh 16y ago
I thought Digg had it's fair share of right-of-center and Libertarian content, especially in the last couple of years. It was considerably more often that I'd find a conservative article on the front page of Digg than I would on Reddit's /r
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by htsh 16y ago
Well Britney is a good example but at the other end I'd offer something like Die Antwoord, who were able to get themselves a big record deal by simply putting their videos on youtube. Or Justin Bieber, who also only exists because of the in
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by htsh 16y ago
Agreed, but is it now possible get established relatively easier by simply writing a better book than the other guy? I mean the ease of distribution brings the harm of piracy but aren't there also some gains? As examples, I'd offer both Why
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by htsh 16y ago
1. Speaking tours make money. Conferences make money, etc. 2. Fame, recognition, i.e. non-monetary benefits to being a good writer. 3. At least some people write because they believe what they have to say is important and/or helpful. 4. Peo
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by htsh 16y ago
The US?
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by htsh 16y ago
I don't think you're fighting effectively by screaming and calling the person you're talking to uneducated. Fighting for privacy is great, but you're not always going to be right just because you're on the right side. I think there's a vali
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by htsh 16y ago
I came here to say the same thing. This sort of misogyny is exactly why the tech world has difficulty attracting / retaining women.
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by htsh 16y ago
I'm aware of the Superman movie & I mostly agree with your criticisms, and again, my objection was that I thought you overstated your criticism of the "United States public school system." Obviously, not all public schools are bad. For

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