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by iamelgringo 15y ago
In certain verticals, Bing really outshines Google like travel search, video search, and image search. Bing maps is really quite good. Microsoft is a cash cow, and has multiple sources of strong revenue. Google has one: advertising. Mic
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Congrats, guys!
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
One month of EC2 XL with 15GB of memory is roughly $500 a month. A 90 GB database fits in a single $150 SSD. You can get 1 TB of SSD storage for $3,000. "One EC2 Compute Unit provides the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opter
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
I talked with Greg Lindahl, the CTO of Blekko about their infrastructure. He came into the office one day with 700 SSD's and said, "Here's our new storage back end." Their search index is stored entirely on SSD's. They haven't had a singl
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Startups on Windows just got really interesting (Build Keynote)(channel9.msdn.com)
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
It's all James's own artwork. Frankly, I love it.
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Apple vs. Microsoft: Which user interface do you prefer?(zdnet.com)
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
James and Peteris are two of the most amazing devs I've seen in a long time. They ship and ship and ship and ship. The first version of StackVM (Browserling's underlying technology) was written in Haskell. They switched to Node close to t
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Startups are a religion. Founders are zealots. Let me explain. In 1967, my parents received a letter from a missionary who taught at a school in rural Honduras. She asked them to help her run the school. 9 months later, my parents packed
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
I love what Dave has been doing from an investment perspective, and the accelerator program that 500 startups has set up is top notch. I haven't heard a bad thing about him from any of the startups that he's invested in... aside from the fa
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Arrington is also an LP in SVAngel. Not listed here: http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/27/an-update-to-my-investment-... But it is listed here: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-arrington SVAngel co invests with all YC companies.
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OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment(howgoodisthat.wordpress.com)
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
If you go to PyCon, you'll see a _ton of Windows User, a ton of Mac users and a ton of Linux users. The Python community is impressively OS agnostic. The startup community less so. I dev on Win because of the better multiple monitor suppo
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Python Tools for Visual Studio ( released under Apache 2.0 Lic )(pytools.codeplex.com)
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
The "Why would I want node.js to run on Windows and IIS" bullets, if they're meant to compel you in the context of other platforms, I don't get: I'm guessing/hoping it has something to do with native HTML5 apps + javascript + windows hook
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
It’s just a larger percentage of the total pool of start-ups is coming through Y Combinator. Angel List has helped over 500 companies get funded in the last year. Angel pad launched 24 companies, IO Ventures launced 14, 500 Startups laun
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Please delete the above comment, or failing that.. Downvote my comment to get it to the bottom of the page. Sorry about the above, if it came off as dickish, or as trying to steal the thunder from VidYard. That's my bad. I'm still seething
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
http://VidCaster.com has been building branded pages for companies for well over a year. We've been using them for http://hackersandfounders.tv for months, and we've been thrilled. VidCaster's also more than just a wrapper around the Y
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The sky is not falling (kfarr.com)
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
I just read the rest of the article. I stumbled across this little gem: Soon came VidCaster, a service for Web sites to add video; it was started by Kieran Farr, a taxi driver turned chief executive. He said his service had absolute stick
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
And for anyone with a decent idea and the drive to start a company, $100,000 to get it off the ground is easy to come by. Bullshit. Out of the thousands of people that come to Hackers & Founders on any given month, I know exactly one
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Anyone from the Node community care to tackle this?
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
I had a job in health care where it required me to wander around a hospital for 12 hours, talking to each individual unit, and taking notes. I tried hard for 2 or 3 months to make a laptop / tablet combo work. (xp tablet edition). Eventual
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
There's also a lot of companies that start small, stay small and die of attrition. But, those don't make for sexy blog post reading, however. That's not to detract from the above company.
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
They just partnered with Nokia that still makes 1/3 of all phones globally. They just purchased the fastest growing telecom company in the world (Skype). Microsoft is a battleship. It moves incredibly slowly, but once it turns, and sets i
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
First rule: Do the right thing for your people. A friend of mine worked as a group leader for a major tech company for years. Put in 14 to 16 hours a day for six months to release a major project. On launch, the company gave my friend a
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
But it's never been fair game to editorialize the headlines on story submissions here. I don't understand your comment about editorializing headlines. The process of editorializing is making changes after the copy has been submitted. An
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
DDG is a handful of people, and it's boot strapped. Google makes Billions a year.
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Link to your site? :)
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Hey, Tim. The headline should really be changed to something neutral. YC startups already get tons of free press and PR by virtue that their investor controls HN. I thought it would be nice to highlight another founder's startup as well.

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