ieatpaste

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by ieatpaste 18y ago
Instead of zip codes, why not do closed, individual communities? I know there are a lot of forums that have a closed buy/sell market that could use this application. Some guys recently were trying to buy/sell on HN and this would be a good
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
Please post to HN if a video is released.
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Ask HN: Term Sheets
2 points by ieatpaste 18y ago|4 comments
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
If someone would suggest a service with an open marketplace and group instances, we could probably go there. Or we could just make one.
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
I worked on these. The phone's price is subsidized into the card pricing, so they would loose money if you could do that. They had us design them that there could be no swapping (they are locked to the pay-as-you-go sims). Unlocking require
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
You'll need to add a clause where a certain share of the stock (I assume you own 100%) to be bought back by the company each year. The percentage will take in account of the risk since the company will keep on growing. In any case, you'll h
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
Mobile phones used to have 4-year development cycles, but due to consumer pressure and CEOs making ridiculous promises, the development cycle has been compacted into as little as 6 months. This is not enough time for accurate testing on all
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Black Triangles(rampantgames.com)
4 points by ieatpaste 18y ago|0 comments
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
Promotion needs to be supportive of the product or at least related - a hot-or-not site isn't appropriate for a site who's target market is family.
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
i would actually put it to the top of the right column: the news stories are the most important, so you don't the submit form to get in the way.
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
stop reading hn and get back to work.
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
circuit city stores don't officially close until march 31, 2009 (from a cc manager i know). that means no good deals until the last few weeks.
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
http://www.methuselahfoundation.org/ has helped provide monetary incentive for longevity research. So far they have increased the lifespan of mice by 20%
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
I bought 200GB Seagate Baraccuda a couple years ago and have since gone through 2 RMAs. Though the hard drives fail, the RMA process is one of the most fluid and painless RMAs I have encountered.
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
The issue is on both sides - there are both "lemming" entrepreneurs and "lemming" vcs who deserve not to be funded/funding others and there needs not to be finger pointing.
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
a couple comments: - had a connection error the first time I tried connecting (worked on refresh) - good job on community (toplist, latest comments, and prominent links to blogs work well) - a submit story form should be on the first page
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
Data-based startups will be implement internally before it hits popularity. This is supported by semantic-esque elements have shown up in many APIs (such as Amazon). In my startup, we're using ARC ( http://arc.semsol.org/ ) and microformats
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Scientific Breakthroughs in 2008(blog.wired.com)
2 points by ieatpaste 18y ago|0 comments
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
Did anyone else start programming on TI calculators? I was 11 when I got a TI-83, which is essentially a portable editor and compiler. Not only could you write TI-Basic and z80 assembly, you could write pseudo-assembly with the Basic comman
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
It may be a publicity thing - they want to stay neutral to OSes. I know in a lot of other industries, it is a large business mistake to show products by a particular client in fear that other clients will find it offensive.
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
http://startupskunkworks.blogspot.com/ I'd be happy to discuss anything.
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
There are many sites that already do this. Since custom is much more expensive and prices still need to be competitive, most sites don't very well. If you search google for "custom online __item__", you'll have thousands of hits. Custom shi
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by ieatpaste 18y ago
(Slightly off topic) I know there are a lot of startups doing a physical-internet crossover similar to QRCode, but they read bar codes instead. The only issue I see with this is that not every item has a bar code (i.e. clothes) and it requi