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by inovica 19y ago
I don't understand why people feel the need to have a co-founder. I don't think there's anything wrong with setting up your own company and then employing some other people to fill in any skills gap that you feel you might have. Personally
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by inovica 19y ago
I bought an EEE PC and its a wonderful first computer for my 5-year old son. I also use it sometimes and its great for travelling. yes there are issues with the small screen size, but generally I'm happy with it. For the price its a great
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Ask YC: Who's pushing their data to 'the cloud'
15 points by inovica 19y ago|15 comments
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by inovica 19y ago
Exactly. And in doing so that would tell me you will be more committed to your business. Interesting - someone should do it. Now, is anyone on here not busy?
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by inovica 19y ago
Why not set up a kiva-like site for American startups? Oh, hang on - Kiva has virtually no defaulters on its loans, so maybe scrap that idea.
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by inovica 19y ago
very true :) Not sure what some of the Kiva entrepreneurs would do with the equivalent of $1 million
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by inovica 19y ago
I appreciate this is a YCombinator start-up, so apologies for being a little negative. Firstly I think the app itself looks good, but I visit a lot of sites and I was alarmed at the space being taken up after just a couple of hours of use.
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by inovica 19y ago
Try it and see. At least this way you'll be able to see if there is anything or if the OS works for you personally
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by inovica 19y ago
Good luck to them if they can get this. I'm sure that the 3-days will have some caveat and they did say 1.0 in this time. If you were large enough, and had the funds, you might go to these guys to get something out the door quickly. From a
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by inovica 19y ago
I travel a lot and with more recent laptops I've never needed a second battery
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by inovica 19y ago
Well, I've just ordered a MacBook Air. My wife has a MacBook Pro which I love and I have held on using an old PowerBook 12". I don't like the MacBook (sorry to anyone who has one) as I find it too heavy and in a tactile way I just don't li
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by inovica 19y ago
Under Linux we use Rsync. Its great and only the changed portions of changed files are updated. Under Windows I use Viono Backup (www.vionobackup.com). Its in beta at the moment, but this is secure and encrypted and works similar to Rsync
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by inovica 19y ago
Grrr. I've been waiting to replace my 12" PowerBook. I mean, waiting and waiting. I bought a black MacBook, but it has no soul. Oh well... looks like I'm going to have to buy one
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by inovica 19y ago
What I'm wondering is if it would be possible to use some kind of algorithm such as Bayesian where an individual could select the articles they like and the ones they don't so that the site would start to deliver more specific content.
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by inovica 19y ago
compound interest is much easier to understand with a $ sign :)
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by inovica 19y ago
Well said. There is some research out there (sorry don't have time to re-look) which covers "Bad Design" and how it has worked well for some companies. Often I think people like these sites as they appear to be amateur and not run by some s
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by inovica 19y ago
One thing to note is that he ALWAYS looked at the business case. He realised that to be a "me to" wasn't going to work and so his model was to offer a completely free dating site and make money from advertising. Whilst others obsess with cr
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by inovica 19y ago
I imagine there has been some amazing work put in behind the scenes here and to keep it as secret as they did is fantastic. Whilst I don't always agree with Apple policies what they have created here is a dramatic leap that will hopefully g
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by inovica 19y ago
What you are talking about is the deep web I think and I don't think anyone has managed this yet! Essentially you want a system that can fill in forms and pull back results. I think it needs to be done on a per-site basis
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by inovica 19y ago
I'm 38 myself and have been into this for 15 years now in various businesses and into computers since I was about 12 years old. The media often talk about 'young' startups more and also I remember reading a couple of articles that Paul Gra
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BBC article about over 50's startups. Who here is older than 30?(news.bbc.co.uk)
22 points by inovica 19y ago|48 comments
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Intel pulls out of OLPC(news.bbc.co.uk)
5 points by inovica 19y ago|2 comments
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Car that runs on compressed air(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by inovica 19y ago|0 comments
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by inovica 19y ago
Anyway, its sparked debate :) We've a great community on here, so whats good is we can do so intelligently. I'm not from the US, so not only was this off-topic (for me) but also not even politics I'm interested in :P
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by inovica 19y ago
Of course it doesn't, however once this site starts getting diluted with information that I consider to be off-topic then I leave and so will others. The GREAT thing about Hacker News is that it covers startup and programming news and is a
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by inovica 19y ago
Personally, I agree. If I want news like this then I go to other websites. I come to Hacker news because its focused
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by inovica 19y ago
I presume they just have a pool of numbers, so in theory you could end up with a number that's been used by 10 people who have posted it to a load of sites and then you'd receive those calls/messages. Unless I'm missing something (which is
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by inovica 19y ago
We chose Python because 2 guys knew PHP and one guy was an ASP dude. We decided on Python because it would give all 3 something to learn (and to help to bond) but ultimately its ended up being more powerful than we all imagined. The main
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Free Python magazine - one issue anyway(pymag.phparch.com)
1 points by inovica 19y ago|0 comments
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by inovica 19y ago
We work very closely with startups. I would suggest that you find someone who can work with you and who can understand the business-side of what you're doing. A lot of designers can create great looking sites, but that aren't functional in

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