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by jaxn 16y ago
I used to be a Business Intelligence consultant for enterprises. We built reports, data warehouses, dashboards, etc. From my experience, the article is spot on, not linkbait. Maybe MongoDB is better once you have a well defined query that
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by jaxn 16y ago
Did you have a comment with this quote from the article?
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by jaxn 16y ago
I had the same thought when I read it. Either that or Google's initial stock price was based more on the company's goodwill than earnings.
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by jaxn 16y ago
Why is it just PHP and Java? Why not include Perl, Python, Ruby, and .NET?
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by jaxn 16y ago
The computer helps my boys to read. I have an 8 year old who's desire to read stemmed from his wanting to be able to play online games like Club Penguin. He needed to read the instructions. The same is true for the Leapster video game co
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by jaxn 16y ago
I usually have the airline send me SMS notifications. I think TripIt Pro does notifications too.
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by jaxn 16y ago
Just cost. There were some issues with a high number of writes, but it has got better. The unscheduled downtime also killed us. But really, it was just the sheer amount of traffic. Real-time multi-player games that people have with them all
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by jaxn 16y ago
This makes me feel a little better. We created a multi-player rpg for mobile phones at startup weekend a few year ago. It actually did ok and it was growing pretty quickly. I hosted it on AppEngine to start and the resources just started
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by jaxn 16y ago
My point was not as much about how you do or don't die from SIDS, but rather that it is mostly a 1st world problem. We don't worry about cholora or dysentery.
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by jaxn 16y ago
I have 4 kids. They all slept face down. They all lived. The point being, even the stuff we fear in the western world is really pretty unlikely. Feed them, don't drop them and you are pretty much good. (for the first year)
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by jaxn 16y ago
I am 33. I currently have almost enough passive income to live. My income comes from retail stores. I am not real confident that they will last another 50 years. What I am able to invest now is my time. So I spend some time on expanding and
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by jaxn 16y ago
No. I lost the retirement account in the divorce. Then again, I kept the businesses. So, I am planning for retirement by creating businesses with recurring passive income.
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by jaxn 16y ago
I imagine your parents are pretty thrilled that you can pull down 90k so early in your career. It likely took them much longer to get to almost double the average household income of the US. The thing is, for lots of programmers the peak is
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by jaxn 16y ago
I wish I could upvote this more than once.
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by jaxn 16y ago
They did a nice job of trying to frame the problem, but they are dead wrong. "Traditionally, the biggest problem for most small businesses is getting customers in the door." Actually, the primary concern of most small businesses is keeping
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by jaxn 16y ago
Minor nit-pick. Groupon doesn't make money on the float. They give the money to the retailer pretty quick. My understanding is the the retailer gets paid even when the groupon isn't redeemed. One would think the retailer would make up so
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by jaxn 16y ago
Groupons terms are not really negotiable. They offered me the same terms when I called them about my retail stores. (want min 50% off for consumer, they take 50% of revenue). I told them it was too rich. They wouldn't budge. I walked away.
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Ask HN: Are there any premium Rails template providers?
2 points by jaxn 16y ago|1 comments
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by jaxn 16y ago
Outside of tech-startup-land I think that is most entrepreneurs definition of success. Then you start adding goals to success like "not have to get a job and can take a vacation every once in a while"
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by jaxn 16y ago
That 95% number is BS even though it gets tossed around frequently: http://www.businessknowhow.com/startup/business-failure.htm Apparently 44% of small businesses are still in business after 4 years.
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by jaxn 16y ago
That is Cmd-` (~ would require a Shift) And after Cmd-Tab, Cmd-~ takes you backwards in the list of apps. So if you Cmd-Tab too many times, Cmd-~ takes you back instead of having to cycle through. Likewise, in Safari Cmd-} (aka Cmd-Shift-]
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by jaxn 16y ago
How about if a startup works with YC and FB, will they be prohibited from working with Twitter? What if FB is developing a "beta feature" that the startup wants. Can they ask Twitter for the same feature?
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by jaxn 16y ago
I guess that is a key difference in real-estate and retail. The margins in retail aren't high enough to hire a management company to handle all of the details. Sure, there are store managers, but they have to report to someone. And there i
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by jaxn 16y ago
An REIT is a Real Estate Investment Trust. Not an index. I have a small investment in an REIT and while the trust owns multiple properties, it is far from an index. An REIT is more like buying an individual stock, you are investing in a com
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by jaxn 16y ago
Ryan, would you need to "love" real estate for this to work? Going back to the initial article, don't do it if you don't love it because you may end up spending a lot of time on it and doing something you hate is a pretty crappy retirement
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by jaxn 16y ago
In my very limited interaction with Robert Scoble I have found the opposite to be true. I found him to be open and a good listener.
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by jaxn 16y ago
I have a couple of retail stores. I have them push data into Google AppEngine nightly and have been using a Google Spreadsheet for the "dashboard". It is super cool that Chart.io is supporting AppEngine as a data source. I have high hopes.
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Seven Transformations of Leadership(asiquedamos.org)
1 points by jaxn 16y ago|0 comments
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by jaxn 16y ago
You want a risk greater than the reward? That seems like a losing strategy to me. What you want is a reward greater than the risk. Of course, everyone wants that. The way to find it is to have some insight into how to make the market more
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by jaxn 16y ago
Yes, but that is if someone is looking at it. It is not easy for them to script if they stole a database of accounts and passwords. I am under the impression direct, targeted attacks are pretty rare, and that most of the purpose of a passw

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