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by jdunck 16y ago
First, do some math. Assuming no inflation, you have 138 years worth of money. Come on, you'll splurge some, have a friend that needs help, give to charity, have some unexpected bills, and have inflation. So it's not really more than you
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by jdunck 16y ago
Fred Wilson is a VC -- I'm pretty sure he doesn't need any money derived from this post. He's just posting observations as this market forms.
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by jdunck 16y ago
I'm fiddling with a FB privacy thing. Would you mind if I used this example as an anti-testimonial? Edited as follows: " [M]y realtor checked my background with Facebook. I only knew about this because [he] turned out to have gone to high
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by jdunck 16y ago
Hey, I was thinking of doing something like this. If you're interested in collaborating, let me know.
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by jdunck 16y ago
Hash signalling (history support) seems not to work?
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by jdunck 16y ago
If that is your line of reasoning for staying married, it's an unhealthy situation, probably not good for the kids, etc. People in such situations should focus on communication and progress, possibly with the help of a therapist. Or end th
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by jdunck 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula
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by jdunck 17y ago
You should rewrite hyphenate_html as a walker rather than a recursion, because Python has a stack, and arbitrary input could make you reach max recursion. http://github.com/fortes/softhyphen/blob/master/hyphenate_ht...
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by jdunck 17y ago
iPhone SMS allows forwarding of SMS messages. Is this a common feature of phones? Of smartphones, or more?
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by jdunck 17y ago
Welcome to HN, Dmitry, and nice work!
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by jdunck 17y ago
Distribution is your main problem. How do people know about you? Find a way to piggy back or bootstrap or get word-of-mouth. See also: http://cdixon.org/2009/08/25/six-strategies-for-overcoming-c...
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by jdunck 17y ago
Not obviously true; the article you cited is reviewing a bugfix revision of the Phenom. Or did I miss something?
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by jdunck 17y ago
No, Quicksilver has much more to offer than app launching. It's sad that most people never got past this. :-/
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by jdunck 17y ago
Spot pricing should almost always be below reserve instance price since the utility is reduced by being unpredictably available.
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by jdunck 17y ago
Suggestion -- use small multiples showing the data center prices on one screen, probably by making the graphs 1/4 size. Place your explanation in the space left empty since there's only (currently) 3 centers. "A small multiple design cons
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by jdunck 17y ago
A big difference between craigslist flagging and inbox flagging is that by the time a user can flag a message in email, the message has been delivered to everybody. You can't have a few people remove crap messages from everybody's inbox (r
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by jdunck 17y ago
So, the lack of response is a bit surprising. Am I wrong that FluidDB is novel? Or are people just having a hard time with the idea because it is novel?
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Ask YC: Ideas for FluidDB?
7 points by jdunck 17y ago|6 comments
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by jdunck 17y ago
FWIW, Django was in private use before Rails was made public, so while Django and Rails are kindred, it's not reasonable to call Django an iteration of Rails.
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by jdunck 17y ago
Why can't DRBD be used for scaling reads?
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Lean Startup mailing list(groups.google.com)
2 points by jdunck 17y ago|0 comments
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by jdunck 17y ago
On #1, that's a simple interface problem. What if you could tap to pause, swipe left to go back 5sec, swipe w/ 2 fingers to go back 15 seconds, &c? I've used RSVP a fair bit. It's not for pleasure reading. It's for very quickly deser
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by jdunck 17y ago
Try this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Serial_Visual_Presentatio... http://www.zapreader.com/
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by jdunck 17y ago
Seems like there must be a buyer who is interested in saving the brand, or that there must be an adviser gave them a business model.
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by jdunck 18y ago
It's not crazy talk, but it is, often really hard. Any part of a process which has variable time or is at all out of your control is going to fuck it up.
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by jdunck 18y ago
"As of October 31, 2008, the Jython development team is proud to announce a new beta release: Jython 2.5b0!" http://www.jython.org/Project/ Jython is alive and well.
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by jdunck 18y ago
1000 core 2GHz machines for the desktop are 5 years out. Parallel is the way forward.
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by jdunck 18y ago
We use AuthSMTP.com with fairly link-heavy text. It's often pretty lengthy text, so that might help. Make sure your SPF works. Most of the suggestions here are for campaign software, and that might help-- just use a mail merge feature. Su
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by jdunck 18y ago
To me, you're proving you know how to play the game. The data-gathering aspect of my suggestion was, to me, the most interesting part.
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by jdunck 18y ago
Really? I've seen it do some pretty impressive things. You have some examples of what didn't work? It might help them improve it. It's one of their core capabilities, of course.

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