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by jeroen 19y ago
A Psystar employee: “They’re charging an 80% markup on hardware,” I've seen a lot of price comparisons over at /. but I don't think even the most fervent Apple haters believe the markup to be that high.
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by jeroen 19y ago
dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=157804
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by jeroen 19y ago
I need to log in for that link, but not this one: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/us/10names.html?hp
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by jeroen 19y ago
permanent link: http://adjb.net/index.php?entry=entry080409-221633
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by jeroen 19y ago
Any chance you can do the profitable thing first and then use the profits to allow yourself to do the creative thing? That way you can more or less have it all.
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by jeroen 19y ago
If they do write something interesting, then someone here can write a blogpost about it and link that. "Plus, we like the guys! In fact, we'll be hanging out with Wag-In-Chief Owen Thomas and his underling Nicholas Carlson in a few hours at
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by jeroen 19y ago
At least they put in a bit more effort than last time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=125209
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by jeroen 19y ago
This seems to answer the recent questions about movements and competition for YC. With 200-250 rejected applications that are "pretty good", there should be more than enough material for XCombinator (where X!=Y) to work with.
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by jeroen 19y ago
This is about the limit on interviewing, not funding. Maybe the selection process after the interviews _is_ "like a grade in a class."
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by jeroen 19y ago
You might find this interesting, if you haven't read it already: Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=158895
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by jeroen 19y ago
Wired journalist: "Remember Iomega? No?" Iomega CEO: "We have strong brand and channel presence in business and consumer (markets)" One of them seems to be slightly out of touch with reality. I can't remember the last time I saw an Iomege p
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by jeroen 19y ago
I'm pretty sure Yahoo! has it's own ad system. Does this mean that (Yahoo! thinks) adsense is better?
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by jeroen 19y ago
Indeed he doesn't mention it, but this gives me the impression that he does _get_ it: "Clever entrepreneurs and even established companies can profit from this volunteerism--but only if they don't get too greedy. The key, Benkler says, is '
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by jeroen 19y ago
Updated for IE7 and FF2 though.
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by jeroen 19y ago
The css for #tabnav li could use a cursor: pointer. And the min-width: 970px for #content makes the site scroll horizontally for me, while it has an awful lot of whitespace. You could easily remove some whitespace to prevent the horizontal
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by jeroen 19y ago
Does it even make a difference? The whole world is using gmail as if it weren't in beta, with expectations to match.
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by jeroen 19y ago
True, but the aluminium of the Pro is also quite noticable. Maybe a bit less than the white plastic, but you won't confuse it for a Dell.
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by jeroen 19y ago
Full text of the letter from Yahoo! to MS: http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/apr2008/...
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by jeroen 19y ago
Still in alpha, but beta1 seems to be around the corner: http://www.getfirebug.com/blog/2008/03/18/27/
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by jeroen 19y ago
Tel Aviv may have a concentration of startups, but it's as unrelated to Europe as Silicon Valley is.
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by jeroen 19y ago
And they threaten to lower their offer, which probably didn't go unnoticed by Yahoo! shareholders: "If we are forced to take an offer directly to your shareholders, that action will have an undesirable impact on the value of your company fr
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by jeroen 19y ago
#10 is only a useless question when your only criterium for a job is money. Assuming you're looking for something more in a job, it's not very strange for an interviewer to ask about that.
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by jeroen 19y ago
My fault, wrong thread.
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by jeroen 19y ago
same article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152497
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by jeroen 19y ago
I'd say the main difference is that MS has a monopoly and Apple only has a very small part of the market. Thus MS is held to a higher standard.
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by jeroen 19y ago
"And I’d only just bought myself a new fridge-freezer! If I’d only known!" A funny highlight in a touching essay.
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by jeroen 19y ago
And that probably means there's no addressbook either. I don't know if I could go back to remembering all those phone numbers.
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by jeroen 19y ago
This: http://taggl.net/ Almost done!
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by jeroen 19y ago
The previous (first?) one is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=149887 It has interesting discussions on the current and historic quality of HN, which mostly give me the impression that it's all a matter of personal preference. (no
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by jeroen 19y ago
I found this: http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/sounds/_HYPE.html "<HYPE> is an "easter egg", an obscure feature hidden in a program for no other purpose than to make the programmers giggle themselves silly. In some versions of Nets

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