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by jplewicke 13y ago
Rob Walling writes about this in Start Small, Stay Small ( http://www.startupbook.net/ ), and I think he mentions a range of 5x - 36x monthly revenue. It's dependent a lot on how automated and easy to maintain the site is, and how high t
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by jplewicke 13y ago
There's also HireFire, which has support for scaling all your Heroku process types, not just your web processes: http://hirefire.io/ . I've used them for a few projects which honestly have never actually needed auto-scaling, but they're
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by jplewicke 13y ago
I would actually guess that the timing is mostly driven by the vesting schedule from the Salesforce acquisition. They announced the acquisition in December 2010, and it closed fairly quickly thereafter. I think 2 years is a standard vesti
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by jplewicke 13y ago
It's been around for a few years, and I'd definitely recommend it. It's very comforting when you find yourself saying "Wait, what if I need to do refunds or dunning emails? Oh, that's already handled." I've saved many hours of development
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by jplewicke 13y ago
Most importantly, Bitcoin was the world's first distributed cryptocurrency without a centralized currency issuer. The blockchain was and is a very important advance over the previously existing Chaumian cash cryptocurrencies.
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by jplewicke 13y ago
Thanks!
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by jplewicke 13y ago
It sounds like one of the Bitcoin alternatives is scrypt based, and they are putatively getting a roughly 10x speedup from GPUs: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Litecoin#Scrypt_Proof_of_Work . Is that a new development, or is it in the neighb
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by jplewicke 13y ago
I wasn't inconvenienced by it, but I remember myself and everyone at Dartmouth receiving a single email inviting us to join Facebook at the same time somewhere in the early winter of 2004. It wasn't a viral action like "your friend has add
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by jplewicke 13y ago
They order from Applebee's secret menu, which is centered around obscure cuts of locally raised meats that are prepared slowly using sous-vide and finished with pan-searing.
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by jplewicke 13y ago
Going to tack on: 5) Quantitative portfolio management. This usually involves managing a portfolio of stocks, either long-only or long-short. People usually come into this from either a heavy math/tech background or from doing academic fi
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by jplewicke 13y ago
Thanks! I'll look forward to it.
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by jplewicke 13y ago
These are a few things off the top of my head that I'd love to read a blog post on: - SAAS Pricing when marginal costs are fairly high. For example, how would you price a service that offered human translation of a company's social media po
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by jplewicke 13y ago
With the right answer to this question, the original comment would need to be revised to "I have a friend who worked for a now-bankrupt marketing company until the Google anti-spam team found out about said company."
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On the other hand, he's unilaterally refused to disclose actual audited returns for the funds that he's been involved with. This is very convenient for marketing his books and views, but creates an inaccurate impression of how profitable h
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by jplewicke 14y ago
If you don't mind me asking, I'd be curious to hear what decisions you've made on cash vs accrual accounting, pass-through vs corporate taxation, and the use of guaranteed payments vs distributions. I know a lot depends on the specifics of
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by jplewicke 14y ago
And if you're selling something which can be resold for most of what you've been paid, then either you or your payment processor is giving away free puts on Bitcoin. And if you offer refunds at par value in USD, you're also giving away fre
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by jplewicke 14y ago
I'd love to see the converse, where the goal is to write code that looks really malicious but is actually a useful and helpful program -- like an apparent rootkit that actually implements a full webserver.
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by jplewicke 14y ago
It's definitely safe to adjust pricing after launch, even for subscription products. The key is to grandfather users in at their current rate if you are raising prices, and to charge them less if you are lowering prices. You can probably e
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Badger badger badger offline mode(gist.github.com)
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by jplewicke 14y ago
Markets are only hard-to-predict in terms of future prices and returns. If all you want to do is to compare the relative value of two assets, the current price is a great place to start out. For example, the market is pretty sure that Exx
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by jplewicke 14y ago
There's also two in Cambridge (one by Fresh Pond and one on Mem Drive near the BU bridge) and one in Coolidge Corner in Brookline.
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by jplewicke 14y ago
I believe Patrick is referring to this Bitcoin exchange being hacked: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5043122 .
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by jplewicke 14y ago
However, they have a legal amount of minimum parking spaces per residence/store, which mandates auto-centric development. If you search for "Houston" in http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/09/01/shoup-to-otoole-the-ma... , there's some good d
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by jplewicke 14y ago
Calling her a monkey is unbearably and unquestionably racist, and I think you might want to take a minute or two and think about why you said that. From http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis : "Looking at ourselves objectively isn’t ea
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by jplewicke 14y ago
The perverse incentive wouldn't be to seize more assets -- it would be to generate more guilty convictions for defendants whose assets have been seized.
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by jplewicke 14y ago
In case anyone is wondering about Noah Kagan's past sexist behavior at conferences, http://sherprog.com/2011/07/10/noah-kagan-and-the-faceless-b... and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2749858 is another example. I'm really not sure
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by jplewicke 14y ago
It may be infeasible at massive scale, but many systems do it right now with approximation algorithms, heuristics, and integer programming. Fedex, Walmart, Amazon, and most other industrial or logistics corporations have teams of people wi
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by jplewicke 14y ago
Best wishes to him and the rest of your family.
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by jplewicke 14y ago
What about vibrating motors placed in different locations? I've always been intrigued by this kind of vibrating compass-belt: http://www.gradman.com/hapticcompass .
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by jplewicke 14y ago
I've never been more excited to give a website my email. Half the reason I check HN these days is to see whether Patrick has posted anything interesting and actionable. If giving him my email and some money will incentivize him to take so

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