jrsmith1279

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by jrsmith1279 15y ago
In my opinion it's because if you buy the site then you're buying the users as well. For example if Google purchased Twitter instead of building a clone (Buzz) then they would've inherited Twitter's users. Instead they did build Buzz and
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by jrsmith1279 15y ago
It uses Java, so it may be a problem with either the version of java that you have, or maybe machine permissions if you're not a local administrator.
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by jrsmith1279 15y ago
https://join.me/ might work for you. It has a limit of 250 people and it's totally free. Unfortunately there aren't any conference call capabilities with the free version, but they do offer a trial of the pro version, which does come wi
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by jrsmith1279 15y ago
http://www.quora.com/How-many-servers-does-Twitter-have
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
You don't already have a chair, desk, computer, and internet access at home? Air conditioning may cost more, but you'd no longer be paying high gas prices to drive to and from work (which I'm assuming your company doesn't pay for now?).
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
Battery life is maybe the only thing on that list that has anything to do with productivity. I'll even be generous and throw in the high res external display as an added productivity perk. The rest of the things on your list are nice to h
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
I use a 17" MBP as my primary computer, but I see it as more of a luxury than a necessity. I'd say to spend your money on a more modest laptop and save the money for your startup. On a similar note, I think it's crazy to see all of these st
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
I'm betting a lot of them are people who have an idea and want to build it instead of either hiring someone or trying to find a tech co-founder.
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
I guess you could say that, but replication alone would mean only having 1 copy and that copy would contain the same data that your original set of data contained depending on when the replication occurred. So if you happened to delete a f
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
I've seen a lot of praise for easyDNS, but I've never used them myself. They have failover DNS, which is interesting. http://support.easydns.com/Failoverfaq.php I guess you could technically use 2 (or more) different hosts for DNS, whic
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
+1 It looks pretty easy to figure out, but documentation is always nice.
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
Very nice! I've been thinking of doing this in the app that I'm working on.
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
From the YC application page: "We're more likely to fund people we know are smart from their submissions and comments on Hacker News." With all due respect to PG, this sounds like an invitation for entrepreneurs to use HN, since one woul
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
Have you read them? I'm not denying that it's easy to fake emails, but if you really pay attention to how the emails are written and how natural the flow of conversation between them is then you can see why they're convincing.
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
IF the allegations against Mark Zuckerburg are true then the answer to your question is don't be shady. From the sounds of things Mark may have done some shady things when he was building Facebook, never thinking that it would get as huge
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
Their limitation on cron jobs was kind of a deal breaker for me. They allow you to run either a daily cron job (free), or an hourly cron job ($3 per month), but I enjoy the flexibility of a VPS and being able to run cron jobs however I see
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
I don't run an ad blocker because I feel like watching/viewing an ad is the least I can do to support a free site. Just to be clear, I'm not condemning you for using an ad blocker, to each his own, just clarifying why I do see the ads. Tha
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
Have you ever noticed that you never have a problem playing ads, but yet the video following the ad doesn't work half the time? That's one thing that's irked me about youtube for a while.
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
You might look at Egnyte or Jungle Disk. We've used Egnyte for a few of our clients and had mixed results with reliability. Luckily they give you a 30 day trial, so you can try it out. Their pricing is also pretty decent.
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
Yep, they have quite a few clients http://www.securityweek.com/massive-breach-epsilon-compromis...
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
Anyone else feel like RIM is grasping at straws here? As an ex-blackberry user I feel like the more that RIM tries to fit in with the "cool kids" the worse their products get quality-wise. That, coupled with the fact that using corporate
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
I'm definitely not an expert, but I have been looking at the scalability of RoR as well. Twitter was built with RoR and you can kind of take that as a good thing and a bad thing. They had some trouble in the beginning, but from what I can
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
Should all 10 apply before quitting? Only the first 3 really apply for me. Some of the other things on the list come and go, but thats how it is with most jobs.
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
I guess I didn't really think of it that way, but that makes sense. Unfortunately I definitely couldn't pull that type of thing off on my own.
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Ask HN: Do "Copy Cats" ever get funding?
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
Yeah HN is definitely a great community. It's not a bunch of people being snobby and rude like you would find with traditional forums. I've only been a member of HN for about a week, but I'm addicted because of the positive attitudes that
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
Lynda.com has some good training. I'm finding their Ruby on Rails 3 Essential Training to be very easy to follow. I have been programming in PHP for the last 3 years, so I do have some experience with programming, but I think this trainin
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
Maybe I'm missing something here, but in the video they point out that Peter Pham has had some successful startups in the past. Does anyone know how much of his money is in Color, if any? I'm just trying to grasp why he would need to take
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
IMO RIM needs to "pivot" and enable their consumer devices for activesync. I think there's still a market for their BES software in the Enterprise, but the majority of small & medium businesses don't want to have to have a BES for thei
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by jrsmith1279 16y ago
Gotcha.. I do have all sorts of ideas for functionality, but I think I'll start with the basic app and add more functionality later.

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