kika

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   by kika 14y ago

   All these sites (like IVI and the likes) share the same, very limited, library of content. It is like 10% of Netflix/Hulu, or even less. But potentially sure, I agree.
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   by kika 14y ago

   Given how Russian internet is structured it may actually work. I mean the small number might become not so small. You can relatively easy (given the appropriate administrative support) break the download for 1M people at once (a whole city)
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   by kika 14y ago

   In Russia they're breaking the laws too.
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   by kika 14y ago

   I've built a company a few years ago which competed with these guys in their previous market - bittorrent optimization for ISPs. We've built the product (sort of a bittorrent cache) and achieved some positive results on a few production ins
5. 305.▲
   by kika 14y ago

   I stand corrected - being a liberal (in the original sense, not a leftist) I used to consider all propaganda as bad. But there's indeed a 'good' propaganda. Or at least 'not bad'.
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   by kika 14y ago

   s/right wing propaganda/propaganda/gn this is a basic principle of all propaganda, right wing, left wing, anti gay, pro gay, white suprematism, black power, the list goes on. Let's give these banks just a little trillion dollars or our coun
7. 307.▲
   by kika 14y ago

   Then why did they ask for release? :-)
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   by kika 14y ago

   at 2:52? Sublime Text.
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   by kika 14y ago

   PS is basically Forth
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    by kika 14y ago

    What's true for railways or airlines is not always true for applications and web services. The barriers in the latter markets are much, much lower.
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    by kika 14y ago

    >"ideological rant" implies that something I said re: "free markets" does not hold true and I say it because of my ideology. Can you point to it? I can. You didn't say (as in "state") anything. You asked a rapid fire succession of rheto
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    by kika 15y ago

    Sell car leads directly to dealers and lead exchanges. High quality leads go up to $25 a piece. I was working in this industry (developing lead exchange). Pretty lucrative.
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    by kika 15y ago

    And then try coffeescript which just isolates you from the parts which do suck :-)
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    by kika 15y ago

    I felt that way when I first learned about Kanso JS.
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    by kika 15y ago

    awesome, thanks!
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    by kika 15y ago

    Couchbase single server for Mac had a nice menubar widget, which allowed for control of the couchdb process, had shortcuts to Futon and logs, etc. Does anyone know where the sources are? I'm using build-couch scripts now and want to reintr
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    by kika 15y ago

    There's such thing as inertial navigation (that's how missiles fly even with GPS assistance), and potentially you can use a phone's accelerometer for that. We have a datacenter in downtown SJ and I was amazed when first parked there on the
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    by kika 15y ago

    Second that. Just ordered Sonic (paired) and if it will show the decent speed, Comcast goes out of the window. I'm having 50Mbit service for $99 with them, company pays. And I don't watch TV since I don't remember when, Netflix filled this
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    by kika 15y ago

    And you can build such a thing on the sea beach with a plastic bag (which are a plenty on the beaches everywhere in the world, imho).
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    by kika 18y ago

    I never understood this one: "Someone running a startup is always calculating in the back of their mind how much "runway" they have—how long they have till the money in the bank runs out and they either have to be profitable, raise more mon