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by kinkora 15y ago
Firstly, Congrats! You're in a position that most of us can only dream of. :) Ok, so now you need to pay attention to articles like this: - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383376 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2275643 - htt
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by kinkora 15y ago
Good to know you got yourself out of the situation. Funnily enough, I did exactly that too; I left it as it is and eventually moved on from where I grew up and lost contact with my friend. Still, I've always felt a tingle of guilt every tim
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by kinkora 15y ago
I apologise for being a lil off topic but I do have a question for you. Before I ask that question, let me tell you a story. When I was growing up, I knew this girl who works part time at a cinema. Her job is basically to clean up the place
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by kinkora 15y ago
you forget to factor in future sales. It may be true that GoDaddy still has loads of domains but I can bet ya that a lot of it are shady websites. If GoDaddy is seen to support something that may lead to their websites shutting down, you
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by kinkora 15y ago
ahh i just saw that. thanks mate! Merry Xmas to you too!
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by kinkora 15y ago
Hope this takes some load off his servers: Edit - changed links to the s3 servers Issue 1 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo... Issue 2 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo... Issu
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by kinkora 15y ago
...and his server has officially crashed. I recommend not running anymore automated scripts directed towards his server. I'll try to chuck it onto mediafire once I get all the issues. Just missing 9 at this point.
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Visiting North Korea: What is it like [Pics](quora.com)
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by kinkora 15y ago
The 3rd type of acquisition (Business) is a lil generic and should be broken down into a few more parts. IMHO, in the tech industry, I observed many times that if a company acquires another purely from a business perspective, it is either:
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by kinkora 15y ago
No, James is doing the right thing taking a more noble path and not publicy defaming the company. There is a time and place for that and these sort of discussions will not be conducive for the HN community. Talking about his experience will
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by kinkora 15y ago
Ahhh.. I've came across XMPP before but not ejabberd. Many thanks mate! I am working on a similar project which is why I'm fairly intrested.
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by kinkora 15y ago
Question: how do you know Whatsapp infrastructure intimately and if you do, can you elaborate on it more? I am thoroughly interested in their backend. I've always wondered why the app is quite efficient across all platforms and have fantast
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Under 30 founders with huge $100 million+ exits (2011)(businessinsider.com)
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by kinkora 15y ago
I'm sorry to hear about your situation. Being in that position sucks. I'm always an advocate that you reward people accordingly for what they have done; particularly the early employees who were there from the beginning. If it's possible, c
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What became of the multi-core programming problems?(news.cnet.com)
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by kinkora 15y ago
Ok, makes sense. thanks for that ken.
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by kinkora 15y ago
They seem to have also invented the concept of "checking-in". See video[1] at 0:38 second mark onwards where he talks about a student checking in at Guatemala. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WdS4TscWH8
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by kinkora 15y ago
I don't know about you guys but what I took out of that article is that Microsoft is secretly/stealthily tracking its users? How do they know if someone is using the start bar "11 percent less than before"? Not only that, it goes on to even
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by kinkora 15y ago
kudos for you taking the leap but it would have been much more prudent if you changed the "to start" to "while starting". A lot of the people you hear that quit their education (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg, etc) to go on and build th
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by kinkora 15y ago
" yes, I’m becoming a VC " he specifically says he that he will BE a VC and not JOINING a VC. I don't get it. Does that mean he will be investing his own money specifically? I never knew mg had that much personal funds to invest in. For tho
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by kinkora 15y ago
or in this case, you live and i learn. :) Thanks for that awesome bit of info. I've always assumed stock options are better because it raises the purchase price of a company in comparison to an all cash sale. I guess even if the purchase pr
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by kinkora 15y ago
If you are reading this Assistly dudes, good job! Genuine question for people who had sold their companies: How much does it matter if a deal is made "in-cash"? What does it affect by doing a deal in cash? Does it get bought at a lower pric
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by kinkora 15y ago
I see where you're getting at but I don't think the target audience of this article are people who earns $40k/day. I've been a long time reader of thesimpledollar and I use to read it back in my college/uni days where money was pretty hard
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by kinkora 15y ago
I'm not gonna say I know your friend more than I do but what I can say is I understand why he says he is "profitable" even though he is not. Ok, lets look at it this way:- "Looking deeper, turns out he's no longer pouring cash into the com
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TC Cribs - The Magical HQ (And Magician) of Box.Net (techcrunch.com)
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by kinkora 15y ago
Sorry to sound blunt but why is it a given that if a person is successful, it is surprising that he/she is doing "lesser" things? I never understood that notion. If I was successful/rich/etc, I will still be coding on my free time. Heck, I
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by kinkora 15y ago
I'm not disagreeing with your premise but I would like to note that always take Steve Job's comments with a pinch of salt. At the (2003) All Things D conference, he said: There are no plans to make a tablet. It turns out people want keyboa
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by kinkora 15y ago
In some ways, paying out to employees does "help them stay afloat". Think about it. They are obviously doing this to retain their employees. Imagine if you work for Twitter for years and have all of these stock options but can't do a single
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by kinkora 15y ago
The police is a good place to start. :) Also, since you know the IP, do a ns-lookup of the IP and identify which internet provider owns that IP and follow it up with them. They would be should be able to let you know which customer was usin
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by kinkora 15y ago
I find this revelation interesting as I know people who work at Google and apparently management are extremely anal when it comes to minimalistic design. Top culprit: Marissa Mayer. It is good that they allowed him to do whatever he wants b

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