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by kitcar 15y ago
BTW - for anyone interesting in something similar for drupal, there is Drush: http://drupal.org/project/drush
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22yr student adapts hybrid car technology to a bicycle(reuters.com)
3 points by kitcar 15y ago|2 comments
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by kitcar 15y ago
If you see a site that you really like the UI of, don't be shy to email the site operator and ask them who they used.
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by kitcar 15y ago
Global SIM cards tend to use VOIP dial-back tricks to use the "free incoming calls" features of most countries to make outgoing calls "free" as wel1 - but they still charge you for the outgoing call. I find this results in poorer general se
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by kitcar 15y ago
- "Cave" feature, where the troll can post as many messages as they want, but those messages aren't seen by anyone other than the troll - Duplicate account detection - if the same IP address appears on more than one account, the account is
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by kitcar 15y ago
At the end of the day its the job of the manufacturer to ensure that their product performs to the specifications they set. If the customer decides to use the product in an extreme environment, and the product fails to perform as desired, t
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by kitcar 15y ago
Not trying to justify anything, but rather suggesting pretty much all the issues outlined are issues in every major industry, and hence highlighting them as being specific and unusual to the film business is incorrect and unhelpful. An idea
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by kitcar 15y ago
and as a followup, I think there are a few stronger arguments available to support their thesis: - Bloated production costs due to a slow migration to newly available production techniques - Lack of adoption of alternative distribution / pr
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by kitcar 15y ago
While I do believe the film industry needs "disrupting", I do not believe this was the point of the article, nor does it make any good arguments to back up a thesis of "disruption". "6. Tricky Hollywood Accounting" - this is purely a contra
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Using the fear of failure as a sales tool(newmediaist.com)
1 points by kitcar 15y ago|0 comments
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by kitcar 15y ago
It varies drastically by country - see http://travel.state.gov/visa/
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by kitcar 15y ago
What would be awesome was if there was a corresponding Map which showed where in the ocean the image is coming from -
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by kitcar 15y ago
It's amazing how inefficient good intentions can be sometimes
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by kitcar 15y ago
Sounds like MenuPalace.com's first business, although they never really cared about design/style
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by kitcar 15y ago
Someone should have told Spolsky about CSSEdit - http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/ - its offered that style of CSS editing for a number of years now...
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by kitcar 15y ago
When I was in China in 2006 I wondered into a fake Nike store of similar quality (In a residential neighborhood of Beijing). I too thought it was a real store, the only thing that gave it away was when I actually picked up the shoes in the
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by kitcar 15y ago
2 main cases I would guess: 1) Big press is now interested in YCombinator, and therefore reaches out independently to YCombinator companies 2) YCombinator staff+alum have press relationships from previous businesses/life, and therefore are
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by kitcar 15y ago
The website for the department of the Ontario Gov't (Canada) which manages corporate filings is also only open during business hours (8-4 Mon-Fri I believe)
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by kitcar 15y ago
No problem, hopefully his contact is of value -
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by kitcar 15y ago
My co-founder is an ex-investment banker/private equity guy who has been involved in both a number of capital raises, public offerings and sales of businesses - feel free to email me if you would like to be connected with him to get an "ins
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by kitcar 15y ago
Market Capitalization (market cap) is a term from finance which refers to the number of shares of your company outstanding multiplied by the average dollar value of each share - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_capitalization . I think
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by kitcar 15y ago
Interesting, so what other defences do "interface innovation" companies like HipMunk have available to inhibit the encroaching of copycats?
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by kitcar 15y ago
if you have never SSH'd into anything before, I would recommend running a VPS and your shared hosting accounts in parallel until you get a better handle on Linux, then migrate your sites from shared hosting at that time. Although I haven't
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by kitcar 15y ago
In my experience, one of the biggest mistakes startups make is not defining a clear shareholders agreement from day 1 - just leads to conflict down the road. While you could hypothetically write your own, if either you or your partner have
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Ask HN: Patent your app's interface? (i.e. HipMunk's flight visualization)
6 points by kitcar 15y ago|3 comments
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by kitcar 15y ago
Legal fees for incorporation and shareholder agreement. The rest on PPC to gather your first customers. or Prepay some of your recurring expenses to get a discount (hosting, etc...)
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by kitcar 15y ago
Ah, so basically use IPTables to detect if the request is originating from CloudFlare's CDN, and if it is not redirect it via CloudFlare?
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by kitcar 15y ago
As this is a DNS based service, If I were a hacker, couldn't I just skip all the protection CloudFlare offers by hardwiring the website's domain + IP in my hosts file?
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by kitcar 15y ago
Wow, Lastpass won't let me login to my account now, and doesn't throw any error message whatsoever. When I try to change my password it says I can't because I don't have their browser plugin. Wacky, this is quite frustrating
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by kitcar 16y ago
The simple answer is a domain name is very similar to most other pieces of property. Everyone will eventually sell, if you pay a high enough price, because at a certain point the owners quality of life will actually start to decrease by not

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