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by kitcar 16y ago
Wired did a big feature on the porn industry a few years back and what they are doing to combat piracy - google "site:wired.com porn"
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by kitcar 16y ago
Was totally unaware of this issue in Nginx/PHP-FPM - going to check my conf files now! UPDATE: Here's the thread on this issue right from NGINX.org http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,88845,page=3
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Ask HN: Catching a domain as it drops from Namecheap?
1 points by kitcar 16y ago|0 comments
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by kitcar 16y ago
If any CompSci students in the Toronto Area are interesting in working on a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game this summer, shoot me an email -
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by kitcar 16y ago
An ergonomic office/desk chair - Doesn't have to be expensive, just has to be comfortable for your body type. I'm a fan of Mirra by Herman Miller - it's pricey though (although affordable if you consider its warranty - buy 4-5 $150 chairs o
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by kitcar 16y ago
Toronto is the best city in Canada for business, unless you are in mining or primarily targeting French canadians. There are incentives to locate manufacturing plants in more rural areas, and the cost of labour is cheaper elsewhere, but no
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by kitcar 16y ago
Because most of his ideas and recommendations don't scale - i.e. if everyone who competed in taekwondo tournaments won by pushing their opponents out of the ring, then they would change the rules to prevent that from happening. Similarly, i
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by kitcar 16y ago
FYI - VBuzzer.com lets you send faxes to free within North America (via their IM software app) - I've been using that for years with great success. You don't even have to have a credit card. It's Windows Only though :( If gives you a Fax as
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by kitcar 16y ago
The proximity to US market means many of the "best and brightest" workers + companies end up migrating south of the border, resulting in an overall lackluster tech environment when compared to any of the major US cities. If you look at many
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The True Secret of Monkey Island: Designing Successful Adventure Games [pdf](stanford.edu)
5 points by kitcar 16y ago|0 comments
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Interactive Map of Naval Piracy events in 2010(icc-ccs.org)
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by kitcar 16y ago
Yup, he worked hard to play the system - i.e. providing incentives direct to customers to order the book during a specific period of time in order to maximize order volumes over a specific time period, etc... Good work on his end re: figuri
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A breakdown of how STUXNET took down Iran's Nuclear Program(foxnews.mobi)
2 points by kitcar 16y ago|0 comments
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by kitcar 16y ago
Have you thought about getting investors now? If you don't think the business is attractive enough for investors, then the bad decision wasn't that you didn't get investors, it was that you picked the wrong business.
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by kitcar 16y ago
DID + SIP is a super cheap solution - http://www.didww.com - forwarding numbers in multiple area codes for a few bucks per month. Can team it up with a free SIP account + VOIP router if you want to be able to pick up calls concurrently
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by kitcar 16y ago
One other question: As a foreign company with a bank account in the United States (but no operations, although our websites are hosted by an external company there), is there anything we should be cognizant of? (special US tax forms or simi
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by kitcar 16y ago
If you are a foreign company (Canadian, federally-incorporated), what kind of actions can you take to make it as easy as possible for a US company to acquire you (from their accounting perspective) ?
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New Mazda: 70 mpg non-Hybrid
1 points by kitcar 16y ago|0 comments
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Marketing Virtual Goods: Q&A with Zynga's Mark Pincus(technologyreview.com)
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Ask HN: Small volume printing of promotional items? (Calendars/etc...)
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by kitcar 16y ago
If you never attempt things outside the scope of things you've done before, you will never do anything - its the definition of a self fulfilling prophecy. Do research, learn, talk to people who have done it before, manage client expectation
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The unlikely life and sudden death of The Exile, Russia’s angriest newspaper.(vanityfair.com)
75 points by kitcar 16y ago|35 comments
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by kitcar 16y ago
Bookstores don't pay for their books until they're sold, and they return the ones that aren't - so yes, they do have high overhead in terms of square footage / labour, but don't necessarily have the same inventory issue that other retailer
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by kitcar 16y ago
I am not an immigration lawyer, but one thing I've heard is you could setup a corporation in Canada, and then sell consulting services to a US startup. That way they don't have to deal with the fact that you're not a US Citizen for payroll
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by kitcar 16y ago
...and if they were bio's on an online dating site, I would think Apple is a self-obsessed douchebag (disclaimer: typing this on a macbook)
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by kitcar 16y ago
Question: In the United States, it is legal to capture video footage of under-age of majority individuals and use them in your marketing campaign without their guardian's consent?
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by kitcar 16y ago
To Clarify - in his book he makes it seem like if he never signed Miked Oldfeld (Tubular Bells), then the company would have gone bust in its first few years, and that 25 year period would never have happened. Hence, it was being in the rig
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by kitcar 16y ago
It's important to separate the decisions he made, versus the decisions his McKinsey & Co Trade "business manager" made. I get the impression from the book that people would call Richard up looking for money, and if it sounded like fun R
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by kitcar 16y ago
Because you are in the software business, not the hosting business. Over the long run, a hosting company should be able to keep your website up and running "in less time", "higher quality", and "cheaper" than you can. If your business can h
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by kitcar 16y ago
I am half way through Richard Branson's biography "Losing My Virginity" now and really recommend it to anyone who wants a fun read - http://www.amazon.com/Losing-My-Virginity-Survived-Business/... - He made a lot of REALLY bad business de

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