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by koopajah 14y ago
The idea seems interesting. In france we have already this kind of social network with www.senscritique.com and they also handle books and video games too, don't know if you've heard of them (as they seem limited to French language for now)
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by koopajah 14y ago
After a few searched I found a few : https://splitabill.com/ https://wesplit.it/ http://splitwise.com/ https://www.paydivvy.com/default.aspx I've not used any of these so I just hope you find one that suits you.
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by koopajah 14y ago
I have the RSS feed in Netvibes that I check during the day/evening. I don't read everything, just skim through the titles trying to find what seems interesting to me. And from this I mark as "to read later" every article that I like but is
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by koopajah 14y ago
What about using a virtual machine? That way when you have a hardware failure you just switch computers, even on an old one temporarily and are still able to work properly? That's what I'm doing to ease when I'm working from my parents' hom
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by koopajah 14y ago
What about the model used by flightfox where the customer pay a fee upfront to find the best deal available? It would change a bit from what you are currently proposing but it could be a lead. I know it can seem strange/hardcore at first bu
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by koopajah 14y ago
Yes but don't forget the other part of his sentence : That's assuming you know the dictionary, of course.
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by koopajah 14y ago
already posted and discussed here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438495 if you want to see more info
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by koopajah 14y ago
Participation in YC doesn’t guarantee funding success — about 12 of the 63 startups in the summer 2011 batch either didn’t try to raise funding or didn’t succeed There's a huge difference between not trying to raise and not succeeding. If
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by koopajah 14y ago
The page in itself does not look scammy and the video is quite professional I think and explains a lot so that's nice. But it so reminds me of the programs you had to install at the end of the 90s to have ads displayed and you were supposed
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by koopajah 14y ago
pg answered yes to this two weeks ago : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4382922
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by koopajah 14y ago
I've been temporarily looking for a job in the UK so I can point you to some of the sites I checked or that were advised here: http://hackerjobs.co.uk/ It was recently launched, you'll find some posts they made here on HN. http://www.the
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by koopajah 14y ago
What about hellofax : http://www.hellofax.com ? It's a YC company (W11)
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by koopajah 14y ago
Would you be able to share it? I've been reading as much book as you for a few years and it's a pain remembering what I read, what I did not like in a specific book (to avoid buying same author if it was the writing), etc. And I happen to r
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by koopajah 14y ago
I'd say the same apply as for any other business. If something already exists then they could sue you to stop distributing your game and/or pay for royalties. So before starting the full development you should make sure that your version of
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by koopajah 14y ago
I'm not a lawyer but I found some links that might interest you so I hope this helps. An interesting link about this : http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2011/12/22/patenting-board-games-1... Also the paragraph about Monopoly on its Wikipedia page
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by koopajah 14y ago
I was a bit puzzled at first with the list of skills/languages and had to go to the "About" page to understand you're targetting specifically web developpers, you might want to make that more obvious at least in the introduction. You should
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by koopajah 14y ago
There's already 2 discussions with a lot of comments on this subject if you're interested : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4329122 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391249
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by koopajah 14y ago
The discussion about rubymotion is currently #118 (I'm logged) and "PHP the right way" is #114. But what do you find surprising in this? The main page of HN features the most popular threads and I guess some of these threads have been refer
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by koopajah 14y ago
You cannot poach an entire team, or even half a team, easily. The point of the acquihire for me is either to acquire specific members/leaders of a team (that wouldn't be interested by just being poached anyway) or an entire team/specific kn
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by koopajah 14y ago
"After all, the employees could leave the acquirer ASAP" I'm guessing that most acquihires deal have a clause preventing you from leaving the company ASAP. Or at least an incentive to make you stay with the company (shares, yearly bonus,
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by koopajah 14y ago
This idea is pretty neat but I don't really understand how you detect your competition. Would they really register/login with an email based on their main domain and not use a throwable email or at least a personal one ? Same for the media/
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by koopajah 14y ago
They address this in the article " The CouchSurfing website, as it currently exists, needs a lot of help. It’s unstable and not very easy to use.". They start by explaining also that they raised money specifically to focus on rebuilding the
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by koopajah 14y ago
Another point is the utf8_encode() and utf8_decode() functions whose names are misleading as they only handle conversion to/from ISO-8859-1. A section on te proper use of iconv() with examples could really be useful no?
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by koopajah 14y ago
I'm not really sure but I guess you're right, posting again would not be really useful, because a Show HN would only show a "launchrock" page for the moment. Maybe after improving the website or starting the kickstarter campaign you could c
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by koopajah 14y ago
One of Tripl founder posted the news and it is discussed here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4414764 for more info
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by koopajah 14y ago
Hmmm, for me the cap wouldn't be enough, I'd just have to create an account, fake for twenty referals, then do this multiple times. But maybe I'm over-paranoid on this. Just that money/discount reward just for pushing people to signup seems
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by koopajah 14y ago
Glad the feedback is useful ! About your page getting viral the problem, for me, if that the project doesn't exist. I will not recommend something that don't exist/I haven't tried first, except if I'm sure it will work/happen. If you have a
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by koopajah 14y ago
I really dislike sharing links of future products/projects to my friends as it's like "recommanding" something I haven't tested yet. So even if the incentive seems great (1$ per referral seems almost too much for me) I don't think it would
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by koopajah 14y ago
Love the idea and I think it's a great resource to centralize most common solution like using phpass to hash/salt passwords to avoid people reinventing the wheel all the time. Could you elaborate on why you chose PDO over MySQLi to interact
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by koopajah 14y ago
There was a try for a HN-like specific to Europe news, hackful.eu but it is not really active

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