lubos

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   by lubos 12y ago

   So they have 100k free users? If we assume freemium model can convert 5% of customers, that's 5k customers paying $20/mo. That's only $100k monthly revenue. A bit low for a company with 46 employees. Couldn't it be that
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   by lubos 12y ago

   The second song included on Windows 95 CD was "Good times" by Edie Brickell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc Indeed good times back in 1995, can't believe it's been already 20 years.
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   by lubos 12y ago

   Could this be used for humans? Looks like fun way to commute.
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   by lubos 12y ago

   There are 4,294,967,296 possibilities in 4 bytes. To store a number in range of 0 to 4,294,967,296 - you will need exactly 4 bytes.
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   by lubos 12y ago

   Yes, the price to Australians will always include 10% GST (VAT equivalent)
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   Siblicide(en.wikipedia.org)

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   by lubos 12y ago

   No, thanks.
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   by lubos 12y ago

   So I see another startup failed story. Thinking I'll read it later after getting something done. an hour later, I start reading... Right in the first sentence I see "99dresses". I have to admit, it took me a minute to process
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   by lubos 12y ago

   I get the same sentiment... who cares... apparently a lot of people if this story can attain over 100 upvotes within 15 minutes. It will be interesting to read postmortem but as far as "is down" stories go, they should be just aut
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    by lubos 12y ago

    For long time I was trying to beat procrastination. Guess what, I'm still procrastinating more than 50% of time and for last 2-3 years it's no longer a problem. The breaking point for me was another essay by PG called "The To
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    by lubos 12y ago

    Wow, what are the chances? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News
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    by lubos 12y ago

    You are right, I've deleted my comment. IRS doesn't allow capitalizing unearned revenue if you pay taxes on cash-basis. But it's not fair to tax payer because then on expense-side, IRS actually forces you to capitalize your p
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    by lubos 12y ago

    Since when you pay taxes on "unearned revenue"? If you don't deliver goods before end of the year, all of that income from Kickstarter is unearned revenue which means non tax-assessable income until the revenue is actually &q
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    by lubos 12y ago

    Well, that was interesting. Now my thoughts. What is he offering? Podcast hosting service? That's commodity. Of course it doesn't make sense to offer free trial if you are selling commodity-based service. How many hosting companie
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    by lubos 13y ago

    Honestly, I'm surprised to see Seznam on HN. I grew up on Czech internet in 90s and Seznam.cz (or "Directory" in English) has been huge for long time until Google has eventually beaten them. The vibe I get here from comments
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    by lubos 13y ago

    Pagekite dependency on Python was deal-breaker for me a few years ago. If they would have clients in multiple programming languages so it can be easily embeddable, they would get a lot of business. Prices could be easily higher too.
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    by lubos 13y ago

    Actually not. Better zero traffic which you know you need to deal with right away rather than low-quality traffic that does nothing only raises false hope of success.
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    by lubos 13y ago

    It can be done. For example majority shareholder can get a loan from the company, then make company issue new shares and buy new shares using funding from that loan. Cash doesn't even have to leave company bank account, it can be done
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    by lubos 13y ago

    Use Discourse, I'm using it for my own startup and it has basically eliminated email support. I used UserVoice previously and it didn't work for me. The problem with UserVoice is that it is basically beautiful repository of featu
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    by lubos 13y ago

    There will be a website for that figure too. Just wait until it hits 1 billion.
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    by lubos 13y ago

    So if open ecosystem is always going to beat a closed one, why didn't Discourse beat Facebook? Why didn't App.net beat Twitter? Why didn't Linux beat Windows on desktops? I'm happy for Android but saying that Android is
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    by lubos 13y ago

    It's "GrubHub", not GitHub. That reminds me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typoglycemia
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    by lubos 13y ago

    I love the roadmap gauge on your website, can I steal it?
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    by lubos 13y ago

    I think the answer to this question is pretty much obvious.
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    by lubos 13y ago

    Yeah but 3rd party apps will probably need to charge end-user for usage on top of what Dropbox is already charging for storage. If Dropbox would do these services themselves, they could make them free because they make money from storage. N
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    by lubos 13y ago

    I've been using Dropbox for years and was using it for everything until last year. I didn't even bother installing it after getting new computer. The problem with Dropbox is that it's too general, too abstract. There are now
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    by lubos 13y ago

    Do you honestly think that any programmer who works on Mt.Gox core product would have anything to do with this simple static information site?
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    by lubos 13y ago

    If your users can run your stack on their servers, why not offer self-hosted edition for a fee like Atlassian?
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    by lubos 13y ago

    What's wrong with Mono? My software (c# app) is used by thousands of users on Mac and Ubuntu without any issues. I'm very happy with Mono.
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    by lubos 13y ago

    They bought YouTube when it was basically a financial and legal trainwreck...