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by madaxe 14y ago
This... is very, very similar to this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/04/voyager_one_arrives_... Same phenomenon. Different scales. And evidently two research groups at NASA who don't talk.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Not used, but planned. Nuclear propulsion. No real limit on speed, apart from C, although as you go farther/faster you need REALLY big ships to carry enough fuel. c.f. project Orion.
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by madaxe 14y ago
The only way to make a server 100% secure is to grind it into dust and fire it into a black hole.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Paypal/eBay - couldn't find any published figures on this, but looking at eBay's revenues vs. PayPal's revenues, it'd appear that it's a substantial but not dominant share of their revenue. Pricing model - no, it's great, but as you grow, i
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by madaxe 14y ago
Facebook succeeded because they got the network effect right, and Zuck chose the initial rounds of members at Harvard carefully (mostly girls, mostly rabid networkers/socialisers), and the ensuing rollout to other colleges/countries were st
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by madaxe 14y ago
If there's one thing I've seen in common among entrepreneurs who've been successful and started young, it's an absence of parenting, or at least very hands-off parenting. Having mom or dad to go running to trains you to spend your entire li
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by madaxe 14y ago
Oh, likewise - I think they've real promise, but they're in a crowded marketplace with a lot of really entrenched players. I guess their principle differentiator is the market they target - but pitching to developers is a big bet. If you'
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by madaxe 14y ago
Ok, stripe's wonderful, but... why is stripe wonderful? It's a payment service provider. An expensive payment service provider. They have an API. It's nicely written - but a nicely written API doesn't make a product. They're available in th
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by madaxe 14y ago
60% of pilots wear grey socks. Wearing grey socks makes it more likely you'll be a pilot. Nothing to see here, move along.
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by madaxe 14y ago
They should execute this filthy pirate. She is clearly single-handedly responsible for all poor music sales in at least the last 15 years. Wait, no, this is utterly irrational and harms the MAFIAA's cause. I say bring on more lawsuits again
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by madaxe 14y ago
It's all about having backers who have fingers in pies that they can arm-twist into buying you. It also makes people who have profitable growing startups without funding like yours truly bitter as hell.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Oh good. Another failed startup with massive over investment, a sucky product and no revenue gets bought for megabucks. Nepotism and back-room deals abound.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Guess which shmuck just bought a pair of Hero2s. :(
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by madaxe 14y ago
They blew their budget on cupcakes.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Cupcakes are business critical though. Oh wait, no, the other thing.
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by madaxe 14y ago
I'll just leave this here... It's rather indicative of their general idea of "Security". Stumbled across this a number of years ago, told them about it, it's still wide open. http://www . preprod.tescoentertainment. com/Store/Browse/Home/
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by madaxe 14y ago
Correct. I run a software business. Our top coders are paid higher salaries than any "managerial" roles, by some margin. That said, the managerial roles have more upside in terms of bonuses, but that arises more as a result of how one goes
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by madaxe 14y ago
It'd also be nice if they mentioned that the government orchestrated his death by castrating him for the sinful, heinous crime of... being gay.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Those rules work to a degree, but I posted two jobs on Hacker Jobs and then spent the next two weeks telling recruiters to get bent, as they apparently didn't waste time in finding the site and mining it.
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by madaxe 14y ago
I'm doing web stuff a) because I love it and b) because it'll give me enough capital to bootstrap to the "second stage" (boom boom) of my career - space.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Bingo. Valuations should be based on.... drumroll profits and retained value - EBITDA. When we started basing valuations on arbitrary "well if facebook are $100bn, X must be $y", we set sail for another glorious future of people losing th
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by madaxe 14y ago
It's special because it's SSTO (Single Stage to Orbit), which is far from easy. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation in order to understand why it's such a feat. Pegasus was three stages.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Good on you, dude - thought you were looking rather more trim the last time I spied you in town. Did the same, and dropped from 18.5 stone to 13 over 9 months. Eat food, not too much, mostly leaves. Run. Done. Oh, and withings scales. Can't
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by madaxe 15y ago
Nothing. If they're unwilling to fix it, they'll end up facing the consequences when someone less scrupulous than yourself discovers it. If you do publish it, odds are they'll issue a DMCA takedown and try to sue. Speaking from experience..
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by madaxe 15y ago
Oh, and I recommend making the preview page more obviously a preview page, as the "confirm and review" and the info text is below the fold, on a page that looks identical to a completed listing!
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by madaxe 15y ago
Nice work guys, but I have a bug for you - if two people list jobs with the same title on the same day, the URL is identical, and whichever one got there first gets the page - see the "blubolt" listings on http://hackerjobs.co.uk/jobs tha
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by madaxe 15y ago
So, you misused their service, and a perfectly sensible anti-DoS tool blocked you? For reference, we've been using unfuddle for 4+ years, have 30 developers regularly using git on it, and we must connect 300+ times/day, and we've never had
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by madaxe 15y ago
No, we package up all of our own debs, as waiting for distro maintainers is like waiting for Godot. My point was that I honestly believe Apache's days are numbered, as their release cycle is practically moribund.
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by madaxe 15y ago
I thought I saw a squadron of pigs soar by this morning. Too little, too late, I think, though, as nginx & friends have devoured their market share over the years, and it's going to take a good year or two for distros to start supportin
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by madaxe 15y ago
You're assuming everyone has easy access to effective healthcare.

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