maineldc

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by maineldc 11y ago
Not in the Bay Area which is what the original article is describing.
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by maineldc 12y ago
@strathmeyer - you say that you have never met anyone who would help you so here you go: I will. Contact me at this handle at gmail (I don't always check that address but I will check it for the next week or so). I will share my back
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by maineldc 12y ago
That spam IS the LinkedIn business model and it's not coming from 3rd party apps that have access to the API - it's coming from LinkedIn's main site and the (premium) features they offer.
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by maineldc 12y ago
I am almost the complete opposite. I only start companies with friends and while there have been some issues, it has served me very well. I think it partly depends on the definition of friend. I don't start companies with acquaintanc
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by maineldc 12y ago
Water, electricity and sewer are stellar examples of things that fade into the background and are often run by highly regulated public entities. I would love for my internet to be as reliable as my power.
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by maineldc 12y ago
I am not an expert but it seems to me that hashing of phone numbers is relatively useless here because there is a relatively small search space of potential phone numbers so I can just brute force check, right?
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by maineldc 12y ago
That's a great idea though I worry that it would totally tickle my OCD productivity crazy side...
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by maineldc 13y ago
Is your lawyer an in-house general counsel? Probably no. Do you require this person's services for ~40/hrs per week, every week for years on end? Probably no. I would certainly pay an amazing engineer $600/hr if I could cal
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by maineldc 14y ago
AWS has pretty good support for taking external drives and importing them to S3 which could then be used with this service: http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/ I am assuming that you have 1TB to start, not generating 1TB per day which obv
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by maineldc 15y ago
I think you over estimate how much apple relies on "making the old model look old and dated". My 2011 Macbook Pro 15.4 looks remarkably similar to my old 2006 Power PC Powerbook. The 3GS is one of the best selling smart phones on market ev
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by maineldc 15y ago
That's not true. He mentioned that for sensitive documents you can use Windows Live Mesh without Skydrive and have the equivalent of Dropbox's LAN sync without having your sensitive documents in the cloud. Is it just me, or is this a kille
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by maineldc 15y ago
Sounds like someone who is looking to generate PR by coasting on other news and slamming California. As someone who has started a company in CA, I don't find the business climate "repressive".
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by maineldc 15y ago
The problem, or the solution depending on your point of view, is that Rails is not backward compatible between minor releases. Each minor version is work to upgrade to it. My recommendation has always been "start with the latest version o
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by maineldc 15y ago
Can you expound upon that? What limits did you hit, how has geocoder fixed those, etc?
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by maineldc 16y ago
That's usually not good enough since the Boxee Box handles flash website different than the version that you download and install yourself. For instance, many sites on the DL version start in full screen but with the Boxee Box they don't.
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by maineldc 16y ago
Wow, this is a tough read. I know things look bleak right now, but I think you need to step back and realize that things are going to be fine. First off, start looking for a job. I know that you are worried about credit reports, etc, but
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by maineldc 16y ago
You should check out the freedom chair with headrest. I have 3 and love them for exactly this reason, though now that my daughter has taken over my home office, I never get to actually use them... http://www.amazon.com/HumanScale-Freedom-
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by maineldc 16y ago
I think that this sounds more like being the first employee of a company rather than a technical cofounder. When recruiting the first few employees, this is exactly the pitch that I give to them but if you are going to be a cofounder, then
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by maineldc 16y ago
I was a technical cofounder and I have joined several startups as either the first employee or the first technical employee. This has evolved over the years, but the big thing that I look at is the person or team that I am going to join.
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by maineldc 16y ago
I disagree that apps are not being "Authorized". I never use facebook connect for any site and I found Gizmodo listed. Also, I think just the fact that Yelp, Pandora, etc. had access to my details without permission is also "Authorizing Ap
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by maineldc 16y ago
Is anyone familiar with something like this that is usable in commercial systems?
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by maineldc 17y ago
Our first child is 11 weeks old now and we asked the same question to our pediatrician. Her answer was that "neither she nor any other pediatrician she knows would do private banking at the moment". I agree that public banking is the best