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by marketer 18y ago
I used to work at Microsoft, and their corporate web site it's largely informational and is maintained by operations guys. I think it's under the HR division. The development structure isn't the same as msn.com or live.com, which have dedic
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by marketer 18y ago
Something equally impressive is Facebook's growth last month, which was around 21% (according to compete). For a six-year old site as massive as Facebook to experience 20% growth in one month is tremendous.
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by marketer 18y ago
Looks great! I tried uploading a pptx and it worked flawlessly. This is probably the most impressive demo I've ever seen on HN.
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by marketer 18y ago
Has anyone tried running Windows 7 in VMWare? The boot sector got corrupted when I tried, so it's hard to answer the question. ( I suppose it runs great in Hyper-V, but who actually runs Virtual Server?).
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Flash is being redefined(theflashblog.com)
8 points by marketer 18y ago|1 comments
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by marketer 18y ago
Actually, the flash platform is largely open source. The AIR framework (along with the rest of Flex) is open source. See http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Get+Source+... The AIR compiler is also open source. The only thing
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by marketer 18y ago
There are already open-source router firmwares, it wouldn't make much sense for Google to try this. One of the well-known ones is XORP: http://www.xorp.org/
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by marketer 18y ago
I suppose it would be like an extended camping trip. First I'd go to the local book store and buy as many survival guides as I can get my hands on. Then I'd buy some high quality tools - knives, leathermans, nail clippers, matches, first ai
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An exploration of one button games(gamasutra.com)
2 points by marketer 18y ago|0 comments
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EBay shares lessons learned from designing site(archives.cnn.com)
11 points by marketer 18y ago|1 comments
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by marketer 18y ago
The best you'll find is hibernate -- http://www.hibernate.org/ . It's not exactly like SQLAlchemy because Java is statically typed, but it's better than using the Java db layer directly.
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by marketer 18y ago
I would advise on getting some traction before quitting your job. It can be arbitrary - a few thousand users or uniques/month. If the idea is good you should be able to manage that. Although if you build something impressive enough it's wor
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by marketer 18y ago
What browser do you use? Scrolling with the wheel works fine in Scribd, at least in Firefox. Not to be pedantic, but the Adobe Flash Runtime is tiny compared to Acrobat or Word, and effectively has a 0 startup cost.
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by marketer 18y ago
The more browsers that exist, the more stakeholders there will be in HTML 5, and the longer it will take for it to be implemented across the board. And if the process is anything like ECMAScript, it could literally take a decade. Flash does
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by marketer 18y ago
About the speed issue - how is a 20 MB reader (Adobe Reader 9) plus the cost of downloading the entire pdf faster than a 200 kb swf file and having the document streamed? That makes no sense.
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by marketer 18y ago
Have you ever thought about using flash for your web chat service? I'd actually prefer it over standard javascript, especially because it would have a real socket connection. Also, flash has pretty good support for text rendering. You can e
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Feynman - The inconcievable nature of nature(youtube.com)
4 points by marketer 18y ago|0 comments
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by marketer 18y ago
This is a fantastic analogy, and I think you can explain a lot of early stage situations with this. Theres no turning back!
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by marketer 18y ago
What's wrong with the flash viewer? I've rarely had any problems with it, and it loads document fairly quickly.
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by marketer 18y ago
Don't you think companies that do face the legal bullshit are already successful? The music market is simply huge, and there have been many successes. There are plenty for music marketplaces, for instance, and while the largest ones are par
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by marketer 18y ago
I wrote a blog post about moving to the city a couple months back, it might be helpful to some people: http://is.gd/9sPS
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by marketer 18y ago
It's been tried before, check out http://www.micropledge.com . That site doesn't seem to be active any more.
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Robot plays the flute better than humans(newslite.tv)
2 points by marketer 18y ago|1 comments
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by marketer 18y ago
Weird.. I submitted this link a day ago (with the same url) and the dupe detection wasn't hit. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=351975
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There are many things that I know are true..(abstrusegoose.com)
5 points by marketer 18y ago|0 comments
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Five things your recruiter won't tell you(blog.notchup.com)
1 points by marketer 18y ago|0 comments
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by marketer 18y ago
Making sweeping generalizations from a few events is also unhealthy and dangerous.
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by marketer 18y ago
Although this is a worthy topic to explore, the reasons the article mentions are are lousy. So what if there are people making a living blogging? Who cares if Jason Calacanis or Scoble changed their blogging patterns? Who cares about all th
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by marketer 18y ago
Keep that site up :) It's a great tool.
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Some straight talk from Jason Fried of 37s(balsamiq.com)
24 points by marketer 18y ago|5 comments

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