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by mattiss 17y ago
When Rackspace goes down and takes TechCrunch with them, the whole INTERNET goes down. When Amazon goes down, Salesforce, Target, and others...
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by mattiss 17y ago
Excellent! I think I know Unix pretty well, but it would be great if someone had a directory of common use scenarios that one could look through, rather than using Google and wading through horrible forum posts...
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by mattiss 17y ago
Something with stock manipulation could work. Buy a ton of options in some company, like Palm for instance. Then on the release of some hot new gadget, like the Pre, pay a ton of people to wait outside the doors of the vendors. Initial buzz
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by mattiss 17y ago
One would hope that once we reach that level of technology, we will have gotten past wars....
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by mattiss 17y ago
I just took a quick look around, but is all of the server-side code down in JS as well?
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by mattiss 17y ago
Ohmji is a really awesome startup name, but I agree not a good fit for this market.
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Microsoft temporarily shuts down MSN China microblog after Plurk incident
4 points by mattiss 17y ago|0 comments
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by mattiss 17y ago
Not to detract from this business, but couldn't this just as easily be a checkbox on Dropbox? Suppose Dropbox wanted to do this, how does YC react? Although I suppose there is lots of room for competition in this space...
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by mattiss 17y ago
This is incredible. Have there been any other documented cases where a MSFT,GOOG,etc. has been caught stealing code red handed?
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by mattiss 17y ago
Gave me a chuckle. Code Santa does sound pretty awesome doesn't it?
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by mattiss 17y ago
Can we PLEASE stop using Code + Ninja, Pirate, Monkey, Shaman, Cosmonaut, Santa Claus, etc..
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by mattiss 17y ago
I was not making a value judgment on these acquisitions. However as Google is a publicly traded company, if I were a shareholder I would want to know if my money is being paid to friends of decision makers. It would be interesting to see ho
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by mattiss 17y ago
Who is in charge of acquisitions at Google? Not to say that there isn't awesome tech behind Aardvark, but really 2 ex-Google buyouts in as many days? If I were a shareholder in Google I would be wondering... Work at Google -> Make frien
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by mattiss 17y ago
Hell no, if you are really clearing 1m in profits a YEAR, why would you take 15k and give up 7% of your company? That is absolutely ludicrous. Either you are overstating your companies financials or PG is trying to ream you. I find it hard
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by mattiss 17y ago
Looks cool, but it is painfully slow (Linux + firefox). Maybe other systems run it better, but for me it is too slow to do much good.
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by mattiss 17y ago
I think this is some of the best advice I've read on this site. You really have an awesome implementation and a real market. I agree with caffeine in that you might want to simply sell access to the children's books for parents to read with
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by mattiss 17y ago
I would argue that this is pretty unreadable. Why do obfuscate your code to save one LOC?
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by mattiss 17y ago
These programs tend to screw the middle class, the definition of which is actually pretty low (~50k/yr) I think. Sure if your parents work at McDonald's you will probably get a bunch of grants, but if not you are footing the bill.
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by mattiss 17y ago
I was joking about Everest. Some day maybe :)
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by mattiss 17y ago
I don't get it? You haven't yet struck riches or you are operating covertly and don't want Chevron to drink your milkshake?
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by mattiss 17y ago
Unfortunately that is my findings as well. Thanks a milion for the answer! I will check out Drupal.
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by mattiss 17y ago
Not me. Ever since I got back from Everest I keep my mouth shut.
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by mattiss 17y ago
The author seems like a tool. That's the thing about name-brand graduates (particularly Harvard), within 5 minutes of meeting someone you will hear about where they went to college, even 10+ years after they graduated. Clearly this is an ex
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by mattiss 17y ago
I'm pretty sure Youtube is still the defacto.
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Ask HN: Best CMS -- preferably in Python?
1 points by mattiss 17y ago|2 comments
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by mattiss 17y ago
What a stupid idea. How does WSJ publish this crap?
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by mattiss 17y ago
You get to actually build something. Building something from the ground up is infinitely better than doing maintenance or feature implementation.
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by mattiss 17y ago
Much success yet? This sounds like a very exciting business to be in.
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by mattiss 17y ago
What's your app?
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by mattiss 17y ago
Has anybody here actually been involved in purchasing this product? What use case did it solve for you?

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