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by mtw 15y ago
imho the 2 biggest differences between a DSLR and a compact is the focus speed and the dynamic range. DLSRs have larger sensors, so by laws of physics, they gather more light and will always have more dynamic range than compacts or smartpho
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by mtw 15y ago
huh? it's only $800
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by mtw 15y ago
you mean a service for 404 pages? like when reddit is down, they would redirect to a page in your server?
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by mtw 15y ago
Are you incorporating soon?
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by mtw 16y ago
(cough) http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/20/russia_s_cr...
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by mtw 16y ago
what about also spreading to multiple providers (i.e. also use rackspace cloud)? they'd be less dependant from amazon issues
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by mtw 16y ago
in a facebook world, "like" is just approbation (click and forget) whereas "I am interested" means more such as you're going to find a way for me to book a first appointement or class
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by mtw 16y ago
I love this! How do you get the listed places? had a similar idea once (for a different market though) but we couldn't find a way to get them. Or you've got a person phoning all local businesses? As for feedback: * your urls are not SEO fri
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by mtw 16y ago
I think your main graphic doesn't explain at all your service. you should animate it (use flash) or use a javascript gallery so people know exactly what it is or maybe the advantages are not clear at all. everyone can already share links th
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by mtw 16y ago
he means projects like diaspora
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by mtw 16y ago
network or electricity or software will go down one day and then you will begin to think about disaster recovery plans and get another colocated space in easter or western US. A simpler option is to rent dedicated servers in 2 different hos
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by mtw 16y ago
what was the problem here? was it because he was single (against pg's 5th guideline http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html ) or because he was non-technical?
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by mtw 16y ago
as demonstrated by the frequent data center outages, it's extremely difficult to have 100% uptime, unless you have a crack team of sys admin and operators who are better than Google or Amazon engineers in server management and data center m
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by mtw 16y ago
owning your own hardware is distraction, unless you've become too big or your business involves hosting (such as wordpress business model)
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by mtw 16y ago
I don't get it, what about renting dedicated servers at a company like iweb or softlayer? much cheaper than colocation for startups, you don't have to worry about networking and hardware. and also much cheaper than cloud hosting. (of course
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by mtw 16y ago
Based on their site, surveymonkey seems to be very good in corporate sales, having that big customer base is hard to replicate.
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by mtw 16y ago
what do you mean "a lot"? a company which invests $100k / month in adwords should be expected to spend how much in online surveys?
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by mtw 16y ago
I don't get it; where did surveymonkey found $35m? is there so much money to make in online surveys?
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by mtw 16y ago
hmm for those who do not speak russian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok6ljV-WfRw&feature=chann... same video in english
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by mtw 16y ago
There's also the indie software market, and also the sass market
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by mtw 16y ago
and you wrote the gem because you have a ruby app using contextio?
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by mtw 16y ago
Are you collecting taxes? if it's a company registered in the US Also how do you deal with chargebacks?
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by mtw 16y ago
there are more: Google checkout is not available for sellers, zappos (they just closed their canadian store), unlimited internet etc.
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by mtw 16y ago
this is also very impressive. I like how they add small buses and signs to indicate bus stops. We can also see the name of big shopping centers
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by mtw 16y ago
The idea of Batman could work in somaliland (no government, lots of corruption, rampant crime). Mexico (drug war) would also work, or any other country with corrupt or non-existing police forces
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by mtw 16y ago
maybe there's a road network after the tunnel. That network is still on his land and lead to multiple exits, villages, highways. Another idea is to have surveillance sensors around the exit (IR, microphones, proximity sensors ) so that he'd
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by mtw 16y ago
The partnership is still suspicious; any reasonable person would tell you Nokia should have picked Android instead. There's no competitive advantage picking up WP7, unless microsoft wanted to subsidize every nokia handset
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by mtw 16y ago
it throws me an error upon connecting with Facebook connect
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by mtw 16y ago
no, just interested in the website and how it works. I'm doing a similar website (montrealtechwatch.com) so it's cool to see another hyperlocal tech-focused site what I am interested in is how you got that staff of volunteers and contributo
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by mtw 16y ago
the worse part is seeing Huffington post valued at $330m, while the New York Times market cap is "only" 1.64B. The NYT company does investigations, produces photography and video, has foreign bureaus etc. For me, this means there's more val

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