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by nilsbunger 15y ago
Catarina wasn't born into "startup royalty" -- she was an unknown entrepreneur when she started Flickr. Most companies from YC, 500 Startups, etc are created by first-time founders, and they've had remarkable success. It does help to have a
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by nilsbunger 15y ago
The perfect alibi for watching porn at work: investigating redis.
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by nilsbunger 15y ago
A chrome user is more valuable to google than another browser user: google paid 1 billion dollars for a search deal to Mozilla with ~30% mkt share. If google had never built chrome, Mozilla share might be 50% or more today. The search d
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by nilsbunger 15y ago
The magic of Mac is that it's BOTH a great developer / hacker machine (POSIX/BSD + GNU tools with great hardware, power mgmt, etc), and a great machine for people who don't know how to use computers. It's inevitable that the layer for non
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by nilsbunger 15y ago
I would like AirPlay mirroring the other way around too -- let my iPad / iPhone cast to my Mac. Very useful for presentations and iOS product demos.
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by nilsbunger 15y ago
Cool, now I can apply for his social security benefits!
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by nilsbunger 15y ago
What do you expect? The author wrote the study for Exxon Mobil. As others pointed out, you have to divide by about 5 to 7 to account for the losses in going from gas to available power at the wheels. Even then, gas wins against batteries
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by nilsbunger 15y ago
Most of negotiation is just asking questions about the other side's needs and constraints, and articulating yours. Often you can find a creative way to solve everyone's needs. For example, in your case you should find out why they need an
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by nilsbunger 15y ago
I think Apple's Mac roadmap is: * Mac continues to evolve slowly, not have major innovations. Innovations that do occur will be on things that are aligned with iOS-like devices (like Launchpad, Mac App Store, Macbook Air's). * Someday they
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by nilsbunger 15y ago
Yup. Only option would be to fork from the last GPL2 release and evolve it as GPL2.
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Actually, it is true. In particular, profit-wise the Mac business is tiny, less than 10% of profits. They could shut down Mac and you would barely notice in their next earnings statement. I wish it weren't so, because I love my Mac. But
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by nilsbunger 15y ago
If Apple is driven by profit, then the main purpose of Mac, iPod, and even iPad these days is to sell more iPhones (brand halo and integration). Isn't that crazy? Macs were only 14% of revenue last quarter ($6.6B/46.3B). By contrast, iPho
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by nilsbunger 15y ago
I'd vote for that too!
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Ask HN: Are the HN forums losing their civility?
52 points by nilsbunger 15y ago|60 comments
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Thanks, I didn't understand that before. I'm looking for a hosted service to avoid as many of those things as possible!
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What are the PCI-DSS compliance requirements when you're using Stripe?
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The way to do this is start the image as a small or large instance, apply all patches, install SW, then restart it as a Micro. When you need to install something again, restart the server as a larger instance type first. It's a pain. The
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by nilsbunger 15y ago
I win the ip-distance-error game! I'm in Stanford, California, but sites think I'm in Quebec, 4000 miles away. We have google fiber for internet, and apparently the ip block they use previously belonged to a Quebec ISP. Craigslist alway