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by nirvana 15y ago
I believe the solution to much of the problem lies in Riak. It is erlang based, has Map Reduce, is document oriented, has Free Text Search built in, is Solr compatible (though sketchy on details there) and is very scalable, and importantly
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by nirvana 15y ago
We're planning to use hosting in Europe for part of this reason. I simply do not trust the US government not to come fishing after my customers data, and I don't want to be in a position of getting "National Security" Letter. The company
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by nirvana 15y ago
We also recently left the USA because one of our party is a UK citizen. We spent 6 months in the UK as US citizens with no problem, but when we came to the USA, we had to leave after 3 months, or send the UK resident co-founder out of the
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by nirvana 15y ago
I want to say that I heard good chilean health insurance was cheap, but I might be mistaken. I assume you buy chilean medical insurance, or you can keep your american medical insurance if you are an american. Most american medical insuranc
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by nirvana 15y ago
Good point. The sad thing is, we were pretty happy to stumble into that phrase. Didn't' realize Microsoft had used it. We don't want to use the term "search engine" because that implies textual queries and text matching. Whenever you're
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by nirvana 15y ago
The Chilean government has a sweet deal for VCs in Chile, effectively loaning them money to raise their funds, then financing it for them if successful and writing it off if not successful. Startup Chile has some Silicon Valley presence wit
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The 5th Ave. Apple Cube, before & after [Animated Image](dznr.org)
3 points by nirvana 15y ago|0 comments
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by nirvana 15y ago
Anyone have questions about the project? The application process? I obviously have no experience of the program itself, but will share our experiences with applying for anyone whose considering it.
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by nirvana 15y ago
My startup was one of the ones selected. We've just got a temporary website up here: http://myster.io We're a group of three nomads making software from around the word. In addition to the $40k grant, one of the big benefits for us of S
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by nirvana 15y ago
Starts 11AM West Coast Time. Winning class is announced at Noon West Coast Time.
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by nirvana 15y ago
This is good news. Now if they will just support Riak, I might be able to port nirvana to it. (Nirvana is the coffeescript/javascript distributed web platform I'm building for our startup. It runs across a riak cluster and distributes jav
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by nirvana 15y ago
My startup (and the one I'm building nirvana for) applied to this class of Startup Chile. For various reasons, I don't expect we'll get in. (too much behind the scenes work, not enough visible results yet. haven't released the minimum viab
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Startup Chile announcing next class of Startups via streaming video(startupchile.org)
2 points by nirvana 15y ago|2 comments
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by nirvana 15y ago
This is already happening. Many ebooks published in the last year, I noticed, started at one price, and have been coming down. It seems in the first year, the price is usually $12.99-$15.99, but after a year or so, the price drops to $9.99
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by nirvana 15y ago
The claim in the article is false. Apple doesn't want high ebook pricing, because Apple is a hardware manufacturer. iTunes and all the content it sells, was created as a loss leader to generate demand for their hardware. Apple historically
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by nirvana 15y ago
"Your love of the Constitution..." You're attacking a strawman. I do not love the constitution. I consider it a complete failure, and I would think this should be obvious to anyone who reads my words carefully. Further, in both of your res
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by nirvana 15y ago
Now, that's quite unfair. Why did you go from arguing the point to characterizing me? It is false to claim I reject judicial review, I have never done so, and courts reviewing laws is one of the legitimate powers granted to them. Are yo
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by nirvana 15y ago
Its quite possible that Robert LeFevre first said it. I first came upon the phrase in one of L. Neil Smiths books. I think it was the second book in the Probability Broach series, the one where he starts each chapter with a quotation, and t
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by nirvana 15y ago
Maybury v. Madison is one of the key examples for my position[1], as it is a ruling in which the Supreme Court usurped for itself the power to decide the constitutionality of laws. The constitution doesn't grant them that power.[2] So, no
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by nirvana 15y ago
The federal government does not have the power to regulate interstate commerce, as you're describing, under the constitution. The federal government has the power to ensure that no states forbid the importation of other states goods, or ap
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by nirvana 15y ago
I think the heart surgery analogy is excellent. I would never, unless it were an extremely dire situation with no doctors, attempt any kind of surgery on someone. Nor would I ever start dictating to doctors how the perform their procedure
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by nirvana 15y ago
I've just bought the book, so obviously I haven't read it, but I have checked out a couple of the chapters, so here's a super preliminary review. First off, the value of this book for me is that it provides a cohesive overview of Riak, much
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by nirvana 15y ago
Here's the feedback site for issues, etc: https://github.com/mattmatt/NoSQL-Handbook-Feedback/issues
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by nirvana 15y ago
I have showdead turned on as well. It breaks my heart to see these comments from people who are trying to contribute. I don't go look up all their past history, but I'd say %75 of the comments are attempts to contribute to the conversatio
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by nirvana 15y ago
You had 3.5k karma before beginning this experiment and you're a cofounder of a YC funded company! You're already part of the "in" group. The first comment prior to this one on your comments feed starts of with: "Your entire comment is bul
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by nirvana 15y ago
I think the fundamental problem is that companies want a "Sr. Software Engineer" with >7 years of development and >4 years of development in their particular language, who also is young enough to think that "Nerf guns" and "xbox's"
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by nirvana 15y ago
There's a difference between design patents and utility patents. Design patents are what stop you from making and selling your own counterfeit Mercedes or BMW, for instance. Neither company pretends to own a patent on the wheel, and Apple i
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by nirvana 15y ago
I think what's really remarkable about this is that Apple issued a statement seemingly less than 24 hours after it became an issue. In the past, Apple has tended to wait a week or so before issuing statements, resulting in a lot of critic
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by nirvana 15y ago
Several issues with this story: 1. The reference is found in a 2 year old version of iOS. 2. "IQAgent" sounds like things Apple could name, e.g.: I've seen no evidence that this has anything to do with CarrierIQ. There's been no disassembly
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by nirvana 15y ago
I'm in the middle of a pivot. I think that the difficulties described in this article, while totally possible, are more a result of doing it backwards. Before we pivoted, my co-founder and I had very long discussions. As we brought our e

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