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by noahc 15y ago
A static site would have saved you here, particularly if you are using something like nginx. Even with apache, you'd still be fine. Wordpress cacheing HN traffic should do fine too. There's something else going on here.
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by noahc 15y ago
Not that. I lost a bunch of weight (50+ lbs) by eating the same meals over and over and over and over again. If I had to text 1cup this, 3oz that, 1/2 cup flour, blah, blah every time I ate, I'd go buy a large pizza from a chain store and g
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by noahc 15y ago
Right, but doesn't that just strengthen my point? If they are tech-agnostic then they aren't in the hardware/software business, which was my original point. They are in the hardware/software business because it helps them take your money fo
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by noahc 15y ago
He never met with the CEO[1] and in fact messed up the name. It is in the realm of possibility (and quite likely) that he talked with people inside IBM. But I don't think they were really pushing for him to buy it. At least it doesn't appea
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by noahc 15y ago
Even so IBM's business model when they are not selling wetware involves selling expensive black boxes that are maintained, installed, and serviced by expensive wetware. Even though it makes up half of revenue, that doesn't mean the other ha
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by noahc 15y ago
They don't. The parent is wrong in suggesting someone 'convinced' Buffet. Because of the herd mentality around investing who invests in you does matter, but not for this discussion.
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by noahc 15y ago
Please post at least your target market and what you hope to achieve or what your objective is. Do you want mindshare or do you want to convert to sales? What is your product or service?
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by noahc 15y ago
This is correct. I have a relatively high karma score on HN. When I post, I usually go to the top of the thread in either the #1 or #2 spot. This is an example of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, not some secret plan to
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by noahc 15y ago
I've read through a lot of that it still doesn't make sense to me that someone would be uncomfortable with the unwashed masses getting access to previously unattainable goods. We both agree that certain goods produce a signaling effect. Whe
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by noahc 15y ago
I thought their numbers seem inflated too. I wonder if this signals 'they are thinking big' which results in investors thinking 10x instead of the no-invest 2x number.
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by noahc 15y ago
What you'll find is that often the talk and publicity is the dog and pony show needed to drive business. That's not to say it isn't valuable; it is. The problem is that ultimately the dog and pony show has to accomplish it's objective: get
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by noahc 15y ago
This is an honest question, and I promise, I'm not trolling but have you actually experienced where someone is really uncomfortable because I can go buy something that is of equal quality and it is related to social status? Is there data on
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by noahc 15y ago
Presumably those protections would prevent this bot from collecting data as well?
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by noahc 15y ago
I agree with you, but the main reason to do this is to keep it it DRY(Don't Repeat Yourself). Templating systems help with this a lot, but they don't completely get you around being able to add the class 'round' to everything you want to ha
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by noahc 15y ago
I would argue we are still in an era of cheap gas. Expensive gas is more like $5 - $7 in the midwest. I'm sure out on the coasts you're pumping up against that already. You're idling for maybe 10 - 15 minutes, so most people don't care. In
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by noahc 15y ago
Care to explain why drive-throughs are a surprise?
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by noahc 15y ago
Have you considered using a framework like Twitter Bootstrap or something of that nature? It sounds to me like that's the way to go to launch quickly. I expect what you'll find is that even though the designer may have made an awesome desig
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by noahc 15y ago
Anyone can see that freedom fighters and protest organizers will use distributed technologies, because frankly they can't afford or manage a centralized technology. This has its trade offs, but it's easy, cheap, and fast. The only thing it
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by noahc 15y ago
I was doing something even more silly and was banned for 48 hours or so.
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by noahc 15y ago
I don't know what he means here, but one possible way to brute force would be to iterate the username and not the password. It depends on what you're trying to do, but if you just want accounts you pick the top X number of passwords used th
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by noahc 15y ago
I'm not sure it does need that much liquidity. But, at what point are we not liquid enough? Is hourly liquidity enough? It's a good question, but I'm not sure how you measure what 'enough' is.
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by noahc 15y ago
It seems plausible to make it so that people can't become corporations. 1. The IRS already does this with certain classes of businesses in which they make it illegal to form them purely for tax avoidance purposes. 2.You set the corporate in
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by noahc 15y ago
Can anyone with more experience and knowledge explain the effects of #3. I've read that HFT is actually a good thing because it basically acts as a market maker. This is just a back of the napkin opinion, but it seems that #3 would reduce l
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by noahc 15y ago
Have you considered using stack overflow? It's a great way to have access to mentors and people to help you and if you're working in a particular domain, you will have experts to help you. With one single mentor you're stuck with only what
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by noahc 15y ago
It is possible that someone at your HQ could be using a system to scrape HN. I scraped HN awhile back (Sorry, pg!) and I suspect what happened is I got banned for ~48 hours from accessing the site. I was also getting a 324 error.
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by noahc 15y ago
Some websites cut your password off at twelve or even six characters. What this means is that your long password when you enter it into the password form is only 'AskNot'. That's not so hard to brute force. To avoid confusion some websites
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by noahc 15y ago
Just a heads up a LAMP stack on Ubuntu can be done in under an hour and half. I recently setup a LAMP stack and never setup a LAMP stack before in less than two hours. I have some sys admin and nix experience. If I were you, unless you knew
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by noahc 15y ago
Do you want managed or unmanaged? I would say webfaction is by far the best managed host bang for the buck. If you're looking for unmanaged then linode is probably the way to go.
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by noahc 15y ago
One thing that might be useful is can you make things look polished (relatively) in less time by using something like Twitter BootStrap, etc. Are you adjusting the last margin to make things pixel perfect and are you fretting over two diffe
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by noahc 15y ago
In my mind Stealth doesn't mean TOP SECRET no one can know. It comes in degrees. Your investors probably know, you share your idea with people you trust who can give you feedback and could even have paying customers/beta users and still be

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