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What's the point in raising $155mm if you aren't going to spend it on growing like crazy? Otherwise it'll just sit in the bank lowering the average return. (Free soda comes under 'development expenses' in my view.)
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It's amazing how well Slashdot's comment/karma system works, despite 10 years of frankly inexplicable web site management. Porting it to HN (without the crazy interface) might help with managing growth. In particular this comment is great:
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The big winner was Sony, who profit from sales of either.
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I have had a lot of experience in white label work from both the technical and commercial side. If you want a call to pick my brains about specifics you would be most welcome - email richard at the domain in my profile. If you can get cash
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I really enjoyed playing with it, but I think it won't shine until higher level libraries are ported/written for it. There are basic URL dispatchers and template systems, but nothing as battle-tested as Django (yet). Easy access to streamin
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It would be possible to implement a processor that implemented this as a single assembly language instruction! How low do you go before you give up? Silicon atom count? I'd say that 'LoC using a language plus common libraries at least some
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I think the responsibility does rest with Netflix, because it's almost outside the control of one person to keep identities separate these days. Every bit of information released vastly increases the chance of identification. To given an ex
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But this isn't limited to software start ups, and I have a pretty big sample set to look at. The angel firm I'm advising is involved in or funding about 20 ventures, of which only two are software related. Only one of those has a woman invo
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by notauser 17y ago
When I worked in software Engineering (big E, giant processes) the developers left at 4:30pm every day except Fridays, when they left at 12:30. (Thanks to flex-time and a 7:30 start.) That environment was remarkably un-geeky. A median engin
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Focused twitter lists are great for free marketing by the way. http://theplanis.com/pmotscores/ brings in 26% of my new visitors, all from a highly targeted vertical, with fantastic conversion rates.
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At the moment I use ad block in manual mode and zap only ads that flash or move. It's a pain though and it's a constant temptation just to turn on easy list and kill everything. If there was a filter list subscription for those which still
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Communism is not socialism is not totalitarianism. Sweden is a socialist state, and a family is a commune. Just because ideas have failed spectacularly in some places and on some scales doesn't mean they don't work well elsewhere.
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It's pretty much a given that anything you read about aerodynamics on an Internet forum will be a massive generalization made to illustrate a simplified version of the point. Look at the rubbish people keep on repeating about the reasons fo
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I believe they flew the A380 a few times before the big day. Watching them throw it around a bit at the Paris air show was interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH6tO1qZez8#t=1m06s
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The A380 also gets cost savings from sharing the landing fees, taxes and slot costs between more passengers. That's more applicable for busy airports though - I'd bet that a lot of the traffic at LHR and ATL will switch over to A380s, while
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A big part of the reason for hanging the engines is actually because it means you can make the wings less robust. If you have in-wing engines they generally have to be near the root (where the wing connects to the fuselage) because engines
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First flight is a bit more than 2 years late according to Wikipedia. However that's not bad for a project this complicated, being built in so many different places. I know more than a few aerospace engineers who would be delighted to delive
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How hard was it to organise a visa? My brother has been living in China on short term tourist visas for close to 5 years. In the mean time he has built and sold one (non-technology) business and claims not to feel worried about the possibil
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Thanks, that's really interesting. I have been playing with web workers ( http://github.com/revis/Really-Cloudy ) and one thing that worried me was the number of people with capable browsers. From your data it looks like that isn't a proble
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I wanted to play with web workers, and with node.js, so last night I hacked up a way to send data to clients to be background processed. The queue server sends a javascript function and some data to web-worker capable clients to process as
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Tell HN: Distributing processing to website visitors with web workers(github.com)
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I remember seeing USB ports on cheap computers in '98 and you can still get normal to mini adapters like http://electronics.become.com/6ft-usbamini-b-device-usba-to-... that fit in those slots. I don't believe the power spec has changed i
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Planning on going to this one, thank you :-)
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Click-able link to a map and more information: http://theplanis.com/trip/ I'm really impressed with how well Raphael JS works for animations - getting it working on IE6 only required one tweak.
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Ask HN: Which US tech events in Jan-April are worth going to?
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If you cut me a large enough check I'll install my cloud app in your data center, or sell you an off line version. /notajoke
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I do cook at home a lot, saving about $500 a month over what I once paid. When I revert to having money again I can just switch back. I share an apartment, saving about $2,000 a month over what I was paying before. When I have money again I
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by notauser 17y ago
It does if they are using OpenDNS or an ISP like Comcast (if they still do DNS interception?). These organizations redirect failed lookups to their own search pages and sell the traffic on for a price or show their own ads. The alternative
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Knowing Imran a little I'd say it's most likely that he is doing this because he finds it interesting.
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A drop in search volume doesn't impact their content network ads, you are correct. However I don't think Microsoft will let Google buy space on Bing to place their ads. Therefore a drop in search volume leads to a cut in ad revenue. Even if

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