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by oaktowner 11y ago
I just looked at http://officesnapshots.com/ and I agree -- that's what advertising should be. Congrats. Two questions: how much time do you spend selling/negotiating with advertisers? And you say you could earn
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by oaktowner 11y ago
I had forgotten about that. Thanks for the reminder!
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by oaktowner 11y ago
Chase gives me this for my Visa card (I can set an 'alert' level). I buy nearly everything with that card (and use it to pay most of my other bills as well).
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by oaktowner 11y ago
I don't think there's any requirement that you use Google Compute Engine in order to use this API. Yes, you sign up for an account, but of course you have to sign up for an account to use it. This API is part of the platform. Si
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by oaktowner 11y ago
I meant a spreadsheet about Amazon salaries in Google Docs...otherwise someone has to comb through this thread to pull out the data. And it allows people to build and share pretty charts. (as mentioned above, this has already happened at Go
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by oaktowner 11y ago
If you really want to do this, start a Google spreadsheet.
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by oaktowner 11y ago
My Moto X let me set the keyword to whatever I wanted it to be: I used "OK, Computer."
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by oaktowner 11y ago
I remember my parents showing us a video about "satanic" music. Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Rush, Styx, the Eagles...you name a late 70's band, they were in there. Some of the bands actively courted that image, of course, b
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by oaktowner 11y ago
Their business model depends on some percentage of their customers using the subscription service. My guess is: if they offered the version you describe, they'd need to make it much more expensive. Which many consumers would find odd:
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The Resurgence of Vinyl(priceonomics.com)
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by oaktowner 11y ago
Check out Deployment Manager...I think it has what you're looking for. (I work at Google but not on Deployment Manager) https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/overview
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by oaktowner 11y ago
App Engine requests time out after 60 seconds (that's 60000 ms). https://cloud.google.com/appengine/articles/deadlineexceeded... (I work at Google, but not on App Engine)
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by oaktowner 11y ago
That last comment was hysterical. You can come to my party.
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Well, to be fair, they are typically talking to someone who is halfway across a galaxy. Apple only has to get that signal partway around one measly little planet. ;-)
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I think what he's getting at is that he gets backend functionality without ever deploying and managing instances himself (similar to what App Engine offers). You just deploy your code, and Amazon automagically handles scaling, etc.
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by oaktowner 11y ago
What's interesting is that they had already raised $42M at that point (according to comments here). Certainly raising $42M and having an over-$100M valuation already put them in the top 1%, right?
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Great idea. Would be far cheaper to replace that than the whole charger. (Though that's probably exactly why Apple won't do it).
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I couldn't disagree more. Chargers should be durable enough to handle typical usage. People aren't "FAR too rough and careless." People behave as people behave. A high end manufacturer like Apple should be design and man
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by oaktowner 11y ago
I will never stop being impressed at the breadth and depth of the HN audience. Thanks, you two, for your comments.
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The diversification was really important. Too many people think of "app" as "business;" he saw early on that he would need lots of apps (both his and others') to build a business.
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Failed Windows 3.1 system blamed for shutting down Paris airport(arstechnica.com)
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Yes, that sounds like hyperbole. People do want to bookmark tweets. But Twitter reasoned (probably correctly) that people "like" a lot more tweets than they bookmark. Naturally, Twitter likes the idea of visible engagement, so t
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by oaktowner 11y ago
Most stock brokerages spend lots of times gathering data from the companies themselves -- the management group, the customers, industry analysts, etc. They are not making investment (BUY/HOLD/SELL) recommendations based on the pas
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by oaktowner 11y ago
I can remember going to the computer lab at Berkeley (would have been '89 or '90 probably) and seeing SPARC stations for the first time. Sexiest things ever. Huge monitors (at least they seemed huge back then), and those three but
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New Project to Extend Swagger Spec for Building Connected Apps and Services(linuxfoundation.org)
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Who would do the testing?
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by oaktowner 11y ago
s/as well/better
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by oaktowner 11y ago
iTunes proved that. People were stealing music prior to its release not because they were thieves at heart but because it was the only way most of them could find most of the music they wanted. iTunes put the entire music industry to shame
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by oaktowner 11y ago
Repeating solaris999's comment above: The "What am I looking at?" section ( http://www.chromoscope.net/1.4.1/what.html ) says that they are: "Don't worry, they aren't holes in the Universe b
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by oaktowner 11y ago
You're giving me flashbacks. But the parallels are eerie. Someone gives a nomenclature to a style of architecture that many people were already using (just last week I heard that Netflix "invented" microservices), and suddenl

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