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by ovi256 14y ago
Intellectual property - nobody likes it until they amass it. I think even Oracle was anti-patent until they got enough. In general, it's hard to be against something that's a keystone to how you make your living.
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by ovi256 14y ago
I don't have enough information to say, but faster iteration is a solid bet. Plus better visibility into technical feasibility and cost, which leads to doing technical daring things as soon as they become possible. This becomes an unfair ad
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by ovi256 14y ago
I used to work in a web agency in France. By chance, all my projects were e-commerce startups that outsourced their development and ops to us. One may argue that dev was not a core competency for them, but I personally doubt it. Even with o
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by ovi256 14y ago
Orbits are elliptical, AFAIK, and the two lengths are the dimensions of the major and minor axis of the ellipsis. The planned operational orbit was circular (750 x 750 km).
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by ovi256 14y ago
As soon as I read about him sending anonymous letters to foreign governments, divulging details of confidential operations, I thought "what is he thinking, indictment for treason in 3, 2, 1". He really should have known better, especially g
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by ovi256 14y ago
>If I asked someone here to defend free speech beyond the obvious first few feints and lunges, they'd fall. Don't want to sound dismissing, but where outside scholarly work is it necessary to defend free speech beyond the obvious first
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by ovi256 14y ago
No, the advice is not "random photos" and "vague messaging" but "Do A/B tests ASAP" - as soon as you have enough traffic to do them (yes, there's a threshold, under it you're playing dice, not A/B testing).
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by ovi256 14y ago
Coyote is a nice French startup success story, also an embedded hardware success, similar to Parrot. I'm a bit disappointed that it fits the typical parisian pattern of elder, management consultants founders. No twenty-something founders ch
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by ovi256 14y ago
Metered low-end looks similar to what AWS does, doesn't it ? Spot prices are metered, but if you want to get a flat fee per month, no worries, you can get the reserved instances. Which also have a better bang per buck.
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by ovi256 14y ago
I recall that red was the color most likely to get attention, and thus recommended for calls to action. Any reason not to use red ?
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by ovi256 14y ago
FTA: "A leaked document from the CleanIT project shows just how far internal discussions in that initiative have drifted away from its publicly stated aims". They've largely overstepped their initial public aims, so judging CleanIT by their
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by ovi256 14y ago
I think you are going towards Knuth's literate programming. Not a bad approach.
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by ovi256 14y ago
None, because economists aren't big on testing, AFAIK, and empirical methods beyond meta-studies. It's still a very soft science, correct me if I'm wrong. Joke was that an economist that tests his hypothesis is a trader. Econometrics and ps
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by ovi256 14y ago
Please share it! Just make it public :)
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by ovi256 14y ago
As I was reading the article I hoped I'd find a dose of common sense in the comments, and indeed, here it is. Good as always, Patrick. Guys, take notes, this also applies for contracting.
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by ovi256 14y ago
It's surprisingly dense given it has had a prohibition on tall buildings since forever. Of course, some buildings are more equal than others and their project went through: tour Montparnasse, some residential projects. If this restriction w
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by ovi256 14y ago
Oh, I see, I was thinking more about a startup project and expecting a thumb rule of viability à la lean startup. Of course income - expenses is easy :)
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by ovi256 14y ago
>Determining if a company is currently viable is pretty easy maths in most cases. That sounds very interesting, could you care to elaborate please ?
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by ovi256 14y ago
You are right for $0.01 cost, but I wonder if that changes for $0.01 profit . What if your COCA (cost of customer acquisition) eats all but $0.01 of the revenue ? You are bringing in positive marginal revenue, and you don't have the downsi
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by ovi256 14y ago
In Romania, cable companies have pirated HBO for years. They just offer it free to their customers. Recently, some have cleaned up their offers, but you can still bribe the cable tech for a trifle so he unblocks HBO, apparently.
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by ovi256 14y ago
That's a great looking tool, very inspiring. And made nearby in Paris :) But it doesn't offer any automation for the workflow OP described.
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by ovi256 14y ago
Not an SEO expert in any way, but I read that Google discounts links after the first n on the page. The n threshold varies with whom you listen to. Those pages look too much like link farms, so it's understandable why they would do that.
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by ovi256 14y ago
Sorry to hear that, but the launchrock widget works for me :( FWIW, I'm on Chrome/Mac OS, how about you ? I also updated the obsolete signup link. If more people have trouble with launchrock, I'll bring that in house. So much for building o
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by ovi256 14y ago
That would bring a lot of badly targeted traffic. Sure, maybe better targeted than from a general interest site, but if your startup is targeting a specific profession, HN traffic is a drive-by, not exposure. Targeting is as valuable as raw
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by ovi256 14y ago
Well, I'd love to have you as a beta tester! Haven't got around to tracking comments yet. Looks tricky indeed.
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by ovi256 14y ago
Wow, it's pretty amazing, but you've described one of the use cases for my upcoming webapp: www.alertoid.com Technically, Alertoid would be an RSS reader that goes beyond the Read/Unread tagging, with the Commented/Comment Approved stages y
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by ovi256 14y ago
I'd like to know more too. Steve Yegge gave a data point about SREs in his recent liberal/conservative software rant: he said SREs are extremely conservative, and that he finds it normal given their duties. So it follows it's not a good pos
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by ovi256 14y ago
They rarely, if ever, go off on their own. Modern explosives (and WW2 era explosives qualify as quite modern) are pretty inert and safe to handle. The fuses and cases are designed to be robust and safe to abuse - after all, they have to be
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by ovi256 14y ago
I really like how those guys think it's somehow Apple's fault. Fonts are too small because Linux doesn't have resolution independence? Apple sucks for building a laptop with too many pixels.
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by ovi256 14y ago
I wonder how well this would work for B2B apps, in which case you need to interview professionals of some sort. For example, I would love to interview PR professionals. Compared to parents, I would venture a guess that they're much harder t

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