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by phlux 16y ago
He was not a "Hacker" he was a disgruntled ex admin with a freaking login! That requires information, not skill.
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by phlux 16y ago
Heh. I think it would be wonderul if everyone started logging to twitter. Then you can just follow each machine to get a read of its logs... or, at least pipe the output of LogWatch or something like it to twitter. Maybe for 4/1/2012 - we s
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by phlux 16y ago
:( I changed it because, even thoug hthe original was a joke, I in no way want to put it out there into the universe that physical harm would have come to PG... and while that was funny - still - I dont want that thought in peoples heads. S
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by phlux 16y ago
EDIT; I didnt read the full article! > “This is a blanket $1 million investment offer to virtually any new technology startup,” Clearly, this is a 4/1 article.... :( Damn! I was so ready to be righteously indignant!
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by phlux 16y ago
Personally, I think that a good compromise is for foreign devs to become technical co-founders with others who are based in SV. The issue is that all the devs here have a great job market to pick from - and there are a ton of startups looki
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by phlux 16y ago
It is ironic that /. is now mentioned ass a place to dump off your non-tech submissions.... Although, /. has always had a heyday with 4/1. I used to get a kick out of it., but now I am just old and boring.
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by phlux 16y ago
Seriously. After PGs systems were hacked and all YC applications were deleted last night - this is no time to joke, especially on HN!!!
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by phlux 16y ago
I guess limited liquidity is the wrong term, and I meant limited availability -- or maybe restricted/filtered availability. There is tons of funding available should you have an idea good enough and/or the skills to convince others your ide
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by phlux 16y ago
A few years ago, a friend and I wrote a script that would crawl through the user pages of my space and scrape the "last login" to determine this for Myspace. We did a varying sample based on the UID and though I dont recall the numbers, the
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by phlux 16y ago
So I guess the counter is that there is limited liquidity, or lack of access, or frozen capital? If the capital was unlimited, then why dont we have more open funds. Further, if we really thought that capital was unlimited, would we think t
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by phlux 16y ago
I agree there is a ton of space here, and I really think the enabling technology to make this happen is Square. See my post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351573 Basically, all the small business applications can be app-ized a
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by phlux 16y ago
We all knew this.
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by phlux 16y ago
Wait, so it hits theatres, and then a WHOLE 60 DAYS after it is in the theatre one can get that movie on-demand? For as low as $30? No wonder why people pirate. The problem is that the vallue of movie entertainment is artificially high - an
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by phlux 16y ago
So, I'm going to go against the grain here... I think there is a lot of great stuff about Quora. Design isn't one of them, here is why: The site and its team have shown a specific arrogance over voices of dissension about their design. Visu
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by phlux 16y ago
No. EDIT: What will the company lose if you walk? That is what your equity should be based on. Given your brief bio, it would seem as though you can offer a lot to the company. What contribution are you making to the product - aside from do
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by phlux 16y ago
TV and Radio - even Pandora is intrinsically passive. So while we are "OK" with it in those mediums or activities - those are passive activities in which you basically view/listen to whatever content they choose to put on the stream. Search
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by phlux 16y ago
This is not a new idea -- I have talked about this idea with friends for years. Having worked at Savi, Lockheed's RFID division - we had all sorts of ideas for how to use RFID.
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by phlux 16y ago
There is a major difference in the service model between google search and twitter tweets. In search, you are actively seeking something out - you enter a phrase, it returns a result. This meshes beautifully with ads - because in the ideal,
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by phlux 16y ago
I always thought it would have been a funny easter egg to have VNC simply mirror the screen. So it appears that you're looking out from the monitor...
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by phlux 16y ago
I am waiting until the button goes up to 11.
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by phlux 16y ago
I know that we (IT Folks) are all used to the concept of system images which can be used to deploy fresh builds/images to machines that are based on standards. Further we are used to the idea of VMs that run in clusters/clouds etc. and we a
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by phlux 16y ago
Pinkel pinkel little star how i wonder what you are.
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by phlux 16y ago
Im in the process of putting up some landing pages to tes 3 names for the same service, it plots actions you take to a visual timeline. What do you think of the following names: Plotsdots.com Whatstat.us Timestat.us Without having seen anyt
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by phlux 16y ago
cool, but I can only type in the initial idea? I can't swap then type new the swap etc...
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by phlux 16y ago
Legal yes. It may be against their terms of service or some lame restriction because your showing them to be less competent.
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by phlux 16y ago
I do and here is why: Napster. What we need here is an app that will let you register your collection of music on AWS as an available catalogue. Then a client app can play music randomly from each registered catalogue through an intermediar
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by phlux 16y ago
I recently went through several rounds of interviews with Twitter. I had submitted my resume blindly via their website, rather than having any internal contacts there. At first, I didn't even consider working at twitter, both thinking I did
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by phlux 16y ago
So could you email node.js applications? Or will this just result in super-evil malware?
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by phlux 16y ago
I am familiar with Diaspora in name only... I need to go check out what they are doing. That is what I love about the Zeitgeist! thoughts really do enter the sphere of the human psyche for us to grab if we are open...
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by phlux 16y ago
is it a consulting firm who is offering to buy it? Why not give them a license for the current iteration for the price they want - inclusive of "N" updates - but they have the right to white label the service to their own needs. In negotiat

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