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by portman 17y ago
Can you explain more? It seems like you're saying that RESTful APIs should somehow be self-documenting, and that there should be no need for an API specification. I've never heard this argument before and would love to know more.
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by portman 17y ago
This did not work for me, either. sadTrombone
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by portman 17y ago
We use a SharePoint template named "Physical Asset Tracking and Management" that has been very effective for a 30-person company. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/...
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by portman 17y ago
mos1 did a much better job than I did of indicating why the question is unclear. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109031
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by portman 17y ago
With all due respect, I think you're asking the wrong question. (a) Think of investments like a function with two inputs: risk and return. You've picked a desired level of return but haven't identified a desired level of risk, so by defini
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by portman 17y ago
The same law that defines "Accredited Investor" (Regulation D) also defines the situations in which the investor does not need to be accredited. There are three categories of exemptions: http://www.sec.gov/answers/rule504.htm http://www.
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by portman 17y ago
Full disclosure: this recently happened to me. So it's apparently not that rare. Founders beware, a signed term sheet is not a done deal.
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by portman 17y ago
Fantastic! HN does not scale well at all to the Droid/Nexus resolutions. Thanks for doing this. Maybe I'm the only one, but I much prefer reading black text on a white background. The inverted color scheme is hard on my eyes.
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by portman 17y ago
My initial reaction was "Mensa?! Are they still around?". So I head over to http://www.mensa.org/ ... If there are any Mensa members reading this, you really need to update your website if you want to be taken seriously. OnMouseOver/OnMou
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by portman 17y ago
I think SlashGear's commentary is spot on: "we wouldn’t put it past Jason to be stringing the Twitter world along, what with the amount of hype and speculation we’ve seen recently" http://www.slashgear.com/apple-tablet-hype-continues-cal
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by portman 17y ago
Too interesting to pass up: 1 29.12 % 2 20.60 % 3 13.99 % 4 12.54 % 5 5.74 % 6 4.78 % 7 4.84 % 8 4.93 % 9 3.47 %
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by portman 17y ago
Let's ignore the _trillions_ of dollars being made by ALL .coms and just focus on one of them: Amazon. 2008 revenues of $20BB. To match that, Apple would need to sell $66BB worth of apps in one year. If the average price on the app store
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by portman 17y ago
"Apple quickly realized that apps would one day overtake .coms." I'm sorry, what? In what conceivable metric do apps outnumber .coms?!
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by portman 17y ago
This scratches an itch for me. You had me at "accounting for Google Apps". However, I tried to sign up with my Google Apps domain. After authenticating with Google, and redirecting, I received this error: https://app.rhinoaccounting.com/ga
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by portman 17y ago
I'm not sure why you linked to that, but if you're suggesting that the OP must become an accredited investor in order to angel invest, then you are incorrect. I will fight your link with another link: http://www.sec.gov/answers/rule504.htm
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by portman 17y ago
If the OP is a sole proprietor in the United States, then incorporation won't alter the tax burden. Incorporation is still a good idea, for other reasons (simplified banking, limited liability, etc).
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by portman 17y ago
"What I know how to do best is the app store" Set yourself up as an _angel investor for iPhone apps_. Like a mini-mini-mini YCombinator. Based on your experience, you should be very good at evaluating an individual's chances of creating a s
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by portman 17y ago
Here's a simple case. Company is worth $1MM. You own 10% of the company. Company gets a $1MM cash investment. You get diluted to 5%. But the company is now instantly worth $2MM. 10% of $1MM = 5% of $2MM This is not bullshit, it's math.
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by portman 17y ago
"... a flaw with the system. Why can't we just give out percentages, and have that percentage stay constant?" I can't tell if this is rhetorical question or not. But I'll answer as if it was serious. First of all, a company can do whatever
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by portman 17y ago
"You can't buy a full-priced phone in any US store" Actually, I always buy full-priced phones in US stores. In reverse chronological order: - Motorola Droid purchased in a Verizon store for $579 - G1 purchased in a T-Mobile store for $499 -
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by portman 17y ago
I sympathize with your frustration with the American Red Cross, but please pay attention when posting financial information. The statement "It is $600,000,000 in debt" is incorrect. The American Red Cross has $613MM in debt. But it also has
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by portman 17y ago
+1. Used idealist in 2002-2003-2004 to line up technical volunteer jobs in Uganda, Cambodia, and Peru.
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by portman 17y ago
Digital Divide Data http://www.digitaldividedata.com They are a nonprofit in Cambodia and Laos who hire and train the disabled - people who otherwise would not have ANY job - to do data entry and other outsourced IT. And they're always lo
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by portman 17y ago
This proposal wouldn't increase safety until all cars on the road had the GPS-governor feature, which would take 15-20 years for old cars to be phased out. In the meantime, the new cars would have an annoyance (no speeding) without provid
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by portman 17y ago
- Canon Digital ELPH (2000) - Apple PowerBook G4 (Titanium) (2001) - Microsoft Windows XP (2001) / Apple Mac OS X (2000) - Apple iPod (2001) - TiVo Series2 (2002) - Motorola RAZR V3 (2003) - PalmOne Treo 600 / 650 (2003 / 2004) - Microsoft
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10 Gadgets that Defined the Decade(engadget.com)
5 points by portman 17y ago|2 comments
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by portman 17y ago
The rebirth of the technology IPO. Two of the following five will IPO: Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype.
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by portman 17y ago
Congrats to you as well!
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by portman 17y ago
Obviously you don't want to reveal what company X is, but just out of curiosity, how big a company is it? Taking on the visa process for a "possible" hire seems like something only a large-ish company could afford to do.
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by portman 17y ago
At our ultrasound in October, we asked the sonographer to write the baby's sex in a sealed envelope. Instead of exchanging presents, my wife and I opened the envelope this morning. It's a girl.

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