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by qeorge 15y ago
Thanks tene, that's really good info. I was 100% turned around on that - definitely thought SIP had to route the call data through a central server.
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by qeorge 15y ago
This doesn't ring true to me. Why buy the (very expensive) cow when you're getting the milk for free?
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by qeorge 15y ago
This CSS works for me: http://www.pastie.org/1891062 Try bumping the font-size on #header #search up to see things resize. Worth knowing, Helvetica is wider than Arial, which is why it might look fine on Windows and too wide on Mac.
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by qeorge 15y ago
Nice post, thanks for sharing. Relating to software costs, have you heard of techsoup.org? They'll sell you software for cheap if you're a non-profit. For one of my non-profit clients, they sold them copies of Norton for $4/each. (I assume
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by qeorge 15y ago
I believe the underlying tech, Global Index, is patented and valuable. Global Index is the p2p matchmaking software that runs under Skype (and Kazaa back in the day), which means Skype doesn't have to run centralized servers to route call d
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by qeorge 15y ago
They will give you prorated credits if you cancel a VPS early. Not sure if its by the hour or day though.
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by qeorge 15y ago
Maybe I'm naive, but there's two scenarios: 1) This is a big deal, so he shouldn't be advertising the vulnerability until its fixed 2) This isn't a big deal, so he's giving the guy a hard time for no reason So yeah, "warning people" doesn't
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by qeorge 15y ago
Love impossibility.org. Wonderful tool. Does FinishedCode.com do anything for you? Its available, and I think it has a nicer ring to it.
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by qeorge 15y ago
So instead of just emailing him, you bashed him publicly on Twitter, then shared it with all of us here. I'm not impressed.
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by qeorge 15y ago
Just a couple general things I think could be helpful here: 1) In conversation, you should try to listen more than you speak. Remember, everyone loves to talk about something they're interested in, and have other people actually listen. (
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by qeorge 15y ago
I've heard Google accused of having a "caste system" before, always because contractors aren't allowed X Google perk. They may not realize that Google walks a fine line with the IRS here. Its cheaper to pay contractors (write off the fees v
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by qeorge 15y ago
I believe he's saying that people buy for the feeling, not to satisfy a list of specs. So although us techies might like this sort of drill down, normal folks prefer the "serendipitous discovery" experience of shopping. I'm not sure I agree
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by qeorge 16y ago
They've got one for Azure now, I haven't checked it out though: http://www.rockpaperazure.com/
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by qeorge 16y ago
Look at his growth rate. Won't be a "hobby income" for long. And I still don't concede that $2500/month is not real money. Plus, he's got plenty of products that he can make more money on without more work (i.e., intellectual property). I l
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by qeorge 16y ago
If you're doing direct sales, I recommend leading with your unique visitor and subscriber counts rather than pageviews. Unless you're seeing > 70,000 pageviews a month you're unlikely to get the attention of Tribal Fusion or similar net
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by qeorge 16y ago
Could be, but I've been there at the moment when the first unit finally arrives, and its a total piece of crap compared to the designs. The cognitive dissonance is palpable. Its surprisingly hard to commission a physical product that looks
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by qeorge 16y ago
Unless people actually stopped paying for porn on non-.xxx domains, or they payed more for porn on .xxx domains, then there is no market force encouraging porn companies to change what they're already doing. Exactly. If .xxx became the de
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by qeorge 16y ago
What does work in regards to parental content filtering? I can't think of anything that a reasonably computer-savvy kid couldn't get around. Re: .xxx, I didn't mean it was perfect, or even an effective solution, just that it had some va
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by qeorge 16y ago
Forgive me if I'm being dense, but what motive would I have to pay X dollars a year for the privilege of being easy to block? I'm sure they wouldn't. My assumption, which could be wrong, is that many adults want to access porn websites, b
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by qeorge 16y ago
100% disagree. I expect .xxx will be 10x as popular as .co. .co is just a cheap mispelling of .com that doesn't mean anything to average Americans. .xxx has meaning and value (parents can block the whole TLD for their kids). Obviously, its
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by qeorge 16y ago
Horror stories you may have heard aside, I've setup PayPal's website payments pro for many clients, with tremendous success. Never had any trouble with them, and my PayPal rep has always been reachable by phone and very helpful. Additionall
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by qeorge 16y ago
My suggestion: heavy handed moderation without apology. For example, the joke comments with lots of votes piss me off. Were I pg, I'd just delete them outright. If anyone noticed maybe they'd take the hint. In other words: HN needs a benevo
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by qeorge 16y ago
Its not obvious to me this is a price based decision for Dropbox (although the benefit there is obvious). Arguably the best feature of Dropbox for me is binary diffs. If you encrypt the Dropbox this goes out the window, or at least becomes
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by qeorge 16y ago
By a mile, the best way to get my attention is to send me business. I've got nearly infinite patience for people who have already "shown me the money". If you're really a good biz dev partner this shouldn't be hard.
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by qeorge 16y ago
I'm not here to defend Hitwise, but your assertion is bogus. Its roughly equivalent to the author of today's HN Funnel Analysis post[1] claiming there's no way 40% of the internet uses IE because his site only sees 4% IE. Maybe Bing just do
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by qeorge 16y ago
Strong disagree. I'd guess that most successful cofounding teams have a prior, personal relationship (platonic or otherwise). I know the fact that my cofounder and I have been close friends for > 20 years has been crucial to our success
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by qeorge 16y ago
FWIW, here is HN sorted by votes/comments, with a minimum threshold like RoG suggests: http://www.upthread.com/ I made it for myself. I'm sure it misses some good stuff, but what does make it is almost always top-notch. Note: there's a hi
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by qeorge 16y ago
That's awesome, happy to hear he's doing so well.
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by qeorge 16y ago
Unfair how? Anyone can participate in open source. Those who do deserve the benefits that come with it (of which visibility is one of the most obvious).
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by qeorge 16y ago
Awesome, thanks! Will check in with them.

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