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by rabidsnail 11y ago
People in this position generally don't start successful companies. Do charity work with the money instead.
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Bad Reasons to Start a Company(gist.github.com)
2 points by rabidsnail 11y ago|2 comments
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by rabidsnail 13y ago
It makes the people that hold it laugh, which is valuable to them.
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by rabidsnail 13y ago
Try reselling Angry Birds.
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by rabidsnail 13y ago
Dogecoin is a good, not a medium of exchange. Why do people buy iPhone apps? iPhone apps don't even have resale value.
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by rabidsnail 13y ago
We set the maximum seal-time to be relatively short for practical reasons on our end (we have to keep the capsules alive), but coming up with ways to extend that time is something we're thinking about.
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Show HN: Collaborative Time Capsules(getforword.com)
29 points by rabidsnail 13y ago|4 comments
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by rabidsnail 13y ago
This is why I get annoyed with the current trend against doing technically hard things as startups. The up-front risk of your thing not working is much higher, but if it does (and there's a market) then you're in a much more defensible posi
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Certificate Authority Collapse [29c3](youtube.com)
5 points by rabidsnail 14y ago|0 comments
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
All of those products exist because they all have slightly different benefits and drawbacks. What cocktail of analytics products is right for you depends on your specific needs. In general I would say use google analytics (because it's free
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
Note to all the postgres users cursing EBS right now: you can persist your db instances to s3 with https://github.com/heroku/WAL-E , which, combined with streaming replication and some redundancy, should let you run off ephemeral disk.
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
Reminder: Salesforce owns Heroku
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
Lower overall budgets lead to less spectacle. Personally I'm not that interested in spectacle.
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
Cheaper does not mean lower quality. [Insert snide comment about 24 or Downton Abbey here]
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
Seeing the brick wall in front of your face is not looking the other way. However, there is only a brick wall if you want to raise money, want an exit, or care if you get sued. I'm actually not being sarcastic here; there's something to be
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
It doesn't have to. In both of those cases you're not entering your credit card number.
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
"And you should believe me because I have definitely not made my career by convincing people to stop using desktop software."
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
Only for sites that you don't already have an account on, and which don't use a paypal-like service. Although since there are consumer protections on credit cards, it might make sense just to warn on bank account and routing numbers.
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
Sites that involve credit cards or banking are in a whole different category. For those I think the best advice is to only use https bookmarks. In that vein, here's an idea for a browser feature. When someone enters something into a form th
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
"never click on links" is impossible advice to follow. Security people often forget that there is a tradeoff between security and functionality. You need to do cost/benefit analysis to decide whether to use a particular feature.
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
1. Always use jslint. 2. Read good JavaScript (as others have said). The jquery source is a good place to start. Underscore.js is good, too. Unfortunately there isn't consensus about what is and what isn't good JavaScript. Some people seem
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
You can even write your own foreign data wrappers in python: http://multicorn.org/implementing-an-fdw/#id3 Their "Hello, world" example is less than 15 lines of code.
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
Price fixing requires multiple sellers to collude to set prices. Who is the seller besides Amazon in this case?
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
If you go to a flea market, and the lady at the stall gives the person after you a 20% lower price because you looked rich (inelastic) and they looked poor (elastic), would you be angry about that? Amazon is doing the same thing but with nu
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
Why does everyone claim that price discrimination is some kind of injustice when it's done by a computer?
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
You already have the abstractions, they're just C abstractions.
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
Neat! Is there a way to tell the backend "run this bytecode, please"? If there is sqlite would make a great test bed to try out new query languages. Or, inversely, you could write a distributed database whose wire protocol was sqlite byteco
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
Is it just me or are they rerlolling requests and lxml for no good reason?
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
But presumably you have to have a credit card associated with your account, right?
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by rabidsnail 14y ago
If they did try to charge for the games they would get enough chargebacks that they would have a hard time processing credit card payments for a while. And with chargeback penalties they might actually lose money. The only sensible options

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