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by redm 10y ago
I think it also has to do with how Uber (and its competitors) changed the Black Car market. From my conversations with Black Car drives back in 2011, they were using Uber to fill in time between there more lucrative contracts. In that way
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by redm 10y ago
That is very possibly accurate. Redswoosh lost the support VC's in ~2001, and it was just him, in a shared office with a single engineer. He stuck with it though where most would have abandoned it, and was able to sell it years later
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by redm 10y ago
Given Travis's experience with Redswoosh [1], and to a lesser extent Scour, I doubt he put himself in a situation to be ousted from his startup by investors. I suspect it's a situation akin to Mark Zuckerburg. [2] It would proba
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by redm 10y ago
We are a Google Apps user, and since we went to a remote work system last year, we heavily depend on Google Hangouts. I've found it to be pretty terrible on a reliability, functional, and performance basis. On the other hand, we also
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by redm 10y ago
Contrast this with the Texas Medical Center (largest in the world [1]) in Houston where the cost of living is dirt cheap. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Medical_Center
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by redm 10y ago
Just because the company is based in India doesn't mean all the staff is. There is probably "remote hands" or light network engineering on site with the bulk administration being done remotely.
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by redm 10y ago
It looks like the S3 outage is spreading to other systems or the root cause of the S3 problem is affecting different services. There are at least 20 services listed now. [1] [1]: http://status.aws.amazon.com/
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by redm 10y ago
Urban areas with easy access to mass transit, ridesharing, etc., usually don't have huge garages. Rurally or in the suburbs, where mass transit is less applicable, people not only store vehicles, but also things like bikes, yard equip
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by redm 10y ago
They sell premium services, have a large sales team, and are very aggressive. I get emails from them weekly discussing millisecond savings of their DNS solutions and the value increase in customers and sales. Squeaky wheels get grease and
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by redm 12y ago
Nice UI design, I really like the bottle theme! It's a well-implemented service, with value in its simplicity and singular function. I’ve seen a many, many similar services start the same exact way and they ultimately all add feature
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by redm 12y ago
It's also worth noting that these services do not live in a vacuum. People seeing the story on Hacker News may well have later seen the story on Techcrunch but skipped over it. I read all three websites daily so I would be counted wh
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by redm 12y ago
"how about organizing a large beach party and get some boats to ferry people in?" What would be the point? Vinod is not living there so he would be indifferent to it, at least until 2021.
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MediaFire Takes Its Desktop Apps Out Of Beta, Removes File Size Restrictions(techcrunch.com)
6 points by redm 13y ago|0 comments
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Swiftype (YC W12) Raises $7.5M From NEA To Develop A Smarter Search Engine(techcrunch.com)
46 points by redm 13y ago|8 comments
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by redm 14y ago
Bing celebrated the appropriate holiday so expect new BingItOn commercials.
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by redm 14y ago
Nothing inspires confidence like a filesystem with a 0.61 version number.
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by redm 14y ago
I think we need to call in the A team.. Art Bell.
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by redm 14y ago
It's a good thing that Aaron wasn't around to 'unlock' his phone from his cell carrier; they would have really gotten him then. :D
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by redm 14y ago
It's worth noting that the author doesn't really know how Yahoo arrived at that decision. Yahoo very well may have evaluated remote work productivity or be aware of other situations or metrics that make it clear, they needed to terminate r
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by redm 14y ago
Some things never change, ever since the public Internet the Ziff-Davis brand has become the kiss of death for everything that touches it... only a matter of time now...
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by redm 14y ago
> In spite of the poor communication and slight exaggeration, I don't feel like there was malice or a great deal of intent on Broder's behalf. He generally had a poor experience. I don't know much about electric cars, but I do know this
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by redm 14y ago
> Go to a BMW dealership, take an M5 for a test drive, when the car says it was 32 miles left try to drive it 60. Leave that same BMW overnight in a parking lot and it's range wont go from 90 miles down to 32 either.....
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by redm 14y ago
Major population centers are always going to get the most votes. I suspect in most cases people already live where they want to or at least are content/familiar with where they are. That generates a vote for home..
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by redm 14y ago
I think a lot of offices try to provide similar environments to coffee shops. Places you can go and work away from your desk, similar food and beverage etc. It's also worth noting that while you are able to focus more, great for a writer,
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by redm 14y ago
There's a great 37 signals article somewhere about this same topic. The gist is, that if you steal someone else's design, it's never going to meet your needs properly because it's not born from your business. Especially true for service b
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by redm 14y ago
This is a great example of a cyclical industry. Ziff-Davis buys 1UP and other sites and then hits a wall with its debt load. After the bankruptcy, liquidates and sells 1UP to UGO. UGO is sold to IGN/News Corp. Ziff Davis brand is recapi
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by redm 14y ago
"The revised franchise tax applies to partnerships (general, limited and limited liability), corporations, LLCs, business trusts, professional associations, business associations, joint ventures, incorporated political committees and other
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by redm 14y ago
We are paying taxes on all our assets annually.
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by redm 14y ago
That's great if you are making money. If you are loosing money and still paying taxes then it's not so great.
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by redm 14y ago
I'm not sure I would recommend Texas either. Use tax means you pay annual taxes on everything you own, plus sales tax on any affiliate deals; franchise tax will hit you hard even if your not making a dime because it's based on 'net worth'

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