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   by rudiger 16y ago

   What are the terms of the deal, specifically? How much to startups have to pay back if they take the $150K, and when do they pay it? What about valuation of the startups (ie. $150k for 10% implies $1.5m valuation)? Or is this more like a lo
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   by rudiger 16y ago

   "As shown by history - this does not work in the long run and makes things worse than better." Any evidence for this statement? Because I think the system works just fine.
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   by rudiger 16y ago

   Google wants to target more (and better-converting) display advertisements on daily deal subscription emails (ie. Groupon, LivingSocial), which always feature plenty of images and style and are incredibly lucrative.
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   by rudiger 16y ago

   > "one would have to ask why the team behind a company which has received in excess of $40 million venture capital funding is required to spend 'their nights and weekends working feverishly'." Really? I'm sure if any of us received $40
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   by rudiger 16y ago

   Blekko has around 800 servers, each with 64 GB RAM and 8 TB of storage across SATA drives. http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/12/the-secrets-behind-... Has DuckDuckGo published the details of their data-center anywhere? Also, Blekko ma
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   by rudiger 16y ago

   Blekko have around 800 servers in their data center, each with 64 GB RAM and eight SATA drives. http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/12/the-secrets-behind-... That's pretty big in my book.
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   by rudiger 16y ago

   But isn't Perl the one we all left behind?
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   by rudiger 16y ago

   My advice is to differentiate; jqGrid and SlickGrid are two very good jQuery datagrids. If you want to compete, do something they don't do (or don't do well). Maybe a jQuery mobile datagrid? They're far from perfect on the iPhone/iPad... Ju
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   by rudiger 16y ago

   If you think you can do better than SlickGrid, let me know. I did some in-depth research into JavaScript (specifically, jQuery) datagrids some time ago. You can find it on StackOverflow (I'm Rudiger, the asker): http://stackoverflow.com/qu
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    by rudiger 16y ago

    Well, the man wrote a game engine in JavaScript, so asking him to implement a sqrt() function in JavaScript isn't unheard of. They don't ask "math trivia" questions of every interviewee, but here it seems relevant. Not to diminish the awe