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by ruslan 17y ago
Sell service instead. Like, if you develop a game, sell online access to maps which cannot be downloaded, but can be used once connected. Maintaining accounts is much easier than maintaining keys which can be cracked.
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by ruslan 17y ago
Posting links to a site that requires registration to read is not only a bad habit, but also an expression of impoliteness to the overall community and chauvinism. I'm not going to read HN if it makes me register on myriads of other web sit
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by ruslan 18y ago
College is amust! Dixi.
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by ruslan 18y ago
When I read that sort of news stating Skype shares 8% of global calling, I laugh out loud at it. The truth is that 99% of Skype users are freebie users who don't pay a cent, one of the reason for this is that Skype premium services are dras
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by ruslan 18y ago
One must be totally stupid to get Skype back for $1Bb cause VoIP is very incredibly competitive area. Even if Skype's userbase and minutes grow, their revenuve will most likely decline.
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by ruslan 18y ago
Why every boggling blog writer nowadays says "application" while meaning "web site" ?
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by ruslan 18y ago
We develop mobile voip software. In this regard, I tried to approach Android developers for a number of times (through their dev forum, as well as through some guys close to Google) to publish API for adding audio codecs and full-duplex aud
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by ruslan 18y ago
The author seems never read the classics -- The Story Of Mel, Real Programmer, from Jargon File. http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon_49.html#SEC56 Real Programmers write in FORTRAN. Maybe they do now, in this decadent era of Lite beer, hand
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by ruslan 18y ago
I believe soon we will have web sites which block visiters coming from shortened URLs, as sites will not be able to distinguish natural traffic from spam clicks.
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by ruslan 18y ago
It's true, the iphone gold rush is missing gold in essense. There are tons of farting like apps, but very very few of any value. And again, casino always wins.
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by ruslan 18y ago
Although the overall applicability of telepresense idea still remains iffy, I really like what Anybot does and it's no doubt one of the leaders in research of self-balancing stuff. I cannot wait till they "teach" their Dexter to jump up to
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by ruslan 18y ago
In short: advertisement. Subscription based business model will never work.
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by ruslan 18y ago
Poor guy discovered multi-threading on SMP too late! I would fire such system administrator who does not undestand system in essence. Also the one who does not respect the history and does not understand the fact that old unix utilities are
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by ruslan 18y ago
Too many words about nothing!
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by ruslan 18y ago
That is not correct again. $150B of the reservers were NOT spent on supporting ruble, but were allocated on supporting banking system and restructuring loans Russian companies borrowed from foreign institutions. But you are right, this was
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by ruslan 18y ago
> To be fair, one point at least seems accurate -- falling oil prices will probably doom Russia's government. I believe it will not. Only 38% of Russian GDP comes from Oil and Gas industry and this figure is contantly lowering, means th
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by ruslan 18y ago
> Is Russia blind to basic economic principles? How has told you this bullshit ? Nowadays Russia is more capitalist than US ever was.
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by ruslan 18y ago
Believe it or not, but setting up business in Russia is incredibly simple and welcome. The overall entrepreneurship environment is very warm, the taxes are very low (as a small business you can choose to pay flat 6% or 13%) and you don't ne
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by ruslan 18y ago
I wonder how this piece of crappy blog-post turned up appearing here ?
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by ruslan 18y ago
Welcome to 1988. There are dozens of Web based front-ends to IRC available, just install one and customize a little to meet web 2.0 "standards" and you get all the millions of IRC users at your feet :-).
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by ruslan 18y ago
The Rise and Fall of Google Empire. Everything in less than a decade.
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Ask HN: Do we need to have payroll in C-Corp ?
12 points by ruslan 18y ago|9 comments
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by ruslan 18y ago
It's not about what you can or cannot build. It's about how you build it. For example, if you build a distrubuted system on unix or win32, the MPI API is almost the only way to go for you, which turns your code and entire application into c
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by ruslan 18y ago
Why two-seaters ? For $50k you can buy a fscking big SUV :-). I myself am a happy owner of 3-doors Mitsubishi Pajero (Montero) 3.2 turbo diesel with climat, GPS navigation, TV/DVD and rear-veiw camera. It fits everything in it pretty well,
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by ruslan 18y ago
Yes and no. There's a lot of moderation (by human beings) is now going on, nonetheless we got our stuff on digg frontpage thrice without any "extraterrestrial" help, just submitted links. Last time it happened in Nov/2008. Yet, it did not h
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by ruslan 18y ago
I applaud to China. Well done! And I wonder how americans could allow to settle themselves so tight on this "cheap" money drug ?
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by ruslan 18y ago
In my IRC days saying word "linux" aloud on #unix will get you kicked instantly no matter what you say about the OS. And yes, asking for obvious will get you kicked as well ;-)
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by ruslan 18y ago
Officially unlocked iPhone is so much over-priced ($1000) that nobody bothers to buy it. At least here in Russia.
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by ruslan 18y ago
I switched from iPhone to E71 because of neatly designed keyboard. iPhone makes me mad when I need to type anything, no matter whether it's an SMS or a web link in the browser.
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by ruslan 18y ago
Try to implement this and you will see that it's not as obvious as you think. It requires lots of reverse-engineering. PS: please don't tell me about red5.

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