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   by rythie 16y ago

   Except they are making an iPhone app but the only coding the do appears to be on a PC.
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   by rythie 16y ago

   Good point, I was just thinking about global monopolies. BT of course did a similar thing in the U.K.
3. 573.▲
   by rythie 16y ago

   I hope we'll end up with something open, but I have my doubts. There are still many closed systems that indicate that it may not happen: * Apple released their closed Mac Store today after 25+ years of a open system, to add to their many
4. 574.▲
   by rythie 16y ago

   I'm pretty sure it was to do with the RISC OS being lightweight memory wise than anything. I had some good spec'ed PCs at that time but those relatively cheap Acorn machines were always faster in basic OS tasks.
5. 575.▲
   by rythie 16y ago

   I remember we had these in Acorn machines, when I was at school in the 90s (in the U.K.). They were always very fast I remember. They were replaced with PCs later on, but due to the budget the school was on, these ending up being much slowe
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   by rythie 16y ago

   Trains, buses and taxis do much of this already. I met people in Japan 5 years ago that were do daily commutes of 30-45mins of much bigger distances than a car could in that time. London to Paris is quicker and easier by train than by plane
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   by rythie 16y ago

   FriendBinder does, I remember fixing it for the http://tinyarro.ws link shortner
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   by rythie 16y ago

   I think Twitter benefited from having no attractive competition during that time (mostly there were similar sites, with little innovation and few users). Also I think you get a 6-9month grace from early adoptors while they can see you scali
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   by rythie 16y ago

   I've got one but I almost never use it, just need it for ADSL. In the U.K. I don't see how you avoid one when cable companies give it for free and 3G is too slow and expensive for home.
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    by rythie 16y ago

    Twitter stalled for a quite a long time when they were struggling to scale, it's not necessarily a bad problem to have. Also, it sounds like development was going on, improving architecture for scale and fixing bugs. I've heard several peop
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    by rythie 16y ago

    Even in the worst case you'd just buy another charger somewhere in the world, or plug into it a computer in a internet cafe or borrow someone else's. I travelled to Honduras (from the U.K.) and realised after a few days I didn't have a char
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    by rythie 16y ago

    I'd like to see export.
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    by rythie 16y ago

    Linux hasn't managed to take off because for most people it requires changing virtually every application they use to a different one. OSX is able to make inroads because several key applications such as Microsoft Office, Adobe's products,
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    by rythie 16y ago

    I think personal computers were going to spread anyway, Microsoft won the war for which OS they ran. Basically the spread of computers was going happen through natural market forces anyway, regardless of Microsoft. Eradicating malaria is no
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    by rythie 16y ago

    I just remind myself that second argument is optional (and it couldn't be the other way around for that to work)
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    by rythie 16y ago

    Presumably Google was looking to speed up time to market. If the acquisition process takes too long, they are not saving time (they could have coded it internally) and they have plenty of engineers already.
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    by rythie 16y ago

    This was discussed (and killed) yesterday http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1969371
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    by rythie 16y ago

    You can only really tell in retrospect if they were deluded or not based on weather they succeeded or not.
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    by rythie 16y ago

    Isn't this all part of the hustle that it takes to be an entrepreneur? - You call youself an entrepreneur because you aim to be one - You call your one person a company a startup because you want it to be one with employees - You call your
20. 590.▲
    by rythie 16y ago

    Facebook wouldn't be called a startup or Mark Zuckerburg an entrepreneur in the early days, no real funding, all at college, no business model.
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    by rythie 16y ago

    It probably starts with low numbered ports for new connections and by 2 minutes has reached 1080
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    by rythie 16y ago

    I would be surprised if a link on the frontpage of HN didn't lead to more subscriptions - but I could be wrong.
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    The dark side of open source conferences [about women being harassed](lwn.net)

    195 points by rythie 16y ago|214 comments
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    The TCP/IP Drinking Game(valerieaurora.org)

    47 points by rythie 16y ago|14 comments
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    by rythie 16y ago

    If you pay the $10k then you've got to realise that's just the start. Once you iterate a few times, pivot and do marketing you could easily spend another $50k to try recoup your sunk costs and even then the chances are high that you will st
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    by rythie 16y ago

    You say are not rich, but you even though you like tech. you might not be an early adoptor either. If you didn't have an iPhone or twitter account by 2007 or don't have accounts on lots of now failed startups from the day they got techcrunc
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    by rythie 16y ago

    http://rapportive.com/ (YC S10)
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    by rythie 16y ago

    The Mozillazine Wiki has IE9 adverts on it: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entr...
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    by rythie 16y ago

    I have written stuff like this in node.js that's why I suggested it as one of the options he would typically use for this. I figured he'd either send directly from one host to another with node.js or poll redis.
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    by rythie 16y ago

    Valve will want you to do stuff that works at scale, which you seem to be having some problems with. What is the backend datastore/communications for this? redis? node.js? or just plain MySQL?