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by sabat 16y ago
My thoughts exactly. People in 2003 were so spooked by the dom-com bust that people started reflexively yelling OMG BUBBLE! to any uptick in startup activity. Seems about the same now. Most of the startups I'm aware of have decent business
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by sabat 16y ago
What bothers me is the lack of perspective. Obviously the Valley goes through cycles, and -- let's hope! -- we're on the uptick right now. That doesn't mean we're in a bubble, and you shouldn't dread it. There's a big difference between an
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by sabat 16y ago
I've always assumed that "fast-paced" meant that you weren't going to encounter a company moving at corporate-speed -- you know, where a project takes 6-12 months (min.) of meetings, tiger teams, blue ribbon panels, design by committee, pol
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by sabat 16y ago
I'm using it for gmail, FWIW.
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by sabat 16y ago
Of course it's a net neutrality issue. AT&T wants to charge more for data from a tethered computer than it does for a non-tethered computer. Bits are bits: that's the point of net neutrality. If you pretend that "all bits are created eq
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by sabat 16y ago
substantial portion of your salary is based indirectly but inexorably on profiteering term for "pricing what the market will bear" My dictionary suggests that "profiteering" is a reference to price fixing, gouging, and other unsavory bu
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by sabat 16y ago
AT&T didn't sell you generic fungible data. A lot of people would argue that beyond internet access, any more nuanced distinction is just profiteering. Imagine the power company telling you to turn off your computer because you only h
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by sabat 16y ago
It's not that hard to get a fairly small volume of users (100-10,000) -- compared to getting a huge, YouTube-sized volume (millions of users). But it's still hard to get any number at all. It takes work, persistence, luck, and intelligence.
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by sabat 16y ago
There are about four ways of authenticating a person, in traditional security-think: something you know, something you have, something you are (fingerprint et al), and somewhere you are. The secret question is an attempt at the first method
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by sabat 16y ago
It’s object-oriented, where objects are identified by URLs I'm not so sure that "object-oriented" is the right term here, but totally agree with the premise: this isn't REST. It's more like XML-RPC Jr.
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by sabat 16y ago
I'm not a seismologist, but this piece read more like spooky voodoo than scientific reasoning.
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by sabat 16y ago
down already?
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Free Earthquake Notification from USGS(sslearthquake.usgs.gov)
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by sabat 16y ago
Since when is Angel investment a loan, anyway?
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by sabat 16y ago
It was an honest question. Pro tip: try answering a question even if you consider it to be stupid. Don't just vote down. Not cool.
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by sabat 16y ago
Oh, I agree, it's one hell of a hack idea, and it probably could turn into a startup if the hackers really wanted it.
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by sabat 16y ago
It's not Peak Oil. Not in this case.
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by sabat 16y ago
This is cool, but I do wish people would not call a webapp a "startup" -- unless there's a viable business model and at least some semblance of a customer base. Otherwise, it's just a webapp.
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by sabat 16y ago
Security issues abound, although I'm sure there are ways to make this adequately safe to do. Me, I do something vaguely similar, but using Dropbox instead. The webserver is running on a git repo that is in a Dropbox. When I commit and push
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by sabat 16y ago
Also heard in the corporate world: "The ownness (sic) is on you" (onus).
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by sabat 16y ago
Compared to what other platform? Windows? Developer support out-of-the-box on Windows? Linux, sure, but Linux is since its inception a developer's OS. Mac OS lies somewhere in between. There are many happy developers running OS X, and payin
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by sabat 16y ago
We can have copyright because the constitution says we can -- a limited monopoly for an artist for his inventions and creations. If that wasn't there, then the first amendment would preclude us from claiming rights over intangible works. Go
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by sabat 16y ago
Because copyright limits free expression, and so would violate the first amendment.
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by sabat 16y ago
which I think you need an old gizmo5 account to do? Not anymore. You can do VOIP calls through a browser, and I do them with my iPhone using the Talkatone app (free). (Ironic that this is through GV but Google's GV app doesn't support VOI
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by sabat 16y ago
Are you marketing your webapp in an app store (Google Chrome, Mozilla)? What are your results, lessons learned, and how has your experience been? Is it worth it, and should the rest of us consider doing this?
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Ask HN: Is Your Webapp in an App Store?
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by sabat 16y ago
Hmm. So either you don't get the not-that-nuanced reference, or you just look for any opportunity to vote people down. I used to take downvotes more seriously -- but less and less so these days.
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by sabat 16y ago
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." --William Shakespeare, Henry VI Maybe this is coming true in an unexpected way.
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by sabat 16y ago
maintaining cardiovascular fitness doesn’t really take much more than breathing uncomfortably hard for about 20 minutes, three times a week While that will help, I would not call someone who exercises at that level "fit" or "in shape". I'
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by sabat 16y ago
I didn't mean to judge you precipitously. Will now withhold judgement until Part 2 ships. :-)

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