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by sdrinf 13y ago
Previous discussion on the seller side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1726552 A cruicial problem of running marketplaces is any pathway by which stolen CC numbers (readily available by the dozen for pennies) can be t
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by sdrinf 13y ago
See a collection of mine on stackoverflow, specifically constrained to products, where solving the intelligence problem have a direct impact on the bottom line: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050696/the-busine
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by sdrinf 13y ago
That sounds an excellent idea! In fact, it sounds so excellent, it's already built, deployed, and used by millions, under the domain name vimeo.com . However, the business problem raised by mooism2 -specifically, revenue streams, and c
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by sdrinf 13y ago
There was a pretty dense discussion on the first option at Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5069791/challenge-maximiz... The most viable target market for self-hosted products are still entreprise
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by sdrinf 13y ago
A lot of these sounds like typical headhunter scams, specifically by getting to know your previous employers, some headhunters make direct contact with them in hopes of scoring more clients; and by knowing your previous paychecks, they have
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by sdrinf 14y ago
For more deliberate practice with possible intelligence-increasing side-effects, check out: * http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ -DNB for improving working memory * Lumosity ( http://www.lumosity.com/ ) -for improving other cognitive func
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by sdrinf 14y ago
There was an episode on the topic of resurrecting the adventure-game genre (and what exactly made it so special to us) this week on Extra-Credits: http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/raising-the-dead I highly, and wholeheartedly recomme
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by sdrinf 14y ago
Not quite sure if you really want that: open your favorite shell, and count the number of files in your data directory; then multiply it by, say, 2 seconds each -would you like to spend that time on organization, or rather making money? (ob
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by sdrinf 14y ago
There are quite a few quantitative indicators for businesses on exit conditions; for web businesses in particular, see eg: http://viniciusvacanti.com/2011/12/12/when-do-you-throw-in-t...
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UK Pirate party closes its piratebay proxy(pirateparty.org.uk)
4 points by sdrinf 14y ago|0 comments
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by sdrinf 14y ago
Ajax feel is client-side, and have no implications on how the actual storage is implemented (server-side). With specification only given the above, I'm sceptical on whether you'd need a database in the first place -you can eg. write directl
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by sdrinf 14y ago
Check out https://flippa.com/ ,and be aware of the following classes of problems: * It's very easy to artificially elevate visitors as displayed by eg. Google Analytics; same goes for inlinks, site ranks, and any other quantifiable metri
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by sdrinf 14y ago
> Should I put all customer's data in single database or should I use one separate database per customer? Do a financial forecasting: given your pricing, how many people do you need to subscribe to break even? Can you enlist enough peo
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by sdrinf 14y ago
Evaluating whether the position, company, culture, and long-term prospects are mutually relevant to both parties. Operationally, answering the question: "Are you selling what they are looking to buy?" The more sense it makes for both partie
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by sdrinf 15y ago
It has a higher probability of success on both accounts, as opposed to getting into a new venture that might discredit whatever personal brand he built up for himself.
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by sdrinf 15y ago
As a Linode customer, I'm really looking forward to hearing out their side on this issue
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by sdrinf 15y ago
One alternative might be celebrating startups, and entrepreneurs, who publicly declare (pro- or retroactively) refusing acquisitions -from Google, or otherwise. One of the non-obvious consequences of this monopoly is all the other ways by w
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by sdrinf 15y ago
This madness has to stop.
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by sdrinf 15y ago
In circumstances, where the means of software production outweighs the readily available business intelligence (see: every "Show HN" poster, ever), largecorps posting their pain-points might be sufficient alone to get things started. Savvy
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by sdrinf 15y ago
What they really mean by that, is ideas are on the critical 1% . You can mess up a lot on the execution, and still have a viable business; but if you're building the wrong thing, no amount of execution will save you. But! In terms of ener
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by sdrinf 15y ago
> There are copies of BCC bouncing around in the American defense industry That is one heck of an achievement. Mind if I ask how that happened?
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by sdrinf 15y ago
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/pricing been around since 2002, does automatic load-balancing, have most of the benefits of what people are calling "cloud-computing", makes no presumptions about language of choice, does MySQL
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by sdrinf 15y ago
From: http://www.thiswebhost.com/terms.html : 9. Suspension/Termination (a) Suspension of Service. Customer agrees that ThisWebHost may suspend services to Customer without notice and without liability if: (i) ThisWebHost reasonably bel
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by sdrinf 15y ago
print_r( json_decode( file_get_contents( " http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/hntweets.json?coun... ),true )); Oneliner: prints out the latest HN frontpage story
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Ask HN: Building channels for customer development?
6 points by sdrinf 15y ago|1 comments
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by sdrinf 15y ago
It depends. If they are shooting for a "small business opportunity", as in: creating their jobs, and they position themselves as such in the market, yes, it can fly. However, if we're talking high-growth startups here, then no. Read eg. Pay
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by sdrinf 15y ago
Exactly.
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Steal this idea: G+ public hangouts
3 points by sdrinf 15y ago|2 comments
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by sdrinf 15y ago
> Thanks. This is really helpful. I'm using PayPal because some clients and services only pay with it. I'm spending the money on online services and to buy stuff. Does this make me exposed to risk? Clients here are the only thing that c
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by sdrinf 15y ago
The verification process for buyers, and money receiving services is a rather straightforward debitcard existence + validity check. Note, that Paypal's risk exposure in this situation is limited, and they have literally a decade of experien

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