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by shimon 16y ago
I think this is Google and Verizon saying "we're afraid some idiots are going write some idiotic laws, so here's a not-completely-idiotic reference implementation to help make sure nobody does anything stupid".
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by shimon 16y ago
Technical question regarding IPOs: is the offering for the entire stock of the company, or just a fraction, and how would potential investors know what fraction? $100m would be low for all skype share but high for 2%.
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by shimon 16y ago
I've been happily self-employed (freelance web development) for two years. Last year I took about 2.5 months off to work on my own project. It goes like this: - start saying no to everyone - spend about a month winding down existing project
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by shimon 16y ago
This woman showed a house (in Somerville, MA) to my wife and me in April. She was indeed a very good agent. She was very friendly and mentioned that her family had lived in France before they moved to Boston. She had a slight Russian accent
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by shimon 16y ago
1. In Boston, ITA Software pays a referral bonus of $4000. 2. Pittsburgh loses hackers because they prefer to live elsewhere. To fix this make the culture, neighborhoods, or climate more attractive to hackers. (Easy to say, but hard to atte
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by shimon 16y ago
Right on. I don't recall hearing that particular name, but it's certainly the same idea.
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by shimon 16y ago
I once heard of a system for representing threaded comments in a relational database, wherein the ID of each comment was a slash-separated list of its ancestors, e.g.: 1 Initial comment 1/1 Re: Initial comment 1/2 Re: Initial com
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by shimon 16y ago
I agree with your example. But I think a good boss realizes that, along with the power bosses have to think about major strategic goals, there comes a risk of getting stuck in the stratosphere, and spending all your time contemplating long-
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by shimon 16y ago
That's correct. VC firms are structured as partnerships, rather than regular corporations with employees, specifically so that general partners can be compensated using "carried interest" which receives this favorable tax treatment. This ch
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by shimon 16y ago
If you backup to a hard drive, you can simply swap your main and backup drives every now and then. If you have three drives, you can always be using one as main, one as local backup, and the third locked up offsite as the "house burns down"
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by shimon 17y ago
True. The underlying assumption in bolting the interactive conference onto the rest of SXSW is this: Interactive apps are entertainment properties and will have a similar development trajectory to bands and films: experiment -> indie -&
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by shimon 17y ago
Cool! Voo2do probably qualifies as a HN startup, although I started it (as a hobby project) in 2005 before HN existed. :)
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by shimon 17y ago
Put -B in your $LS_OPTIONS.
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by shimon 17y ago
In other words, there was no repeatable sales model; knowledge about what the customers want and how to sell to them was not converging.
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by shimon 17y ago
There's an important nugget in OP's pg rejection quote: "...you’d spend most of your time dealing with legal and regulatory crap. That sort of work doesn’t really take advantage of your skills.” The truth is, when someone figures out how to
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Google Street View Snowmobile offers view from Vancouver's Whistler Mountain(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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by shimon 17y ago
Just as a quick counterpoint, I'm using an ATI card for dual monitors on my desktop, and have an nvidia card in my laptop. I find Ubuntu's monitor settings app easier to use than nvidia-settings (though both get the job done) and the ATI dr
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by shimon 17y ago
Working for whom? It's probably great for Fred Wilson if he's managing a bigger slice of the total VC pie, but for everyone else, it's best if VC is a large-scale, productive way to invest money -- then it makes money for our pension funds
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by shimon 17y ago
This sounds like an awesome/crazy way to pair program.
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by shimon 17y ago
Right on. And stop assuming that the work habits you feel match your personality and goals are fully generalizable.
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by shimon 17y ago
This does not make any sense. It appears that neither the government agencies involved nor the reporters writing the stories understand how internet connections are built or sold. For example, why does/would there need to be an ITU propos
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by shimon 17y ago
EtherPasteBin?
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by shimon 17y ago
This is an absurd comparison. Novell purchased SuSE at a time well past Novell's peak as a company. Jane Silber has been the business lieutenant at Canonical since its youth, and Shuttleworth's plan from the start was to both publish a free
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by shimon 17y ago
This looks like a great product. Nobody seems to have mentioned the competitors, though, which include some pretty mainstream brands. Black & Decker EM100B Energy Saver Series Power Monitor: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker-EM100B-En
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by shimon 17y ago
What I want is an extension for my web framework that transparently pre-renders certain Javascript-generated parts of the page, and then sends the browser a serialized version of that page that includes not only DOM structure but fully wire
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by shimon 17y ago
This is a venture with high capital requirements and significant regulatory and competitive barriers. If it were the sort of thing that a couple of hackers could tackle effectively, we wouldn't be paying such a large fraction of all retail
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by shimon 17y ago
AmEx absolutely reams merchants, but it's probably in your interest to use one if you can, because they provide a lot of nice benefits to the buyer. This includes extending warranty coverage, travel and rental car insurance, accepting retur
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by shimon 17y ago
Either AmEx has an incredibly long-term view here, or Revolution Money is toast. Rev's whole business model was this: do what the major legacy credit card companies do, but cheaper. This is achievable because a business that used to requir
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by shimon 17y ago
And most of the $20 to $1000 range is less than $1000 also. Please realize they haven't set a price yet, and "between $20 and $1000" was apparently a big enough range to encompass what boucher thought might be possible. This comment deserve
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by shimon 17y ago
I wrote (and use) http://voo2do.com/ . I'm currently working on turning it from a popular side project into a business, so I'd love any feedback on it. My email is on every page.

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