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by shimon 17y ago
I too felt strongly that I want to see a picture of a printed, stamped envelope (as you would send) somewhere on the site.
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by shimon 17y ago
The idea of charging an up-front-buy-in is unusual, and I'm not sure why it makes any sense, except as an unusual way of helping you bootstrap this business. What about replacing the Lite plan with something that costs $25/mo and includes 1
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by shimon 17y ago
At scale, all of these things can be automated. The challenge is getting to scale but not getting destroyed by someone who already has the infrastructure to do this at far lower cost. (Vistaprint, for example, could probably offer this serv
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Novell launches Pulse, an enterprise app that speaks Google Wave protocol(eweek.com)
1 points by shimon 17y ago|0 comments
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by shimon 17y ago
Not everyone has a sense of self esteem that depends on being the best at everything.
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by shimon 17y ago
Am I missing their explanation of how a SPDY-capable client and server discover and make use of SPDY instead of HTTP? For this to take hold in the wild, it has to be possible for me to run a combined HTTP+SPDY server, and for a client conne
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by shimon 17y ago
That's a cruel way to look at it. If the guy is more interested in spending time with his family than working, and he's able to find someone who values his 8 hours enough to provide stable employment, then he's found a working arrangement t
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by shimon 17y ago
for all values of
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by shimon 17y ago
The specific delusion that motion is action is but one instance of what I'll call "value generation bias". Most people have a pretty poor sense of whether they are generating value, and therefore seek to reassure themselves that their time
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by shimon 17y ago
I think your comment was intended for this other HN posting comparing photos of the Berlin Wall: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=928356
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by shimon 17y ago
There's no rationale; roaming charges have always been hugely profitable for carriers, and now it's worth putting GPS chips into these femotcells and putting customers through an arduous setup process in order to "protect" that revenue.
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by shimon 17y ago
The main reason for having GPS in these devices isn't to support a phased rollout in US markets. The main reason is so that I can't install one of these outside the country, and still dial/pay like I'm still in the US. T-mobile offers a nu
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by shimon 17y ago
If you are a techie, the best freelance/temp work will come from your persistently networking with people and companies that match your interest and expertise. Those may also lead to partnerships or investments or just plain old good advice
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by shimon 17y ago
It's not crazy, but in the US, it would require that you register the securities (possibly each person?) with the SEC, or only take investment from accredited investors ( http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm ). This could well increase th
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by shimon 17y ago
What's a good alternative? The spam problems in Google Groups totally suck, especially for very active groups, but it's a familiar system, so even non-techies can sign up and post fairly easily. Is Yahoo groups even worse?
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Alexis and Steve are leaving Reddit(blog.reddit.com)
172 points by shimon 17y ago|76 comments
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by shimon 17y ago
The author doesn't seem to consider that legalizing insider trading would provide a huge incentive for insiders to conceal information from the general public, so that they and their cronies can act on it before the general public. Of cours
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by shimon 17y ago
There are companies that do well by making brilliant things, and there are companies that do well by making commodities cheaply. It's nice when a commodity company, like Acer, makes something that seems brilliant, like a good netbook. And
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by shimon 17y ago
I think there are two main reasons we hear these depressing statistics: 1. It validates most people's default decision to pursue a "normal" career path. 2. It increases the psychological barrier to entry in starting a business, so that peop
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by shimon 17y ago
My apologies if I'm stating the obvious, but this funny Q&A is not actually present in http://www.fundable.com/static/faq/ . It might have been a lighthearted way to acknowledge the troubles and say they're back at it. It appears the
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by shimon 17y ago
Reinforcing the average makes good sense if your goal is to keep the community aligned, rather than simply please the widest array of readers.
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by shimon 17y ago
An exercise from the essay: ...And present union leaders probably would rise to the occasion if necessary. People tend to; I'm skeptical about the idea of "the greatest generation." [2] Footnote: [2] Oops, offended another constituency. Exe
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by shimon 17y ago
AppEngine is about scalability, not performance. You shouldn't care if a single hit on an AppEngine app takes 2 or 4 times as long as a single hit on your dedicated sever; the point is that when there are zillions of hits, your server will
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by shimon 17y ago
The most interesting conspiracy theory in this lawsuit is that Scribd might be doing the whole PDF-hosting business as a loss leader in order to enable an automatic infringement-detection business. In other words, Scribd's document-hosting
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by shimon 17y ago
Could you provide some more information on what changes you are referring to? Are you saying that before the DMCA, Scribd's standard operating practice would have been more illegal or more legal?
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by shimon 17y ago
In this case, you may be right. Generally speaking, finance can have positive effects -- even commodity speculation can be argued to positively influence long-term price stability. But it's hard to imagine how competing for low-latency ser
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by shimon 17y ago
Or the team.
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by shimon 17y ago
According to https://www.getdropbox.com/about , Arash Ferdowsi is a founder (and CTO). Looks like the entire dropbox team is 15 people. One of the most remarkable things about this application is how accurately it predicted what Dropbox w
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by shimon 17y ago
Try http://www.longfocus.com/firefox/gmanager/
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EBay backs out of Skype in $2.75 billion deal(money.cnn.com)
6 points by shimon 17y ago|0 comments

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