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by shingen 15y ago
I think the real issue here is the weakness of the passwords your bank is willing to accept.
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by shingen 15y ago
Absolutely nothing. It's brain melting difficult to build a $50 million dollar business. If you can get to $50 million, you might as well up the ante, and just say you're going to create a billion dollar business. Because the curve on diffi
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by shingen 15y ago
The gist was fine - the notion of the advantages in not taking serious VC backing. My concern in reading the post was how you're gauging opportunity, scale, and competition. The $50 million remark in particular threw me. In my experience an
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by shingen 15y ago
The issue is the $50 million, whether valuation or sales. I fully understand the math involved, no surprise there.
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by shingen 15y ago
I'm skeptical if this guy understands what he's talking about. He says he doesn't have to build a billion dollar company, he can just build a $50 million dollar company and go home happy. It's probably time for a massive reality check, beca
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by shingen 15y ago
As a programmer, Allen was famous for often going straight to machine code to get maximum performance. Long after Microsoft moved to mostly using higher level languages for development, Allen continued to write tons of machine code. It was
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by shingen 15y ago
Monetize the car destination pathing. With the site, the user creates their trip via car; businesses signed up for the service offer discounts for their services along the way; car driver wins, and is encouraged to stop at said businesses a
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by shingen 15y ago
I'm indifferent to the partisan arguing. However, I've spent most of my life as a self employed business owner. So let's talk about the real high taxes meme that nobody ever wants to talk about. My federal + SECA + state combined tax rate h
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by shingen 15y ago
I think the improvements 37 Signals has delivered on speed have a lot more to do with recent database optimization and hardware upgrades than anything to do with static js file serving.
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by shingen 15y ago
Drop Paul Allen an email about bypassing the http server and machine coding the html serving. He has some great tips.
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by shingen 15y ago
Yep, it can be a big annoyance to say the least. I'm using Rackspace in this case because I only need to constantly export the same 5,000 to 10,000 data files. My individual embed file sizes are in the low KBs, so AWS was going to murder me
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by shingen 15y ago
Yep, hopefully now we won't have to wait a decade for a better version of Diablo.
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by shingen 15y ago
I can definitely understand that. I'd recommend you give Rackspace a try. You can sign up for their CDN for free; they hit you for the storage and bandwidth used, but not per transaction. It's worth just experimenting with in a very simple
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by shingen 15y ago
That's a solid article for anybody getting started with web development, but it really needs more coverage on the importance of CDNs for static content. Between Amazon, Microsoft, Rackspace, etc. they're cheap and trivially easy to utilize.
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by shingen 15y ago
What they meant to say is: we don't believe anyone on earth is outside our jurisdiction.
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by shingen 15y ago
The NDAA bill is absolutely what wiped out habeas corpus. Until that was enshrined the US military had no right to domestic policing, and was in fact for most of US history specifically banned from such (except for eg the civil war). As you
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by shingen 15y ago
It should be ringing alarm bells? The President of the United States recently suspended habeas corpus with the NDAA bill, realistically declaring an early form of martial law, and very few people noticed or cared. Then he decided to use the
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by shingen 15y ago
I'm surprised Instagram hasn't swooped in and purchased it to acquire the developer (talent acquisition). Obviously @krisrak has a tremendous grasp of the platform.
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by shingen 15y ago
I keep visiting Pando about once every week or two, trying to give it the benefit of the doubt. It's terrible. Each week that goes by, the odds that I'll keep returning continue to drop. Maybe with the VC they raised they have some time to
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by shingen 15y ago
Absolutely, but you'll typically find huge eccentricities of character in someone capable of doing what Arrington did. I doubt you can separate his character from his results. He was like a pitbull latching on to the slightest hint of a sco
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by shingen 15y ago
AOL's share price has been flying high?!? Their stock price is down 25% since they purchased TechCrunch (no direct correlation implied); while the Dow and Nasdaq are hitting multi year highs. This is a company that has lost 80% of its value
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by shingen 15y ago
Welcome to the 21st century. I'm glad to be here. More please.
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by shingen 15y ago
Yahoo's new management in action. They must be really desperate. Yahoo refuses to innovate their way out of ten years of stagnation, despite the opportunities. So they're going for the fast profits. In reality, this kind of thing will destr
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by shingen 15y ago
The solution is to take over as much of your manufacturing process as possible. That way Weber can avoid this type of convoluted scenario. US companies used to do a lot more of this a hundred years ago. When industry is hitting on all cylin
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by shingen 15y ago
Search engines? Everybody knows the money is in portals and stickiness.
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by shingen 15y ago
I'm using the Zuckerberg reference to point out what a joke the notion of Twitter as a due diligence source is. Wall Street has to perform MASSIVE due diligence on Facebook, likely the single greatest due diligence run in world history - an
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by shingen 15y ago
Obviously you could write anything on a Twitter feed. People embellish the hell out of their LinkedIn profiles, just like they might a resume. I don't believe Twitter qualifies as a valuable form of due diligence for an investor. Should Zuc
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by shingen 15y ago
There's a big difference as a developer, between knowing all about Twitter, it's platform and APIs, having used Twitter accounts enough --- and worrying about whether I've got my personal Twitter account up-to-date. I don't have the time to
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by shingen 15y ago
It's a decent list, however, it's a red flag if my Twitter account isn't up to date and or if it's non-existent? Better spec that I own an iPhone and use Foursquare while you're making a list of obnoxious requirements. Uh oh, I don't even h
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by shingen 15y ago
The same threshold applies whether at the federal or state level in terms of the consequences. Push it too far at the federal level and you'll wipe out a row of cheap labor jobs, that will either be automated or off-shored; and those that c

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