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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Sounds interesting, and I was about to sign up for a free account to give it a whirl until I saw that the basic (and even some paid) accounts have no security. I know that some well-known companies get away with this, but to me it says that
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Sudden acceleration is more likely to result in a (deadly?) crash for drivers with little experience Very few people, regardless of how long they've been driving, ever get experience with uncontrolled sudden acceleration.
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
If you don't mind sharing, how do you get revenue numbers - analytics or payment processor?
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Here in the US, if not specifically set up otherwise, my wife would automatically get my shares Your heirs (or anybody else you wanted to designate in your will) would get them even if you weren't married.
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Ask HN: What are the most important business metrics for your startup?
8 points by shpxnvz 17y ago|6 comments
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Here's one: http://shopledauthority.com/items/automotive-led-displays/li...
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Unfortunately, even a significant market share may not be enough to get good hardware support. OSX has a sizable chunk of the market, and there's still missing support from a lot of hardware vendors, especially when it comes to lower price
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
So long as your relationship with the company is pleasant, the "proper" notice to give depends on the specifics of the position and could be longer than 2 weeks. It's polite to give enough time so that you can transition your responsibilit
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
And, in my personal experience, in every case (excepting video cards) where I've had a choice between native OS support and a vendor provided driver, the vendor software is far worse - buggy, ugly, obtrusive, and usually stuffed with multip
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Hence the "knowingly bought" qualifier. I sure agree that you ought to be able to expect your fair use when you drop your cash, but unfortunately the days are long since past when that's been the case for anything content related.
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Maybe, but it's hard to feel sorry for anyone who knowingly bought into the deal. I will, on very rare occasions, purchase DRM'd products, but when I do I know full well it's my own darn fault if I end up losing access to them.
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
I'm truly amazed that the idea of turning someone away because they're not drinking the correct Cola does not seem excessive by comparison.
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Yeah, it's clearly said that McAfee "provided information to Google" which sure doesn't sound like any direct involvement with their investigation. In addition, from a quick scan of their linked PDF, I don't think McAfee mentioned Google a
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
I suppose it could also be said that spending time designing relational schemas that will change drastically, then migrating data every time they do, is wasteful. Many non-relational databases allow quite a bit of flexibility in terms of i
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Which "they" are you referring to who has been telling you for decades to take aspirin? The drug companies, the media, or your own doctor? The only one of those three that I would actually listen to, my personal physician, has never once s
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
So far as I know ideas can't be stolen. Nor can they be protected as intellectual property in the U.S., according to the USPTO: "A patent cannot be obtained upon a mere idea or suggestion."
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
IMO there's something wrong with the incumbent defending his turf this way . If they want to out-innovate or out-compete the guy, great, but I personally find it hard to back a business who only aims to win by out-lawyering their rivals.
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
The fact that a C&D landed in his mailbox means the lawyers are already involved.
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Lift is moving (or has moved?) from Scala actors to it's own actor implementation as well. http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/...
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Why not just turn that question around - shouldn't we, and this reporter in particular, be held responsible for continuing to buy Chinese made products while criticizing the companies we buy them from?
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
From a semi-recent example, we actually seem to react by making it an internet meme and national joke, and printing up snarky t-shirts. ex. http://www.bustedtees.com/donttasemebro
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Intending to you kill someone for robbing you is illegal as well if you are not in danger Actually, that depends entirely on which state you live in. Some states under Castle Doctrine allow deadly force to prevent the commission of any fe
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Just don't violate copyright. Or trademark, or patents, for the sake of completeness.
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Well, they say overhead as well as investment in more inventory/next project. It probably could be worded more clearly, but unless they gave the impression initially that the proceeds were solely for charity I wouldn't consider it a proble
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
CloudFront is meant as a CDN and very reliable in serving bits. Unfortunately, in my experience, its not. We tried CloudFront in production and occasionally ran into horrible latencies - 20 to 30 seconds in the worst cases. We ended up
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
I'd imagine that for just about any demographic you care to target, there's a bar you can find that caters to them. Heck, I've seen bars that have clientele heavily biased to a specific industry, and in some extreme cases, even a single emp
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
Yeah, I am not sure that one can argue that the eventual demise of Bell Labs was caused by the divestiture except, perhaps, in that AT&T would have remained a stronger company longer had it not happened. It seems more likely that they
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
We're in the process of moving from SimpleDB to MongoDB for http://www.introspectrum.com , with a bit south of 100GB of data at the moment.
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by shpxnvz 17y ago
This is a project I've been working mostly alone on for quite a while. It's a hosted website performance monitoring service that uses live browser instances to test page performance and generate reports highlighting performance problems. A
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Ask HN: Review my Startup - IntroSpectrum (Website Performance Monitoring)(introspectrum.com)
4 points by shpxnvz 17y ago|1 comments

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