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by smakz 17y ago
Rather fluffy article but one point I'd like to raise is that it is odd for a consistently profitable company to avoid debt. Debt can be a good thing, it can help finance growth or reduce monthly costs to increase cash flow. For the same re
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by smakz 17y ago
To be clear they should be able to use international credit cards, but not international bank accounts. http://aws.amazon.com/fps/faqs/#c3
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by smakz 17y ago
I'm sure there's an opportunity here for someone to hook this up with Amazon's mturk and provide an "automated" data provider ...
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by smakz 17y ago
I might be the minority here but I didn't really find this article worthwhile. On one hand it was a nicely documented theory that 'makes sense' but I have my doubts about how connected to reality it is. On the other it was written by someon
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Facebook 'considering installing panic button' (news.bbc.co.uk)
3 points by smakz 17y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: (Yet Another) HN Comment Quality Going Down?
5 points by smakz 17y ago|5 comments
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by smakz 17y ago
It's not just about syndicating ads. If anything syndicating ads is just another way to expand reach. Facebook has plenty of reach on it's own site, with 450 million users and counting. Facebook might have nice structured data about demogra
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by smakz 17y ago
Sure, there is innovation in the technology, and adult themed sites to their credit have driven a lot of tech change including arguably the internet itself. But I'm talking about innovation in the space of adult themed web sites. Can you na
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Ask YC: Would you fund an adult themed start up?
37 points by smakz 17y ago|69 comments
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by smakz 17y ago
For me, it doesn't have anything to do with karma. Maximum when people disagree with me I get a little peeved that I spent time on what I thought was a thoughtful comment only to be down voted but it happens. I think the problem arises when
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by smakz 17y ago
Comparing Amazon's official communication with customers to Netflix I think Amazon wins. Looking at Netflix's blog they have 3 posts for the entire year. Looking at Amazon's discussion forums, there are a swath of official announcements, in
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by smakz 17y ago
I was actually surprised this was written by Bertrand Russell because it sounds very much like a long winded blog post from 2010. For a logician I see so many holes in the essay, from the false dichotomy of what work is, to the hand wavey a
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by smakz 17y ago
You're right, Flash on iPhone doesn't make sense. specifically it doesn't make cents for Apple. Apple explicitly forbids electronic distribution of content in apps which compete against iTunes. There will never be a Hulu or Netflix or Amazo
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by smakz 17y ago
P/E is just one indicator of the value of a stock, and one that really doesn't make a whole lot of sense given how accounting works. Personally if I'm going to invest in a company I look at free cash flow and the growth of the free cash flo
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Engadget: Barnes & Noble Nook review(engadget.com)
3 points by smakz 17y ago|0 comments
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by smakz 17y ago
To me this whole Nook thing feels like a "shock and awe" campaign from B&N to take steam away from the Kindle and to their credit it seems to be working. Personally, I'm skeptical they will be able to pull it off. They have a feature li
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by smakz 17y ago
I had this problem too a few years ago. The main thing that happened to me was that I used to wake up with numbness in my wrists. The steps I took which helped were to get a vertically oriented keyboard and mouse. I currently use these and
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by smakz 17y ago
If you are interested in making games for consoles you are pretty much restricted to what the console maker's software development kit supports, which is usually C/C++. It's usually impractical to reverse engineer the hardware and supply yo
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by smakz 17y ago
What I do outside of work is none of my employers business - period. I'm surprised I'm the only one that finds this practice offensive? For the record I have known many, many engineers who devote themselves 100% passionately to their 9-5 jo
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by smakz 17y ago
I think pg has missed the ball on this one as well. Publishing as an institution is not going anywhere. Publishers serve many functions. For one they act like a content filter, whereby they screen artists and select only the ones they deem
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by smakz 17y ago
I just re-read the article and I was mistaken. I thought they determined it was a capacity problem immediately, but it sounds like that's actually what took so long to figure out. I work for a web company, and a 100 minute outage is conside
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by smakz 17y ago
I admire the transparency but I don't pretend for a second it's the whole story. This happened during work hours and if they indeed did get notified so fast, I'm wondering why it took over 90 minutes to recover. Also, the outage, for me any
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by smakz 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#Generic_syntax
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by smakz 17y ago
Absolutely and I agree. I don't usually post ambiguous quotes but the grandparent reminded me of that quote which I liked. I'd also say banning whole foods is somewhat analogous to people who are 'banning' non-organic products by shopping a
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by smakz 17y ago
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. [might not be Voltaire]
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by smakz 17y ago
Have you looked into EC2 at all? While they have precanned "instance types" as well, they also offer a separate Elastic Block Storage service where you can ask for as much storage as you want, and it acts like a virtual hard disk on your pa
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by smakz 17y ago
> How do I monetize on viral videos? Not directly, but if the videos catch on it's promotion as a media personality (travel oriented) at the very least. If you have camera personality and want to take that route it's a great chance at s
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by smakz 17y ago
I guess I'll be the lone dissenting opinion and actually favor Java over C#. Java has an extensive library of open source software, which makes it, as they say, more of a platform then a language. From hadoop, to tomcat, to jetty, to hibern
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by smakz 17y ago
IMO Yahoo was never a search company anyway. It was a directory of sites and is better positioned like the article says as a media company. It tried to buy it's way into the search technology market (overture, altavista, inktomi, et al) but
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by smakz 17y ago
They would only be "forced" if Microsoft recognized revenue potential in WINE users, then it's a business decision.

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