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by sunir 17y ago
It's great to see the Internet on fire in Canada. Most people don't realize that we have had some amazing Web companies come out of Canada, like Flickr and iStockPhoto and StumbleUpon and ClubPenguin, and it looks like we'll have a bunch mo
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by sunir 17y ago
It can happen. In 1983, I was 4 and I learnt how to program on a VIC 20 my Dad bought on a whim at a garage sale for $20. My sister was either 8 or 9 at the time, and she taught me the basics of, well, BASIC. I was motivated because she tau
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by sunir 17y ago
I would say we agree except to note that YouTube is owned by a public company, so it may make substantial disclosures at a future time that are subject to audit. That's not exactly the same thing as taking its word for it.
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by sunir 17y ago
I'm with the parent poster. The myths are not busted until some hard facts come out. There are artful ways to say true things that make the reader jump to conclusions that they intend, but are false. For instance, by claiming that they are
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by sunir 17y ago
That reminds me of another excellent book: Good to Great by Jim Collins. Great companies have a clear single metric of profitability (profit per x) and then relentlessly iteratively optimize against it--what Collins refers to as the Flywhee
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by sunir 17y ago
When it comes to startups, this seems to me mapable onto Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore. Start by conquering the "underground" scene of early adopters by iterating until you have a polished product. When they like it you can go afte
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by sunir 17y ago
They seem to want 25 million active, living people using Twitter. 40 million accounts is not the same thing. See this post about the difference between active and total users. http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/07/the-difference-between-total...
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by sunir 17y ago
From doing a lot of customer dinners in the United States with FreshBooks customers, the absolute top of the list with a bullet number one reason Americans don't quit their day job and start freelancing or start a business is lack of health
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by sunir 17y ago
10 is a stretch. After a couple hours of computing several hundreds of millions of attempts, the best I achieved was a distance of 43 bits (assuming duplicate words are acceptable). jruby rubinius MRI Cloud postgresSQL record MRI exception
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by sunir 17y ago
Normally I wouldn't reply to my own comment because it has been downvoted to death (that happens), but I'm watching the votes go up and down and that is interesting. I'm not casting judgment on Zed Shaw here, just the immediate comment I re
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by sunir 17y ago
This is the Internet age. Everyone with a Facebook, Twitter, or even email account are all in PR. Ask Zappos. A customer or a partner will hold the whole company responnsible for any interaction they have with any if their employees.
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by sunir 17y ago
I'm really quite enamoured with your work. Most wikis seem confusing or dead or forboding when you first load them. You've really brought the "visible pulse" of the site right up front and made it inviting for people to take an initial acti
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by sunir 17y ago
Hey, that's neat. Maciej Ceglowski and Joshua Schachter (founder of del.icio.us) are good friends. I recall what must have been five years ago when they would hang out on Freenode arguing how to design various projects like LOAF ( http://lo
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by sunir 17y ago
When I was freelancing on the side, I used to think that $50/hour was on the high side, but it's actually on the low side. You should charge at least $75/h if not $100/h. Don't believe me? Consider: Barely anyone works 40h/week of billable
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by sunir 17y ago
That's hardly the case. In Jeff's words, I dare you, double dog dare you to count the number of Linux distributions. Each version satisfies a different customer target, same as each version of Basecamp satisfies a different type of company.
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by sunir 17y ago
It's more than that as you two datacenters, plus the cost of synchronizing it.
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by sunir 17y ago
"The killer use of this, IMHO, would be the ability to integrate your technology into an already existing block of text hosted elsewhere just by dropping a line of js into the page" I double vote for this approach, for selfish reasons (i.e.
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by sunir 17y ago
I don't think it's like how a company's revenue drops. Money does really exist; it's backed by future promises of labour and/or resources and/or things you build. The money actually does disappear. That's how our debt-based currency system
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by sunir 17y ago
I liked the video in the article more than the article. I know it's beyond controversial, but I think there is a lot of truth in the claim that print media would have been better off not embracing the Web with reckless abandon. It was kind
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by sunir 17y ago
I'm dubious of whether this is a real advantage. While the opportunity to expose more analysis to the raw data is real, it's much more likely that some people will take some unverified quotes out of context and amplify them for their own po
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by sunir 17y ago
There have been more than a few overnight successes in tech. Unfortunately, therefore many people believe that's the only road to success. I'm not a big fan of praying for wildfire adoption since it is so uncontrollable and unpredictable. A
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by sunir 17y ago
You guys continue to impress. That's a pretty big jump for a small amount of work. Did you check to see if the conversion to paid fluctuated? I would be incredibly surprised if it did more than 0.5% from the start of the trial to the end.
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by sunir 17y ago
Thomas, thanks. That was immensely helpful. Now I have to figure out what I want to do going forward. At least I already have per-user random salts.
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by sunir 17y ago
Possibly truly stupid question, but what is the attack on md5ing passwords if you also generate a random salt for each user? I could not find anything online in the past ten minutes that suggests an attack, except for the md5 collision prob
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by sunir 17y ago
So... the reward for a career in software is to be lonely and to live in a shoebox?
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by sunir 17y ago
There are ways to make this more efficient in terms of numbers of robots and distance traveled per bag. You can have larger dump trucks on major thoroughfares, and use the smaller dustbots to manage the last mile to the houses. I'm with you
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by sunir 17y ago
You can do 10 minutes every day. The important thing is to feel progress every day, or else you get depressed. The same advice is given to writers for the same reasons: write something every day, even if it's terrible. It keeps you feelin
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by sunir 17y ago
I'm the reverse. I stopped commenting online a long time ago, but Hacker News is the only place that I bother. Conversations here tend to go places.
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by sunir 17y ago
This is a hard thing to reconcile. As the boss, you are responsible for getting other people into the 'trance' of productivity. My mantra: The task for the leader of a team project is to work on the team, not the project. I've actually foun
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by sunir 17y ago
The new features announced today are about working with freelances. The new features don't help you find new freelancers, but FreshBooks has been doing some things to make that easier. First, our forum has a gig board ( http://community.fre

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