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by therealarmen 13y ago
I wonder what percentage of AWS traffic is from Netflix. Single digits?
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by therealarmen 13y ago
Those who enjoy this review will also enjoy Philip's review [1] of "Straight from the Gut" by Jack Welch (former CEO of GE): If you want to learn the names of every person who ever worked at GE during Jack Welch's 40 years there, you'll fi
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by therealarmen 13y ago
Contributing the vast majority of revenue for the company has something to do with it.
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by therealarmen 13y ago
Said processors allow you to export credit card data to another processor without having to store it yourself.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
This product is designed to take advantage of the federal tax credit for electric vehicles (I work in the EV industry) while still maintaining all of the benefits of a lease. You aren't qualified for the $7,500 federal tax credit if you lea
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Congratulations to Datastax's PR team, they did a wonderful job getting this reporter to pit them against almighty Oracle. In reality Oracle will die from a thousand cuts, not just NoSQL but other cheaper (and more reliable) alternatives su
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by therealarmen 14y ago
I like where you are going with this. I think the design is good enough for now, once you fix the issues with image caching and button placement. For these type of sites to work, however, you need some sort of instant gratification. After c
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Why not charge a finder's fee? Particularly for the amounts over $1 million. Even at 1% fee that's tens of thousands of dollars that could be in your pocket.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
http://hnproposition.blogspot.nl/2013/01/0-unread-emails_23....
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by therealarmen 14y ago
This is awesome. There is, no doubt, going to be a lot of haters complaining about how hmexx is taking advantage of techies/the terms are unfair/don't do it/etc. But the reality is he/she is putting money where his/her mouth is, and making
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by therealarmen 14y ago
No more no-idea applications?
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by therealarmen 14y ago
What's missing in this article is the impact of liquidation preference on valuation. The billion dollar valuation that a VC invests at is simply the price they have to pay to get in the deal. For fast-growing startups competition is fierce,
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Pulled from the App Store in 3, 2, 1...
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by therealarmen 14y ago
I'll spare everyone the effort and post the mandatory acqui-hater comment: "Ugh, I can't believe these people would work tirelessly for two years and then leave me on the hook for a product I never paid for. Sell-outs. Don't they realize th
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by therealarmen 14y ago
What does this guy have against American Airlines? As if getting one of their designers fired from his day job [1] wasn't enough. I personally don't see what is so bad about the new redesign. I guess I just have horrible taste. [1] http://
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SaaS tools for startups(armen.io)
3 points by therealarmen 14y ago|0 comments
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by therealarmen 14y ago
So typical for those internet fat cats to hog up all the referrals! What about the rest of us in the 99% trying to make an honest living?
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Interesting post, but isn't this information only supposed to be viewed by accredited investors approved by FundersClub? From their TOS: to the extent you receive information from FundersClub, Issuers or other Investors with respect to any
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by therealarmen 14y ago
iCloud was doomed from inception. Apple simply cannot create a service like Dropbox due to strategy taxes: http://arstechnica.com/staff/2011/03/the-apple-strategy-tax/
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Well put. College is a constrained optimization problem, and real life is not. The only way to figure that out is to live it. As an aside, I know a lot of people here on HN find your comments to be overly aggressive, but I love them. Keep i
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Etsy reaches $800 million in annual sales(npr.org)
2 points by therealarmen 14y ago|0 comments
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Slamming it with HN front-page traffic isn't going to help.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Twitter is one of the worst offenders. Anytime I visit their site I have to make sure to open it in a new tab.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Please note this change has no impact on our existing customers, including those using the free version. I give it six months before they start strong-arming free users into paid accounts.
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Google Shopping search is a scam(armen.io)
7 points by therealarmen 14y ago|7 comments
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by therealarmen 14y ago
I live (and die) be these guides.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
What are people storing on all these massive USB sticks? I'm not being snarky, it's an honest question. I can't even fill up half of my Macbook's 256GB SSD and I would consider myself a "power user." Streaming services like Spotify and Netf
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Well, multi-billion dollar corporations like Google, for one.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Really nice to see all the bells and whistles in operation. This author understands the importance of "theme marketing." I feel like a lot of theme creators spend hours and hours building cool shit into their themes and then skimp on fillin
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Current title is a bit of a stretch. It hasn't been named the "Best invention of the year" -- it's number 19 out of 26 on a 2012 Best Inventions list. Not to mention it's presented in a wonderfully agonizing slideshow format, gotta maximize

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