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by tnash 14y ago
This is why I firmly believe that the "Give stuff away for free + advertising = $$$" model will fail. People need to sell products, for money. That's what I'm going to do with my startup. Consumers will be customers, not the product.
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Oracle vs. Google - The 4 possible outcomes(arstechnica.com)
1 points by tnash 14y ago|0 comments
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by tnash 14y ago
Start doing. If you stick to it, it's what you want to do.
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Judge: Ample evidence that Apple "knowingly joined" e-book conspiracy(arstechnica.com)
3 points by tnash 14y ago|0 comments
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by tnash 14y ago
I'm struggling to respond to this post. I've been reading and participating in HN for a couple months now. It's become clear, like in every social group, that HN has a "popular" crowd. It might not necessarily be specific people, but that t
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What the airline industry can teach us about broadband caps(arstechnica.com)
7 points by tnash 14y ago|0 comments
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by tnash 14y ago
This is why the pervasive ideal company line in Silicon Valley is wrong. The "Lots of Users + ? = $$$". Can you imagine the same being applied to anything else? "Yes, today we'll be pitching a restaurant. We give away food for free! In a co
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by tnash 14y ago
Still cool, dude. Now do RAM by GB, filtered by type!
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by tnash 14y ago
Let's solve this right here. A new bill: Companies that provide internet service (henceforth ISPs) are forbidden from owning or operating any service that sends or receives traffic over this internet. Furthermore, ISPs are forbidden from in
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by tnash 14y ago
I like it, but I think a cooler color would be better. However, I like cooler over warmer, and some people are the other way. I think that's just personal preference. Otherwise it seems fresh and clean.
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by tnash 14y ago
Wow. You can't make this crap up. I love this: "Revenue Integrity Unit". I guess that's politically correct for "How do we screw over customers to make more money?"
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by tnash 14y ago
In the end AT&T and the other carriers don't want to be "dumb pipes", but that's what consumers want. Can you imagine the same applied to water? "I'm sorry sir, but we know you used an unapproved toilet AND you went over your allotted s
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by tnash 14y ago
Levenshtein distance is actually built into PHP : http://php.net/manual/en/function.levenshtein.php
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by tnash 14y ago
Sure. Not right now, they don't. My point is that if Apple keeps pushing the walls higher on its garden at some point people will start complaining. iOS could very well become the Windows of mobile. I can imagine a future where a lot of peo
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by tnash 14y ago
This is really going over the line. People are content in the walled garden, but if it starts getting too stuffy in there people will want to leave. Unfortunately it makes "business sense" (read: nonsense) for Apple to raise the walls of th
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by tnash 14y ago
That's very cute. I like it a lot, good work. Is the info randomized, or do you get the same info every month (i.e. is it always the panama canal or are there other things? Like walk on the moon, or around NYC, etc.)
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FTC hires legal big guns for possible antitrust lawsuit against Google(arstechnica.com)
2 points by tnash 14y ago|0 comments
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by tnash 14y ago
Yeah, down for me, wanted to find out more about their product, didn't pay attention the other day.
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by tnash 14y ago
This brings up an interesting debate. It's very difficult (perhaps impossible) to turn off personal emotions, and we entrust our children to other people to teach them. The emotions, intelligence, and beliefs of our teachers directly affect
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by tnash 14y ago
Oh, and before everybody starts with the PHP sucks blah blah blah, "you should use a language that's ideal, not any one that works", I would like to denigrate you for speaking English. It's not the best language! It's clearly inferior! Ever
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by tnash 14y ago
My version of PHP: It's a really slow car that makes it really easy to get to one simple destination that everyone wants to go to, and it provides many different routes to get there. If you try to go over the routes that other cars take, it
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by tnash 14y ago
My startup just got rejected on Monday as part of the wave of on-time rejections/acceptances, and I can say: Don't worry about it. In fact, don't even think about it. If you get in, that's great, if you don't, that's fine too. Use the time
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by tnash 14y ago
Does anybody know how fast connecting to a WebSockets server is? How does it compare to connecting over http? I was interested in the ws:// uri scheme as I was unaware of that. Is there a future scenario where we could connect to a WebSocke
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by tnash 14y ago
I think this is the problem with the current startup paradigm. Give cool stuff away for free + ? = $$$ That isn't really a plan for a business. Most startups end up filling in that question mark with advertising. What's wrong with just sell
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Tumblr To Launch Ads Starting May 2(arstechnica.com)
4 points by tnash 14y ago|1 comments
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by tnash 14y ago
The moral of this story seems to be that if you're too passionate about your passion, and become too emotionally invested, it can destroy you. For this guy, the solution was to quit his passion and do something different. That may not be th
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by tnash 15y ago
Seems like you need to go from communication into to-do into work in a way that is easier then we do now. Your solution seems interesting, but it has very limited scope. Maybe something like what pg talked about in #2 of http://www.paulgra
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Paramount exec faces skeptical crowds on post-SOPA outreach tour(arstechnica.com)
2 points by tnash 15y ago|0 comments
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by tnash 15y ago
For just a 1.0 language Go is really looking good. Compared to Python at 2.x it's very impressive. I'm looking into using it for my project.
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36 kinds of Pong playable in your browser(pippinbarr.com)
1 points by tnash 15y ago|0 comments

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