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by tomh 18y ago
The board composition reminds me of the ArsDigita story: http://waxy.org/random/arsdigita/ . Definitely a problem.
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by tomh 18y ago
Not so fast - there are laws on the books like HIPAA that govern patient confidentiality and protectected health information. If she's selling to 'covered entities' under HIPAA they have to subscribe to a certain level of security or anony
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by tomh 18y ago
"The Django Gal." Nice. I see a country music spinoff in YouTube any day now: "A rough and tough tale of battling Pythonistas in Tulsa."
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by tomh 18y ago
Not only that, but the market it's based in - our poster's app happens to be in healthcare, which has its own 800-lb gorillas (large hospitals and pharmas) and its own smaller players too. Obviously the poster thought that the app would bec
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by tomh 18y ago
Yeah, but now all the technical knowledge of the project has walked out the door with her. Its a classic 'single point of failure' scenario.
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by tomh 18y ago
I think 6% is actually pretty sweet, I built a 1.0 for a startup from scratch while in grad school, and got all of a 0.5% stake, plus consulting fees. Usually a large slice of the equity pie assumes that you are taking a hit in the wallet
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Ask YC: Would you rather have 1,000 True Fans, or 1,000,000 casual users?
4 points by tomh 18y ago|3 comments
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by tomh 18y ago
Salaries for grads outside of Moscow are probably half that - I think PHP coders in Kharkov, Ukraine for example would be pretty happy with 12-15K. QA positions could be as low as 8-10K. And $1300 for a 1-bedroom in Moscow center...what ca
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Finally, some actual Web 2.0 apps at Web 2.0 Expo(webware.com)
5 points by tomh 18y ago|0 comments
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by tomh 18y ago
You know you can purchase the whole keyboard at once or purchase it by the key...as demonstrated by Art Lebedev in the video: http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/video-optimus-maximus-cau...
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Simpatigo: Route planner with a wiki twist(springwise.com)
1 points by tomh 19y ago|0 comments
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Web Two-Point Yawn... Conference Fizzle? (siliconvalleywatcher.com)
1 points by tomh 19y ago|0 comments
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New Social Network Will Woo Russian Snobs(blog.wired.com)
1 points by tomh 19y ago|0 comments
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Ex-Googlers create stealth social search company Mechanical Zoo(venturebeat.com)
1 points by tomh 19y ago|0 comments
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Intel Tries Hand At Consumer Mashups(techcrunch.com)
1 points by tomh 19y ago|0 comments
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President-Elect Dmitry Medvedev remarks at Russian Internet Forum(runetreview.com)
1 points by tomh 19y ago|0 comments
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by tomh 19y ago
To dovetail on the complaints about bioinformatics; most of the government grants are given to PIs, or Principal Investigators, who are a notoriously clannish bunch and each one has free license to operate as they want. IT can be lower on
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Scribd user tracking all MySQL UC presentations in his account(scribd.com)
2 points by tomh 19y ago|0 comments
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Is Google actually producing?(dmy999.com)
1 points by tomh 19y ago|0 comments
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Top 10 bad excuses for staying in a bad job(positivesharing.com)
6 points by tomh 19y ago|1 comments
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Blogging Is Good For Your Social Life(techcrunch.com)
1 points by tomh 19y ago|0 comments
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by tomh 19y ago
For the record there is an OpenCoffee club in Russia: http://opencoffee.ru/ . There are no upcoming events probably because everyone is too busy to meet. :) There are also a number of startup-style conferences in Moscow, the next one bein
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by tomh 19y ago
I recall now that I actually coded our final project in the (ha ha) AOLServer Python API: http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=73022978418185&mkt=... (real website down, check back later I guess...)
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by tomh 19y ago
I think 'yahoo email users in china' might applaud the merger: Yahoo Says It Gave China Internet Data: Journalist Jailed: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09...
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by tomh 19y ago
what about the properties underneath the yahoo umbrella such as flickr, delicious, etc? what about the technology underneath the yahoo user interface javascript libs? don't forget that yahoo has diversified itself in media, for better or
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by tomh 19y ago
Nice to see that HN still remembers philg. Although, as someone who took the first draft of this course in 2001, I certainly wish I had submitted the link and got the karma for myself :).
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I think this mental health site might need a new webmaster.(harfordbelair.org)
5 points by tomh 19y ago|5 comments
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Is Eeyore Designing Your Software?(codinghorror.com)
4 points by tomh 19y ago|1 comments
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by tomh 19y ago
One company's unofficial policy was that they would let foreigners located in the US 'volunteer' at their job with no pay and decide to support their visa after three months of 'volunteering'. Not sure about the legality on that one...
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by tomh 19y ago
+1 to the comment about good lawyers making or breaking; my wife went with Paul Parsons located in Austin, TX - http://www.immigrate-usa.com/ - paid less than $10k (though it was not an EC1/2 case), and got a green card in less than 2 yea

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