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by tx 19y ago
Many influential and smart guys like Paul are saying that starting your own company today got a lot cheaper, but what does it mean in practice? While it depends on a nature of the business you are starting, in many cases "build something q
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by tx 19y ago
We just added screenshots to "Learn More" page. Please hit refresh in your browser. Thank you for the feedback!
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by tx 19y ago
A quick update: we added some screen shots to "Learn More" page and provided a link to it from the front page. Just make sure you hit 'Refresh' in your browser. This seems to be the most common (and very useful) feedback topic. Thank you gu
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by tx 19y ago
There are premium service you can upgrade to. It is only $4.99/mo or much less than that if you prepay for a year or for two. We even offer "lifetime membership" :-)
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by tx 19y ago
Pikluk is not just a browser, it can serve as a locked-down Windows shell with disabled Ctrl+Alt+Delete and Alt-Tab, taking over 100% of real estate on all monitors, etc.
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by tx 19y ago
It is a web-based service, the browser integrates into your dashboard which is web-based. You need to have an account to use it.
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by tx 19y ago
Curi, we understand where you are coming from. However, most kids we're trying to cover are not even allowed to use Internet now simply because there isn't a tool out there that can reliably ensure that your kid is going to keep playing
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by tx 19y ago
80% of browser functionality is written in JavaScript, very similarly to how Mozilla's XUL is done, greatly reducing our dependency on any client platform. But we are Windows-only at the moment with Mac OS X in the very near future. We are
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by tx 19y ago
This is what we've been working on nights and weekends since February, and we hope the site explains itself. We have applied for YC program for this winter and still are waiting for a response, but since the coding is done for a modest ver
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Just launched! Asking for news.yc feedback.(pikluk.com)
51 points by tx 19y ago|79 comments
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Is Privacy Overrated?(kontsevoy.blogspot.com)
1 points by tx 19y ago|0 comments
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by tx 19y ago
5 requests/second is "good life average"? While he certainly deserves a credit for trying to shoot conservatively, but such low numbers will only scare more people away. Our slowest requests (with multiple SQL queries and nontrivial rhtml r
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by tx 19y ago
I disagree with your words on cheaper hardware. Vista makes your computer slower and buying more "iron" only makes the effect less noticeable. When something gets so much slower, people what to get something in return. What is it that I g
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by tx 19y ago
That is not your definition of luck. It is Darrell Royal's definition of luck.
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by tx 19y ago
Has anyone heard of a VC who blogged about "10 things I learned from ArsDigita case?" I find that story fascinating and hope that VC community learned something from it.
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by tx 19y ago
I have fairly accurate numbers for reddit audience (had a page with 100% traffic referenced by programming.reddit.com, approx 600 visits): Firefox (68%), Safari (8%), IE6 (5%), IE7(6%), Opera (5%) and a few marginal ones.
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by tx 19y ago
I like your execution: the site just screams quality, and I would surely read it if there was content. But I am not convinced this is different enough from reddit with more categories, or "communities" how they call them. And they (reddit
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by tx 19y ago
I know I'll get downmodded for this, but I sure as hell wish this day would come: built-in ad-blockers in all major browsers. Why? For selfish and honest reasons: For one, I personally don't like ads at all, I prefer the real estate on my m
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The Real Reason why Programmers Dislike Databases(kontsevoy.blogspot.com)
3 points by tx 19y ago|2 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Hm... shall I take a picture of my dog and post it here?
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by tx 19y ago
Guido is awesome. He clearly does not take himself too seriously. :) Linus'es answers were the ones I most agreed with.
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by tx 19y ago
At my company adoption rate is 100% :) I showed it to 3 people, all 3 decided to install it themselves and so far (after a week) nobody uninstalled it as far as I know. Features they like (sorted by importance) are Search, "Connected people
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by tx 19y ago
YComb have a couple of very good questions in their application: "What is the problem you are trying to solve?" and "What do your users have to do now?" With these guys I am not sure how to answer those two, especially the 1st one. "Share!
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by tx 19y ago
Nice post. My advice for any college grad is to stay away form this stinky industry. I wasted two years out of college on billing systems with 1,500 Oracle tables with endless dumbest PL/SQL data-pumping procedures and dumbest data entry cl
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by tx 19y ago
I am in Austin, TX and the front page took 5 seconds. I did not type anything or clicked anywhere. The problem with EC2 and other super-managed hosting solutions (Joyent comes to mind) is inconsistency: I am sure they're moving VMs around,
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by tx 19y ago
Dude, I've been reading Joel since 2002, and every time he goes on to blog about hacking he looks silly. His posts about "harm of exceptions" (he prefers -1 as a return code), about "mistake of .NET" and, from relatively recent ones, about
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by tx 19y ago
Has anyone tried Mongrel clusters on Niagara CPUs? Google is silent on this one.
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The power of self-organizing hackers(kontsevoy.blogspot.com)
3 points by tx 19y ago|0 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Hm... the toy app you ported took about 5 seconds to respond. Slo-o-o-o-ow. Is that EC2 overhead? This is the kind of thing we were trying to avoid and ultimately (again) decided on our own servers in a data center.
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by tx 19y ago
FireFox already has it built in, it is called XUL and "Mozilla Platform". FireFox itself is written in XUL (you can run 2nd instance of FireFox within Firefox). What you would need is to build an IE/Opera/Safari plugin that runs XUL code. A

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