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by veyron 15y ago
what's happening with project Z (or whatever zynga was trying to create to diversify away from facebook)?
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by veyron 15y ago
Until you find out that the borrow costs eat away 99% of the profits. This is what happened with groupon initially ...
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by veyron 15y ago
Sadly the answer is yes (it is reasonable to assume 80% of FB's credit ecosystem targets Zynga assets). Check out Zynga's S-1 (since, thanks to the deal, most of zynga's revenue comes through FB credits, and those numbers will have been di
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by veyron 15y ago
"Zynga’s apps generate a significant number of pages on which we display ads from other advertisers" Are those ads counted toward the 12% statistic?
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by veyron 15y ago
Imagine if a romney supporter did this ... then no one would trust the obama volunteers ...
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by veyron 15y ago
Reliability. Though that may have been other parts of AWS
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by veyron 15y ago
If you interpret the return value as a file (output file handle) then the function application method makes sense. This really falters when trying to use tee, but then again using pipes doesnt help either.
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by veyron 15y ago
S3 concerns me quite a bit ..
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Ask HN: Secure, reliable data backup solution?
2 points by veyron 15y ago|5 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
It's only vague inasfar as the words themselves are vague. "COPYING" is abused. RIAA and other organizations have really tried to grossly expand the definition and that has tainted the discussion. For the next paragraph, "COPYING" means l
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by veyron 15y ago
Copying the design doesn't necessarily deserve "scumbag" treatment. Some brusque words, sure, but certainly not the escalation of DHH. What Curebit did DEFINITELY qualifies as scumbag. There's some unknown tangible cost for 37signals (in
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by veyron 15y ago
It's one thing to complain that another company built a design largely influenced by yours. And that's a legitimate complaint, although the most you can do is say "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" This is wholesale ripping off
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by veyron 15y ago
like the networking NAT (network address translation). To facebook, goldman sachs is a single investor. However, many individual investors are part of that GS banner. In much the same way, with a NAT, there may be many computers within an
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by veyron 15y ago
I've never heard of new scientist. Is it a real science journal or sensationalist? (based on this article I'd guess the latter)
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by veyron 15y ago
Is there anyone trying to bring a python framework like pyglet to android?
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Is Obama Setting Up For a New Internet Restriction Act?(reddit.com)
1 points by veyron 15y ago|0 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
what qualifies as a "different" tech news site?
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by veyron 15y ago
Are you in california? If so, you should keep in mind that 5 AM is like 8 AM in NYC (i.e. lots of people awake)
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by veyron 15y ago
In your perspective, what are valid reasons for downvoting?
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by veyron 15y ago
What are your thoughts on allowing people to downvote posts (akin to how comments can be downvoted)?
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by veyron 15y ago
Another problem with how capital gains are taxed is that the social security and medicare taxes are not assessed.
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by veyron 15y ago
The real lesson for employees is to ignore the cash value of the perks when evaluating offers. Perks can be taken away, but cutting salaries is much more controversial.
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Republican Candidates against SOPA
3 points by veyron 15y ago|0 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
I thought Ron was also against SOPA/PIPA ...
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by veyron 15y ago
Reminds me of the Darth Vader that was never compensated because every year Star Wars showed a loss. Anyone have a link?
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by veyron 15y ago
Though if you believe their parliamentary testimony, James apparently had no knowledge even though he authorized million-pound payoffs to victims.
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by veyron 15y ago
That's why there's GTA :)
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by veyron 15y ago
1.5 hour caffeine power naps: I found that if I drink a red bull or a cup of coffee right before going to bed, I wake up in an hour and a half feeling refreshed and alert
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by veyron 15y ago
It's not that simple because you have to properly handle stuff like "blah,blah" which is supposed to be treated as one block (but blindly using awk -F, will give you two separate fields)
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by veyron 15y ago
Is there a CSV AWK? By that i mean, something that could read the header line in a CSV and automatically generate those variables for each line. Demonstration: $ cat test.csv Field1,Field2 1,2 3,4 5,6 $ csvawk '{pr

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