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by vgurgov 16y ago
SEEKING FREELANCERS/INTERNS For videolla.com- we are making serious $$$ on video 1) web UI/Designer contract. Rails experience preferred. For redesign of our fast growing startup videolla.com 2) Marketing PR hacker intern/freelancer. You wi
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by vgurgov 16y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER For videolla.com 1) web UI/Designer contract. Rails experience preferred. For redesign of our fastest growing startup videolla.com 2) Marketing PR hacker intern/freelancer. You will make us famous! If you feel you are 1)+
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by vgurgov 16y ago
'The problem is that I can't believe a word you said' Thats fair, but the thing is that its YOUR PROBLEM(as a recruiter), not mine as a great "closed source" engineer I know bunch of people who work on very cool and interesting problems/pro
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Ask YC: How does YC application form re-submit work?
1 points by vgurgov 16y ago|0 comments
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by vgurgov 16y ago
'It's almost like a paid way to make friends.' - love this :)) I stayed in like 4 airbn places in SV and learned: 1) That it certainly not for everyone, some ppl just dont need all this fun and pretty happy with avg hotel room. 2) If you th
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by vgurgov 16y ago
Hey Moki guys, congrats on launch, sounds like a promising product! Once TC noise will settle a bit, please follow up with me(email in profile), i'd like to get in touch re your API
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by vgurgov 16y ago
Congratulations on your first sale! Ysd I had another sale on my 4-month old startup, so I know how it feels to get this paypal/gateway emails. Good luck!
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by vgurgov 16y ago
This is not new in Rails world with today crazy talent price. Even my small avrg rails consulting shop was approached for buyout 2 times. We didnt agree on price that would bind us to one project for yrs so deals didnt went thro.
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by vgurgov 16y ago
"deal in generalities" should not be function of my gender(which is 1)initially not under my control 2) even unclear how to define in some "complex" cases? ). my funtion is perfectly applicable for firsttimers. in this case some of the args
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by vgurgov 16y ago
so what about if next study will show that statistically afro-american drivers are more or less risky that others? still fine to have different rates for them??? I dont know much about how car insurance are calculated but if their formulas
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by vgurgov 16y ago
sorry, I don see any problem here. If the fact that "Statistically, male drivers are more dangerous" would mean that no matter how safe am i driving, my insurance cost will be higher than my wife's insurance would prob make me feel discrimi
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by vgurgov 16y ago
while you might be right, i wouldnt be so fast to write off ggl. Google after Yahoo, Gmail after hotmail, android after ios, fb itself after myspace should i continue? Google (and some other big COs) have quite successful track of following
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by vgurgov 16y ago
Congrats Jake and Will! Great progress since last time i checked noteleaf! Must be YC gave some great feedback :))
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by vgurgov 16y ago
+1 I am surprised to see that someone even LIKED this link in google reader.
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by vgurgov 16y ago
LOL )) This cant be true! I remember that night we went bear hunting in Moscow with Yuri! That was awesome! He was driving our tank and i was shooting my AK47 left and right with bottle of vodka in other hand! There were much more than 3 st
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by vgurgov 16y ago
(much lower day rate) IMHO This is a key wrong assumption here. After many yrs in this business i am still surprised how many ppl fail to realize this simple fact. Project is doomed when they hire Indian Developers for $5/hour Good develope
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by vgurgov 16y ago
My 2c: Only take a job if you are 100% sure you can do it. Close a deal first. Deal is not closed until you have your contract signed. Get and stay in touch with your champions/ decision-makers inside a company Set realistic roadmap and dea
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Ask HN: When should I raise price for my product?
5 points by vgurgov 16y ago|3 comments
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by vgurgov 16y ago
i am usually clicking on ads of my competitors. i am doing this to learn about their marketing strategies and waste some of their marketing cents :)
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by vgurgov 16y ago
LoL )) i wish somebody call me idiot for refusing 6B deal. who are you to judge? dont u assume they know something you dont? all i can say these guys have balls to make such decisions.
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by vgurgov 16y ago
been there, after tens of experiments like that and using stuff like pandastream I ended up using zencoder.com. reasons? 1) its FAST(are you seriously explect someone will wait 5-40 mins on your site while vid is encoding?). 2) ffmpeg does
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by vgurgov 16y ago
We lauched videolla.com in the beginning of month, so most of the month was spend on customer development, support and iterating product. We have some exciting results so far, paying customers, traffic is growing, partnerships, requests for
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by vgurgov 16y ago
MailChimp works pretty well for us. They have great API. Not sure if they have "send something once new user joins" as we send such things from our app.
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by vgurgov 16y ago
Consider showing up at their office with your best CV and try to catch their HR. Respect their time but quickly explain why hiring you would be the best decision they ever made. This works in some cases.
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by vgurgov 16y ago
sweet... reminds me days when i spend hours practicing simple algorithms on pascal. I bet very few ppl could type something like "for i:=1 to n do begin end;" faster back in that time...
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by vgurgov 16y ago
>But it is the fact that you stack the odds against your success Source of this statistics please? it was not my experience that outsourcing isn't working. I can name a lot of successes from small startups to huge telecom giants. One of
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by vgurgov 16y ago
very nice of you but how is it better than just http://www.google.com/search?q=site:cablegate.wikileaks.org+... ?
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Ask HN: Whould you use API for licensed music/movies DB?
1 points by vgurgov 16y ago|1 comments
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by vgurgov 16y ago
Can someone who support this release care to explain this. I seriously don't understand how can publishing someone's conversations be good. 1) How should communication with foreign embassies be done? Publicly via twitter? 2) Do you think th
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by vgurgov 16y ago
Hey Ben, As i mentioned on FB - I like your design and implementation. One thing that i noticed just now- when i click "vote", would be cool if "take another poll" would appear somewher near so i dont have to move mouse along whole screem.

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