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by villageidiot 18y ago
The unemployment rate for IT workers is still closer to 2% according to an article I read somewhere recently (sorry, don't have the reference).
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by villageidiot 18y ago
As interesting as arc is, sticking with Django or Rails would probably make life easier.
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by villageidiot 18y ago
I had no idea. Very helpful. Thank you.
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by villageidiot 18y ago
Yes, thanks, I should have mentioned I thought about that - but the unruliness of the community turned me off. I assumed this is the case because anyone can downvote. Likewise I assume HN is more polite because only more established members
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by villageidiot 18y ago
No, I didn't need a clone specifically but was not aware the code was available. Do you know where it can be found?
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Ask HN: Have you seen any open source HN clones?
3 points by villageidiot 18y ago|10 comments
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by villageidiot 18y ago
Thought it was just me.
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by villageidiot 18y ago
In conjunction with ISPs, the (US) government or a large private company like Google or Microsoft could aggregate posts based on IP address. In fact, according to a report by Frontline (" Spying On The Homefront "), Homeland Security starte
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by villageidiot 18y ago
Only you and thinkcomp have actually provided the kind of (contradictory) subjective feedback I was initially looking for.
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by villageidiot 18y ago
I mentioned QDOS and the IBM negotiations only because I was disputing your statement about Microsoft not being assertive early on. I think this is clearly not the case. The aggressiveness of their negotiating tactics and their willingness
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by villageidiot 18y ago
QDOS produced by Seattle Computer and purchased by Microsoft after Digital Research dragged their heels on their promises to deliever CP/M to IBM, was a rip-off of CP/M. We can argue about this point but it's documented by Gates' biographer
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by villageidiot 18y ago
I appreciate you treating the question in the good faith in which it was intended. While the topic may be provocative, I felt it was relevant, based on my observations of YC. However, because I can only provide anecdote as evidence of my ca
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by villageidiot 18y ago
When you say: "it's actually fairly rare a startup is unable to license some sort of deal and survive", I assume you mean "it's actually fairly rare a startup is able to survive without licensing sort of deal" rather than: "it's actually fa
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by villageidiot 18y ago
I'm talking about assertively competitive business practices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_get_ready_to_rumble !
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by villageidiot 18y ago
The question is: how much is too much? Seems like that's a question for the courts to decide. The NYT is about to find out the answer to this question: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10128600-93.html
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Ask HN: Do YC Startups Lack Spine?
22 points by villageidiot 18y ago|63 comments
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by villageidiot 18y ago
No worries. Wasn't pointing the finger at you. Just thought the article was kind of pointless. It's good that you clarified, though - thanks.
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by villageidiot 18y ago
But given the possibility of suits like these down the line, why would a startup even risk it at the outset by using mashup data obtained through scraping, etc? Isn't it asking for trouble? Although geeks prefer the algorithmic approach, bu
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by villageidiot 18y ago
Given a timetable by their VC perhaps? Interesting. That would explain a lot.
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by villageidiot 18y ago
And GrandCentral.
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by villageidiot 18y ago
Leaving aside the obvious ethical issue here, what's the solution? Don't do mashups? Or, do mashups in a moderate way so that you are only providing limited quotes of the originating site and providing attribution? Or, say to hell with it,
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by villageidiot 18y ago
Good point.
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by villageidiot 18y ago
So you think that once a mashup passes a certain threshold of popularity they need to deal with this legal issue but not before then?
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by villageidiot 18y ago
I love Cringely when it's a topic I'm already interested in because I'm sure he'll tell me something I didn't already know. In that case I'm willing to wade through all the profuse detail. At other times I read the commenters because they c
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Ask HN: How do mashups avoid copyright infringement lawsuits?
13 points by villageidiot 18y ago|18 comments
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by villageidiot 18y ago
Good list. Another good one - Ancient Roman Technology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_technology
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by villageidiot 18y ago
With 150K unique visitors a month, they'll be lucky to get back a 10th of that - in bankruptcy court. What I'd like to know is how this unfolds typically with VCs when they anticipate that they will not get their money back. Can they shut e
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by villageidiot 18y ago
Indeed. People who were exposed to the site when they first opened may never come back. But, like the laundromat in my neighborhood, they could have a second "Grand Opening", only this time with better algorithms in place. It seems unlikely
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by villageidiot 18y ago
Repost: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411049 But still brilliant.
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by villageidiot 18y ago
Yes, they blew a huge opportunity - they would have benefited from waiting. But, assuming they haven't burned through their $33 million nest egg, if they spend wisely they could bring their numbers up and at the same time work on improving

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