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by vladd 14y ago
I cannot help notice that Hetzner offers 5000 GB/month AND a full dedicated server, for 39 EUR (51 USD) [1], so his traffic would have cost him at that rate a total of 100 USD if he were to use a dedicated server instead of Amazon. (before
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by vladd 14y ago
Unless you've worked at those companies, I'd suggest you refrain from stating that Google&co compares in openness with Valve in the way they let new-hires pick their own starter teams and similar things.
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by vladd 15y ago
If this is indeed true, it's outrageous: it's like having my Gmail suspended because someone sent me too much spam. And people can permanently loose their account over this? I guess they've just lost a lot of founders. Permanently.
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by vladd 15y ago
After early-adopters, regular people will join only if their friends are already there. Any user metric going upwards says "look, it's not a ghost town anymore" and drives future adoption.
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by vladd 15y ago
Simply obliterating them kills Windows Phone for good, I cannot imagine M$ wanting such things.
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by vladd 15y ago
Read the manual: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , section "What to Submit" ("anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.") PS: the linked reddit comment alone helped me learn more about tsunami generation and horizon
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by vladd 15y ago
He could have retired filthy rich when he left Google. Money is not everything for people like him, and even when it is, often it's about sustainability and providing long-term for his dear ones. A one-time payment which screws his monthly
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by vladd 15y ago
Jobs delivered. His company Apple delivered a new version every year. That always was his trump card, perfectionism came within these bounds. When FaceTime was the only feature he liked, he dropped everything else and announced on stage tha
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by vladd 15y ago
You'll also have a cool idea every couple of days when you become an entrepreneur. Being able to focus on what's needed now until you reach the "good enough" stage is a great skill, and many fail simply because they don't have the focus to
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by vladd 15y ago
There are priceless things, but for the rest, money represent the ability of humanity to communicate and exchange economic value so I often think about them as a symbol of what we've managed to achieve since the ancient times. And just like
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by vladd 15y ago
Naming an example (Linux) doesn't contradict "there's be less of it".
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by vladd 15y ago
I've seen successful finishers. You can see them hang out around sites like www.flippa.com , looking for that special project that they could buy and operate as owners for a quiet life and sustainable revenues.
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by vladd 15y ago
Make it available for free but only via their AppStore (platform lock-in).
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter(berkshirehathaway.com)
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by vladd 15y ago
> manages to triple revenue this quarter Quarter revenue was tripled on a year-to-year basis (2011 Q4 versus 2010 Q4). > if they wanted to lower expenses they could cut the writing staff pretty significantly Based on the earnings ca
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by vladd 15y ago
The agreement with its secrecy (the intent) and its effects are 2 different things. Lack of the later doesn't make the former right. Come to think of it, there was at least one effect: at least 1 person was fired because he didn't respect t
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by vladd 15y ago
Imagine Walmart saying: you cannot buy this if you've already had trips to Costco and looked at something similar.
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by vladd 15y ago
If your employer is paying below market rate, he's screwing you, no matter how the market-rate for your skills compares to the median. Being a privilege to work somewhere doesn't make the screwing less wrong.
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by vladd 15y ago
The price for Hetzner's EX 4S is 49.58 EUR for non-EU customers and 59 EUR per month VAT-included for most EU customers (EU corporations registered for VAT purposes need to apply the VAT specific to their own country). An Amazon m2.4xlarge
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by vladd 15y ago
> by simply registering You mean redirecting, the registration was made in 2004 ( http://whois.domaintools.com/thepiratebay.se ).
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Update on Google's use of data from Mocality’s site in Kenya(plus.google.com)
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by vladd 15y ago
At large scale, there's something even better than money: votes. Make a website where I can express my point of view about some legislation (SOPA, PIPA, etc) and then, given a list of candidates for the elections in my district, show who sh
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by vladd 15y ago
> Using any non opensource software is so scary that I wonder why would anyone pay and take the risk. In Romania, businesses must fill each month online statements, but such fillings can only be done with Microsoft Internet Explorer, an
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by vladd 15y ago
Businesses cannot predict the future, so they must use probabilistic models, especially for budgeting. If you could build a magic crystal ball telling you if the following gamer who signs up is going to end up: a) spending $1000 in virtual
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by vladd 15y ago
You need filming equipment, a good script, stage infrastructure, well-performing or/and good-looking actors, repetition until they get it right, sound-tracks (with composers, interpreters, instruments & instrument people), editing, post
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by vladd 15y ago
There are implications for business accounts too: if you need a real name you'll no longer be able to sign up in Adwords with something like admin@<company-domain> (and changing the company's Adwords to another person becomes a head
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Burning Man: Oh, the Places You'll Go(youtube.com)
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by vladd 15y ago
You could pay them at their true value; high-end 6 figures would compensate the dulness and they would work for a healthy cause - the patent office could rise the patent review fees to cover up the costs, which would also have the benefit o
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by vladd 15y ago
>> No one on earth should be KEPT FROM SAVING SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE. That always trumps any endeavor to make a company or ultimately a single person richer. It's not about richness, it's about resource allocation. What you're describi
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by vladd 15y ago
The main issue seems to be the inability of the patent office to realize what's trivial and what's not when reviewing a patent. It fails to do that because it's actually not a trivial thing to do at all when you're not familiar with the fie

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