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by vladd 15y ago
Imagine Microsoft announcing a browser different than IE... That's what Google is doing: a company famous for closing fast projects that don't get immediate traction launches a new programming language when they have Go out there already...
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by vladd 15y ago
For http://www.erbix.com/ we have several traffic acquisition channels working at the moment: 1) SEO - We follow the mantra of segmenting by personnas, not features: imagine classes of users for the webapp and present the product to them
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by vladd 15y ago
The country is Romania. A draft existed at one point last year ( http://iasiinvest.ro/information-in-english-/31036-personal-... ) but has been cancelled since then. If you become unemployed and no longer have any assets, I suspect the de
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by vladd 15y ago
According to economics, companies exist when workers are able, together, to output more than the sum of their parts. More enough to compensate for the boss overhead, and then some. In fact, it's recommended to go indie if you're medium to s
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by vladd 15y ago
In my country you're responsible with your full wealth for your debt (and there's no personal bankruptcy law - it applies only to businesses). They'll retain 1/3 of your salary until they fully recover the difference, if there's any left af
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by vladd 15y ago
There are thousands of things that are rough in life or that can be improved, yet one constant complaint I hear about startups nowadays is that they're solving web2.0 problems that move text or images from one screen to another. To fix thin
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by vladd 15y ago
HN is mainly aimed towards insightful stories about "hacking" any system that is not tuned properly and still has room for improvement in order to be more close to our desires. Entrepreneurship is the main way to hack society and its system
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by vladd 15y ago
If you speak on HN and have an expectation to avoid down-voting, it is your job to back up your claims. It's not practical to Google claims for every comment.
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by vladd 15y ago
There isn't any non-Internet communication channel that users could use to find Google's fingerprint. Google won't give their fingerprints on the phone for billions of web users. Theoretical models that have no practicality in a given real
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by vladd 15y ago
Unlike bitcoins, law guarantees the uniqueness of the dollar as a currency in US. The government collects via tax, in USD, a significant percentage each year (15% - 35% ?) of the wealth created by US corporations and residents.
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by vladd 15y ago
> Bitcoin is well-established and valued by many. That can't be said for any of these other schemes. That's true right now and is what I said: currently Bitcoin has a rather good marketing power over the masses, and alternatives failed
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by vladd 15y ago
The open source code out there can be used to power an infinite number of coin universes, each with its own universe-id and slightly different rules about scarcity control. That's why I said Bitcoin scarcity is a result of the marketing pow
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by vladd 15y ago
Bitcoins weren't backed by real life assets, and since their scarcity wasn't guaranteed by the code (which is open-source and modifiable as we see) but rather by their marketing and brand name, they're now susceptible to reflect any fluctua
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Google gathers ID card photos to reactivate flagged accounts(google.com)
1 points by vladd 15y ago|0 comments
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by vladd 15y ago
The de-facto rule is 'your real name' since they ask for government ID in case your profile gets flagged: "Please select a clear, readable copy of your valid driver's license, national ID card, or other photo ID. Our team will not take acti
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How the cost to make a copy changes industry's revenue distribution (2006)(goobix.com)
2 points by vladd 15y ago|0 comments
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by vladd 15y ago
It would, as you make a lot of instant queries with no clickthroughs before you end up typing your full query.
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by vladd 15y ago
Is there any way which doesn't break the back navigation button (since upon pressing back the JavaScript statement will execute again, causing an immediate change of location and jumping forward again in the history)? I thought about checki
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by vladd 15y ago
It's not the traffic that's earning the revenue, it's your property which allows you to charge for the rent. A more sane metric would be to compute your "profit", which is your income, the rent, minus your expenses in renting out the proper
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by vladd 15y ago
> Most people won't put a high enough value on a free class, especially if they're not getting credit. Both Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig are Very Important Persons in Google (Google Fellow / Google Director). This is basically a fre
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by vladd 15y ago
Non-paying link: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Twitter-Secures-800-Mil...
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by vladd 15y ago
Summary: webmaster which is #1 in SERP is annoyed by traffic drops due to an AdWords ad that occasionally appears on top of him and might violate the ad guidelines (Google being unresponsive to his reports until now). Besides a violation of
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by vladd 15y ago
Being a good manager in the startup field is an extraordinary difficult thing to do. Here's an awesome TED talk that you can watch which is a good introduction in the field - http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html - it shows
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Google: You need identity(plus.google.com)
8 points by vladd 15y ago|3 comments
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by vladd 15y ago
Nobody says substitution is a cure, rather a lesser evil out of 2 choices. Different diseases / treatments cause different pain levels and suffering in those that have them and the ones close to them. Spending 3 months next to your loved on
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by vladd 15y ago
Already posted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2821072 .
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Microsoft launches video campaign against GMail-Man(youtube.com)
6 points by vladd 15y ago|2 comments
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by vladd 15y ago
"Airbnb was mentioning their funding to a victim of ransacking? OMG that's bad..." (quote from TC comment)
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by vladd 15y ago
Insurance probably requires a hotel reception-like presence (person on site, cam surveillance, security coverage, signed contracts, in-person ID validation and a way to prove who did what in case something bad happens). I can't imagine any
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by vladd 15y ago
Hey brian, - what's your side of the story on being unreachable 14 hours after the event? - did you offer AirBnB credit or compensation to the victim to stay elsewhere during this?

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