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by vonklaus 11y ago
you could put them on mega.co for free up to 50GB, or a 14.00 flash drive or instagram. I don't think cloud storage or image hosting are unsolved problems.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Paul Graham's What happened to Yahoo [0] is probably just as relevent now as when he wrote it in 2010. > One of the weirdest things about Yahoo when I went to work there was the way they insisted on calling themselves a "media
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Gwern, if you show up do you have any more color on your newsletter comment: > Nothing completed (due to work on a secret project)
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> Fuck Off 45. He hates computers.’ > ‘Why forty-five?’ > ‘It’s the forty-fifth month since we signed onto that hospital’s system and one has to change the password every month,’ Caroline replied. Every month is a little aggressive
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by vonklaus 11y ago
There are tons of reasons why this is so hard. Leaving aside all of those there are 2 that I see as the biggest: * A 100x improvement over current email is needed for a switch. * It has to be 100x cheaper than the current product. While you
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I find myself hoping Microsoft makes a comeback and they are really doing a lot to win developers which I think is the right move. Obviously, they are a huge platform and developers inherently will be using it but they have taken a lot of g
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by vonklaus 11y ago
thanks, looks super interesting.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
There was a great article called The Space Doctor's Big Idea , published in the New Yorker a few months back. It explained Einstein's theories in the top 1000s English words used in America. While sone might wave their hands and
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by vonklaus 11y ago
That is the wrong wy to think about it. If you want to take an analogy, and I still dislike it but if pushed, I would call it sportsbetting. There is a degree of chance (lets stop using luck) about both start ups and sportsbetting. They dep
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I can't tell/understand this PC meme. I have heard older generations talk about minorities in a way I wouldn't. It was a different time, women there are people (very old) alive born before women could vote. Maybe it is societ
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I am on mobile with a 3 year old iphone 5. Works.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
copyright is hard. If you just blindly accept DMCA takedown notices you become an avenue for trolls, overzealous lawyers and predatory companies. However, if you do nothing, people will pirate shit and sell it on your platform. "I stea
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by vonklaus 11y ago
There are a lot of jokes here and I appreciate them. It isn't breaking news that js has some bad parts, but why are people who aren't joking concerned? * What makes nodejs running on an entertainment system dangerous? * Outside of
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> Posted 2 hours ago > 6 upvotes > no comments Great meta point in there about the microsoft ecosystem.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Well, i wonder if this script ever ran. If it ran multiple times it actually isn't that insane. His coworkers never knew this was even automated or in play so there weren't any issues apparently. Also, this guy seems like the type
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by vonklaus 11y ago
The Mediumization of Writing More and more people want to have an opinion and they use medium to share it with the world. This is killing my narrow view of content creation because I am able to asess every single users motivation. With su
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Does it make sense to run your own hardware again? If you leased rackspace at a provider, you could just have tiny clusters of these everywhere for each service and pay virtually nothing. You could have it triple redundant and have it confi
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I find these stories helpful on a lot of levels, and they provide great insight into problem solving, technology, and you end up learning a large amount about why things are the way they are when people recount how they got started. E.g Ant
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by vonklaus 11y ago
interesting. i was thinking about that quote before reading the article, and did not realize it was incorrect. how inportant was/is a switching supply, and was incorporating it really as simple as copying a well-known design? also, i t
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I meant each site is as good as yahoo! not that you would have to go to each one, but I don't really care about sports. The finance sites are all drop in replacements and better than yahoo finance. As for sports, if you want the same i
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by vonklaus 11y ago
awesome thanks. Actually, super interesting because you really never hear about this space. * What kinds of companies/software is selling the most? * What is the average size deal? * How long does it take a companu to sell (let's
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> Most of us want to know that the food we purchase and serve to our families does not come at the expense of wildlife. I suspect this is correct but I do not share this sentiment, and in fact, I find it absurd. Most people only want to
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> I haven't come across any other sites that even come close to [sports and finance] on Yahoo! You haven't been able to find any other sites focusing on finance or sports on the internet? To be clear, yahoo does a decent job cu
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I read your article, best of luck. Pretty interesting, I considered doing this and have the luxury of even getting to make that choice. Obviously, living with my parents at 26 is pretty shitty, but at least I can write code, keep warm and f
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by vonklaus 11y ago
ok thanks for the link. By no users I mean something that is a product with no network benefits. Maybe tool to build PDF documents using phantom, an invoice generator and email tool, etc. Something simple that is useful, but isn't exac
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Ask HN: How to value small side projects? Can you sell them?
9 points by vonklaus 11y ago|9 comments
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by vonklaus 11y ago
spacex is a company that has an insane level of dedication to product and extremely lofty aspirations somewhere near the very edge of what is currently capable by humans and allowable by physics. From purely a process standpoint, I think th
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by vonklaus 11y ago
curious of an example. Do you have one?
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> Sounds almost dystopian when I read it aloud. Sounds dystopian when read in any context. I can't imagine this is a sustainable strategy, but if they find out that it is, it would be 1984 realized.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
no. I wrote a great explanation of how valuations work with comparable companies, EBITDA, and DCFs and then hit the back button. Rest assured, that regardless of how much financial wizardry you perform using models, a back of the napkin app

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