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The Growth of Berlin into Europe's Start-Up Hub(spiegel.de)
7 points by wheels 15y ago|1 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
> Is that what you call a convicted monopolist That's subtly and importantly wrong: There is nothing illegal or immoral about having a monopoly. It is the natural state of affairs for many markets. Microsoft was convicted of abus
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by wheels 15y ago
This also doesn't have to be an either-or sort of scenario. It's pretty easy to mix C++ and Java using the Java Native Interface. It's not going to win a beauty pageant, but it's not rocket science either. My company's web services are ex
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by wheels 15y ago
Those are both excellent sources – two more that are often (surprisingly) good are Spiegel International and Rolling Stone Politics. http://www.spiegel.de/international/ http://www.rollingstone.com/politics Spiegel International I belie
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by wheels 15y ago
> Compare this to Webkit - where there is no requirement to share code, but you have a number of companies that have setup very successful developer communities around the code base... Huh? Webkit was based on an open source project
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by wheels 15y ago
I thought it was kind of neat to that a library I'd written was one of the 45 included. I was kind of curious to see what they'd changed, but it ended up being a little boring: https://gist.github.com/1289293 It's a library for reading /
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NYC VC investments up, Mass is down(startable.com)
6 points by wheels 15y ago|1 comments
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Oliver Samwer walks out of an interview with TechCrunch(eu.techcrunch.com)
10 points by wheels 15y ago|1 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
You've really got to hit the jackpot to get up to 2000/request per second (assuming you don't already have a high traffic site). Assuming about 20 requests per pageview, that's more than a quarter million pageviews per hour. I've had thi
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by wheels 15y ago
> This is fine, up until the point where you get on HN and Reddit at the same time Incidentally, you don't actually need much to handle that. Our web server is a wimpy 256 MB VPS and we've had (Wordpress) blog entries hit the front p
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by wheels 15y ago
Incidentally, despite the oft quoted, "Bill Gates would be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once", Bill Gates basically did admit to taking LSD in a 1994 interview: PLAYBOY: Ever take LSD? GATES: My errant youth ended a long time ago.
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by wheels 15y ago
I sense some intentional stubbornness here. Just because you don't invite people over to your place doesn't meant that I don't. In fact, I do, regularly. Also, if you put the pieces together, the fact that you have a device around th
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by wheels 15y ago
I can answer for myself: • I read books when I want to escape computers, the internet and the distractions they bring. That's part of what I love about them. • I don't own an ebook reader or a tablet. I don't have any plans to purchase on
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by wheels 15y ago
Aside from the fact that I believe your statement to be false, do you really believe that someone being among the very best at what they do in the industry that you are a part of not worthy of honor? And may I suggest that, as a startup fou
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by wheels 15y ago
My guess is a bunch of embedded Linux hackers and a large patent portfolio, which relative other vendors they're quite short on. Maybe webOS would be recycled as an OS for the ePaper products or something, but I wouldn't bet on its futur
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Political Neophytes: Do the Berlin Pirates Have a Nationwide Future?(spiegel.de)
6 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
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Why Super Pro-rata Rights are Not a Good Deal for Entrepreneurs(bothsidesofthetable.com)
7 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
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Why Pseudonymity Is Such an Important Concept(bothsidesofthetable.com)
7 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
Gitosis also takes like all of 5 minutes to set up and then you've got repositories that you can collaborate on and manage permissions between projects. http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-e... I set up our repo hos
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The World from Berlin: The Laptop-and-Latte Generation Has Found Its Party(spiegel.de)
6 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
> Even though the cutting edge is a lot less stable, it's by far the better investment, since the technology's lifespan is longer. Plus, generally a lot more pleasant to deal with. I'd disagree on both counts there actually. First, if
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by wheels 15y ago
You can get trapped by a specialty, but there are ways to get out of that. Open source opens up a lot of doors there. For two of my three post-college jobs I had no professional experience in the area that I was going into, but had a decen
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by wheels 15y ago
This is all good advice. But there are two even more important things that I'd add: • Specialize. It's way easier for an in-demand specialist to find work and also it's much easier to answer who you'd like to work for once you've got
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by wheels 15y ago
Piracy has been a term for unauthorized copying of works for over 400 years [1][2]. It's not an analogy; it's just one of the meanings of the word. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#.22Pirac... [2] http://www.lumin
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by wheels 15y ago
Are you really suggesting that it's rare for employees to get hosed on options because they don't understand the terms in their contract? Because that's about the closest parallel I can think of. Net points sound like the showbiz equiva
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by wheels 15y ago
Costs that are that out of whack with expectations would usually indicate some very low hanging fruit. If you can save $800/month by adding a couple of database indexes and tweaking your config file, then yeah, it's worth it. That said, fr
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by wheels 15y ago
I'm a fan of both, but it's quite premature to say that they're operating on the same order of magnitude at this point. • Seedcamp has only had one large exit (> $1M), whereas YC has had more than a dozen. • YC funds more companies per
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by wheels 15y ago
Google's 3rd (of 104) acquisitions was Blogger, 8 years ago. This is hardly a new trend.
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Firing (Shouldn't Be Done on the Phone)(continuations.com)
3 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
That's partly true, but there are some subtleties not conveyed by such: If a VC is investing in a seed round, it's effectively just an option on a later investment. It's the ante, not a bet. If you're investing from a $1 billion fund, it'

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