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by xstartup 9y ago
Leverage the data pal. You are inside a company, access every day. Explore the limits of your access, how far can you get. What data can you access? Can you use that data to get some leverage? Surely, based on the data you are cleaning you
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by xstartup 9y ago
I've tried Riot Matrix, it has same Electron issue. My family says it's not as simple as WhatsApp. They are reluctant to use it.
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Ask HN: Encrypted messaging still sucks on multi platforms
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Ask HN: Where to publish anonymous research papers?
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by xstartup 9y ago
3-4 Projects, 10-20M budget, 5-10 developers. Yes, we were on a budget all time, never exceeded the deadline.
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I wonder if IPFS can be connected to Cloudflare such that CF ends up acting like a CDN for IPFS network. The content is encrypted (so that the CF does not know what's being served) and users can offer their own Cloudflare API keys to t
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by xstartup 9y ago
It depends on when you need that money and for what without which it's difficult to give you any advise.
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Ask HN: What's your favourite datastore?
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by xstartup 9y ago
HashPass, Fontanello, Grammarly
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by xstartup 9y ago
There is no fair in a market. If you've survived in a market for over a year, you are already at the probabilistic impossibility. You price your product by looking at the resources you consume. We did that initially too but it's a
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by xstartup 9y ago
We went from $100 to $1000. The first month, people were all angry. Within 3 months, we quadrupled our revenue. Some guys said, yea we looked at your product initially but we thought you guys weren't serious. Our design, sales pitch we
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by xstartup 9y ago
You can check your web server access logs and then perform reverse DNS lookup on those IPs. Most of them won't resolve that fast, often taking 200-1000ms+
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by xstartup 9y ago
I am not talking about the US. In developing countries, transmission loss/theft are the biggest reason they've long powercuts.
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by xstartup 9y ago
Generation is cheap. It's the distribution where the overhead is. Most of the electricity is lost in transmission. We must get wireless transmission working.
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Ask HN: Why uncached DNS resolutions are still slow?
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It depends on what you are doing. Many are just middleman, so they sell conversions they drive from FB, the difference of which is your profit. You have an incentive to keep conversion cost as low as possible and quality as high as possible
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by xstartup 9y ago
It ultimately depends on what you are pushing without revealing that these stats are pointless. Sensational news, fake news will get you massive CTR. You'll have cheap CPCs but your ad account will be dead after some time. Yes, Faceboo
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by xstartup 9y ago
Yes, if that's the only language you know. No, if you've equal language in any other hot (high synergy) dynamic languages like Ruby or JS. As an anecdote, the Java app we've in our company is a bit difficult to change and usu
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by xstartup 9y ago
In my company, we've 10 different teams. We are doing cutting-edge work in our niche. We use git repos, we extensively discuss things on Slack then summarize stuff in large paragraphs in Discourse. Then we commit the code to GitHub, ou
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Hack: How to Use SecureRandom with Kubernetes and Docker(hackernoon.com)
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Kuberntes Pods and Random numbers(reddit.com)
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Texpander: Simple text expander for Linux. It is sort of like Autokey(github.com)
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Hotspot – the Linux perf GUI for performance analysis(github.com)
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by xstartup 9y ago
I like to keep difficult one for myself.
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Ask HN: Do you feel you are mostly writing glue code?
21 points by xstartup 9y ago|18 comments
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by xstartup 9y ago
A master must prove his worth. Just because you are senior people will not do what you want them to do. Building a team of noobs takes a lot of work. That kind of work, I'll only put in a startup where I've ownership.
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by xstartup 9y ago
Please include the kind of websites you want to build.
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Ask HN: How do you deal with a big loss?
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by xstartup 9y ago
UBI isn't possible without strict price controls which goes against the spirit of capitalism.
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Ask HN: Do you use Log-structured merge-tree? Where and how?
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