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The Great Internet Land Grab(newyorker.com)
1 points by alapshah 13y ago|0 comments
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What is it like to work at Square? (TL;DR: terrible)(quora.com)
4 points by alapshah 14y ago|0 comments
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by alapshah 14y ago
Previous discussion (same company, different article) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2984021
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by alapshah 14y ago
Like others here, I think Nokia/RIM ceo's are worse. I liked this article about tech CEO's in general: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/why-tech-ceos-seem-so-dumb
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by alapshah 15y ago
In case anyone is missing what has happened here, this is why people hate on private equity/VC. As far as I can tell, Loopt wasn't doing very well. http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=loopt.com&cmpt=... They had an attempt to rev
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by alapshah 15y ago
Yes - Michael Chertoff (Head of the department of homeland security 05-09) consults (TAKES MONEY FROM) the same companies that make the scanners: http://gawker.com/5437499/why-is-michael-chertoff-so-excited... And lockheed (who has the b
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by alapshah 15y ago
Judging by the 200+ up votes, yes. Plus, the aforementioned hacker news guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by alapshah 15y ago
I do this in reverse quite frequently. I'm on OKCupid and when I want to find out more about someone I'm interested in, I use Google Images reverse image search ( http://www.google.com/imghp ) - click on the little camera and dump the img u
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by alapshah 15y ago
That is totally true, but a very large percentage of those 1 million are people who simply have no chance of getting the job. Google is seen as a hot company and place to work for so it attracts a lot of resumes, much more than microsoft ev
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by alapshah 15y ago
How about we start to act on this by not posting and/or flagging every post from pandodaily, techcrunch, and uncrunched? I think we'd have a better HN experience all around.
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by alapshah 15y ago
If you tell us what site it is there is a chance that the right acquirer might be on this forum who wants to buy it, invest a little and use it as a lifestyle business. Between the 2 options it is more of a personal choice, but one will bec
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by alapshah 15y ago
In case you don't know who she is (I didn't) - http://unicornfree.com/ and the product: http://letsfreckle.com/
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by alapshah 15y ago
Square seems to do ok ($2Bn valuation) not owning square.com (their domain is http://squareup.com )
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Flickr Shuts Off Access To Snapjoy's Flickraft(thenextweb.com)
1 points by alapshah 15y ago|0 comments
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Will Car-Sharing Services Change the Way We Travel?(time.com)
1 points by alapshah 15y ago|0 comments
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Samurai launching card-present capabilities to enable POS vendors(samurai.feefighters.com)
10 points by alapshah 15y ago|1 comments
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Email addresses for US-based CEO's(ceoemail.com)
2 points by alapshah 15y ago|0 comments
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by alapshah 15y ago
I asked them about this - they don't handle marketplace businesses (Taking money on behalf of another customer), for the same regulatory issues previously stated. PoundPay (also YC) is trying to solve this issue but I haven't heard a peep o
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by alapshah 15y ago
Seems like it might be a pretty complicated thing to add... No other marketplaces that I know of have their own processing capabilities... Third party aggregation (taking payments on behalf of someone else) has many quite-complicated regula
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Yelp for Business Services(bestvendor.com)
1 points by alapshah 15y ago|0 comments
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Heavier people should pay more to fly(theage.com.au)
24 points by alapshah 15y ago|55 comments
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by alapshah 15y ago
Much better tips in this previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2973404
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by alapshah 15y ago
Too bad you didn't buy the Pizza.com domain name instead of an actual pizza, because it sold for $2.6 million! http://www.newser.com/story/23394/pizzacom-name-sells-for-26... incidentally, I don't see how the pizza.com owner is going to r
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by alapshah 15y ago
Someone absolutely should do this... there is definitely a business opportunity in publishing information gathered from foias
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by alapshah 15y ago
The only major problem I see here is the app store itself. Discoverability is a huge problem... It is the one that I am most shocked that Apple has done nothing about. I routinely have trouble finding apps that have been released, and it is
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by alapshah 15y ago
I feel like I am becoming a ridiculous Samurai supporter in a world of Stripe supporters on HN (odd because we know they have many large customers), but my large (seasonal business, 8-figures a month for 5 months a year) contract employer c
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by alapshah 15y ago
Really quickly, this guy has clearly not researched the field. We (I do contract work for a large e-commerce business that does 8 figures USD a month and have a side recurring saas company that will do 5 figures a month in Jan). We looked a
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by alapshah 15y ago
Yes, he is Chairman, but not involved on a day-to-day basis. Note that in the link you posted the most recent article wrt microsoft and bill gates is in June 2008 If he was really running the show I think things would be very different (ie
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by alapshah 15y ago
I was also confused at first because I usually think of the free software movement not like free beer but free like free speech.
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by alapshah 15y ago
Quora- What are some of the funniest 404 pages: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-funniest-404-pages

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