dxjones

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Ask HN: Should Google log password resets & failed login attempts?
4 points by dxjones 14y ago|4 comments
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by dxjones 16y ago
For 50k they take 10% equity, valuing your startup at a tiny 500k, plus you have to leave the country. You give up a lot. Why not just pitch to Dave McClure's 500Startups? You can get started with $10k for 1% equity, valuing your startup
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by dxjones 16y ago
I am a two-spacer too.
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by dxjones 16y ago
Prediction: ScienceLeaks will be taken down within 1 week. The only reason it wouldn't be shut down is if nobody uses it. The copyright holders for academic journals have a huge financial incentive to crush ScienceLeaks. The law is on th
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by dxjones 16y ago
Perhaps claims of arsenate-based DNA will go the way of "cold fusion" when some control experiments (as described in the blog post) show the bacteria had phosphate-based DNA after all.
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by dxjones 16y ago
I agree with your comment about jurisdictional arbitrage (lovely phrase). Look at Google, Microsoft, and Linkedin using Ireland as a tax haven. Not only do they play arbitrage, they flex their economic muscle by telling Ireland, if you ra
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Economist: WikiLeaks is more of a legal hack, than technical hack(economist.com)
8 points by dxjones 16y ago|2 comments
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by dxjones 16y ago
Waiter: Here is the wine list. Please let me know if you'd like any help with your wine selection. (later) Have you selected a wine? This common example uses "select" (correctly) with a list of items on a menu.
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by dxjones 16y ago
A quick look at their pricing suggests 6 cents a page, but a $60 setup fee. For 10 books at 100 pages each, that is effectively 12 cents a page (averaging in the setup fee). Self-publishers might want to consider Lulu.com, with low per-page
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by dxjones 16y ago
super cute!
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by dxjones 16y ago
Can you have a puppy and a startup?
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by dxjones 16y ago
After following your suggestion, I dove into the WordPress index.php and followed the flow for how it routes you to a particular page. I found that I can insert my own PHP code to scrutinize the REQUEST_URI, QUERY_STRING, etc, so I can pull
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by dxjones 16y ago
In WordPress, ... in addition to your (blog) "Posts" you can create a "Page". The typical example would be an "About" page. In my case, I created a paged called "app". What is nice about this is I can use WordPress as a content management
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by dxjones 16y ago
I tried that, and it gets me part way there, but the internals of the WordPress index.php come into play to prevent this being a solution. 1. WordPress wants the "Page" name to come last, so I followed your suggestion, but with "app" moved
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Seek geek with expert knowledge in WP3 + Apache2 mod_rewrite
1 points by dxjones 16y ago|5 comments
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by dxjones 16y ago
WTF?
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by dxjones 16y ago
Except, if I don't use 400GB of transfer, I still pay $40, right? So then, my CPU+RAM+HD doesn't seem free anymore.
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by dxjones 16y ago
I received email from someone at MoneyBookers. Apparently they can do a Bank Transfer to a US or Canadian bank for a flat fee of 1.80 Euro (about $2.40). Just in case anyone else wants to accept online payments from locations where PayPa
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Ask HN: Best way to accept online payment from Egypt?
2 points by dxjones 16y ago|1 comments
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by dxjones 17y ago
Has anyone had experience to be able to comment on the pros and cons of: Slicehost or Rackspace?
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Ask HN: Where do you host your startup web services?
8 points by dxjones 17y ago|6 comments
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by dxjones 17y ago
I was surprised to see the death rate for swine flu is not much different from the regular seasonal flu (according to the stats given). wow! the avian flu is incredibly lethal, but I guess it kills its host before it can infect many others.
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Ask HN: best free iPhone/iPod app for offline viewing of HTML/PDF
2 points by dxjones 17y ago|0 comments
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by dxjones 17y ago
Wow! What a stinging rebuke. ... and well-deserved, it seems. Considering Google's influence and reputation, it's really important the PHP Team took the time and effort to respond to the "tips" and set the record straight.
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by dxjones 17y ago
I wonder if the author could share something about his startup/web/app that is so ill-suited to MySQL and so much more efficient when implemented using a simple key-value store, plus algorithms in PHP? I'm just wondering whether this observ
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by dxjones 17y ago
Congratulations! You have found $10 Grand buried right here ! Now just click here to pay $4.95 through PayPal to cover mailing charges, and we'll send you the cheque. Isn't this marketing scheme open to wild scamming?? If nobody knows what
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by dxjones 17y ago
Can you give more details about why you would recommend Amazon FPS over PayPal?
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by dxjones 17y ago
Thanks: PayPal first. Credit Cards second. What made Google Checkout a collosal waste of time? Do customers choose not to use it? Or is it a hassle to deal with on your end?
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Ask HN: Recommended way to receive customer payments when just starting up?
10 points by dxjones 17y ago|18 comments
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by dxjones 17y ago
I downloaded Gumdrops and played it on my iPod Touch. It seems like a game with potential, but I see the rating in the App Store is currently 2/5 stars. I would recommend that you interview people who have played the game and learn how to i

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