hughesdan

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by hughesdan 14y ago
Don't feel bad about not creating a "profitable side-businesses after one marathon 48-hour coding session in a single weekend". I bet a lot of side projects posted to HN took much longer than 48 hours to complete even if the author claims
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by hughesdan 14y ago
Good point. The whole reason we have patent law in the first place is to promote the progress of science. Patents still have a role in some industries where inventing is expensive and cloning is cheap (e.g. pharmaceuticals). But on the w
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by hughesdan 14y ago
You did it right. HN allows you to submit a URL or Text, but not both. It's customary around here that someone replies with the clickable link. Nice job on the app by the way. If you add the ability to doodle a free-form drawing I might
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by hughesdan 14y ago
Clickable http://www.typeli.com http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/typeli/id503079958?ls=1&m...
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Congress Will Auction Public Airwaves to Pay for Benefits(nytimes.com)
1 points by hughesdan 15y ago|0 comments
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by hughesdan 15y ago
Many of the comments I'm reading here assume a much higher level of ignorance on the part of small business owners than is really the case. While it's true the average SBO typically does not understand internet advertising, they do underst
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by hughesdan 15y ago
I'm curious, how are you handling the time-zone issue? For example, MTV runs an East and West Cost feed. Usually those are just time-shifted mirror images (but not always). Fox often runs eight or more national feeds breaking the country
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GOP Candidates Respond to SOPA (Clip from Debate)(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by hughesdan 15y ago|0 comments
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by hughesdan 15y ago
Personally I feel this kind of tactic has the potential to backfire. The efforts by Tumblr (phone campaign), NY Tech Meetup ( http://nytm.org/sos ), and the boycott of Go Daddy represent the right way to fight SOPA.
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Fighting Antipiracy Measure, Activist Group Posts Personal Information(mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com)
9 points by hughesdan 15y ago|1 comments
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by hughesdan 15y ago
Nice job on the resume. It's unfortunate the applicant systems preferred by big companies (Taleo, Brassring, etc) do not give candidates a channel through which to differentiate themselves in a creative way as you have done. Of course the
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by hughesdan 15y ago
Actually he was initially a Marxist, then a Libertarian, and then a Marxist again. I tended to agree more with his Libertarian side but no matter what his point of view I always enjoyed reading his work and listening to him debate. He was
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by hughesdan 15y ago
I agree. For many people the smart escape path is to continue working your soul-sucking corporate job while building your startup on the side. Quit only after you've succeeded in convincing a few people to pay for your product and you kno
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Ask HN: Will "Marketplace Fairness Act" hurt your startup?
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Amazon favors online sales tax--if smaller rivals also have to pay(news.cnet.com)
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by hughesdan 15y ago
I agree with a lot of that. Most people who choose Node are going to feel more at home with EC2. However it's not so far fetched to think that one might choose to pair Node and Azure. They each solve very different problems.
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by hughesdan 15y ago
As compared to what? Azure is Paas and, for what it is, seems to be a reasonable value. Of course there are ways to do things cheaper and/or more secure but often I find those comparisons are apples and oranges. And often the comparisons
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And the best broadband service for cord cutters is...(tangledtubes.com)
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by hughesdan 15y ago
I would say cost (referring to license fees) is more relevant in deciding whether or not to choose the .NET stack in the first place. You're not going to avoid license fees by avoiding the cloud. Their culture argument is a funny one. But
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by hughesdan 15y ago
Amazon has very good .NET support. So does Rackspace. So does Azure (obviously). In my personal experience the quality of cloud platforms has been comparable for both Linux and Windows environments. Is there any evidence that .NET cloud
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by hughesdan 15y ago
Very nice. Hunting for the perfect plugin is very time consuming. Thanks for doing the leg work.
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Why Sony Will Fail in its Bid to Rival Cable TV(tangledtubes.com)
1 points by hughesdan 15y ago|0 comments
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Remembering Steve's Inspiring Words. 6mm views and counting(youtu.be)
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by hughesdan 15y ago
How are you defining 'productive capital'? It's not a term I hear used in the economic community...at least not in the context you're using it.
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Build 2011: Windows Azure Tackles the 'One True Login' Puzzle(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by hughesdan 15y ago|0 comments
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by hughesdan 15y ago
Was start date of the renewal term synced to the end date of the expiring term? If so it doesn't sound so shady to me. It seems logical that they would notify you and confirm your desire for a renewal prior to the end of the previous term
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by hughesdan 15y ago
Boston is certainly no Silicon Valley (and perhaps never will be), but I'd argue it's still a great place to start a company. Through MassChallenge I had an opportunity to really connect with the community up there and can say from experie
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by hughesdan 16y ago
I was trying to make the point that from my vantage point the talent pools are deep in each camp. Bad choice of words on my part.
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Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net).(tumblr.com)
87 points by hughesdan 16y ago|130 comments