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GDPR for SaaS companies(blog.stunf.com)
2 points by jd 9y ago|0 comments
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by jd 13y ago
As a EU founder I think the article misses the two primary reasons Europe isn't doing well with startups. 1) Target market USA: natural target market of 320 million people with a very high level of (disposable) income. Established busi
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by jd 13y ago
Quick correction: it's not true that rdiff-backup has to be installed on the remote server. Rdiff-backup works brilliantly with a dumb target for storage and that's how we use it in production. Our servers periodically run rdiff-b
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by jd 13y ago
Although I don't know the specifics for Braintree, it's not contradictory to accept VC money for bootstrapped companies. If a startup goes from 0 to 10M revenue without taking any outside investment then that puts them squarely in
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by jd 13y ago
With the exception of image gallery carousels for mobile devices. Those can work great.
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by jd 13y ago
Another reason why / short term & software / is the currently the sweet spot is because it allows for short feedback cycles. A startup is a company that searches for a viable business model -- a product-market fit. When you cr
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by jd 13y ago
This seems to be a regional issue that mostly affects the UK.
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by jd 13y ago
The most obvious reason is that pg writes an essay when he has an idea or an insight he wants to think and write about. New insights don't arrive on a fixed schedule. If pg had been posting every month the HN thread would read: "Ask HN: is
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by jd 13y ago
Good point about the link to Lotus Notes. However, infrastructure decisions are usually made for short term reasons, and that's often an OK trade-off. Inky looks awesome, by the way.
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by jd 13y ago
Exactly. pg has also written about "using your email as a todo list" (in Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund) to partially address the problem of email being more than just a dumb box for all incoming information. Email as it exists today is ve
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Is Google turning Gmail into an App platform?(blog.stunf.com)
39 points by jd 13y ago|34 comments
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by jd 13y ago
The teardown iFixit link, hidden in the last paragraph: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Ouya+Teardown/14224/1
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by jd 13y ago
Exactly. Or to put it in a different way, the total time you spend waiting for your car to recharge/refuel is way lower for an electric car. The electric car is optimized for the 99% case (where recharging at home is sufficient). A gasoline
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by jd 13y ago
Most importantly -- when researchers know their data and methodology will be out in the open they'll have a big incentive to make it look clean and presentable. They know they risk getting called out on excluding certain segments of the d
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by jd 13y ago
See also this (much better) interview with the same guy: http://bigthink.com/videos/gravity-doesnt-exist
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by jd 13y ago
The economic malaise in Spain is really unbelievable. Take a look at this chart: http://bit.ly/YNOc4q (Also view "Unemployment" instead of "Unemployment rate" on the left menu to see the bigger picture)
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by jd 13y ago
> It's always seemed crazy to me that just because electric cars are non-polluting, people forget that dangling on the other end of that charging cable is probably a coal-fired power station. I don't think that's crazy at all. Think of
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by jd 13y ago
What Siracusa describes as Technological Conservatism is probably more of a status-quo preference. I think this is because there are two opposing forces are work. 1. Innovation is often little more than a sequence of small incremental impro
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by jd 13y ago
See the first answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83983/why-isnt-the-len-fu...
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Watch for file changes using inotifywait and flock(jd.stunf.com)
1 points by jd 13y ago|0 comments
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by jd 13y ago
In my experience this isn't true at all, at least if you target startups and SMB. We have a task management product which is used by many lifehackers around Europe, and we get requests about iDeal or Giropay only occasionally. We also have
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by jd 13y ago
Additionally, if you're willing to go to the dark side... If he's independently wealthy he probably has a lot more to lose than you do. You can use this as leverage. If you can get him in a position where he may lose a lot then you can prob
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by jd 13y ago
I don't think you have to worry much about this being a public mark on your record. Bogus lawsuits happen all the time, and especially if the lawsuit is dismissed or if you win it nobody will care a few years from now. So I would focus inst
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by jd 14y ago
> "Even with optimistic assumptions, the International Energy Agency estimates that, by 2035, we will produce just 2.4 percent of our energy from wind and 0.8 percent from solar." Seriously, [citation needed]. Okay, so I actually looked
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Apple TV Short Review: Analysis of a New A5(anandtech.com)
36 points by jd 14y ago|3 comments
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by jd 14y ago
Congrats Venky!
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Micheal Abrash on resolution in upcoming VR headsets(blogs.valvesoftware.com)
2 points by jd 14y ago|0 comments
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by jd 14y ago
Mirror: http://78.47.91.45/201211_musk.mp4
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by jd 14y ago
It's actually really easy to take the JIT-compilation engine from LuaJit and use it for the compiler of your own programming language. The LuaJIT code is surprisingly modular, and you can pretty much take what you need. For scanner/parser g
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by jd 14y ago
In the video they show the mount resting on a leg and on a cushion. If that works as advertised that'd be a killer feature. iPad stands have to take into account that people don't typically use an iPad at a desk, so the typical rectangular

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