marclove

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by marclove 23d ago
Consumers aren’t the customer.
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Extracting Service Objects From Workers(blog.carbonfive.com)
2 points by marclove 12y ago|0 comments
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by marclove 16y ago
I can't disagree with much you've said. I was born and raised in San Jose. For most of my life, San Francisco was always been the place I thought was fun to visit, but didn't want to live in. I live here now and it's better than I thought,
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by marclove 16y ago
$1M at a $3M pre with a $12M acquisition means I'm getting a 3X return on my investment. Now that's certainly better than losing it altogether, but I think almost all angels would admit they'd be pretty disappointed in that outcome.
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by marclove 16y ago
Good news for some startups. Not any that are looking for investors. At that average acquisition price, most investors would be disappointed.
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by marclove 16y ago
It has nothing to do with jobs programs/corporate welfare. Remember there were security people before the TSA (just not as many) and the TSA was created in the post-9/11 panic. This, like most aviation security, is just security-theater. Th
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by marclove 16y ago
How long before child molesters realize what a "great gig" it is?
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by marclove 16y ago
And likely to end your trip quit quickly & prematurely.
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by marclove 16y ago
This came up in a thread a while back ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1483667 ). Bottom line is that "MM" comes from the banking/finance world. In banking, $3M actually means $3,000 and $3MM means $3,000,000.
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by marclove 16y ago
Finally! They should have begun work on this a couple years ago. But its good to see they're finally headed in the right direction. I just hope the HTML & JS it spits out is nicer than the HTML that Dreamweaver spit out. :)
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by marclove 16y ago
Maybe they're trying to reinvigorate their young & happening image in the Valley with an extended outage?
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by marclove 16y ago
lol...had no idea anyone would find that comment so offensive.
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by marclove 16y ago
Its a gradual rollout. You probably don't have it yet.
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by marclove 16y ago
Sounds like someone's a little bitter about an API usage dispute and a poached employee. He brings up legitimate, but minor issues that are just a part of Twitter's growing pains. Let's be honest, the background customization has never been
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by marclove 16y ago
Yea, but users could give a crap about that. It's their official product and the default way for people to use the service. It shouldn't have rate limits on how much you can use their website. They need to fix it.
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by marclove 16y ago
Yea, those crazy voters...engaging in a little self-masochism because they want things like police officers, firefighters, armed forces, potable water, roads, education, and social security. In general, I agree that the private sector can d
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by marclove 16y ago
I consider any tax at all penalizing. Heh, so all taxes should be abolished because the government shouldn't be penalizing us for making money, right?
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by marclove 16y ago
Exactly. People need to be able to see and identify a logo in a split second. People don't ponder over logos. Like I said up-thread. This isn't a design class.
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by marclove 16y ago
The problem is they're trying to do both. Its half graphic, half wordmark. Nike's graphic and its wordmark can survive on their own or appear together. The same can't be said of this. MySpace can't put ____ somewhere and expect people to im
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by marclove 16y ago
Clever to the point of uselessness. It might get you points in a design class, but in the real world, it's a stupid move. Way to help further erase your already disappearing brand.
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by marclove 16y ago
So if a company (or state government in your example) wants to provide health care benefits to be competitive in the marketplace, they should be penalized for that? I don't accept your premise that taxes = penalization. Employers who pay
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by marclove 16y ago
Hilarious... Fact #1: The only increase in cost for "premium plans" is the new excise tax which doesn't go into effect until 2018. Fact #2: The companies who provide these benefits will have to pay the taxes, not the insurance companies .
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by marclove 16y ago
I think its nice that they're telling employees about the change this far in advance. Most employers will tell you about this a couple weeks before the prices get jacked up or the benefits get slashed. It shows a lot of respect for their em
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by marclove 16y ago
Nice try, but the the excise tax on "premium" plans doesn't go into effect until 2018. So if their only motivation was taxes, they'd have waited. Furthermore, I'm not losing any sleep about the government taxing only the portion of the valu
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by marclove 16y ago
Yea but like you said, since half of them are just for redundancy, they were in effect only running 2 database servers. I must say I find it stunning that a service with that much traffic, especially one with an infrastructure that requires
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by marclove 16y ago
Filling out my patent application for the "method of typing data into a text box and submitting it to a server for storage in a database". I'll see you all in court.
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by marclove 16y ago
Its all fun and games until someone gets a shard in the eye.
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by marclove 16y ago
Heh...that's one hell of a commercial support contract then. Should be interesting to read 10gen's own detailed post-mortem.
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by marclove 16y ago
How many "regular users" do you really think would spend the time to read about why they were down? They just know it was down and wanted it back up ASAP. And how would you better explain it to a layman? The servers crashed. We worked on it
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by marclove 16y ago
Agreed. And they did use their Twitter accounts to communicate the problem/downtime (which even MVP's should have & use for status communications). You can be sure their status.foursquare.com blog won't have any more information than th

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