tikhon

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   by tikhon 9y ago

   And they didn't even ICO
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   by tikhon 9y ago

   Thanks folks! Yea Feynman's spinning plate story about sophomore slump in particular is such a great read
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   by tikhon 9y ago

   You are still incredibly early to the space. Most people in the world don't hold any crypto nor do they even know what it is. Many famous investors and entrepreneurs who came to Silicon Valley in the early 1990s thought they had "
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   Principles of Sharding for Relational Databases(citusdata.com)

   292 points by tikhon 9y ago|47 comments
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   by tikhon 10y ago

   I can personally attest that Sam helps out all the companies I've seen that ask, whether or not it helps him in any way. That sort of person is rare in the ecosystem and should be celebrated, not questioned like this. We're attack
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   It’s not 1990. Stop treating your employees like it is(medium.com)

   14 points by tikhon 11y ago|0 comments
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   by tikhon 11y ago

   Crowdfunding has been huge for hardware startups too.
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   by tikhon 12y ago

   Tell that to the creator of cryptocat
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   by tikhon 12y ago

   Thanks Michael! I've been following every edition since the very first one. They get even better each time. Congratulations! Really impressive work.
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    by tikhon 12y ago

    as if you needed more testimonials michael, but this thread is full of them! :)
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    by tikhon 12y ago

    I'd like to hear how they feel about the points pmarca made on twitter about this issue: http://gigaom.com/2014/02/24/marc-andreessen-says-more-net-n...
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    Lighthouse: Decentralized Kickstarter(blog.vinumeris.com)

    55 points by tikhon 12y ago|7 comments
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    Young Blood May Hold Key to Reversing Aging(mobile.nytimes.com)

    2 points by tikhon 12y ago|0 comments
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    Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer(startupboy.com)

    214 points by tikhon 12y ago|58 comments
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    by tikhon 13y ago

    i'm a fan of everything by cdixon -- but check out satoshi and others like bohm: Here's satoshi: http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg099... and paul bohm: http://paulbohm.com
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    by tikhon 13y ago

    ha i never downvoted you. I actually don't have enough karma on this account to downvote. by he or she i meant the commenter above, not Meeker
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    by tikhon 13y ago

    again, what he or she thinks is not the point
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    by tikhon 13y ago

    I'm not sure you are 100% following the point of the article.
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    by tikhon 13y ago

    Bram Cohen's comment on this story: "The really misleading spin is the claim that mobile is taking over computers. The actual numbers in that report indicated that smart mobile has basically killed off dumb mobile, but only had a
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    Mary Meeker's misinformation has influence(sfgate.com)

    45 points by tikhon 13y ago|29 comments
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    by tikhon 13y ago

    At Scribd we initially used EC2 for systems like converting uploaded documents to HTML5 (the capacity we needed varied a lot over short time spans due to things like variable API usage). Meanwhile, the app and web servers (and many others)
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    by tikhon 13y ago

    This is a great competitor to Gazelle, a Boston-based startup that is doing really really well.
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    by tikhon 13y ago

    Wow. I'm really impressed. Great work, Chris.
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    Parse Launches Cloud Code to Run Custom Code for Your App(blog.parse.com)

    144 points by tikhon 14y ago|40 comments
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    by tikhon 14y ago

    built on parse! :-) </shameless plug>
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    by tikhon 14y ago

    this reminds me of how even fulton, the author of the ruby way, made a critical mistake in "the ruby way" 1st edition (fixed in 2nd edition) and matz chimed in saying " "Don't modify the receiver while you are iterating over it." http://
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    by tikhon 14y ago

    I got one
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    by tikhon 14y ago

    Bloomberg: "Zynga Inc. (ZNGA), the biggest developer of games played on Facebook Inc. (FB), missed analysts’ second-quarter revenue and profit estimates as the company struggled to add social game users." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012
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    Zynga down ~40% in after hours trading(google.com)

    69 points by tikhon 14y ago|24 comments
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    by tikhon 14y ago

    the fact i still love this app despite their terrible security problems from the last launch is a very good sign for them. i'd pay for this. don't need the instagram support though. sticking to professional stuff (like docs) seems like a