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Re:Friendfinder files for bankruptcy on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @10:40AM (#6399549)
That's partialy a good news for many website as their affiliate programm (AdultFriendFinder, ...) was attracting lots of people using black hat technics to acquire trafic (fake websites, ads, Google bots manipulation, etc).
Re:Ask HN: What would you add in a Letter of Intent? on Sunday June 23, 2013 @08:45AM (#5927364)
I tried to find a Merge and acquisition attorney/lawyer. None of them (the good ones) understand my business... Internet is too complicated for these guys... :( So to my experience, they are only of bad advice.

We are speaking about $10M...

Re:Ask HN: What would you add in a Letter of Intent? on Sunday June 23, 2013 @08:42AM (#5927354)
This thing is that they have added tons of other conditions not related to the Due Diligence and the acquiring process itself.

They already set some constraints for the afterwards.

I would like them not to use the knowledge they will acquire during the assessment of my assets. :)

Ask HN: What would you add in a Letter of Intent?

Hi,My company is being acquired by an other one. They are going to send me a (draft) letter of intent. What should I add to protect myself/my company? (Things like "No information gathered during the due diligence can be communicate or used.", etc). Do you have advices?Thanks.

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I was in nyc manathan. Data Network was often unavailable. I had the 4g unlimited dataplan but only using 3g (iphone 4).
I have mixed feelings... does the US know that many big cities in developping countries have better subways (automated, brand new, clean, without pee smell, ?). Officials should at least be motivated to fix the minimum: like digital display in wagons displaying the right stations... ;)
Do not trust people telling you you can make more usually 8% or plus. They are only employees who want to sell something or have an interest making you believe it is the case. The 8% is only a figure that our parents had. These days are over. Average is 4% (which also means that some years you will be negative!)
Rule of thumb: not too aggressive financial investment will make 4% on average. As long as the FED continues with "free money for all", the figures will remain lower. Grab your excel and simulate your situation starting from the sum of your fixed and varying costs. Do not forget anything (retirement plan, kids, etc)
- Too many clicks to have the same results. (Canned responses are +60% of the work and have no shortcut !?!)

- Copying the email of the sender requires too many actions (you can no more <ctrl>+c it simply. We often need that to do some checks in an other application)

- Bugs

- The size of the Windows is way too small (We often send detailed procedures which are long. Shorter = user lost or more questions)

- ...

G should have put the gmail UI resources on Reader instead...
Re:Google is about to learn a tough lesson on Saturday March 16, 2013 @12:46PM (#5385908)
Google has made a pure "Top-down decision". Apple also made one like this: replace Google Maps by Maps Apple style. #Fail
Apple had Mapgate. Google has Readergate.
Re:Google Reader shutting down on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @07:59PM (#5372040)
This is such a sad news for lots of specialized website (including Google blogs!!!). For sure they will see some trafic impact. BTW, Google+ is too much time consuming per unit of information read, so I will never replace Reader by Plus.
Re:Google I/O 2013 Registration Sells Out In 49 Minutes on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @11:55AM (#5369238)
It looks like the dev team running Google I/O website also had issues to get tickets... for the Velocity conference. ;)
Re:Google I/O is sold out on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @11:02AM (#5368919)
Dear Google, we also love you if we are outside the USA. :) Please organize other such big events in Europe or Asia. Thanks. (BTW, why do I never see events organized by Zooglers?)
Re:Google I/O 2013 on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @07:21PM (#5335034)
This year I wont even bother to try to get a ticket (last years it was impossible due to latency). I am in Switzerland and will stay there unfortunately. What a pitty Google is selling tickets to people/students who only want free stuff instead of long time clients who are also devs.
Re:A month after switching to Macs on Monday February 11, 2013 @09:37PM (#5204889)
Honestly Apple and Windows are really complementary. All the weak points of one are the strongness of the other. I dream to see the products that a love affair between these 2 companies would produce.
Re:Swiss love affair with rail turns sour on Monday February 04, 2013 @11:48AM (#5165142)
Sorry, but we (people living in Switzerland) still love our trains.
Re:Swiss love affair with rail turns sour on Monday February 04, 2013 @11:45AM (#5165114)
They have been doing that for ages in Switzerland. However as the distances are short, more and more people were just taking no ticket betting that the controller would not have enough time to check all the passengers.
This reminds me when (Adobe) Flash evangelists were requesting us to join their "better experience" ecosystem... (10 years ago?)
Looks like NASA does not read Fitch and Moody's reports...
Re:New Zealand: Wish you were here? on Sunday August 19, 2012 @05:53PM (#4405373)
Re:Ask HN: Best IP Geolocation Database or Service? on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @08:11PM (#4383744)
We use http://www.maxmind.com for our custom abuse detection system (which is using geolocation as a signal).
As he is the owner, buy the company or live with it. :(
Re:Trello is now half million strong on Saturday July 14, 2012 @09:03PM (#4245764)
Thanks a lot for your answer! BTW, you do a great job!!!
Re:Trello is now half million strong on Monday July 09, 2012 @12:29PM (#4218932)
The guys behind Stackoverflow and Trello have a positive tracking record. There is no evidence it will change. :)

However you raise a good point: exportability/portability of the data...

Yes. It is a real nightmare if you have AdSense or Analytics. But oddly nobody speak about it in Europe. Seems like nobody care...
What about the most important feature: encryption. Can we use a private key?

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