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Why Aren't NYC Startups Building Useful Businesses?

Posted by jhefter on Friday September 02, 2011 @02:39PM
from the businessinsider.com dept.

http://www.businessinsider.com/generation-y-startups-2011-9

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How WikiLeaks Got Leaked

Posted by jhefter on Thursday September 01, 2011 @11:41AM
from the cnn.com dept.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/08/31/wikileaks.security.lapse/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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Netflix's Updated Culture Slides

Posted by jhefter on Saturday July 16, 2011 @10:48AM
from the businessinsider.com dept.

http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-culture-management-presentation-2011-7#-1

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Re:Looking for partners for a start-up on Friday July 15, 2011 @11:53AM (#2767835)

Partners for what? What space are you working in? What is your domain of competency? Are you the product visionary guy, the business execution guy, the technical execution guy? Is there a particualar location you need to be in? Is there anything you've done in the past that indicates you've got the right DNA for your role and the space you want to be in? So to review: 1) What? 2) Why? 3) And why with you?

Re:Why Virtual Machines suck when you run them from BTRFS files system on Thursday July 14, 2011 @03:41PM (#2764678)

This problem is similar to (and exacerbated by) the IO bottlenecks VMs experience when using traditional hard drive disks, due to high levels of random IO operations. For this reason, many new virtual setups are using solid state drives, which have no seek time. This keeps the high level of random IO operations from significantly impacting performance.