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Covered in the article. Begin at "While Japan had relied on..."
Google street view would have been a nice addition too, depending on the accuracy of the geo lookup.
Posted by
lzell on Saturday October 15, 2011 @08:27PM
from the ask-hn dept.
It is my understanding that it can be advantageous for both the investor and entrepreneur to use preferred stock in early financing deals. From the entrepreneur's perspective the common stock value will remain low.Has anyone seen effects in practice, perhaps surrounding recruitment, of pricing common stock early for a YC (or other) deal?Part two:
Right now our company has 10M common shares,...
Hey, thanks for submitting this. I subscribed to the Wanderplayer mailing list a couple weeks back and have been meaning to ask you something: do you really live in the apartments at 220 E 24th? I only ask because that is where I used to live when Todd and I started working on Joypad. Apparently there is something in the air there that makes people think "iphone game controller" :)
What about the band that broke the bitcoin story!?
This could be a direct response to the concerns you voiced in the Pow thread a couple days back. And your input is on word choice? Jeesh, someone's hard to please :)
Posted by
lzell on Saturday February 19, 2011 @04:01PM
from the codelikezell.com dept.
How about a service with js commenting that alerts a trusted server of the comment? Server grabs the static html, appends the comment, pushes the new html to s3, bada-bing-bada-boom.
This product is almost a year old now. I never submitted it here because I felt weird asking for feedback on a product that you had to buy. Now there's a free version, so give it a shot. I would love to hear feedback and suggestions. Sales have not been stellar, but the conversion rate is good. This site has seen a grand total of 36,000 unique visitors, and I've sold over 5k copies of the paid version. To me that means I need to get it in front of a lot more people. Marketing is not my forte, so lay any ideas you have on me!
Posted by
lzell on Friday February 04, 2011 @03:28PM
from the show-hn dept.
Mark, congratulations on the sale and good luck with your future businesses. In the video linked above, you say that you don't know for sure what caused threewords.me to go big after a few days of little activity. Do you have any theories?
The ultimate log format (lab 10, item 4) is superb!
> mussels, beef stroganoff, garlic whipped potatoes, green beans, steamed broccoli and a pineapple and blueberry salad
Hm, that sure beats the spinach and cottage cheese I just mixed together and called a "salad". But hey, dinner took 40 seconds. Now a quick check of HN, and back to work I go...
:) right I forgot to mention they specifically asked for an apartment. I imagine because 1 week in a Manhattan hotel for 6 would cost a fortune. Not that an apartment will be cheap...
Posted by
lzell on Monday September 06, 2010 @10:58PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hope this isn't too OT. While traveling I met a couple Dutch friends; they are now asking me for help finding an apt in nyc for a week. Considering I lived in nyc when we met, they figured I would be a good resource for this. Truth be told, I don't know how to do this in a safe way. They are fearful of scammers on Craigslist who have tried to have money wired. What other sites can I point...
That's part of what makes it exciting! I was a hardware engineer before switching to software. At that time, we used to say to the software guys "if you guys screw up your design, you recompile; if we screw up, we have to update the schematic, update the cad drawings, order new pcb boards, wait a few weeks, and hope it works next time". The pressure made it fun. Not to mention playing with oscilloscopes and function generators. If it was a minor glitch you could get by by chopping some pins or doing some soldering. Man, that was a good first job out of college. Oh and I'm definitely ordering one of these, even though I haven't used Windows in a few years either. I've got a box with xp somewhere...
Many thanks to everyone for such great responses.
Posted by
lzell on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @05:14PM
from the ask-hn dept.
1. Company A finds out about a large consulting job
2. Company A puts an ad out for someone to build it
3. Small company B (or a couple freelancers) puts in a proposal to Company A for $x.
4. Company A puts in a proposal for $x + $y
Now, the smaller guys are getting work and there is certainly nothing wrong with that. But small company B would like to put in their own proposal. ...
Posted by
lzell on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @05:42PM
from the news.bbc.co.uk dept.
A little off topic, but say I want to experiment with algorithm trading, what kind of APIs are available for trading? I assume they are pretty expensive for access, correct?
Is it? My marketing copy doesn't agree. And that has worked out pretty well.
Sounds like a business idea, send out 'surveys' and analyze the envelope when it's returned. Sell the data to insurance co. Who wants in?
Well you can color me skeptical. This is the way I see something like this coming into being:
1. Someone thinks of the clever idea of overwriting non-affiliate urls with an affiliate url of their account.
2. In realizing that no one would ever install this, they think "how can I convince people to add this to their browser and take a cut of the profit?"
3. Charity!
I hope I am way wrong.
And man, the news in here is really becoming a TechCrunch aggregator.
Allows you to donate affiliate fees to charity?! Bullshit. Should read: Forces businesses to donate part of their profit margin to charity and browsarity.
I'm missing the basics for this one. Why does ++[[]][+[]] == 1?
Cool. Is there software that can create a Fourier series that matches the contour exactly, e.g. the contour of the mountain tops in the third pic?
Whenever I see a summary in HN comments it is usually because the post itself is long and rambling. I'm glad I was not deterred from clicking through, it's a great read.