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Re:PennySaver Goes Out of Business After 50 Years on Sunday May 24, 2015 @03:30PM (#9597281)
Embrace the net or die.
Well said
I think the Internet has done that already. Peer reviewed now represents a much larger critical constituency.
Re:M7.9 Earthquake in Nepal on Saturday April 25, 2015 @12:47PM (#9438798)
Terrible news. Kathmandu is only 40 mi away from the epicenter. That city is extremely dense (1mm+ population) with poor infrastructure. Hope the damage isn't too bad.
Re:Meerkat Learns Buzz Doesn't Always Mean Business on Thursday April 16, 2015 @01:05PM (#9389259)
Actually it does..it's just not sustainable under its current incarnation. The buzz factor is real and meerkat team have earned brand equity that can be used for countless other projects for years to come.
Crocodile tears have been shed.
Re:Instant Cloud – SSD Bare Metal Servers on Friday April 10, 2015 @07:45AM (#9353666)
The tag line "Get your 30 minutes free server" is extremely confusing.

Do you mean to say "Get a free server for 30 minutes"?

Fantastic resource. I could easly spend hours browsing.
Sounds this will tie in with their plan to build a phone carrier service. Exciting!
Efficiency at its finest.
Re:Lenovo only made about $250,000 on its deal with Superfish on Friday February 27, 2015 @02:06PM (#9120658)
Wow.. This might go down as one of the worst decisions of the decade.
Re:The Bitcoin Piñata on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @11:26AM (#9028123)
That's friggin awesome.
Re:How startup Fab died on Saturday February 07, 2015 @06:40AM (#9013715)
Agreed. Misspelled brand identity is the equivalent of a shaky foundation.
Re:Marissa Mayer’s Plan for Yahoo Takes Hold on Thursday January 22, 2015 @11:17AM (#8929919)
The market will decide. Numbers usually don't lie.
Re:Nobody Is Using Google+ on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @01:50PM (#8918650)
G+ is underrated. Would be the best social network now (technically) if it was run as stand alone entity without googles name attached.
Re:Mouse Box: An ARM computer in a mouse on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @01:43PM (#8918605)
Cotton candy Doesn't run windows.
Stack Exchange should spinoff a teaching/bootcamp division to tap the education market.
Re:Sorry Google, No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA Doesn’t Stop Bots on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @10:10AM (#8793072)
Nothing can stop a persistent threat. This version is supposed to slow down threats without being annoying to 'real' humans. Prefer v2 over v1 all day.
Re:Google News to shut down in Spain on Thursday December 11, 2014 @11:52AM (#8735740)
Horrible policies like this are the reason Spain's unemployment rate is at 25%. Short sighted bull headed.
Re:Inmates at California’s San Quentin prison learn to code on Saturday November 15, 2014 @10:56AM (#8611895)
It's criminal that bad guys get the luxury of learning while innocent children around a majority of school districts don't. We also spend 5-6X more annually housing inmates. Really strange decisions.
Up next.. Power assisted Launch from the moon with reentry landing on MGM Las Vegas. For tha win.
Re:Thoughts on Tor appliances on Friday October 17, 2014 @12:30AM (#8469427)
Tor is so useless for regular browsing. Nearly every site flags your IP as source of spam making the user experience poor at best. I can see how tor is useful in some instances but for 90% of web activities it's more trouble than its worth.
Re:If SaaS Products Sell Themselves, Why Do We Need Sales? on Monday September 22, 2014 @11:07PM (#8353829)
Whoever thinks that is mistaken. Without an active sales strategy your business is a hobby.
Re:Ask HN: Alternative to QuoteRoller + SugarCrm on Monday September 22, 2014 @10:53PM (#8353779)
Hi thank you for the pointer. I will check it out and ping you as needed.

Ask HN: Alternative to QuoteRoller + SugarCrm

Quoteroller looks be an ideal service (sugarCrm integration) but their pre-sales team is basically non-existent. The voice messages or email requests to them to answer simple questions hasn't tempted anyone I guess.I've tried proposable,bidsketch and a few others but none plug-play with sugarcrm.Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Re:Entrepreneurs anonymous on Sunday September 21, 2014 @08:14AM (#8346955)
tl:dr - balance your mind and body.
Re:Why so many Koreans are called Kim on Sunday September 14, 2014 @07:20AM (#8314991)
Interesting choice for the featured image.
Re:Amazon Fire Phone is now 99¢ with a 2-year contract on Monday September 08, 2014 @01:37PM (#8286078)
Horrible initial pricing strategy with equally terrible subsidies. It's like they positioned this product from penthouse to outhouse in less than 90 days.
Re:How Andreessen Horowitz Is Disrupting Silicon Valley on Saturday September 06, 2014 @09:13AM (#8278268)
The very nature of the S&P 500 would exclude it from such a comparison. VC funds are targeting startups not established entities. To make the S&P 500 list you have already achieved a significant balance sheet through years of tweaking /improving.

The return comparison is unequal.

A better barometer would be cash on cash returns but with vc funds that may be difficult to track.

Re:Humans are wired for negativity on Saturday September 06, 2014 @08:08AM (#8278131)
"Wired" is essentially referring to genetics. ~ 8% of our genomic lineage is that of a virus. Negativity is just the manifestation of an innate human pathogenic desire to cause harm. It's just nature working its magic.

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