richardv
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Comment · 13 years ago
It's about 1Mbit a month... (1Mbit = 328.5 GB).
Comment · 13 years ago
Has anyone on HN been successful in a previous startuppack round?
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
If you don't have enough time to watch the entire video, just watch the "Linked representations" which starts at 24 minutes (4 minutes long).
It's on a 2D graphing library but his visualizations are incredible.
Comment · 13 years ago
Am I missing something but I always assumed that valuations at this stage of a company is to do with huge/vast sums of money being removed from the table by the founders and they've done this by selling a good stake of their equity/voting rights in their company.
The founders are now rich.. but the company isn't.. and if they raise a next round, their true valuation will shine through...
Comment · 13 years ago
Looking at a listing[1], I notice that you provide email addresses to users and presumably act like a craiglists for anonymous messaging...
I'm just curious though, don't you find that you get spammed out if you do this?
I think providing email addresses to users on a marketplace is a great way of keeping discussions/messages boxed up in your platform, but showing the emails on the site must result in way too many spam emails?
Comment · 13 years ago
I've stopped reporting anything these days. The report system isn't there to actually do anything... at least not in the disciplinary sense.
It's there exclusively to make the people who are reporting things feel like they have some solution to things they disagree with.
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I recently reported two separate comments on Facebook.
The first comment was on startup investor's profile picture after he announced that he was getting married to his long term boyfriend/partner (about two weaks ago). The polite version of the comment basically went along the lines of saying that he would be "judged by allah" for his sins and should die.
The second person was a friend who commented on a picture of several football supporters and one of the guys had a turban on. The comment said "I see a dirty terrorist".
So I kicked my 'friend' (who was really just an associate anyway) from my list and reported to Facebook...
Both of these reports came back saying that after reviewing they haven't broken any rules...
Apparently the Facebook staff who run the review proceedures are the same folks who leave comments on the cesspool over at YouTube...
Comment · 13 years ago
That's not how things work... You can't just create some system and see governments flock to you. There are years of consulting and specification requirements.
Linux is open source... Office Libre... Go convince a public office to switch to Ubuntu..
Saving money is often at the bottom of their focus.. and then you have competing interests releasing figures that show it is more costly to switch to free alternatives.
Public spending is a corrupt cycle.