Viewing profile — diolpah

Brilliant judgement you've made of someone you don't know. I'm sure this particular instance of incivility will garner you plenty of upvotes, however.

My understanding of the "civility" standard is whether I would say it in person. My comments do pass this test.

This is Hacker News, where everything anointed by Larry and Sergei is to be revered and worshiped by all, forever and ever, amen.

Spot on. It's different this time. Sure, it surprised us all when revenues and earnings turned out to actually matter in 2000, but it's 2011 now, man, and the future's so bright I'…

What exactly do you mean by "large customers"? We run several million dollars worth of credit card transactions per year( through cybersource and authorize.net right now ), and we …

"and really who isn't unhappy with the world right now?" Most people who are capable of rationally evaluating the standards of living we currently enjoy versus that of any other po…

I must be living in a different version of the United States than the author is. I don't think I've ever experienced the kind of false optimistic outlook referred to here. Is this …

It's been many years; We've been building this company fulltime since 2005, and on a part time basis since 2002. Bootstrapping is a slog, since you make expansionary investments fr…

1000 years? That is a timeframe long enough to virtually guarantee the occurrence of the Singularity, so I would have to say Vinge/Kurzweil/Eliezer/Goertzel/De Garis, or whomever s…

Ok, I will make a long story short, here. My current business began as a side project many years ago. At first, I was building/managing the technical aspect of the business( websit…

I've been noticing this for about half a year now, particularly when googling for technical documentation. Google is falling down on its core product, because they can..

kloncks is probably utilizing hyperbole in making comparisons with the great thinkers of western civilization. That said, we do still talk about Edison, Carnegie, and Rockefeller, …

While true, that doesn't really say much.

I'll take a wild guess, predicated on the fact that twitter is another social platform that's difficult to monetize: sponsored pinboards. My company would pay to have "sponsored pi…

Yes, but with links. So it's definitely worth billions. Edit: Now that I've actually looked at the site to ensure I wasn't speaking out of ignorance, I noticed that the external li…

...you pitched a specific name but didn't register the domain names? This is smelling a little fishy now.

Well, I think the question of "who pays for it", while important, is orthogonal to this particular issue, which is about increasing the available supply . If a poor but healthy sou…

Here's an unpopular thought, but one that may not be on the list of "things too taboo to think about" for HN readers. What if marrow donation was a for-profit industry, or at the v…

Internet white knights are far more prevalent than you realize.

Well, it doesn't produce the correct result for us, where bandwidth costs are more than 7 times storage costs, so we get our warning far too late.