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Yesterday's discussion on the matter: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4513696

"At the end of the day it's best to have everyone in the company (post-deal) feeling like they got a good deal. Kinda like a partner/wife - you never want to feel like you're the o…

They have cemented their position. They can, at this stage, suffer down time without too much concern (hell, even twitter was down recently)

Someone (I'm looking at you, gandi.net) should give a "GoDaddy is Down" discount for domain registration. I'm ready to migrate the domains I didn't change during the SOPA fiasco ..…

How would you envision a desktop trackpad that doesn't converge on the design of the apple magic trackpad?

For those too lazy to build your own, Delcom has some really cool USB programmable lights. I use this for alerts and as a killswitch: http://www.delcomproducts.com/productdetails.a…

"Far greater than 65.5% of my household accesses Facebook and/or Twitter." In my social circles, Facebook/Twitter usage clocks in at about 15%, so the numbers of the survey were at…

I wrote "65.5% of US Internet population", not "65.5% of US Residents".

That also means 65.5% of US Internet population is using Facebook or Twitter, a mind boggling statistic

(not a kindle owner) Can someone with a kindle explain exactly how the ads work and why they would be offensive? From what I heard they just show up when you aren't using the devic…

"which was something the recruiters hide pretty well." The recruiters actively sell the idea that pedigree matters.

"They are attempting to create an artificial scarcity that promotes their idea of what a good dev is." No. They are catering to a group of people who specifically care about pedigr…

"but I think they douched it up by focusing on the wrong things (school and company affiliation). " They focused on the right thing. The target audience isn't the startup that care…

It's adverse selection: the type of people who would use this service are probably not the people you want working for your startup. The really successful people would be picked of…

Needs excel support.

it doesnt matter for a file of size 1kb. For a file of size 10Gb, every process matters. For the downvoters: please time how long it takes to do something like `cat $file | awk '{p…

"Anyway, that's obviously not what Tesla is doing -- but they should. They should definitely have a California Delivery program. They probably already do." They can't give the same…

tarballs

Michael Dell hopefully dumped enough shares to have sufficiently large warchest to buy back dell ...

There are many seemingly-abandoned projects such as http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/832784035/orbit-a-swivel... and the response does nothing to indicate that kickstarter cares…

I assume its tied to device, so it's more like: Build $1 app; purchase 1000 blackberry phones on 1000 contracts; purchase 1000 copies; profit???

I've got Terabytes of data that need to be archived and possibly recalled later (trading logs and market data preserved in case of an audit). I'm not at the scale of Glacier. If Ta…

Because Kickstarter wouldn't make as much money ...