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Is it worth buying a few extra terabytes to backup? I simply don't have enough free space to even begin backing anything up.
Waaaay too commercialized. It's like as if Pi day was brought to you by Wolfram Mathematica with a sprinkle of MatLab coupons. (edit) MathLab -> MatLab
The legal issues behind this were posted here a few days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5449226 The original blog post was removed (for legal reasons?), here is the cached version of it - http://goo.gl/E1gKN
But anyone can use the name! We just wanted to protect our visitors. I am just a college student and the site was hand-coded & designed by this awesome redditor who just graduated highschool.
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Wait a minute, didn't it start out of a Reddit thread a couple of years ago?
Yep! Well, companies were going to exploit it anyways. I thought why not at least screen them before. I'm just a college student in [redacted] and the site was coded & designed by a guy who just graduated high school in [redacted].
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Yep! Well, companies were going to exploit it anyways. I thought why not at least screen them before. I'm just a college student in [redacted] and the site was coded & designed by a guy who just graduated high school in [redacted].
I'm not convinced that "screening them before" should quite extend to the level of "sponsorship fees" mentioned here: http://goo.gl/E1gKN
Why doesn't anyone believe me? I live in my parent's house and I got a broken car. I love HN because it helped inspire me to do something. That's all. I'm almost crying here. :'(
Please call me at [redacted] if you don't believe me.
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I'm not convinced that "screening them before" should quite extend to the level of "sponsorship fees" mentioned here: http://goo.gl/E1gKN
That was for a proposed advertising package for reddit.com. That definitely isn't coming to me. Why doesn't anyone believe me? I live in my parent's house and I got a broken car. I love HN because it helped inspire me to do something. That's all. I'm almost crying here. :'( Please call me at [redacted] if you don't believe me.
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I'm not convinced that "screening them before" should quite extend to the level of "sponsorship fees" mentioned here: http://goo.gl/E1gKN
That was for a proposed advertising package for reddit.com. That definitely isn't coming to me. Why doesn't anyone believe me? I live in my parent's house and I got a broken car. I love HN because it helped inspire me to do something. That's all. I'm almost crying here. :'( Please call me at [redacted] if you don't believe me.
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I'm not convinced that "screening them before" should quite extend to the level of "sponsorship fees" mentioned here: http://goo.gl/E1gKN
That was for a proposed advertising package for reddit.com. That definitely isn't coming to me. Why doesn't anyone believe me? I live in my parent's house and I got a broken car. I love HN because it helped inspire me to do something. That's all. I'm almost crying here. :'( Please call me at [redacted] if you don't believe me.
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That was for a proposed advertising package for reddit.com. That definitely isn't coming to me. Why doesn't anyone believe me? I live in my parent's house and I got a broken car. I love HN because it helped inspire me to do something. That's all. I'm almost crying here. :'( Please call me at [redacted] if you don't believe me.
I'd imagine that you're suffering because the community in general is a bit skeptical about trademark enforcement issues, and the pump was primed with that Backupify snafu.