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Yes! We'll save 0.05%! That's 500$ for every million in sales. You must have huge sales to justify a switch.

1 million plays on Pandora is like one play on FM radio with an audience of 1 million, or 10 plays with an audience of 100,000. Either way, their royalties are more expensive than ones of radio stations.

Pandora just bought an FM radio station in an effort to reduce its royalty rates. http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/11/pandora-buys-fm-radio-sta...

It's called a Chromebook with Ubuntu on it.

How would you go about watermarking html & css?

What's better than news? Old news!

Happy you're earning 1 million dollars per MONTH in salary. You didn't do the math, did you?

Google tax! Hail to our new Google overlords.

I'd say 99.99%.

Maybe AWS is a Google competitor?

Cool. Then if you use their findings published in this blog post, they will publicly shame you and your investors.

Funny how Amazon AWS newsletter gets flagged as spam by gmail each and every time. Even if I tell it 'not spam' each and every month. Something tells me Amazon SES will not get a better gmail treatment.

The Googlebot doesn't value design. You need content above the fold. Sorry but my startup needs organic growth, as I don't have millions to flush down the AdWords rabbit hole.

Mailinator, anyone?

Most start-ups are permanently hiring because: a- they available workforce doesn't fulfill their needs b- they don't pay market salaries

I think we shouldn't overestimate our job creation factor. Jobs yes, but what jobs? For 20-30 y.o. men? These are not the people that are jobless this time around.

Do you own shares in Reddit? Then I get it, as HN has no direct revenues. Else, what's the point?

Of course, they have 20% of their work-time to invest in astroturfing HN ;-)

Since when is 80k / year "high-paying"? Hopefully the per diems were high enough to compensate the salary level.

The core idea is true and should be spread around, but their examples lack refinement and subtlety.

Because pure hackers create profit, but don't collect it. We need Business Hacker News. We need to educate them so they can get rid of the suits.

Old news. It's 3 years old. I love when the media digs out seasonal stuff. Sigh...

Always, always, use a ssh tunnel when interacting with mega-corporations abroad. Except when you book hotel nights or transport tickets at the last minute.

The ML class is good when watched at 1.5x.

Oh my god, a good samaritan! I call that a slave... working in the US 'for about a couple weeks' and charge 300$. It makes out to... 3$ per hour? The art of underselling.

You should have contacted CAT directly and upsell them exposing their blatant mistake.

On HN, you don't RTFA, you RTFC.

The worst part about it is that they often don't realize it.

That's when you don't factor in 'skills'. If you're 'any' CS grad, you're right. Be if your skills are above average (CS and business sense), this skews the return of investment of the startup.

Sure. But often they don't have the programming background to do it cleanly.

There are many concrete examples where the productivity of a programmer may be positive or negative.

For example: How many more tasks did you complete on average? How much time did you require the assistance of your colleagues? How many times per day do you interrupt other developers and prevent them from doing their job?

So the productivity multiplier is either over 1x or under 1x. When you multiply it up together for all the members of your team, and you normalize so that the lowest multiplier is 1x, you might realize that in fact some co-workers can be 100x more productive than others.

Finally! Even in hacker forums, many people talk louder than they can deliver.

Do your clients really need to know the size of your staff?

The most intriguing part is about the BVI incorporation and the cash withdrawals in Geneva. Do you plan to elaborate on that in a further post? Is it worth the trouble?