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Can someone explain why TC labeled this story with "EU" ?

As noted in another comment; MM is 2000 in roman numerals.

Great, that's useful. The only problem is "Based on Alexa estimates". It could be even better if they included more data sources e.g. Google Trends and Compete.

I use it for converting time across time zones. It's awesome for that: e.g. "12am PST in CET"

I guess the biggest problem is that you're pretty tired at the end of the day at your normal work.

Most of the icons are indexed here as well:

http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset%3Anounproject http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset%3Anounproject_co... http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset%3Anounproject_np...

They are grouped by the different authors which makes it easier to find out what license applies. You can search in the different groups by adding a keyword e.g. http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset%3Anounproject+pl...

The problem is still the huge percentage of American traffic on the web. E.g. on Iconfinder.com about 50% are US users, so blocking them would hurt ad income by about the same amount.

But that's also changing - North America had the least growth in internet usage from 2000-2011: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

In Denmark it's 42 days ~ 6 weeks:

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lab_vac_min_vac_tim_aro_th...

In Denmark it's 9-17 with 30 minutes break. Also three months notice is the norm.

Can anybody who has knowledge about SOPA answer some questions for me?

1. Will the websites that are blocked by a result of SOPA only affect US citizens? 2. Can a foreign TLD such as .dk, .se etc. get blocked? 3. What happens if you use the IP-adress to ThePirateBay instead of the domain name?

Use sites like http://www.colourlovers.com/ to get inspiration for colors. If you are a programmer you should spend some time studying the color theory - much of it is based on math and you can actually often calculate which colors will work together.

I just checked Copenhagen and it has 3d buildings as well.

Great work by the Ge.tt team. I hope they be able to grow this service even further. The competition, Venture cup, which they won in 2010 was won by us (Iconfinder) in 2011. Small world!

Somebody should start a website were interesting people could sign up for free lunches and startups could pick and choose who they wanted to get feedback from.

I have built Iconfinder into a profitable service while having a day and studying at business school.

I still do some work next to the startup, but it is basically paying for servers etc. plus a salary for me.

I have worked with two content delivery networks, NetDNA CDN and Edgecast, and both have had longer periods of downtime. Is running these services without so much downtime really this difficult?

I signed up since it's on the homepage of Hacker News and perhaps getting a peak in traffic for some days. I can always cancel before getting charged.

I agree, $10/month is way too much for a service without traction.

So true. The value of the feature grows exponentially with the number of users using it.

* If it's used to share files with other users - and not just your own devices.

Did you compare bare bones PHP with Ruby or PHP with a library such as Zend?

I curious because I'm considering recoding a large part of a website and are trying to avoid scaling issues.

Thank you for the answer.

Why did you go for Ruby instead of PHP?

Would you have had the (roughly) same database issues if you didn't have that many writes to the db?

I think this advice is the best:

"Customers cannot tell you what they need."

This is the second time a death of somebody I haven't met have upset me. The first time it was Layne Staley, lead singer of Alice in Chains. I guess both Steve Jobs and Layne Staley have created beautiful work that inspired me.

I didn't know this podcast. Subscribed! Thanks HN :-)

Thanks!

Thanks man!

All income are from ads - so far :-) I have some plans to get other revenue streams.

I hate ads my self, so I try to minimize the screen real estate used for them.

I'm a single founder who have run Iconfinder.com alone from 2007 until 2011, where I got a new business partner. The site reached 1,7 M monthly visits and gives me almost a full income. I won't define it as success since I haven't reached my goal yet, but I guess it shows you can build a large website alone.

I agree. Pitching investors and selling to b2b customers is two very different situations.

Of course :-)

"I hope they go the Double Recall route. I'd rather type in two words once a day and have an advertiser pay for my content than pull out my credit card to hop over a paywall."

Well, that depends on the price of the paywall, the quality of the content and how much you value your time, right?