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primemod3on Do the math on your stock options

Evaluating the value of stock options can also be done using the Black-Scholes model. Here's a blog post that explains more as it applies to startups: http://cdixon.org/2009/08/18/options-on-early-stage-companie... .

primemod3on Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

Slicehost.

primemod3on Ask HN: Would you play a distributed, programmable MMO?

Interesting idea. Final Fantasy 12 is my favorite game that allows you to "script" your characters' moves, but you're only ever fighting against the computer. Incorporating this into a programmable MMO seems like it could be very fun, and somewhat parallel to the way stock markets work with everyone using algorithms to compete against each other.

primemod3on I created a bookmarking service you can love.

It's not open source. The Firefox Addon captured a visual snapshot and the entire page contents of every non-https page you visited, and stored it to an online database. The website allowed you to search your history, and results were based on number of visits to a page, length of time spent on page, number of times that page was selected as a search result, whether the page was actually bookmarked, etc. It was a very useful tool, but unfortunately the database grew large very fast. I tried to implement a subscription feature to offset server costs, but I had zero subscribers.

The code is all C#/MSSQL/JavaScript/XUL. If anyone's still interested gmail me at my username, and sorry for the off-topic posts!

primemod3on I created a bookmarking service you can love.

I created a Firefox Addon and website for it last year that did everything you just wrote about, but I've since closed the project down. Let me know if you or anyone is interested in resurrecting it.

primemod3on Did You Get Any Contract Work?

I had an offer to be a co-founder, but passed on it.

primemod3on Hypersonic aircraft shatters aviation records

More impressive to me is the X-15, which flew faster than the aircraft in this video, had a pilot, and flew in the 1960s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15#Fastest_fli...

primemod3on Ask HN: What's up with Google Appengine?

Frequent outages and "write to datastore" errors made me sad. (This was in 2009, don't know whether these issues have been fixed, but I won't be going back.)

primemod3on Ask HN: What are your thoughts on Facebook's Open Graph concept?

I just added Facebook's "Like button" to one of my sites, it was surprisingly easy to do. You can see it in action here: http://www.peoplemarks.com/BruceLee

primemod3on Ask HN: Best place to hire Web Contractors?

Here's a HN topic about contractors: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262467 and the list: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs3clV...

primemod3on Ask HN: Any Successful Startups using Microsoft Dotnet Stack?

http://www.ubernote.com uses ASP.NET, although it doesn't use MVC.