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I run a website that is a simple tool for a certain task. Right now it is available in english only. It attracts half a million visitors a month. It's mainly word of mouth, press and social traffic. Since it's a tool,…

What do you think, why Microsoft will produce their own tablet? Because they think the other hardware manufacturers will not support windows or because they think the other manufacturers will not produce a good tablet?…

$10bn annual earnings in 10 years should be about right to justify the current valuation I guess.

I still love to read HN every day. But I also wish there was something similar for people who already built a successful startup. Something where I can discuss things like: How to spend all those $s. How to invest them.…

Hello HN, just for fun I executed this in javascript: function test() { var r=1; for (var i=0;i<10000000;i++) { r*=1.0000001; } return r; } var start = (new Date).getTime(); test(); diff = (new Date).getTime() -…

Because it still does not delete *.sol files. These can be written to and read from via Flash. So everywebsite can track the average user ad infinitum even when you clear cookies and everything else in firefox.

I always use browsershots.org to test websites on different platforms. For example Mac OS often has a wait quoe of half an hour or so. Why dont the browser manufacturers run a couple of machines to support testing…