richoakley | 9 years ago | on: Listen to the Clouds
"Swartkops" - hello fellow South African AV geek!
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richoakley | 9 years ago | on: Employee #1: Tumblr
I live in South Africa, and a load of people fly Cape Town <> Johannesburg once a week (according to your link, it's the 10th busiest route in the world). It's about a 2 hour flight.
I don't think the amazement has as much to do with the distance as it does the idea of living and working in two different countries.
richoakley | 10 years ago | on: Koel: A personal music streaming server
It's a visual clone.
richoakley | 10 years ago | on: Amazon Sign Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May
In the same way as House of Cards isn't exclusive to Netflix, "Top Gear 2.0" will be sold to multiple broadcasters and distributors all over the world.
Top Gear was worth about $80m a year to the BBC in selling the series globally.
richoakley | 10 years ago | on: Spotify Introduces Video Clips, Podcasts, and Activity-Based Playlists
I'd be really interested to hear what services you use to 'subsidize' Spotify discovery with? Email in my profile if you feel like taking it off HN :)
richoakley | 11 years ago | on: YC W15 emails are out
I love music startups (doing one myself). Is it similar to what Bop.fm are trying to do, but more around having a entire library of music (like a cloud-based iTunes)?
Drop me an email (in my profile) if you're keen to chat.
richoakley | 11 years ago | on: Introducing Carrot
It looks like you've built your landing page in PHP, which is renowned for its scaling and security problems. I'd highly recommend looking into something like Scala or Lisp if you want your unlaunched product to have any chance in scaling to the millions of users you probably won't get.
richoakley | 12 years ago | on: Apple SVP of Design Jony Ive Removed from Leadership Webpage
My bet is that they're just launching a leadership structure with a flatter design.
richoakley | 12 years ago | on: Startup School 2013 Speakers
There are usually 11 speakers at Startup School, so we can safely bet on another 3 being added to this list soon. Already an amazing lineup, though!
richoakley | 12 years ago | on: PRSM - The Sharing Network
This is why I love the Internet.
richoakley | 13 years ago | on: Flipboard CEO outs iPad Mini's existence
richoakley | 13 years ago | on: A growing respect for the Samwer brothers
I agree 100%, which is why I raised that in my post. I think it would add a lot to their credibility if they produced original websites for their startups..
richoakley | 13 years ago | on: A growing respect for the Samwer brothers
Good post! Thanks for responding..
richoakley | 13 years ago | on: Startup idea list
Would be really interested in a blog about this. Please drop me a mail if you ever get around to posting one?
richoakley | 14 years ago | on: How Facebook Hacked The NASDAQ Button
I don't think any of them decided to do it for reasons of being practical. The entire reasoning behind it was that it was 'cool'. A pretty good reason, if you ask me...
richoakley | 14 years ago | on: Google, what were you thinking?
You don't think it is a bit ridiculous that somebody, pretending to be Google, would go to the effort of running requests through Google App Engine, just in case somebody ran a trace against the logs in the hope of figuring out where the IP address was? All evidence points at Google and the likelihood that that's as a result of some serious planning by a paranoid scammer is unlikely.
richoakley | 14 years ago | on: This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New Frontier Of Business
One of the most brilliant articles I've read in a long time.
richoakley | 14 years ago | on: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
yeah it gets damn warm here! cape town (where I live) has a sea breeze so is a bit more moderate, though.
richoakley | 14 years ago | on: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
Hello fellow South African!
richoakley | 14 years ago | on: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
South Africa :) And visitors always welcome!
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