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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, there is no text content. So I only rank for very few keywords in search engines. Do you think I should translate the page in all languages? It contains only few words, so it would be easy. I could have a french version at fr.mysite.com, a portuguese version at pt.mysite.com etc etc. Have you made good experiences with this?

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? Or because they think the hardware itself will be the profitmaker?

$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. How to reduce taxes. How to travel the world. What are great places and what are great things to do there. What are interesting purposes of life after you have accomplished your financial goals.

I know there are some successful entrepreneurs here like Paul Graham, Gabriel Weinberg and Giacomo Guilizzoni. But they mainly talk about how to make even more money. I would like to think beyond that. How to change the trajectory as Derek Sivers once put it. (And even Sivers mainly talks about business. Looks like its damn hard to really change trajectory).

Any ideas?

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() - start;

that gives me about 80ms

And this in PHP:

  function test()
  {
   $r=1;
   for ($i=0;$i<10000000;$i++)
   {
    $r*=1.0000001;
   }
   return $r;
  }
  $start = microtime(true)*1000;
  $r=test();
  echo "$r\n";
  $stop = microtime(true)*1000;
  echo $stop-$start."\n";

That gives me about 1300 ms on the command line and about 5000 ms when executed by apache.

Any ideas to explain these differences?