fredkbloggs

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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Oh, you're such an optimist! Everyone knows firmware developers will only rewrite something needlessly if it's correct.
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
On the contrary, the comments are far too kind. This sort of error is simply unconscionable and the person responsible for it deserves far worse. It's unfortunate that the poor sod responsible for working around it can't do any
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
The person responsible doesn't care in the slightest. They got paid, their product not only got sold but is still being sold, and so there's nothing to be bothered with. That's what firmware's about: toss it out the
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Really, or are you just saying that? They "missed it" because either (a) they didn't bother to test at all, or (b) they actually thought November has 31 days and didn't bother to do the 4 seconds of research required to
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Do you mean companies as well established as Yahoo, MySpace, AOL, and Netscape? Or companies as well established as Woolworth, Kodak, MCI, and Sears? Or perhaps you had in mind the New York Central Railroad, LTV, and Pan American Airlines
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> 150k guaranteed comp, 25k bonus, 75k vesting equity is low for the companies w/ equity run-ups in the past several years, in my opinion. You're right, assuming that everything continues as it has. Nothing is guaranteed; that
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
The rule of thumb if you work in California is that you'll take home half, assuming all your income is base + bonus + RSUs and not exotics like ISOs or deferred comp plans. The rest goes to the cost of non-cash compensation, various g
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
In my BigCo experience, they do recalibrate pay scales at different locations, but not nearly to the extent that they should. For example, one of them had three US geo "zones" that were supposed to reflect the cost of living ther
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
They are also overestimating the likelihood of hitting the jackpot at a startup. The d100 rule of thumb guidance is insanely optimistic; there is not anywhere close to a 5% chance that your lottery ticket will be worth life-changing money;
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Obviously, it matters very much what the market price of the stock is. Your grant will be for a certain number of shares on some vesting schedule, not for a certain cash value . Remember kids, stock prices don't always go up. Some s
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
It is, in fact, possible that some aspect of a negotiation can be beneficial to both parties, but not for the reasons the parent suggested. If we assume that your minimum bid is in fact below their maximum offer, then the market should clea
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
To be fair to the Chinese, whether a price going up or down is alarming or encouraging depends on whether one wishes to buy or to sell.
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> I've gotten "I need a number for us to continue" multiple times. "Considering your obnoxious lack of professionalism and the fact that your approach is apparently acceptable to the company, I'm not sure there&#
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Bluntly, it doesn't matter what the investors or managers do. They can piss off their employees, fire them, or do neither; they can cut products and staff or grow or both or neither; they can become two companies or three or 400; they
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
If that's shameful, who should be ashamed? - Yahoo's current management, for pretending there's anything to save? - Yahoo's past management, for blowing their phenomenal brand equity? - Yahoo's employees, for sticki
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> some marketplaces (e.g. Amazon) have taken up suing fake/paid reviews So, do you think it's likely that Amazon will sue these reviewers? Think carefully about the lobbying chain before answering.
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Why would they be concerned? Their customers are cops. Cops have decided they want Tasers, and cops do whatever they want whether you like it or not. The response to the flap is just good business; posting the reviews in the first place
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
When your customers are all cops, there's no reason to care whether you, your company, or your culture are viewed favorably by the common proles. The guy knows who his customers are, I'll give him that. They probably love him fo
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
I actually agree, but you have to pay people. That means you need to have enough cash -- either in startup capital or revenue -- to pay a fair market wage for the work you're getting. If you do, then absolutely that's how you sh
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
That might be part of it, but it also speaks to an extremely common mentality among founders that they can (and should) get a business off the ground with only a tiny fraction of the capital that's actually needed to do so. They'
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Many owners of bars (and similar cash businesses) skim some part of the business's cash for themselves. This has two effects: first, it provides them personally with undocumented and tax-free income; second, it greatly reduces the bus
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
That's fine, but if you're that kind of founder you have to know your limitations and hire a top-flight COO to handle that side of things. If you can't, or won't, you're just another shitty founder-CEO whose compan
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
I see your point, but I guess I don't feel that strongly about it. We all have biases, and the way to ensure good results is to document them thoroughly and make sure they're reproduced. After all, some of the people with biases
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
If you work out the math, Yahoo could sell those assets, take the tax hit (whether or not the tax is legally owed is irrelevant), then by shutting down the entire company, hand its shareholders several dollars per share more in cash than
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
That wasn't the question. The question was what Yahoo's business has been for the last 15 years, not what it was when the company was founded. The actual answer is that Yahoo sells ads. That's their business model, just lik
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
I assume your question was intended as rhetorical, but there's an actual answer to it: because when the owner of the Yahoo stock (or a hypothetical Yahoo holding company for Alibaba stock) sells his shares, he will pay tax on his gain
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> You are being overly pedantic when it comes to _science_ and I say this as a trained scientist. Reckon you're part of the problem, then. Appeal to authority and a refusal to hold research to a high standard. > They should at m
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
I assume this happens already. It's unlikely that with so much money at stake, only one party is doing the dirty. Same applies to any issue where a lot of money is at stake.
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> How would you feel if Hawkings were a Christian, and he would take money from the Pope and then wrote a report on how he saw Jesus in the black hole? The same way I feel about all such claims: if they can't be independently reprod
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> We cannot know what his original view on climate change might have been. Does it matter? You don't have the right to demand that everyone agree with you, even if you're right . We don't burn people at the stake or try

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