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by jpdoctor 13y ago
It looks like facebook likes without the rest of facebook, or did I miss something?
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> But it takes a special kind of arrogance for this young man to believe that his moral judgment on the dilemma suddenly trumps that of two (incredibly different) presidents, both houses of the U.S. Congress, both political parties, the
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I'm trying to figure out the barrier-to-entry for scam artists, and they seem pretty low.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Richard Stallman – the creator of GNU Emacs, the founder of GNU Did anybody think he was secretly using vi in the closet?
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Are all of these bootstrapped, or are some of them self-funded? HN doesn't seem to make the distinction, for self-funding of less than $100K. The thing I find particularly fatuous: "We were bootstrapped until we took VC mo
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
The poster is confusing the amount of insolvency with the value of Detroit. The value of the city far exceeds the valuation of Google.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. So th
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
To save everyone from having to look it up: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peac
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I'm no Ch9 expert, but my understanding is that a receiver will be appointed. That person is not elected. So while the politicians retain executive power, the purse strings are taken away from them. There will be much unhappiness and
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I particularly like the idea of promising firefighters a too-good pension, make them run into burning buildings to save people, and then reneging on the promise now that they won't be running into buildings any more. Serves them right
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Even as a credit analyst, I agree that you can't really feel sorry for the bondholders here. If you want to lend in any market, you need to assume the risk that the debtor goes bankrupt. Pensioners are a different story though. Ve
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
What I don't see in the comments yet: This is interesting not only for Detroit, but for the precedent it sets. There are 10 or 15 municipalities that will study how to screw the retirees & bondholders as thoroughly as Detroit pla
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
You get used to noise is my guess. My dad grew up in New Haven in the 40s across from a fire house. When he moved out to the suburbs, he had trouble sleeping at first because it was too quiet.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> We thought about raising funding [from family and friends] to get press. Then once the stories were done, we would just give it all back because we don’t need it. People (and the press) need to stop printing nonsense like this. You
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Have you noticed any speed decrement in your learning curves (learning new languages or frameworks)? Hard to tell, but a speedup if anything. Once you know 5 or 6 languages, another one is pretty easy to pick up by looking at it. I&#x
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Very much so. Great quote btw. It made me google it-- seems Cory Harvey Armstrong. is the author, whoever that is.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Great questions, answers inline. > Have you encountered any agism in your line of work? None, but I might be a weird case. When I finished grad school, I was hired by TI, then Bell Labs. Both treated me like royalty. Because I am not
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
God these types of polls make me feel like a geezer. Just in case any of you whippersnappers are wondering what it feels like to start hacking in your teens and continue (in one form or another) to be hacking into your late 40s: It is pret
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Pretty sure he wouldn't be able to transfer anything close to a million before lock down, unless he had clearance. Unless he started working with someone on the inside of PayPal of course. ("Dear Respected One, GREETINGS,
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
The first company that makes a device which only takes a stream from any website, buffers it, and then plays it to a TV is going to own the market. Right now, every hardware company is trying to insert itself into the content chain. So you
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I think the blog post missed the most important point of the NYT piece: Too often, he says, trials are against “a straw-man comparator” like a placebo rather than a competing drug. So the studies don’t really help us understand which trea
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Very interesting, and not exactly news, which tells you the last time I looked at this. Obviously, I'm a dinosaur. Thanks for the pointer.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> we truly have no one in the company who has been here before, and that is a problem. I have bad news: Nobody has been there before. Perhaps they have managed $10M rev companies before, but they haven't managed your $10M compa
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> also made DES more resistent to differential cryptanalysis Was that the result of the last-minute "black box" change? I never heard the result of that, so any light you shed would be welcome.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
It's funny, back in those days the equivalent archive of such things were that people would write a book for use in the class. http://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Network-Theory-Amar-Bose/...
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Well put. One addendum: > but I had Dr. Bose as a professor in college and he was a fantastic instructor Most folks knew him from the audio course. Less known was how long his history of teaching, eg his network theory book in the la
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
The body of law in HR matters is completely missing from the post. I'd argue: No post is complete without it, because the mistakes can be so costly (both in lost time/focus with lawyers as well as money.)
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I wonder how long it will be until a similar headline about tablets? Eventually that market will also be saturated.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> One could also argue that Sequoia now knows the difference between a doomed-to-fail grocery delivery services and a successful one after experiencing it first-hand. When did they experience a successful one? Groceries are incredibly
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
In case you need reminding: The reason this is funny is that Sequoia pissed away $200M over WebVan.

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