klein_waffle

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by klein_waffle 16y ago
I think this picture says everything you need to know about Scoble. http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2007/07/scoble-ipho... If the tech world is a big family, Scoble is the youngest kid whose incessant bids for attention have the
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by klein_waffle 16y ago
I have seen Damian's amazing presentations and I still feel sad for what's happened to Perl since he became a strong influence. I believe he is the one who has most encouraged the tendencies which led to the Perl 6 debacle. His strong chari
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
Wait, you mean financial software positions. The linked article is about interviews for analysing firms or how to execute deals.
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
True story: I was at an OpenID developer meeting some time ago and BradFitz was asking people to explain all this crazy nomenclature, because even he can't quite follow it any more. OpenID is a simple idea that was seized upon and overwhelm
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
I think the banks also know that accounts are such high-value targets that criminals have better ways to steal, anyway. Straight up identity fraud is way more of a problem than account hacking.
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
Unlikely. The person on the phone doesn't have the right to make judgments like that. Furthermore, if they were to allow it, that means that everyone who writes gibberish can have their account compromised by someone who guessed that it's g
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
As far as I know, the only benefits of being Canadian are the TN visas and a slightly faster route towards H1-B status. But both of those are for professionals working for some sponsoring company.
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
Because I am from Montreal. Living in Vancouver is one thing, but going to Toronto means I'm a vendu . ;)
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
Can we discuss health care without the science fiction and doomsday scenarios? I realize that the USA is used to looking inward for solutions, but other governments are solving these problems, better, today . Every discussion I have with A
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
Well, I don't know what you mean by "doing business" in SF. If you mean the LLC is technically founded in Canada and just happens to have an SF branch, maybe that would be fine. But, that seems legally dubious to me.
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
The reasons to stay in the Bay Area are mostly personal. I have more friends here than back "home" now. I can demo to people every day of the week if I want. I like the city and the culture. And this is an amazing area for the concentration
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
> I'm tired of sex shops that ship their products using discrete packaging. I agree. Down with discrete; we need continuous packaging. http://everything2.com/title/discreet%2520vs.%2520discrete
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
you could make a full movie without ever leaving your home. That is approximately the most depressing idea ever.
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
Form a consortium that aims to get drugs decriminalized as long as the government approves certain suppliers, and get them to write the law such that your clients are the likely beneficiary. This is worth billions in investment. Target an
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
That's not insane at all. That's just a generalization of Facebook/FriendFeed/Aardvark/etc. I've thought a lot about that too.
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
That's an incubator. Been done.
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by klein_waffle 17y ago
Or a windup netbook? The next generation of Intel mobile chips are supposed to run on one watt. They already sell windup flashlights that run on one watt.
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Ask HN: legally start a Bay Area startup without being American?
27 points by klein_waffle 17y ago|16 comments
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by klein_waffle 18y ago
No, not liars, but sometimes inattentive to this aspect of their lives? Wishful thinking? If it's just me, I'll be happy to be wrong. But the irony here is that my day job involves helping people schedule their leisure activity. I've seen r
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by klein_waffle 18y ago
Am I the only one who wants to call "bullshit" on some of these claims of having a hobby? A hobby is something you can actually get better at. Watching TV is not a hobby. A hobby is something to which you give sustained effort. Some people
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by klein_waffle 18y ago
If anything, this article paints a rosier picture than reality. The Yahoos who think current management has any clue could fit into a telephone booth. There are Yahoos who have faith that Yahoo is indestructible, due to its sheer size and s
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by klein_waffle 18y ago
Come on, Jeremy... I think all (or nearly all) of the Yahoo Pipes developers quit. From what I hear, management refused to support their project beyond the demo/PR stage. Some of them work for Google now.
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
This is quite promising and impressive. However, you need someone to work on the English right away. "Opinion Analizer" is... not quite what you think it means.
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Ask YC: I enjoy my cage
8 points by klein_waffle 19y ago|21 comments
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
I think the analogy to torture is a little bit stretched but there's nothing controversial about the underlying facts. 1) there is a consensus among the global business elite, and some of the government elite, about how things ought to be r
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
It's not tinfoil-hatish at all! People in Washington would be very bad at their jobs if they waited for a favorable opportunity before writing up policies and laws. You never know, tomorrow there might be a presidential sex scandal and you
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
man lex | grep Schmidt Eric Schmidt is a hacker who became a manager. The executive search at Google was dreadfully prolonged because Larry & Sergey wouldn't accept someone without technical experience.
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
No, he was not an idiot, at least in my opinion. Nobody's done what they've done before. Practically everyone I've ever met can now get in touch with me. Nobody's ever created a platform like F8. A lot of people are still obsessed with Face
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
But they are going down.
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
I believe it's been tried. They got shut down.

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