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by wright 18y ago
What about for people without Flash, where's the download link?
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by wright 18y ago
PG, I would have downmodded him for you but some mean people took all my points :(
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by wright 18y ago
> I've met work on compiler design, static verifiers, and things like that Not on the heavy consumer apps, eh? > Last I checked, there are openings on the F# team. So you're saying they have positions open that need people with
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by wright 18y ago
It's probably family, not a formal investor.
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by wright 18y ago
You can have taste without being able to program well, but you can't program well without good taste. The original point was that MS had smart people so a lack of smarts couldn't be the problem. The salient points are 1) smarts don't guara
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by wright 18y ago
> I also a lot of dumb people that can't program worth a damn. What's your point? Try to keep up here, Freddo. Try following the context :) Smart is orthogonal to skilled at a particular endeavor. > Yeah, that's just an outrigh
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by wright 18y ago
> Never pay to pitch, basically. That's just good advice generally!
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by wright 18y ago
I agree that the frameworks are great for automating a lot of the junk we used to have to do manually. The "problem" is that people are cutting their teeth on things that don't require much knowledge, so they may miss out on a lot of fun
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by wright 18y ago
My next YC idea: A plugin for Vista that makes it work.
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by wright 18y ago
> who will probably work half-heartedly for a few months/year, That's what 4-year vesting is for. Besides, part-time work from an expert is better than full-time work from the hoi polloi.
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by wright 18y ago
I know a lot of really smart people who can't program worth a darn. If you want to work at MS you're already lacking in the taste department. And what's the interview process, brainteasers or BSing your way through random estimates like th
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by wright 18y ago
> If they assigned a few engineers to work on this, they could replicate the functionality within few months, especially since they know the internals of Outlook. Counter-exhibit 1: Vista. Apparently the MS development process makes i
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by wright 18y ago
More like how your car can't require its own brand of oil, gas, air filters, light bulbs, etc. If Cisco starts selling its operating system on a CD and you make a clone that can run it, it's fair game. Or another company that makes specia
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by wright 18y ago
From what I hear they are going to be the most successful YC-funded company.
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by wright 18y ago
> I don't mean plagiarize them, but emulate what they're doing and figure out the parts that you're good at. They DID plagiarize. Nobody's objecting to other seed investors, just the plagiarizing. What they SHOULD have done is asked
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by wright 18y ago
It was Picasso and artists.
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by wright 18y ago
> who fail to understand the humor in the above para may not kindly apply. I don't know why writing about establishing some kind of sweatshop in a poverty-stricken country would be seen as funny. There are a lot of places that have c
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by wright 18y ago
In light of the Lexmark decision Apple can't stop others from being interoperable legally. Their choices are to bludgeon clonemakers with frivolous lawsuits and try to bankrupt them for pursuing their rights, or to keep trying to make OS X
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by wright 18y ago
Nah, the DMCA bites the bucket in cases like that. It was already overturned for a garage door opener and a printer manufacturer. You can't claim DMCA protection in cases where you are simply trying to shut out competition. Others are all
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by wright 18y ago
Requiring usage only on Apple hardware would be illegal tying. Trying to do it technically would amount to the same thing.
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by wright 18y ago
> I was a diligent Oriental in high school and college. Orientals are objects. Asians are people. > Frankly, smoking, drugs, alcohol--and using an IBM PC--are signs of stupidity. End of discussion. Probably the majority of crea
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by wright 18y ago
Anagrams for founders coop: ------------------------------------------ Unforced Oops Dunces Of Poor Poser Fund C.O.O.
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by wright 18y ago
It's not about copying the idea. It's about making yourself look like a total asshat by copying someone else's writing verbatim and passing it off as your own. > which I'm sure they'd rectify if asked, "If you have to ask..." > t
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by wright 18y ago
Calm down. This is precisely how industries standardize. No one thought it was "sickening" when search engines pages started to imitate each other's blue title + grey descr + green url design. It was just an obviously good idea. How does th
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by wright 18y ago
> It is a bit disturbing that he took everything exactly... Still think they sound legit?
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by wright 18y ago
I find it dubious not only for the massive plagiarism (even the word limit!) but in that they seem to lack the l33t skills needed to make an HTML form submission page. I think having YC in your corner is a boost; these guys look like they'd
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by wright 18y ago
> Suppose instead you split that investment between 10 companies at a tenth the valuation. How confident do you have to be that any given one will become a billion dollar company? You'd have to be more confident in aggregate. Let's
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by wright 18y ago
It kind of depends on what your strategy is. Netscape had to staff up quick so they raised as much as they could. In their case, they needed as much as they could get, I suppose.
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by wright 18y ago
He's a computer freedom activist. Worked for the EFF, anti-DRM campaigner, etc. Not that anyone should need special qualifications before they stand up for their rights.
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by wright 18y ago
That's true, plus you have to be pretty smart to graduate medical school.

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