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There are a bunch of passages surrounded by asterisks. Shouldn't that be italics?

• pg 17y ago
  Fixed, thanks.
  • pclark 17y ago
    off topic, but I'd really like to see block quotes in hacker news comments.
    • rms 17y ago
      The pattern of block quotes tends to degrade comment quality
    • RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
      What do you mean by "block quotes"? You can already use "Code Mode" to quote exactly, get things in a different font, and formatted exactly as you wish. It's a fixed width font, though.
      • adw 17y ago
        Presumably <blockquote>?
      • deleted 17y ago
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  • dunstad 17y ago
    At the beginning of section 6. Think Long Term, you say "shear stress", but I think the word you intended to use is "sheer".
    • swolchok 17y ago
      It's correct as written. See sense 9 at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shear http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shear -- shearing stress is the stress between two blocks pressed together along a plane and moving in opposite directions parallel to that plane. It's a very nice analogy: the startup is moving fast in one direction and the VC or whatever is moving slowly in another one.
      • cperciva 17y ago
        It's a very nice analogy: the startup is moving fast in one direction and the VC or whatever is moving slowly in another one. Personally I prefer the phrase "impedance mismatch".
        • swolchok 17y ago
          It's much harder to explain impedance concisely. I, for one, never took a circuits class, and I wouldn't expect other CS programs to require one either.
      • dunstad 17y ago
        Okay, thanks for the clarification.
    • jlees 17y ago
      pg actually spelt it out during the talk, as well.