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721.
by 0x12 15y ago
> Before you go condemning networking vendors think about weapons manufacturers. American companies routinely sell guns to countries that use them against their own citizens. Yes, and that is something that ought to be illegal too. Whet
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by 0x12 15y ago
Is your batting average sufficiently high that 5 start-ups would be enough to get one 'winner' at the percentage you'd invest to make back your 100K? Especially if you've never done this before I'd expect that you might need a bit more runw
723.
by 0x12 15y ago
Here is another look at the inner workings of that marvel of technology: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/05/leaked-cisco-do/ and http://www.nytimes.com/cfr/international/slot1_021606.html If China got their gear through shell comp
724.
by 0x12 15y ago
Most programmers I know never read papers, they read plenty of code but the code usually sucks. The reason why it sucks is because it was written by programmers that never read papers and so the cycle continues. If you don't start somewhe
725.
by 0x12 15y ago
How on earth is this hacker news?
726.
by 0x12 15y ago
I think it would still be possible for a neutral report to end up helping either party significantly. After all, objective truth may be to someone's disadvantage as well as to their advantage. The whole point of a lawsuit is to try to convi
727.
by 0x12 15y ago
Ford did not 'introduce the assembly line' to car manufacturing, see: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091102183112AA... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_line#Olds_Motor_Vehicl... But he improved on it quite a bit.
728.
by 0x12 15y ago
The more the merrier, apply to all of them and see who accepts you if an incubator is your thing. For now YC is way ahead of any competition.
729.
by 0x12 15y ago
That's a hell of a way to burn your ships behind you. No going back to the Borg in case the new job doesn't work out I guess.
730.
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731.
by 0x12 15y ago
Apple did not win anything, Adobe just decided to support a device which has a large enough user base to be 'worth it'. If Apple had sold a few hundred thousand of these then this would have never happened.
732.
by 0x12 15y ago
This does not just apply to the UK, it goes much farther, it applies to every place that is not Silicon Valley.
733.
by 0x12 15y ago
Simple suggestion: add a minimum, no maximum. That way you wipe out most of the downsides but keep the upside.
734.
by 0x12 15y ago
Personal favorite: The Space Merchants, by Pohl & Kornbluth.
735.
by 0x12 15y ago
this might be a good start: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ I use it for all kinds of 'special purpose' boxes. It's an older kernel, 2.4.20 or so.
736.
by 0x12 15y ago
My point is that once you take away all design and go for minimalist that you can't change it much beyond that without impacting functionality. The Hofmeister kind is an addition that does not impact functionality, it is the opposite of g
737.
by 0x12 15y ago
How does that impact functionality?
738.
by 0x12 15y ago
Slower+buggy is not an improvement. I can't count the number of times that the new interface has reported 'twitter is over capacity', 'you have already tweeted that' (when it wasn't true) and a whole pile of other errors, if it worked at al
739.
by 0x12 15y ago
Try this: just look at the side of a bunch of cars, if you can tell them apart you've got a better eye for this than I do, but ever since the 'windtunnel' took over as a designer I am having a harder and harder time telling cars apart. Plen
740.
by 0x12 15y ago
You are 100% right, but Apple has seen the last of my purchases. Not that they could care one bit but this kind of lawsuit is utterly ridiculous in my opinion, which may not be as powerful as the German courts but it counts for something. A
741.
by 0x12 15y ago
The service was not intended for any copyrighted content, just as an easy way to pass files from one person to another that are too large for an email. So, the 'jerks' would be those uploading any kind of copyrighted content, but especiall
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by 0x12 15y ago
I made an easy to use service for this purpose, up to 100 MB upload. Within weeks it was a hotbed of .rar files with very questionable content so I shut it down. I don't have time enough to babysit each and every upload. Worked like a cha
743.
by 0x12 15y ago
Or just one that simply works. Business idea for twitter: paid access to the old, non ajaxified interface.
744.
by 0x12 15y ago
Twitter is more than ripe for disruption. One of these days someone will pull a google on them. Between the super slow 'new and improved' interface to sending you spam (the whole point was that you only got the tweets from those you follow)
745.
by 0x12 15y ago
8 billion is a lot of future profits.
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by 0x12 15y ago
Someone (definitely not me) should make a GCTA version of this where the 'codons' map to the 8 opcodes. Then you can execute any DNA string ;)
747.
by 0x12 15y ago
Good points. Still, it would be terrible if they ended up not surviving because of pricing it too low. Even a charity has to somehow make ends meet and if they end up going out of business everybody loses. I really hope they can make it wor
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by 0x12 15y ago
> In fact, the shortage is in computer-science research. and > There is plenty of innovation in the programming language space. Are at odds with each other. All of the programming languages that we use today can trace their roots ba
749.
by 0x12 15y ago
Anything that needs silverlight is not a 'browser os'.
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by 0x12 15y ago
That's actually quite scary. If you sell 'close to cost' then your margins are going to be razor thin even with just a little overhead it might not be viable. Beware of selling too cheap.

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