20yrs_no_equity

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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
By the way, have you noticed how dramatically down usage is of this site? How participation has fallen off a cliff in the past couple years? Ever think that might be because you harassed and banned everyone who thought differently? That you
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
No, you only ban accounts for people who don't toe the line to your ideology. IF you followed your own rules, there would be no problem. Why don't you follow your own guidelines? Why isn't dang banned for his abuse and harass
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
No need to deal with TheRealBob. Blockchains make CAs obsolete.
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I've been developing software professionally since the 1980s, when I had to build a computer from scratch. I've seen these three waves first hand- personal computers, now in your palm, the internet, now ubiquitous with cell networ
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Wow. It's ridiculous to oppose the government stopping people from getting economic broadband? And you compare it to shooting people with a fire arm? I knew that the loony left had taken over HN, but this is really around the bend. Th
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
What Jeff believes is right is what accrues to Jeff more power. The founders of Google, Bill Gates and Steve Balmer, Jobs and Wozniak, the early Sun people, they all made mistakes and might have done bad things. Generally I think people run
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Even a 1X liquidation preference is screwing the founders. Here's my opinion: Dollars are fungible. If a redneck gives you a dollar for your beanie baby, that dollar is as valuable to your bank or to walmart as a dollar coming from a
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
For Apple Beats Audio was a talent acquisition (eg: they got the founders, Trent Reznor and the like) for Apple Music, and a technology Acquisition (Beats streaming service and content is powering Apple Music) as well as buying a profitable
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I worked at Amazon, I interacted with Jeff Bezos, the Washington Post doing this does not surprise me. It is effectively his political blog, where he gets to push his agenda while being abstracted away from responsibility. (EG: Amazon PR ca
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I worked for Compaq for awhile in Houston. They built this fantastic houston campus, full of high rise buildings surrounded by woods. It was my first experience of a corporate tech campus, and while it was nothing compared to the Ski Lodge
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I suspect the regulators who wrote the laws that are preventing this are wise to your idea and its the actual right of way that they are going after. The only advantage that a municipality has over a private company or not-for-profit, is a
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
So long as there are levers of control, people will attempt to exploit them. The government at every level, should have no power to prohibit entities, whether government or not, from providing internet service. Freedom of transaction is a
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Thanks. I am doing that, a bit at a time. I'm not actually bitter, though I think I seem bitter. I am maybe cynical. (maybe they mean the same thing in practice.) But I'm doing well, and I'm not slowing down, I've jus
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
You can't have 30 years of experience when you're 20 years old. You're unlikely to have 15 years experience when you're 20 years old, and you're certainly going to have a different perspective when you're more
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Yes, it's the most interesting new language since Go. It does a lot of things right, and much more importantly it's much better supported and moving much faster. For instance, there's no good go IDE/debugger setup right
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Unlike most engineers I want to be a manager. But it seems there is no opportunity for that. It seems that the non-engineers who are in the executive positions want non-engineers to manager engineers perpetuating the problems startups have
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
The best team composition is an age of ranges, spanning 20 years- eg: early twenties to late 40s. (I wouldn't turn down an engineer older than that though, of course). And ranges of experiences. You need diversity to refine the ideas
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
For me, personally, anywhere that I want to plug in my ATH-M50x is somewhere that I'm not moving, so I don't mind a dongle. USB-c provides enough wattage to power an external DAC and if Apple does get rid of the headphone port on
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Unless tech crunch got things very wrong, they didn't. The investors will get a base hit, the employees, nothing.
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
My sincere condolences to all the option holding employees of Hipmunk who will not likely get back what they gave up in salary (due to liquidation preferences and the like, they will be lucky if they get anything, other than golden handcuff
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Having the long term goal forces them to make the decisions and the technology work for that long term goal while achieving the short term goals. Compare this to Virgin Galactic. They are working on a system that is great for tourist rides
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
> "The Supreme Court has held that even if the police have a flawed understanding of the laws and rules they are enforcing, their flawed interpretation governs the interaction on the street." Gee, how convenient. And not consi
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Another example of "Don't talk to the police." I don't know what police agencies expect to happen. A certain number of grenades in babies cribs are going to happen, but if these things go unpunished and merely asking for
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I'm not a fan of Facebook so this is great news. The more they manipulate the platform and undermine its objectivity and freedom, the less people will trust it. And while the reasons they shouldn't trust it - namely privacy- are
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Your characterization of the Magic Bullet Theory is inaccurate. The error is in not realizing the car was of an unusual geometry (I believe JFK was elevated, and the seats were different widths apart between the front and the back- unusual
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Yes. "Truther" is code word, like "birther" and "denier" and "conspiracy theorist". It basically means "anyone who doesn't agree with the Official Positions Of The Ministry of Truth, and is
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I know paper burns at fahrenheit 451 (thanks Ray Bradburry)... what temperature does jet fuel burn at? Or that gasoline truck? I presume it's a much higher temperature. The jet fuel that hit the twin towers was mostly expelled in mass
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Isn't calling them "conspiracy theorists" itself an attach on their character? Personally, I like to play devils advocate, and I'm curious about what happened on 9/11. It doesn't add up for me. So I have taken
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Ok, so you asked a series of questions and I presume you don't know the answers so I want to tell you the positions I've heard people take in response to them, but I am afraid I am going to be downvoted heavily. So, before you do
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I like that idea a lot. I know there are some government requirements that a CEO or CFO sign off on various paperwork. In a holocracy, you could have those be roles that one of the Principles energizes.

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