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by 9oliYQjP 14y ago
You can turn a company around in a year. I hate to be that guy who points out Steve Jobs did it. But conceptually it isn't rocket science. First thing you need to so is deal with cash flow. Can the company sustain itself so you have, in fac
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by 9oliYQjP 14y ago
I've always wondered if the down-vote should actually just be an arrow pointing sideways. People use the down-vote like it's a thumbs down. If they don't agree with an opinion, then it's a thumbs down. But really the cancerous comments are
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by 9oliYQjP 14y ago
I wish more entrepreneurs would be honest about how they're actually doing with other entrepreneurs, so that they could reveal options that haven't been thought of. Forget amongst fellow entrepreneurs though. Even within business partnershi
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by 9oliYQjP 14y ago
To riff on this, it's what Steve would want somebody who truly admired him and was motivated by his life to do. In fact, he'd probably berate anybody trying to live in the past. "If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you sh
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by 9oliYQjP 14y ago
Changes to Facebook are like fluctuations in gas prices though. People grumble and complain, then just go ahead and don't change their habit. I'm pretty conspiracy-theorish on the whole Facebook thing. A part of me wants to believe Mark man
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by 9oliYQjP 14y ago
It's very possible that the Facebook IPO came early enough in this bubble to actually prevent a huge disaster. I did not like where things were headed with most startups in the past couple of years. The Facebook IPO was like a fire extingui
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by 9oliYQjP 14y ago
How experienced are these developers at Google?
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by 9oliYQjP 14y ago
I use node but I kind of felt that this sort of scenario should be pretty obvious before you use it. I never use node to serve up static files, I use nginx instead. Small static files will be cached by the OS, as you said, which makes subse
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by 9oliYQjP 14y ago
Is it possible that his JVM is setup to execute with different ulimit settings than Node? The Node numbers look too suspiciously close to multiples of 1024 (e.g., default file descriptor limit). EDIT: whoops, saw 4 0 96 for the stream but i
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by 9oliYQjP 14y ago
I'd love to see the source code to that site at the point it was handed off to Zuck. If this was really near finished, or at least significantly far along, it would be extremely illuminating. Here's the thing though. How could the Winklevos
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by 9oliYQjP 14y ago
This was a fantastic read and I'm glad I took the time to read through it. I just wanted to say thanks for posting it. If I wanted to learn more about PostGIS, do any particular resources stand out?
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by 9oliYQjP 14y ago
Running your setup and I've seen this problem only with VMWare Fusion running. But they have KB article ( http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?langua... ) which discusses what they're doing. VMWare Fusion won't let go of me
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by 9oliYQjP 14y ago
You sir are a gentleman and scholar. As a laptop user with only 8 GB of RAM and a slow non-SSD hard disk, this one trick just made my day! Thanks.
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
These glasses are ugly and unfashionable. But so are bluetooth headsets. I wonder if they'll follow a similar trend curve of rapidly gaining adoption while they seem techy-cool, but quickly turn to douchebag-turnoff accessories as they peak
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
I don't think that his remarks about Rails and Django should antagonize you. What motivated me to explore node.js is precisely the fact that I started to spend more and more of my time outside of Rails trying to push the envelope. Things li
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Just curious, how does internal recruiting usually work?
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Nobel peace prizes are not normally awarded to philanthropists. But I'm just going to leave this link here. It's a photo of Bill Gates with Prime Minister Stephen Harper announcing funding for HIV vaccine research in 2007. http://pm.gc.ca/
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Ballmer can play as much musical chairs as he wants. The problem is him. Despite a massive Microsoft talent drain, there are still smart, capable people at Microsoft. What Microsoft lacks is a cohesive vision about where they are headed. Bi
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
I absolutely agree. I'm looking forward to a lot more accounts like this one. I admire Jobs, but I admire him because he knew when to get involved and when to leave smart people alone. His ability to make decisions and ensure things got don
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Business folks have over-simplified Jobs' contribution to the Think Different campaign by making it seem he single-handedly was responsible for it. A handful of people on Lee Clow's team were primarily responsible for the creation of the ad
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
An Israel engineering team saved Intel in the mid 2000s from its Netburst architecture decision. They built a higher performing CPU than the Pentium 4 that was also more energy efficient. Apple's decision is probably to just move closer to
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
I did wonder whether I should post the comment. Take a look at the site. The photos show how many folks showed up at the event. Guys aren't prohibited and in fact are often leading the seminars. Stereotypes or not, the format works. When I
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
There's a group in Toronto called Ladies Learning Code http://ladieslearningcode.com/ . The group holds events for learning how to program and constantly sells out. Once while I was in Toronto, I walked into the event and it was so jammed
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
You can't make a good General in boot camp, but a lot of business types today rush into startups armed with an MBA or BBA. Wars produce Generals for the next wars. What you're looking for is somebody in a startup (not necessarily a founder)
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/U.S._bombing_...
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
China was able to gain full access to an American satellite (or at least blamed for it [ http://informationweek.com/news/government/security/23190190... ]). I would bet that Russia has similar capabilities. Iran isn't working in isolation,
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Apple didn't give design advice to Samsung because they're arrogant. It's because for them to argue that their patents are being infringed, they have to point out alternative designs that could have achieved the same effect. IP laws are scr
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
I would say that from 2006 and earlier, designers sought to go "pure CSS" primarily because of the possibility of javascript being disabled on the client. Especially for search engine crawlers at the time, this would be a bad thing. Things
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
I've not seen eye to eye with PG on everything he has written. But this particular essay is one of my favourites of his. PG laid out an upper bound, which he later clarifies: "If $3 million a year seems high, remember that we're talking abo
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
There's work. Then there's productive work. What pisses me off is having to pull an all-nighter doing ultimately meaningless work. In startups there can be a lot of meaningless work unless you have all your ducks lined up both strategically

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