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by MCRed 12y ago
I don't know the proportions at all, didn't mean to imply the majority were. However, it is a trend that there are a lot more people becoming independant and making their money online via various ways (not all of which are startup
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by MCRed 12y ago
Look ma, that's me! Free of a soul crushing corporate job, back to doing a "startup", I may not have the cash rolling in, but at least I'm in control of my destiny. Hey Ma, I'm moving in! I think there are a lot
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by MCRed 12y ago
Being an Iridium investor in the late 1990s was quite an experience. This was the dotcom boom, and Iridium looked like the next step in communications-- imagine being able to make a call or send data from anywhere in the world? Without th
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by MCRed 12y ago
I started programming before I was a teenager, in part because my mother was a programmer. At that time, 30+ years ago, women were not programmers because it was "less important". You didn't see men taking programming jobs
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by MCRed 12y ago
You're missing the point. This isn't about tax avoidance-- as the article points out the first $97k earned abroad isn't taxed and above that it isn't double taxed. The problem is that the regulations are absurd, not well
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by MCRed 12y ago
I've had a great experience with Apple Maps, which are based in part on Open Street Map (giving data back too) and TomTom. I've found it's accurate enough to just trust it, and it's excellent at detecting and rerouting
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by MCRed 12y ago
Actually you do. There are many cases of Steve realizing he was wrong and changing his position. In his Eulogy Jonny Ive talked about it as one of his best known features. But this doesn't fit the "steve jobs is a tyrannical ass
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by MCRed 12y ago
They should expect that, but instead they are getting sympathy in this thread, quite ironically: https://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/
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by MCRed 12y ago
This is a much better example. Heather put up code, Klabnik was an asshole to her. He really doesn't deserve sympathy for whining when a user asks that his readme expose the lack of functionality of his project. That's actually a
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by MCRed 12y ago
HN and Reddit's ranking systems are based on the assumption that the people voting are the ones who are actual genuine readers of the site. And thus for a company to organize a campaign of down votes (which seems the only way to exerc
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by MCRed 12y ago
The enumerated powers clause does not authorize the NSA, so effectively, everything they do is unconstitutional.
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by MCRed 12y ago
There's a general bigger picture perspective that goes something like this: "Government is a disease masquerading as it's own cure." EG: Government creates problems in order to justify more power by claiming it needs
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by MCRed 12y ago
> "Blaming the Iraq war for their dislike of us is about as silly as it gets, they didn't like us before." Actually, I'd love to hear a better explanation for the Iraq war. Because I've not heard one that wasn&#
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by MCRed 12y ago
No reason not to, really. The paint of my car has all kinds of evil chemicals in it, but if I lick my car I'm not going to die. Even if I licked my car a lot. There's a huge difference between skin exposure and ingestion. At so
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by MCRed 12y ago
He's not eating it, and he's not absorbing it thru the skin. I don't see how he could get poisoned. Also, remember, it's not like eating an ounce of lead will poison you. Yes, kids eating lead paint over many months can
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by MCRed 12y ago
Here's my argument against open office: I work in the dark. I am sensitive to the flickering of fluorescent lights that most people cannot see. Most offices have standard fluorescent lights, often with cheap bulbs or ballasts that ha
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by MCRed 12y ago
Maybe I'm being cynical but I don't believe it when people say open plans result in more "collaboration" or "openness". It just sounds like a rationalization By far the most collaborative environments for me h
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by MCRed 12y ago
I don't see meeting rooms as a balance. It doesn't solve the increased distraction of an open floorpan. Also, meeting rooms that are communal are not as useful- consider a whiteboard on a communal meeting room vs. one in a small
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by MCRed 12y ago
This is great. I think the downside, though, is the $0.04 transaction that incurs a $0.04 transaction fee. For instance, there's this transaction for .02 BTC that incurred a $0.19 fee. https://blockchain.info/tx/a2
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by MCRed 12y ago
It's been in production at one company since January 2014.
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by MCRed 12y ago
These articles telling Apple what to do are always quite funny, though I think they were even better when Steve Jobs was at the helm. I think he's right that the $100B spent returning money to investors hasn't bought the company m
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by MCRed 12y ago
This is a straight up political article. And unfortunately, it misses the mark when it comes to technology. The only reason there is an issue is the government grants monopolies. If the government didn't artificially limit competition
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by MCRed 12y ago
Yet another article that conflates a design patent (akin to a trademark) with a utility patent (for an invention.) I'm starting to believe this is on purpose so people will be fowled into thinking you can get a utility patent on a &quo
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by MCRed 12y ago
I'm an author on several physics papers published before I switched careers to become a programmer. So I've been published in "big name" (for physics) journals. Peer review, even without people scamming it, is still bro
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by MCRed 12y ago
Companies often choose arbitration when doing agreements between themselves, even large companies. The reason for this is, if, say, Nike and Apple did a deal and it went sour enough to have a lawsuit, they can resolve it much more quickly
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by MCRed 12y ago
How are you going to drive a million people to telecase.com to discover these businesses? How are you going to drive 10 million? This seems like it might be a feature - eg: on Facebook, where local businesses get featured based on the loca
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by MCRed 12y ago
I believe the correct term is startup. It is only in recent years that people have tried to make startup mean a very specific, narrow, method of launching a business. But the term, traditionally, means a business in its early phase, pre-p
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by MCRed 12y ago
20 years in startups. %50 of failures were due to bad decisions forced on the startup by the VC. Sometimes due to conflicts of interest: "we're giving you $X but you must spend $Y on portfolio company Z's product" (that
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by MCRed 12y ago
I honestly can't tell if you're being earnest or not. So, apologies if you're being sarcastic. The DEA, as a government agency, was created with the mission of eradicating drugs. They aren't really in the business of doi
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by MCRed 12y ago
I haven't met a 10X programmer, so maybe I am one? Seriously, though, I will say there is easily a 3X differences in productivity of teams that are well managed verses teams that are poorly managed. I don't have controlled data

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