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by adgar 14y ago
> it's sad to realize that once blossoming companies fueled with innovation and hope, like Google and Twitter, have resorted to promoting anti-trust litigation because they feared their product couldn't stand on its own merit It's sad t
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by adgar 14y ago
... right. Surprise the world by throwing a billion dollars down for a social media company with 11 employees - a month or two before your IPO - because you don't care if they have to stay your competitor for another 6 months (or more). R
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by adgar 14y ago
So you're saying he should sell IDE support? How does that business model work? People always respond with "Red Hat" in this argument and it never makes any sense . Why doesn't anybody think anymore?
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by adgar 14y ago
> when the inevitable criticism comes, ignore the haters What if the criticism is correct?
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by adgar 14y ago
How long did Facebook expect to grow unfettered before their acquisitions started requiring scrutiny by regulators? Edit: When Mark Zuckerberg found himself throwing down a billion dollars to have what a company he wanted, did he ever once
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by adgar 14y ago
Lurking along this thread (google engineer), this is exactly what I want for my multi monitor setup! Chrome on one screen, everything else on another, programmable WM to make organizing that other screen natural. I don't know too much abo
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by adgar 14y ago
> Yeah, I know, useless comment when it takes both sides of a point Incorrect. Given a subjective question, the most useful comments acknowledge and consider all possible answers according to their due weight.
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by adgar 14y ago
> "Too bad you forgot sucks for you" is not what the law says, nor is it the ethical thing to do, IMO. That's not what's going on. It's "Too bad we forgot and you forgot to remind us sucks for you."
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by adgar 14y ago
I'm curious what the overlap between the following two sets is: 1. Speech for which I am willing to pay to share/announce 2. Speech for which I think Facebook is most appropriate venue I suspect that overlap is quite small.
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by adgar 14y ago
> Fortunately, we all now know that OpenDNS and anything else David Ulevitch is involved with in the future is a company to avoid. It seems that's true only if you value treating people with respect when you aren't legally obligated to.
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by adgar 14y ago
It makes perfect sense if you don't think about it too much, which I suspect you are. Here's the general pattern: You don't have to do X to help Y, even though you said you would, and it'd be nice. But nobody would blame you if you didn't
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by adgar 14y ago
> Josh, let me talk to Tim. > After you lost our data and caused our entire company to scramble for 3 days, I am hesitant. Extremely professional. They blew me away with that one.
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by adgar 14y ago
That was what kept me reading the entire article. Somrat started the conversation by making it personal.
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by adgar 14y ago
When my girlfriend broke up with me, we had a lot of shared stuff in my apartment we had purchased together. I gave her back everything she wanted and more. Why? I didn't owe her anything. We'd purchased things together, lived together, o
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by adgar 14y ago
You didn't seem to understand the post. You have it backwards. It's more like that you had a personal bonus scheduled for Dec 31, and your last day was the next Jan 30, and they never paid you.
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by adgar 14y ago
That's usually the case when one summarily dismisses the customer.
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by adgar 14y ago
So the best response is to not respond to him for a few days at a time, and when you do, assume the customer is acting in bad faith while you fill in some form letters?
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by adgar 14y ago
You seem to be giving Square far, far more credit than any business deserves. I suspect it is because Square is an HN darling, but hey, to each his own. I take serious issue with your characterization that those Square responses were "prett
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by adgar 14y ago
I get nauseous when I see companies with 200 some-odd employees respond to a distressed individual with PR-drafted form letter ad libs. I can't wait to see what they do when they have 2,000 employees.
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by adgar 14y ago
> Can we really expect prose of such simple (more-or-less obvious?) functions to be patented? rangecheck is under copyright scrutiny, not patent scrutiny.
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by adgar 14y ago
> Seriously... there is /nothing wrong/ with a site choosing to A/B test people by returning different results from the server, and yet Google insists that doing so is somehow harmful and that it would be better to wait entire extra ro
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by adgar 14y ago
> Perhaps I should have said "Supporting versions of C past the point where one could plausibly just pipe the C code through a C++ compiler." Like supporting for-loop variable declarations, which MSVC's C++ compilation mode (/TP) suppor
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by adgar 14y ago
> Unless that "legacy" code suddenly mutates to use C99 features that aren't in C++, it'll still compile in the future. Forcing legacy code to stay woefully out of date to support a single vendor's stubbornness, perpetually growing its
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by adgar 14y ago
> So you can sign up for Dropbox directly and they get 100% of the fee or you can sign up through Apple and they get 70%. That might be more than their entire profit. (Emphasis mine) Sounds like it might be time to find a new business
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by adgar 14y ago
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.ch...
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by adgar 14y ago
Any input receivable by OpenSSH, regardless of whether it is valid user input or malicious input being delivered by a cross-domain attacker, mustn't result in exploit. If so, it's a bug in OpenSSH, not the fault of the developer who integra
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by adgar 14y ago
> I'm confused. No, you're not. You identified a crystal clear double standard in your parent post.
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by adgar 14y ago
I'm sorry, I feel I came across as making a broader point than I was. Probably because of the "birth and death" bit which really isn't what I meant to focus on. I'm talking about a few specific examples that are astonishingly easy to clone
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by adgar 14y ago
> sustainable competitive advantage I think this is what so many commenters struggle with when it comes to "the bubble" so many of us speak of now. We see so many companies' births and deaths without ever having seen a clear "sustainabl
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by adgar 14y ago
> most people would not want their web service cut off if they get a spike in traffic. Only if they are sure enough about their finances and their web service to be confident that the spike will be profitable.

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