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by alex_c 15y ago
>stories about how employees got screwed out of equity by investors/founders when an exit loomed do seem like the norm around here. Well, "everything went as planned" doesn't make for a very interesting story.
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by alex_c 15y ago
Terminating employees only to avoid their stock vesting - as opposed to valid performance reasons - is just as scummy. I also can't see how employees who give up their stock and remain with the company can possibly have a healthy relationsh
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by alex_c 15y ago
> its up to those of us that do have a lot of privilege to listen, take a step back, and think about that person's experience and examine our role in that community. After stepping back and thinking about it, the author's stance about t
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by alex_c 15y ago
>maybe the Mac community doesn’t want people like me to be comfortable? Perhaps they would rather keep this a boy’s club forever, and it’s simply irritating when people like me disrupt that. I find this kind of generalization or assumpt
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by alex_c 15y ago
Given the sheer number of inane "reviews" with bizarre complaints, I think the sad truth is that most of them do come from real users.
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by alex_c 15y ago
If I made that site, I would make all the share buttons just show "Haven't you learned anything?" and do nothing else.
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by alex_c 15y ago
>Either you have separation of data and presentation or you don't. HTML didn't. HTML5 still doesn't. Is it really so desirable? I understand the appeal in theory, but in practice is it really worth it in most cases? Or perhaps I'm so s
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by alex_c 15y ago
Typo on Features page - "A music player should fast and lightweight." is missing a "be". Looks great on first impression, will keep playing with it. Also, sent you an email :)
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by alex_c 15y ago
>as the legality of this AI is still uncertain. I know it's just a StarCraft AI, but that sentence still sent a chill down my spine, and visions of Ghost in the Shell / similar SF.
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by alex_c 15y ago
Addendum: If you absolutely HAVE to give a gut-level estimate, multiply your gut level estimate by 4 or 5 before you let it escape your mouth.
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by alex_c 15y ago
Yes and no. I obviously don't know that many details about Google's ranking algorithms, but content age and incoming links play a big role. This plays against content freshness and rate at which new incoming links are added. I suspect Go
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by alex_c 15y ago
Documentation rot is one of the most annoying things when trying to learn a new technology, and the fault lies mostly with Google. "Definitive" sources sometimes instantly become obsolete when a new version of a technology is released - an
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by alex_c 15y ago
“Applicants can spend the entire amount on one house or spend as little as $250,000 on a residence and invest the rest in other residential real estate, which can be rented out,” the paper added.
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by alex_c 15y ago
I'm not convinced how effective this will be. The parts in the US where housing prices took the largest hit are also the parts where a foreigner with access to USD$500,000 is least likely to want to go in the first place.
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by alex_c 15y ago
Well, how much do you value your time, per hour? And how much time does it take you, on average, to find a decent .com domain name and a decent temporary logo? You don't seem to include that in your calculation - unless your time is free,
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by alex_c 15y ago
Wordoid is probably the best. I've also used http://www.nameboy.com/ (which seems to be down at the moment), and http://domai.nr/ (if you don't mind non-.com, del.icio.us style domains). Even with those tools, I still hate looking for
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by alex_c 15y ago
This is the kind of pricing philosophy that plagues HN (and I'll admit, I'm guilty of it as often as not). The value of a product is usually not cost of labor + cost of materials, it's the value it brings to the buyer. $106.99 won't get me
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by alex_c 15y ago
Why is it moot? It's a simple logo and you can use it right away. Naming and branding has been a huge headache and/or cost on almost every project I've worked on. Picking something off the shelf that lets you get back to the more importa
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by alex_c 15y ago
>Doctors need to enter lots of information and prefer a laptop / proper keyboard. Any reference for that?
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by alex_c 15y ago
No one buys tablets by the square yard, though. Lots of people seem to say that a 10" tablet is inherently better than a 7" tablet, but I think the market is still far too young to really know the winning form factor.
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by alex_c 15y ago
This link lists the AV packages that can currently detect the installed malware: https://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=d761babc...
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by alex_c 15y ago
This article is annoyingly breathless about these new features. I seem to stubbornly remain in the minority by thinking that, in the long term, Facebook doesn't matter. It's fluff. It's wildly popular, people love it, but it's still fluff
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by alex_c 15y ago
Same with Ixquick. Looks like it's still around, and going for the "privacy" angle, like DDG. http://ixquick.com/
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by alex_c 15y ago
Aw, yet another thing I wanted to build several years ago but never got around to it. I even got a cool domain name for it, just never started coding. It was meant to be just a link you can share with friends, and have it pipe your local
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by alex_c 15y ago
> If by "higher quality apps" you mean loads and loads of thinly disguised ad- and spyware, as well as generally useless crap, then yes, curated native app stores are "great". > I'd say the density of pure and utter crapware has nev
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by alex_c 15y ago
Actual report: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/digits/pdfs_docs/research/2011/Ap... Not sure I buy (or fully understand) their estimates - there seem to be a lot of unstated assumptions in there.
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by alex_c 15y ago
How are you spinning this to be about choice? You're conflating the app type with the distribution channel. I agree that curated native app stores are generally great. Users get higher quality apps with great discoverability, developers ge
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by alex_c 15y ago
I don't like it either (hell, most of us here on HN won't like it... we love to tinker and break things and get under the hood), but that doesn't mean it's not the most likely direction. You describe it as a struggle between totalitarian an
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by alex_c 15y ago
I suspect we'll be seeing a more and more pronounced split in computing and, therefore, interfaces. On one side (the majority) will be "consumers": web, email, Facebook, maybe some light photo editing. On the other side will be the "produ
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by alex_c 15y ago
The description is too abstract for my taste. Of the three main points, all I really get is that you somehow organize my "Events", whatever that is. The logos above the first point give me a clue as to what "Events" are, from a technical

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