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by arithmetic 17y ago
Agree. "Just be happy that you're getting paid" is not an acceptable culture - petty things like snacks and freebies count.
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by arithmetic 17y ago
That's one hell of a supportive "friends and family"!
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by arithmetic 17y ago
I'm surprised people thought the perks would last. Every company goes through that phase, where employees are showered with perks (of bizarre variety - everything from free laundry to day care for kids to free pop soda). The company either
94.
by arithmetic 17y ago
I wonder if they use mint.com to track their startup expenses :o
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by arithmetic 17y ago
Is it just me or does the entire interview seem very strained and uncomfortable? Schmidt seems to violently differ from Sergey and they both go compeltely mum when asked about their competitors.
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by arithmetic 17y ago
You'd think they'd act like grown-ups before the press, given media's tendency to blow things out of proportion. But nope, not Schmidt.
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by arithmetic 17y ago
The way the article is titled (emphasizing that it was Brad Pitt's foundation) almost makes me think that they expected the foundation to fail. "Oh, an actor's foundation. What good could they do?". Or they were being sensationalist (anythi
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Microsoft Zune service coming to a Mac near you?(blogs.zdnet.com)
1 points by arithmetic 17y ago|0 comments
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by arithmetic 17y ago
FCC would have ruled AT&T to do this anyway.
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by arithmetic 17y ago
Holy crap! That is extortion!
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by arithmetic 17y ago
I wonder if they're watching this HN post and going "Darn it! He's in Cambridge!" :)
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by arithmetic 17y ago
The Big Brother is watching. Who'd have thought?
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by arithmetic 17y ago
Someone should tell Jon Skeet that he's really not missing out on much.
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by arithmetic 17y ago
Give this guy a break. Atleast he's trying to be productive. And we can all check back on him during Thanksgiving if the Einstein theory really worked.
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by arithmetic 17y ago
Or you can get the video leactures from here http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
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Will you buy a Zune HD?(betanews.com)
1 points by arithmetic 17y ago|0 comments
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by arithmetic 17y ago
Considering tools like MoMA are exclusive to Mono and don't have an equivalent in the .Net world ( http://www.mono-project.com/MoMA ), I'd state that in some cases Mono is a little ahead of its Windows counterpart.
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by arithmetic 17y ago
Orthogonally, if he really wanted people to buy the CD, why place an ad in some magazine and expect people to place orders? Aren't there other ways to advertise? (yes, I get that the point of this post is about success, and how the 1% argum
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by arithmetic 17y ago
The Kindle as it exists today, is going to be a pretty sad design for mostly anything other than reading. Definitely not intended for playing shoot-'em-ups - playing chess or educational games might work, but then again, Kindle's form fac
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by arithmetic 17y ago
I'm a little suprised by your reply - I haven't seen an entrepreneur say "We don't really want a founders visa" either. We've seen several threads on news.ycombinator on the need for a "founder's visa" and immigration reform. The current H1
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by arithmetic 17y ago
It'll be very interesting to see the kidn of start-ups that come out of this venture, even if its not useful to compare it against what Y Combinator has produced.
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by arithmetic 17y ago
Let this new office get serious about founder's visa and immigration issues, and then we'll see if there's any truth to all the startup love.
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by arithmetic 17y ago
What is the pre-requisite for reading this book? I'm mainly curious to see if this will be a useful way for beginners (such as kids) to start learning computer science. Given that many of us learnt computer science by writing games and othe
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by arithmetic 17y ago
I love the title of the story - very intriguing and fitting.
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by arithmetic 17y ago
For the longest time, I couldn't run more than a couple of miles a day. I was always told that I had poor stamina. I trained for a year, and recently ran my first marathon and I'm now addicted. I can completely relate to what you say above
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by arithmetic 17y ago
+1 makes me hang my head in shame.
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by arithmetic 17y ago
I would highly recommend "How to design programs" by the same authors. Such a good read, and also teaches Scheme (as a side-effect).
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by arithmetic 17y ago
Does anyone even care? Even if there was Google Voice on the iPhone, would you use it? Having said that, the TC headline may as well be right. This is one nuke that Apple is going to find hard to swallow.
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by arithmetic 17y ago
That's what happens when you stop innovating (and looking around at competition) and start competing on price. When all you have to offer is lower price, you're already halfway downhill.
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by arithmetic 17y ago
Yes, confirmation bias at play. But I'm still not sure if that makes it OK to title the article "Why CEOs are so stupid" - that's a gross generalization even for this particular CEO, given that there was this one interview where he messed

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