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by arjunnarayan 18y ago
The reason the code's not broken - because the CIA don't need it broken. This is what happens when the CIA needs a code broken: http://xkcd.com/538/
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by arjunnarayan 18y ago
By being a patent troll?
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by arjunnarayan 18y ago
In terms of lowered opportunity costs, yes. In terms of selling services that lower other peoples costs, yes. (In boom times, they might have other priorities. To quote pg, Amazon didn't become Amazon by buying the cheapest servers. But rig
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by arjunnarayan 18y ago
Actually the shortened tag is a good idea. It would make books more readable. And he could publish a list at the end of the book with the actual URLs (think of it as site version 1). He could even call it an "index".
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by arjunnarayan 18y ago
I'd prefer it if Apple didn't enter the moral policing world. Well, beyond their already no-porn policy. But then again, Americans always were prudes(puritans) by European standards.
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by arjunnarayan 18y ago
Most developed countries tax at a higher rate than the US - so this ends up only applying to people who live and work in tax havens, and earn huge amounts of money. (If you live in a country that taxes marginally less than the US, that ~85k
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by arjunnarayan 18y ago
As a citizen of the United States, you still benefit enormously from the power and wealth of your country. As a non-citizen, I've seen the power that blue passport with the eagle possesses. The next time there's a disaster and you're abroad
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by arjunnarayan 18y ago
Ever since I learnt Cython, this has been my preferred combination as well. I can't overstate enough how great it is to be able to get the rapid prototyping of Python combined with being able to offload the heavy stuff to C.
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by arjunnarayan 18y ago
What we need is a open standard for URL shorteners - where the shortener can publish the time-to-live of the URL, and other stuff (that I really don't know about, but I'm sure some netOS guys can come up with). This way they are transparent
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by arjunnarayan 18y ago
You should test that hypothesis. There's only so far they can push ahead.
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by arjunnarayan 18y ago
Option 1: You could do an "early decision" round, and a regular round. If the early round is very early (february?), and the regular round at the current schedule, the other seed firms would have to really come out into the open to pre-empt
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by arjunnarayan 18y ago
I think a really interesting proposition would be to get together and write some GPLed javascript libraries. Things that would be immensely useful in coding up something like Google Docs. IANAL, but we may need some modified Affero type GPL
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by arjunnarayan 18y ago
Even if they're equal, (and the startup seems to be accepted as generally better), the MBA costs about $150,000 at a top institution. A startup (or several) shouldn't cost you more than 50k$ over two years; and if it does, you're doing it w
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by arjunnarayan 18y ago
At the end of the day if they originally wanted you, chances are they still want you, despite deadlines. They won't cut their nose to spite their face. Call their bluff. Chances are they'll want you back. Not to mention the selection correl