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Ask HN: What software does every company write themselves?
2 points by bactrian 7y ago|2 comments
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by bactrian 9y ago
Stripe’s entire business is built on credit card transactions. They added half assed bitcoin support and then killed it. This makes sense for a company that has every incentive to prolong a move away from credit cards. As soon as we switch
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by bactrian 9y ago
China is always “working on” whatever the US is. Issue comes down to timing.
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by bactrian 9y ago
It’s almost so bad (even for gov work) that one wonders if it wasn’t designed like this recently as an excuse to run this “false alarm” exercise. This is the kind of thing we would want the gov to do and lie to us about because most people
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by bactrian 9y ago
“However, Aboulafia noted, such a capability could also be considered a destabilizing development if a U.S. adversary decided to react preemptively to such an aircraft’s existence.” In other words China and Russia may contemplate fighting W
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by bactrian 9y ago
Oracle is downright evil in the most corporate way. No one with other options should be a customer or employee. Oracle needs to die with Comcast and the rest.
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by bactrian 9y ago
Good time to start a Soylent competitor if you’ve been thinking of it.
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by bactrian 9y ago
Microsoft hires thousands of H1B workers for generic roles like project manager and software developer. Do you really think there aren’t Americans that could fill those roles? Of course there are but it would cost more. A true shortage woul
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by bactrian 9y ago
Connections matter mostly before . Once you have a rapidly growing business, everyone is your friend, and “connections” fly in.
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by bactrian 9y ago
Social metrics. Would make the Social Capital name genuinely meaningful :-) The “social response” (HN, GitHub, reddit, ...) to a new project, product, or service is all you should need to predict success at a high enough rate to do extremel
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by bactrian 9y ago
The flaw here is using the wrong metrics. Once a company has found a repeatable and growing business model, it’s trivial to raise money and there’s no reason to pick Social Capital over anyone else. The big market opportunity is to fund sta
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by bactrian 9y ago
How about a super EMP that wipes out millions of Americans and brings it down to Russia's level? Russia started helping North Korea with ICBM and super EMP technology after Bush pulled out of the anti ballistic missile treaty unilatera
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by bactrian 9y ago
The US can probably see the position of every sub on the planet using magnetic imaging.
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by bactrian 9y ago
You blow a hole in the border with the first plane. Then fly the rest through. EMP attacks can also blow a hole.
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by bactrian 9y ago
Nothing to do with START. It's all about the NK war. Do you also believe the story that they recalled 1000 retired pilots due to shortages in recruiting? And that this weeks evacuation "drill" was already scheduled? This is w
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by bactrian 9y ago
The reason for the 24/7 bombers is to counter any Russian or Chinese aggression during the US attack on North Korea. We can't risk them thinking we're vulnerable to a preemptive strike for even a day or week. It's precau
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by bactrian 9y ago
Design by committee vs design by vision. Takes guts to have strong opionions and stick to them. At almost every company, the primary background motivation is not getting fired. Virtually no one even aspires to great work let alone takes the
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by bactrian 9y ago
Privilege is wealth. The idea that there are a number of privileges is a lie people who have wealth tell. If you have money, you have privilege. If you don't, you don't. Everything else is but a symptom.
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by bactrian 9y ago
It's not related to crypto/tls or net/http. This has to do with sending mail via SMTP. It's totally worth fixing but probably had close to zero real world effect. Go has an incredible security track record. Out of the bo
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by bactrian 9y ago
Bank robbery is not a capital crime either but cops shoot as soon as they see an armed gang. Isn't this a good comparison?
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by bactrian 9y ago
All the money spent on patent wars will be paid for by consumers. Abolish all patents. Let the free market sort things out.
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by bactrian 9y ago
You can tell they descriminate based on who they hire and fund. It's the country club crowd sprinkled with safe seeming outsiders that act as token representatives. It's not merit based but class (aka "culture") based. I
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by bactrian 9y ago
The question is whether it's okay to shoot first at a gang of heavily armed criminals, or whether you have to attempt an arrest first.
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by bactrian 9y ago
Another founding principle of YC is that its for the upper crust of society. Exceptions are made, but in general, the poor need not apply. YC actively excludes poor people through socioeconomic discrimination. YC truly is "the Harvard
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by bactrian 9y ago
This is clearly a license enforcement measure. They're going to search for commercial sites sending this header and then hit them up for money. This is DRM.
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by bactrian 9y ago
This post was interesting in a morbid way but you can count the Linux nerds that want leave the open world of Linux for Microsoft very easily. They all work at Microsoft. Microsoft is losing on mobile, desktop, servers, and IoT. Their entir
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by bactrian 9y ago
But you spark up one marijuana cigarette on the patio and everyone loses their shit...
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by bactrian 9y ago
Yes but it's corrupted at step one by an artificial selelection process. You want just the real world to be the filter.
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by bactrian 9y ago
Firefox kept the fire burning but Chrome is what stirred Microsoft into action. Chrome is creepy privacy invading software designed to help maintain Googles search monopoly. Like Search, Chrome's quality is the honey and we are the fli
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by bactrian 9y ago
Funding startups others wouldn't is perhaps the most essential part of YC. VCs didn't want Dropbox or Airbnb or Stripe without YCs stamp of approval. YC could very plausible fund as many startups as there are ambitious and determi

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