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by bcg1 11y ago
OT, but incidentally, gold is more valuable than platinum at the moment: http://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html http://www.kitco.com/charts/liveplatinum.html
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Good article, healthy level of skepticism. Low visibility into how the sausages are made coupled with high incentive to juice up the 'headline valuation' make for a sketchy situation. I agree with the conclusion(s). One thing I wo
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by bcg1 11y ago
Also: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... https://github.com/sarabander/sicp
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Not just startups.
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My comment does not apply to those for whom it does not apply.
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You can say 'this isn't a problem with our industry, it is just internet trolls' but people outside our industry aren't going to docker conferences or paying attention to presenters at them. It might not be YOU that does
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by bcg1 11y ago
You make good points but it is multifaceted. The money "pushed to Greece" isn't really available for them to squander as you're suggesting... it is used to roll over loans from private European banking institutions that
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I don't even have a cell phone. And there is zero chance I would ever get one just so that SlaveCard will process payments for me. That whole industry is like the grandfather that clearly can't drive anymore but everyone's
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by bcg1 11y ago
Trying to follow your logic... Freedom is important to you... so you measure a software license's merits by whether or not it is blessed by Amazon "We-delete-Orwells-1984-from-your-kindle" Inc. Amazon probably just hates RMS
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You could have your temps and employees waive their rights under the AGPLv3 as a condition of their employment, contract, etc. Most legit AGPL projects I've seen by the way don't really try to trap you like that anyhow... for inst
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by bcg1 11y ago
Precisely. Especially as these devices start making important legal and philosophical choices... such as the self driving car that needs to choose between swerving and hitting an elderly person on the sidewalk vs. running over a child that
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by bcg1 11y ago
I think that's what the author was getting as with the iphone example... users installed their own root certificates to run a mitm on their device The point they were making about embedded devices is that you can't update the cert
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by bcg1 11y ago
Wake me up when they can bootstrap a compiler for graphical programming using graphical programming itself. Until such time... not that nervous.
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Couldn't Google just comply with the license and re-release their code under GPL with linking exception like the original standard library? Maybe pay a fine but at least Android survives. They should have just paid the vig to Oracle a
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All of the things I listed are part of the Java language and standard library. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/P... http://docs.oracle.com/javase
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by bcg1 11y ago
I wonder if mountains of government and private debt in both developed nations and emerging markets could be choking out trade and capital expenditures. It also might not help that central banks around the world are in the midst of competi
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by bcg1 11y ago
This is a great example of mistaking a nuanced social issue with one that has a binary answer. In many social situations saying "guys" is not gender specific... but that does not mean that it is "perfectly" fine to use
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by bcg1 11y ago
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
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Chapters 1 and 2 (Philosophy and History) are required reading for all junior devs and aspiring hackers.
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The premise should be simple I think... pay people competitively with actual money for the work they are actually doing right now. If there is a chance their work could lead to a huge paypay... then give them a claim to a sliver of that pa
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by bcg1 11y ago
Making immutable structures in Java truly does suck... this is the most valid complaint that I've heard in a long time about the language. It would be extremely easy to implement properties as syntactic sugar in the language or via bui
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by bcg1 11y ago
Did you just call jython, jruby, groovy, and all of the other dynamic JVM languages cruft? Or maybe you don't consider them high levels of abstraction... if that's the case might as well not consider inheritance, interfaces, dynam
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Some people think it should be 500 million: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#Inscriptio...
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"I would encourage you to support any proposal that would result in the maximum engagement by the MPAA in Internet governance. Of all the things we do to protect our industry, this one is fundamental. Ron Wheeler put it well when he sa
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by bcg1 11y ago
The filing in [1] lists net income as $1.5 billion. It doesn't invalidate your point but just wanted to point that out.
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If by 2020 they expect to earn $3 billion a year... then it would take 8 years to get your money out at this valuation, correct? And that projection is 5 years away, they currently aren't profitable, and the $3 billion projection does
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by bcg1 11y ago
Have you ever worked for the government? Your friends will either be assimilated by the Borg or shot out of a torpedo tube. Resistance is futile.
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"Service as a software substitute" http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-se...
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I disagree with Sustrik's assumption that software drifts to become a collection of non-reusable components. His observation is an interesting theory but I think it breaks down because it could only really be a "law" if it i
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Yes

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