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by bl4k 16y ago
lets not turn this into a women in tech issue
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by bl4k 16y ago
Liquidity preferences give investors first dig at any cash with a multiple (ie. we get 2 or 3x what we put in before you get your first dollar). Digg had raised a little over $10M at the time of the acquisition offer - which would have been
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by bl4k 16y ago
I wonder what the potential market size is for this game, and if he will reach a large part of that while the game is in alpha and on special. Something tells me he is selling it for too cheap, especially with all the buzz it is getting. Th
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by bl4k 16y ago
Actually you are correct. I think if they had the option to, they would not have been complacent, but all the internal muddling stalled them on Vista (worst project ever) and IE. They only got their teams cleared out in the past 18 months a
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by bl4k 16y ago
Ye this is what I was talking about - pointing out one of the points not being correct (even though IE implemented 128 bit ssl first) means you call my entire reply wrong. I just rattled these off the top of my head, the point still applies
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by bl4k 16y ago
I am clarifying the list now, point applies either way - lots of innovation that we appreciate today came out of IE I was a web dev at the time of 3, and I remember a lot of CSS properties that IE supported and added, I will dig up a list.
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by bl4k 16y ago
Sorry I rattled these off, going back and clarifying and adding some references in a moment so that the entire argument doesn't get simply shot down by pointing out a single feature :). Thanks.
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by bl4k 16y ago
I think its fair to say that Microsoft don't do complacency esp. in competitive markets IE team was torn apart as part of internal politics
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by bl4k 16y ago
That is my entire point. They are far behind now because we criticized the for so long and they threw in the towel after IE6. Microsoft did almost zero browser innovation after 6 and until now, whereas previously they innovated. And now the
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by bl4k 16y ago
Standards plays are political and market based, nothing to do with IE being slow or them being stupid. Innovations we can thank IE for that were never 'standard': * innerHTML * css applied to chrome * XMLHttpRequest * i18n DNS * double-byte
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by bl4k 16y ago
I wrote a defense: http://github.com/bl4k/astroid-defense (bit scrappy, 10 min of code, but funny) (test it by running asteroids on this page: http://bl4k.github.com/ )
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by bl4k 16y ago
No interest in selling them. More interested in building something useful.
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Ask HN: I have some generic Twitter usernames - what should I do with them?
3 points by bl4k 16y ago|5 comments
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by bl4k 16y ago
Ye I would expect at least $60M+ esp for a few reasons: a) Arrington has proven that the site can still grow even with him stepping back b) The conference business is now theirs alone and that the value in Techcrunch 50 was Techcrunch, not
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by bl4k 16y ago
no php has native lambdas and closures since 5.3.
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by bl4k 16y ago
When I started my first company, we almost didn't make payroll one month but I blogged my way out of it.
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by bl4k 16y ago
Sorry to bust-up the love-in but Matt isn't the CEO of Wordpress.com, but Toni Schneider is. Also the open source project doesn't have a CEO. Matt is lead-dev at both. Points still apply though, and Matt should get a ton of credit
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by bl4k 16y ago
The accounts have nothing in common - not IP address, nor cookies nor names nor friends or anything. With the fake accounts I just added fake friends (Facebook was so kind to suggest them) and they approved me. I even wrote 'whats up' on so
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by bl4k 16y ago
I just finished reading past "Forward Ruby on Rails". I started writing down couter-points, and realized my list was longer than your article - so I deleted it to tell you this: You seriously need to edit this post, or just take it down.
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by bl4k 16y ago
something tells me you don't know what method chaining is
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by bl4k 16y ago
A lot of misinformation in this post. Perl pointers? The Perl hash is the same as the PHP assoc. array (thats where they got it from). PHP has both lambda's and method chaining (method chaining isn't a lang feature). confusing language and
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by bl4k 16y ago
That article is so terribly written I couldn't get to the end. Here is the story from the source: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archiv...
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by bl4k 16y ago
I have two fake Facebook accounts that I use to sign in to services. I even have a good rep on Quora using a completely fake name. Forcing Facebook because you think it will give you real people and verified accounts is wrong.
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by bl4k 16y ago
The threat isn't about damaging the plane or forcing it to crash, it is about potential interference with electronic guidance and instruments, especially in the event of an instrument landing. With a 2 degree glide slope during landing, eve
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by bl4k 16y ago
It cost $368 Million when the FAA forced operators to replace Mylar insulation (cause of at least two accidents): http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0UBT/is_10_19/ai_n129... According to this very interesting IEEE article, it costs an
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by bl4k 16y ago
Here is the reason straight from the FAA: "There are still unknowns about the radio signals that portable electronic devices (PEDs) and cell phones give off. These signals, especially in large quantities and emitted over a long time, may u
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by bl4k 16y ago
Well imagine what would happen if I had pointed you to this: http://www.oldschooldos.com/ (and this: http://boxerapp.com/ - if you need it)
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by bl4k 16y ago
This should have been your blog post
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by bl4k 16y ago
It is things like this that make us look stupid to future generations.
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by bl4k 16y ago
This email makes the sender look good. The last leaked email made the sender look good. Work out who is leaking them.

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