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by bl4k 16y ago
"We had to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before any further information could be disclosed." Proof that wikileaks is a self-serving political organization. The irony of forcing them to sign an NDA on data that is about to be leake
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by bl4k 16y ago
keep-alive it doesn't make sense to make a new connection every 1 second, esp. to apache. that is where your prob was, not php
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by bl4k 16y ago
auto increment considered harmful, from joshu: http://joshua.schachter.org/2007/01/autoincrement.html Your tables almost always have a better unique key to use as a primary key other than auto increment (which sorts your table by the orde
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The world's biggest charity owns IKEA - and is dedicated to interior design(economist.com)
3 points by bl4k 16y ago|0 comments
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by bl4k 16y ago
tech guys have server naming schemes, lawyers have offshore tax-minimization entity naming schemes. (personally if I ever got that big, I would name them all after characters from The Wire - just so I could say thing like 'lets shift all th
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by bl4k 16y ago
There are tons of companies who sell shelf companies online. ie. $800 and we ship you a corp registration, a bank account, an office address etc. For small companies with a single office etc., that is all that an offshore tax structure is.
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by bl4k 16y ago
yes 'tax haven' is a slur invented by the high-tax rich countries to belittle their competing nations who have lower tax rates to attract individuals and corporations. you never hear Singapore, Dubai or Hong Kong being called 'tax havens' (
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by bl4k 16y ago
Who cares. I would rather Google keep the money and buy a startup or two rather than the government spending it to buy another battleship or aircraft carrier.
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by bl4k 16y ago
"Apple (AAPL), Oracle (ORCL), Microsoft (MSFT), and IBM (IBM)" Those companies all sell hardware. Apple can't say 'lets book those Palo Alto store sales in Bermuda'. Ads served are a total volatile good (their value is the time they spend
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by bl4k 16y ago
you need to strip out the implementation specific classes such as propel and the mysql-specific calls to make this useful to anybody else for eg. an in-memory sqlite db would be ideal for this purpose (and a lot faster)
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by bl4k 16y ago
The threshold for down-voting likely hasn't been changed since the community has grown. It should be fixed so that down-voting is granted to a top % of the community, rather than anybody with karma greater than x (which can be achieved with
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by bl4k 16y ago
and we all used to hate on Microsoft so much, but they never 'pulled' a windows app
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by bl4k 16y ago
Because if you assembled my years worth of comments you could probably work out who I am, which would negate being anonymous. Might seem a bit paranoid, but I have been anonymous and using aliases on the web since the mid-90s, which mostly
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by bl4k 16y ago
That is the point, they just need the deposit for the LBO I didn't link revenue to the money they need for an LBO
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by bl4k 16y ago
'only' being relative :) And you bet there would be layoffs if this happens. I think the chances of it happening are slim though. They rejected $40B from MSFT, they would look really stupid to accept half of that now (personally I think the
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by bl4k 16y ago
This is probably my 6th or 7th account here. I switch accounts frequently. I prefer anonymity but also have an account with my real name. I visit HN every day (since the very early days) and don't like the idea of every one of my comments f
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by bl4k 16y ago
Subtract Yahoo's stake in Alibaba from the cap and it becomes $10B. Strip a few more assets and it suddenly becomes viable. AOL have $2.7B in revenue, that combined with an injection of money from a hedge fund or two make an LBO (leveraged
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by bl4k 16y ago
It is up to user if a link should open in a new window or not, not something that markup should determine.
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by bl4k 16y ago
same with the financials. leave it out.
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by bl4k 16y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20070430073433/http://www.emetric... Old data. Also I know that this wasn't the real deck, but there was too much emphasis on patents and I have never seen a valuation/expected return in a deck. Good research be
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by bl4k 16y ago
Techcrunch did this but with video: http://pitches.techcrunch.com/ site seems dormant. You may want to explore the reason why this wasn't more popular. My personal opinion is that video should work better than voice, or even just text + a
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by bl4k 16y ago
I agree with you, but as the comment above pointed out for various reasons JVM updates lag in the enterprise. One of those screens had a table of JVM version numbers and a large slice were old installs. It isn't really Sun/Oracle's fault, s
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Java browser plugin now the most exploited in vuln packs(krebsonsecurity.com)
10 points by bl4k 16y ago|3 comments
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by bl4k 16y ago
You may be looking at the quarter where they wrote of Bebo, ICQ and a bunch of other assets
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New Yorker Profile of Nick Denton(newyorker.com)
14 points by bl4k 16y ago|0 comments
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by bl4k 16y ago
A lot of investing (esp trading) is a game of incomplete information between two or more parties, so yes.
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by bl4k 16y ago
So typical - you see this all the time. Moving up too soon thinking they are the best in the world, only to lose it all. (For non players, this means that you are a winner at lower stakes, say $5/10 - but a common trait is that you become b
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by bl4k 16y ago
AOL is $2.68B with $2.5B in revenue Yahoo should buy them, at least AOL have a new purpose that investors believe in. Yahoo's recent acquisition attempts seem very disparate with no real overall goal (Yelp, Foursquare, etc.) or mission.
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by bl4k 16y ago
Skip the first few pages to get to the details. Original PDF is here: http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/secur...
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A comprehensive technical review of Stuxnet(docstoc.com)
2 points by bl4k 16y ago|1 comments

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