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by borism 16y ago
you still don't understand that by company I mean people it consists of?
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by borism 16y ago
think what? of course company's registration certificate and brand name cannot be immoral (unless registration states "we kill people" and brand name is something like Murder-by-Order"). things are not what makes companies, are they?
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by borism 16y ago
axes aren't made out of people, unlike companies.
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by borism 16y ago
Company doesn't have legal obligation to not lie (in most industries anyway). However everything we humans do has moral implications, and company that lies is clearly behaving in immoral way. Then it's up to a customer to decide based on he
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by borism 16y ago
yup, just some toying around by our mac devs :)
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by borism 16y ago
I don't argue that linux itself is bad, it's obviously very good overall. That doesn't say anything about overall code quality though - as usual there are good, bad and really ugly parts. "I've looked at the source and there are pieces tha
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by borism 16y ago
I sincerely doubt that there is a moral obligation to set price points in any other way. and who claimed that? there is however a moral obligation to not lie to your customers. if anything, the crippled version is actually more costly to
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by borism 16y ago
doesn't really help readability either
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by borism 16y ago
there are plenty on match.com etc, though getting any of those will be out of reach for most guys with DNA synthesizers :)
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by borism 16y ago
since when is linux kernel a reference on good code?
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by borism 16y ago
hopefully
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by borism 16y ago
Would you like people to talk about you like this just because you switched jobs after 2 years time? if I switched 3 senior executive jobs in 4 years and then went on to become CEO one of the most known companies in the world today, then
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by borism 16y ago
appointed by the board of directors trough the process known as "election" Elop's background and shareholdings would be well understood by Nokia's board. very optimistic statement
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by borism 16y ago
sure, if ones primary objective in life is climbing corporate ladder as high as possible and making as much money as possible in the process, that makes pretty good strategy.
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by borism 16y ago
his holdings of NOK are reportedly 0 so far, which makes sense - he's been on the job for less than a year so 1st vesting cliff haven't been reached yet.
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by borism 16y ago
ok, but why would (MobileSafari == WebKit view) be false?
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by borism 16y ago
he seems to be nothing more than a hustler, quickly jumping jobs when opportunity presents itself: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2212657
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Microsoft beware: Stephen Elop is a flight risk (2008)(siliconbeat.com)
58 points by borism 16y ago|12 comments
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by borism 16y ago
I'd say his financial future is far more tied with the success of Nokia than Microsoft. and why would that be? I guess majority of his current net worth is in MSFT, and future success of NOK is now firmly tied to MSFT as well.
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by borism 16y ago
yeah, and Bill Gates with his mere 6.95% is totally irrelevant too. I mean, I probably could own and influence as much of MSFT trough various Vanguard ETFs!
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by borism 16y ago
this mostly seems to be pure speculation on Forbes/Chris Barth part + a little bit of usual pandering to the establishment. real journalist would have done slightly better job than just copy-pasting some twitter and blog posts.
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by borism 16y ago
MobileSafari = WebKit view
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by borism 16y ago
well, at least they were as close to death of a company as it gets. Not getting funded by YC is hardly death, IMHO.
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by borism 16y ago
dunno, imho AirBnB story was more thrilling.
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by borism 16y ago
hard to say what its impact on the economic system would be if lifespan of everybody doubled it would have devastating effect on world economy, as one of the most important issues we face today is population aging (and not just in develop
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by borism 16y ago
75x trailing earnings in the current economic environments SEEMS expensive to me. It seems the same to me as well, but markets seem to disagree. The riskier the bet, the more willing today's market seems to be willing to accept it.
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by borism 16y ago
to the shareholders
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by borism 16y ago
it haven't picked-up one bit, now down -13%.
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by borism 16y ago
usually stocks go up when layoffs are announced...
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by borism 16y ago
so by that logic: - if you develop for Palm WebOS, you're relying on company whose main business is selling printer ink - if you develop for Android, you're relying on company whose main business is selling ads - if you develop for iOS, you

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