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by brainflake 11y ago
Just because one person doesn't want it doesn't make it a hostile takeover. If the board votes for it and a majority of shareholders approve (as would seem to be the case in your example) then it's definitely not hostile.
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by brainflake 11y ago
True, but I think that the fact that they're using these anti-competitive practices indicates they don't have that firm hold. Predatory pricing will only work as long as they keep doing it. Although I've heard stories of th
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by brainflake 11y ago
Exactly. Uber is doing all of the work on the regulation front, which benefits any company wanting to do the same thing. And I would imagine the barrier to entry is already fairly low.
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by brainflake 11y ago
Wow! That reads like a Dr. Bronners bottle.
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by brainflake 11y ago
I sense some bias in your comment, I just can't put my finger on it...
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by brainflake 11y ago
It's regulated capitalism... You may not agree with the laws governing investments for private companies, but surely you can understand the motivation for protecting investors?
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by brainflake 11y ago
How about financial security/early retirement? Many people take jobs like this for 5-10 years, then quit with a little bit of security and freedom to do what they want. It's really not unlike what PG has advocated before for start
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by brainflake 11y ago
Wow, you can't even 'muster empathy' for people like this? I can understand how you wouldn't want to work these hours, but when the article is detailing someone who dies and your first comment is 'Meh.', that&#
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by brainflake 11y ago
Well, I think it probably depends on the demographic and/or how many friends you have. I would imagine the younger ones hate it but older professional types who don't log on as much appreciate it. And likewise the larger the size
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by brainflake 11y ago
I think it'd be pretty easy to offer both. A simple switch to turn on/off 'curation' or whatever.
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by brainflake 11y ago
From a product standpoint, I feel like Twitter has barely changed in 5 years. There's been some polish and redesign, sure, but the main dynamics are almost exactly the same. Facebook has features like intelligently improving the qualit
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by brainflake 11y ago
It's not really the same... Facebook had a botched IPO where the price tanked immediately, but then recovered after a few quarters and their earnings started rolling in. Twitter has had consistently bad quarters, whether through poor e
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Why we should build a 'forever' company(andrewchen.co)
8 points by brainflake 11y ago|0 comments
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by brainflake 12y ago
Great piece of advice! My only complaint is I wish I had written it :)
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The Success Gap: A Huge Threat You Haven't Considered(sixteenventures.com)
1 points by brainflake 12y ago|0 comments
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by brainflake 12y ago
Glad to see The Character of Physical Law on there. One of my all time favorites. The emphasis on symmetry and conservation principles was a real eye opener when I read it.
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The Age of Developer-Defined Infrastructure(venturebeat.com)
2 points by brainflake 12y ago|0 comments
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by brainflake 12y ago
Interesting. I'd say you're definitely in the minority :) Clothes I can understand, but removing branding from something like a bottle of bleach that spends most of it's life out of sight seems like wasted effort. That could
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by brainflake 12y ago
I think this is great! Some may complain about all of the branding in their house, but the branding is already there. You have packages of Tide, Bounty, Clorox, etc. You can just place these buttons where you store the products. I'd im
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by brainflake 12y ago
I think you're simplifying it too much. It's easy to come to that conclusion in the current market with so much cash floating around, but if the growth rate is there, then it can make a lot of sense to continue spending for that g
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by brainflake 12y ago
I think they probably mean trad climber. I guess sport climbing is technically free climbing, but a lot of people mentally equate free with trad.
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by brainflake 12y ago
In the opinion of many trad climbers, a first free ascent is just as important as a first ascent (if not more). The coverage has been a bit misleading/inaccurate at times, but that's to be expected when the mainstream media covers
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by brainflake 12y ago
Really disappointed with the quality of this article. PPK was such a valuable resource back in the day when it came to front end development and always had great content (especially when it came to compatibility issues). I'm not even s
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by brainflake 12y ago
Great comment - I do think the whole 'async by default' is a huge benefit, but I would add an asterisk and say you can technically write a module that performs synchronous I/O if you wanted to (see, for example, synchronous f
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by brainflake 12y ago
This article is not about the ad platform... It talks about reach from the normal page posts of brands.
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Reach Silverpop email segments on Facebook(blog.gochime.com)
5 points by brainflake 12y ago|1 comments
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by brainflake 12y ago
I would second this. One of our team members was found through toptal and he's great (works remotely from South America).
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by brainflake 12y ago
Based on personal experience, I couldn't disagree more. If you're a good worker, leave on good terms and maintain contacts you will only expand your options.
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by brainflake 13y ago
It looks like some important express-like things are missing though. For instance, there is no routing abstraction or rendering. I think you're right that Express is connect with extra goodies, but the most important of those are missi
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by brainflake 13y ago
I love seeing posts like this from OpenBSD team members. I cut my chops developing on that platform and I have to say I've never encountered a more clean and well thought-out code base.

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