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811.
by ci5er 10y ago
Amazon is the only consumer of express shipping and logistics services in North America? No wonder Fred Smith had such a hard time getting people to buy into his early business plans!
812.
by ci5er 10y ago
> > devs have an easier life using JS > I think that is willfully missing the point. How is GP missing the point, when you go on to illustrate the point? Or, is your counter-point to GP that "design is special, so cut us some
813.
by ci5er 10y ago
If JSF == JavaServer Faces, I can't find anything (except for some generic WebSphere and some Spring Boot development) in Austin, Texas. Austin is not "America", but it's not nothing either.
814.
by ci5er 10y ago
It's not the founder's asset -- unless it has been released back to them in adjudicated liquidation proceedings or by contractual agreement. It is the company's asset, and would be reflected in the company's taxes.
815.
by ci5er 10y ago
I've found Twitter feeds more timely than status-light dashboards for various online services. Partly because the users start to scream before the SREs update their blinken lights. I was vaguely interested in it (Twitter) when the Iran
816.
by ci5er 10y ago
> At my company they have, /on purpose/ too few spaces for the number of employees. So early birds get all the spaces with powerplugs, monitors, network etc. The rest must fight it out on bench seats with no power etc. They had
817.
by ci5er 10y ago
That one is good. It cut down on the body count of a too rapidly growing startup I was at about almost decades ago. In theory, I like working at an office, quite a lot, but the open-office does not work at all for me. Cubes are even fine, b
818.
by ci5er 10y ago
> because the fact I had any knowledge of Java. Because you even knew the word "Java"! We were somehow part of a swirling cloud of folks somehow trying to buy Lycos about then. I don't know that CMU knew how to think about
819.
by ci5er 10y ago
I remember shortly after Oak was renamed Java (so, maybe 1995? Certainly before the Java 1.0 release), at my startup, we wanted a Java person even if we had to retrain a C person. I gave my must-have/nice-to-have sheet to whoever was r
820.
by ci5er 10y ago
> I am sure many of those people, given the opportunity, could do far greater things for humanity than picking books and consumer electronics off shelves and put them in boxes. If they could, they'd be doing them. So, what's th
821.
by ci5er 10y ago
I know I'm only reading one side of the story - but is this sociopathy? Although, it's clear that her driving motivations had very little with what it takes to make a company successful. "I need VC money to go live in the US&
822.
by ci5er 10y ago
That's a pretty good point. Still, I think it's relatively rare (statistically, out of all those who attempt it), unless they themselves are active among the community of users that adopters -- and even then stories of developers
823.
by ci5er 10y ago
You can use ubuntu-make, but it doesn't seem (to me) any easier than grabbing the .deb file...
824.
by ci5er 10y ago
> I thought the hardest part was developing the product. I'm curious: Why did you think that? There are articles, from time-to-time, that decry this notion, and yet I find that young/first-time entrepreneurs often think this. S
825.
by ci5er 10y ago
That's funny. I didn't know that had happened. I can't think of any serious skiing accidents that have happened in/near my social circle, nor on the news, where a helmet would have been determinative to the outcome. In w
826.
by ci5er 10y ago
That makes sense. And it resonates with me. When I was young, I was interested in both Japanese and Russian. When I graduated, my first job out of college was with a semiconductor company in Japan. My experience, like your observation, was
827.
by ci5er 10y ago
Maybe. I've always enjoyed whatever corporate employment I have had, because I could build things using much (!) more expensive equipment than I could afford to set up on my own. Maybe I've been fortunate - or maybe I'm just
828.
by ci5er 10y ago
It's easily enough to fund the US Federal government for about 3 weeks. A bit over 10 days if state and local are factored in. Imagine! If the US Federal government were able to find a way to take half of that money, they'd be abl
829.
by ci5er 10y ago
Penalties for the US-based domestic entity to compel compliance of the off-shore entity would fall onto the domestic entity. The off-shore entity ALSO has to comply with whatever local regulatory regime they fall under. Unlinking the two co
830.
by ci5er 10y ago
Even better! We should unionize everyone and use the mandatory dues to pay for ever more bureaucrats/admins/interns, so that when we reach full-robot, everyone still has a job. :-)
831.
by ci5er 10y ago
At that got them the same or worse deal than they would get with Uber, which doesn't have a union? That sounds like a great return on union membership fees.
832.
by ci5er 10y ago
Maybe, but I don't know. A lot of the COBOL-herders for billing systems for utilities are retiring and people are searching for a journeyman coder they can train. For now, the situation is held together by these older people retiring,
833.
by ci5er 10y ago
That's an interesting hypothetical. What if Margaret Sanger -- or Teddy Roosevelt, his nemesis in these matters -- had been super-wealthy? We can't know, of course, but it's an interesting question. I'll have to think ab
834.
by ci5er 10y ago
Yes. I understand that point. But I disagree that he could have done anything bad. What's the worst thing a monopolist can do? Charge unfairly large prices. By the time his the government got around to breaking up his "empire&quot
835.
by ci5er 10y ago
Or, maybe, you've missed the point that I disagree with the sentiment of the author of the comment to which I was responding. The only negative I could find in the article was that he was a "monopolist" (whatever that means t
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by ci5er 10y ago
How could he have let the ban stay -- in its current form? Many people didn't like his decisions for various of their own preferences for particular outcomes, but he generally didn't "make new law" with his decisions.
837.
by ci5er 10y ago
You're right: A monopolist that unleashes economic bounty for the American consumer with always increasingly lower prices for the principle input to the new world economy. Quite worrisome. Could be bad. We'll ignore the saving the
838.
by ci5er 10y ago
Powerful quote, but father/son is a stretch. He hated his gambling/drinking/bigamist/criminal father who left his mother when he was 12.
839.
by ci5er 10y ago
> If cities want to protect their citizens from authoritarian oppression of their residents Why would they want that? They worked hard to reach their current positions, and may have grander ambitions still...
840.
by ci5er 10y ago
You can't even prove GP has one!

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