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by ci5er 7y ago
I have a serious question about your question, understood under the current regime rules: How does one build and maintain a "global heartbeat of the information age" without return to the funders? Even if I was an inventor that wa
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by ci5er 7y ago
Hongbao is still huge and getting bigger. AND on Chinese Single's day, Alibabi did about $30B, which is about 4x the total ecommerce volume in the US.
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by ci5er 7y ago
It depends on the company, and how much "power" you have as a PM to influence/push process, but I find that even causing a majority on-site company operate as if they are fully remote is almost always a universal good. Writin
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by ci5er 7y ago
It used to be unreliable. Is it not now?
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by ci5er 7y ago
For monolithic web apps, this is almost certainly true (in my experience), but the ability to rapidly turn d/c configurations, and instantly scale to match spot demand has been a game changer (for me)
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by ci5er 7y ago
I've never understood B2C. Why would anyone go to the trouble of starting a company without $1M in ARR commitments? To me, that sounds like a death wish, but it worked for all the new high-tech consumer facing companies we read about e
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by ci5er 7y ago
Assuming a learner of calculus has already learned basic algebra?
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by ci5er 7y ago
> Oh wait, let's talk nurses and schoolteachers. They pretty clearly contribute very heavily to society, and they get paid pretty poorly. Are they really contributing less, by factors of tens or hundreds, than Larry Ellison? On an i
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by ci5er 7y ago
Woah!
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by ci5er 7y ago
And yet both of them start to degrade when I spill alcohol on them.
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by ci5er 7y ago
Weird. It's new to me that we didn't have experimental evidence before, but I guess it would have to be pretty subtle equipment. I wish I knew how to catalog/index my assumption/belief set, so I could scrub it down for
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by ci5er 7y ago
Wow. When I did this in the 1980s, it was $250K (minimum), in 1980 dollars. Things have gotten easier! :-) There was the situation where if you didn't become a citizen (which was hard, but not impossible, at the time), you could visa-w
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by ci5er 7y ago
Uh, yeah. Jerry Yang when he was a VLSI student at Stanford, and I was a lowly semiconductor designer at Motorola Japan used to talk about these things, so ... yeah: I was being sardonic. EDIT: He used to say to me: "[WhateverMyNameIs]
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by ci5er 7y ago
Neither journalists nor USians are very careful with their use of units. Imagine my dismay to find a Nordic person (who are usually so careful, precise and diligent!) forgetting to make sure she (?) make sure that power and energy were each
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by ci5er 7y ago
Why else would you meet with a competitor? :-) Most of my friends are co-workers, or other people in the industry, including competitors (more the field/sales types than the corporate/management types, because you see them when yo
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by ci5er 7y ago
My particular need is finding particular stuff. Information. The Google used to be very very helpful. Now I have to McGuyver it into giving me what I am looking for. Now, my Google-fu is ok, and I can do it - but it used to be trivial. Mayb
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by ci5er 7y ago
> Ironically, the thing I would appreciate most is a manually curated, Wikipedia inspired, hierarchical directory. Yahoo?
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by ci5er 7y ago
The 14 eyes (used to be 5 eyes, way back when), and Russia (ex-Soviets) were colluding with even Kerberos back-doors back in the 90s, why do you assume that various nation-states are at odds with helping one-another keep track of the on-lin
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by ci5er 7y ago
> Sure, one of us might be the next George Soros, but it's important to keep expectations curbed. He made his first big money by shorting the pound, which (to me, oddly) turned out to be a self-perpetuating burn-it-all-down machine.
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by ci5er 7y ago
> They can terminate your account suddenly for opaque reasons. I generally am 'ok' with modern (US) banks and global, partly because I know their rules and set my expectations accordingly, but unlike what one of the sub-comment
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by ci5er 7y ago
This is a pretty fundamental idea in traditional Japanese design of ... everything. Dance, calligraphy, martial arts, learning, home decorating, plates of food, pregnant pauses in poetry or drama, sometimes even in manufacturing processes.
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by ci5er 7y ago
This reminds me of the General Magic / Kaleida / Taligent /Pink stuff being sorta/kinda done by Apple in the late 80s (early 90s? Both?). There were agents and software ICs and messaging in the air! (I don't know wh
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by ci5er 7y ago
You show me a clinical environment, outside maybe Intermountain or Atria, where physicians enter accurate and complete and timely data, then I will show you a ... well, I don't know. But I believe this "vision" is prohibited
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by ci5er 7y ago
You are talking about form-filling? Like UIPath?
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by ci5er 7y ago
How so and why? Are kinetic projectiles expected to be superceded by something different within 5 years?
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by ci5er 7y ago
Ha! I started in my mid-teens. I was told: "It changed my life!". I've read it every three years or so (even for the decade-plus that I've lived out of the US, once in Japanese!), and ... I just don't get it. I prob
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by ci5er 7y ago
Hell, I welcome the fork! It's why I toss it over the wall: "This was useful to me for a moment. Maybe it might be for you too. Good luck!"
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by ci5er 7y ago
I think I agree with you? Way back when (not that far back, from my point of view, but longer than many denizens of this site have been alive), we used to have usenet and ftp sites and tarballs that compiled (usually) on some subset of Unix
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by ci5er 7y ago
:-) Not quite! I wrote my own rsync-like-toolset before rsync itself was released (far too late, when you think of it!), and I immediately loved DropBox. Maybe because I am dev, AND I am ops, or maybe because (unlike DropBox) I am not shari
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by ci5er 7y ago
Most of those "protections" that are triggered are contractual. As a B2B systems provider, we also have those for our customers. If a B2C service provider does not provide these, then you can demand them or not sign up or both.

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