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3511.
by cies 16y ago
I wonder who still believe they live in a democracy (i.e. people rule). Modern democracies are supposed to represent 'the people', yet in practice people only get to vote once in ~4 years and large businesses (using lobby) can use their mon
3512.
by cies 16y ago
I think the author means "target audience size" or "nr of potential customers" instead of "market size". A market size is usually expressed in money. For many startups --as they often operate on new markets-- the size of the "target audien
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by cies 16y ago
This is so important for 'us', here on HN. Let me try to explain why: Many here are building SaaS products, and with the SaaS landscape getting ever more crowded we see a lot of SaaS integrations emerge. Have a look at freshbooks for instan
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by cies 16y ago
> There are lots of countries where public schools are basically the only way, and don't imply a second rate education. Yups, the Netherlands is luckily still one of those. :)
3515.
by cies 16y ago
What you say is hard to measure. I think the benefit of "fairness" that results from having everyone go though the same schools and hospitals is far greater then any of the benefits you mention.
3516.
by cies 16y ago
Kamerschen really likes to oversimplify things here. The violent mass of poorer guys beating up their richer drinking buddy who used to pay half the drinking bill. I had to laugh, though i dont think it's realistic. The only real point he m
3517.
by cies 16y ago
> > Bolivia or Burma or Afghanistan > Intel makes chips in many such countries, like costa rica and Malaysia. many "such" countries... there is a _HUGE_ difference in freedom, social economic development and stability between th
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by cies 16y ago
employees are free to endulge any kind of food they choose to buy with their salary. it is just the company that is not choosing 'meat'.
3519.
by cies 16y ago
it is an ethical consideration, not a dieatary one. im not trying to enforce a diet unto people --an employee is free to use his/her salary-- it is merely an ethical guideline for the company: abstain from killing sentient life.
3520.
by cies 16y ago
> You are basically forcing your 'dietary' choices to everybody else in the company. no im not. everyone earns wages they can spend the way they want. just the company will not spend money on dead animals. my choice to be vegetarian is
3521.
by cies 16y ago
wow i got modded down! see my replies to each of my commentors personally...
3522.
by cies 16y ago
i too believe company culture is extremely important. after contemplation i've requested that the 'company' i'm starting a friend will be a vegetarian company, in a sense that the company will never pay for taking sentient beings. i'm consc
3523.
by cies 16y ago
i think you miss that diaspora is an open source project. once they release a 'developer preview' people _can_ actually use go an use it. i would not call that 'launched' or '1.0' (which is the open source analog to launching in my opinion)
3524.
by cies 16y ago
"Release early, release often" (an open source mantra). Here on HN i also find the 'getto launch' being preached -- "if you not embarrest by your product at lauch-time, you should have released earlier". Judging from the noise their release
3525.
by cies 16y ago
AGPL + contrib agreement is a way to ensure that commercial investments in open source projects are more likely. everyone may use and modify it, but has to disclose its modifications. (since its AGPL'ed) contributions that find their way ba
3526.
by cies 16y ago
Clearly the carriers should be regulated. In the Netherlands they are and we have the cheapest rates (between our narrow borders, outside the borders they screw us double). For instancen we can keep our number when switching carriers or unl
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by cies 16y ago
the search function (by google) is a little bit hidden (in the footer and not the top-right). yet is a door to a goldmine of wealth for people working on a startups. pretty much every typical "startup question" has ben answered there in gre
3528.
by cies 16y ago
to me it means: computing power behind an api. so my scripts can manage the data center (by growing/shrinking resource usage)
3529.
by cies 16y ago
http://edu.kde.org/kturtle i created kturtle for this purpose. on most linux distros it is available as kturtle, kdeedu-kturtle or kdeedu. kde also runs on windows: http://windows.kde.org i learnt programming by MSX-LOGO in dutch (my mo