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by cwp 13y ago
No. There are a few reasons why this isn't an apt characterization: - Unlike somebody who flips a car, early investors are (typically) not selling their shares to later investors. Investors in different rounds do have differing interes
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by cwp 13y ago
No, it's not quite that simple, which is exactly the point of the article. If I own 1% of a company that raises a round at a $2B valuation, my shares are worth $20M, in theory. But does that mean I can sell my shares for $20M? No, it d
693.
by cwp 13y ago
It's intended for people that are building web stuff with node. So they're already writing everything in Javascript and already have a dependency on node, so using node for their build process eliminates a dependency on Make or wh
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by cwp 13y ago
True, caution is warranted. But I think you missed a key point in the article. Unlike antibiotics, these polymers disintegrate. The article isn't clear on the mechanism–is it part of destroying a bacterium, decay over time or what?-but
695.
by cwp 13y ago
I wonder if Apple would approve an app that downloads and executes Javascript using the bridge. Historically, Javascript has been an exception to the blanket rule against downloading code, but outside of a web view, that might not hold.
696.
by cwp 13y ago
Which is exactly the same situation that Javascript is in now . The Javascript VM in Firefox has features that are not part of any web standard, nor part of a spec that has interest from multiple vendors.
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by cwp 13y ago
Well, if we were talking about car salesmen, I'd buy that. But building software? Cooperation is critical .
698.
by cwp 13y ago
The problem with stack ranking isn't that it's unfair to individual employees, it's that it inhibits cooperation. If "success" is defined as performing better than your peers, it creates an incentive to prevent your
699.
by cwp 13y ago
Nah, that's a very minor consideration at best. "Cease to support older OS versions" means that new versions of applications won't run on older operating systems. It doesn't mean that older versions of applications
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by cwp 13y ago
I bet you could get the number lower if you only counted fires caused by collision or overturn of a highway vehicle less than 3 years old. Or heck, just the black ones. Yes, this fire was caused by a collision, but fires caused by other thi
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by cwp 13y ago
You don't need authorization to quote someone.
702.
by cwp 13y ago
Most people are giving up a freedom that they can't exercise anyway, in exchange for something that the "free" alternative doesn't provide.
703.
by cwp 13y ago
But saidajigumi didn't say that buying is always a bad idea. He said "always run the numbers."
704.
by cwp 13y ago
So the underlying ideas are precise, but they're expressed in imprecise language? That's true of all communication. When I ask my wife for "that thing by the door," I know exactly what I mean, but she has a to do a lot o
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by cwp 13y ago
What makes you think it's not usable? He said it's hooked up to the software they use to design the rocket, and demoed a couple of actual parts. If rocket designers are using this stuff to visualize the rockets they're design
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by cwp 13y ago
Sure, he has an interest in self-promotion, positioning Space-X as a cool company etc. But maybe, just maybe, they built something just because it's cool, and they're sharing it because it's awesome! If you had built somethin
707.
by cwp 13y ago
Yeah. Spanish does have regional phonetic differences, but they don't tend to be hard to understand. Vocabulary is much more likely to cause misunderstanding.
708.
by cwp 13y ago
Well, inlining plus subsequent optimization is exactly what he's talking about. He calls it "specialization." As soon as you start to do that really aggressively, you run into all the issues he brings up.
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by cwp 13y ago
I wish the article lived up to the headline. What cultural changes have occurred? The article doesn't say. It does say that Cook's personal style is different from Jobs (duh), that he's made some changes to the exec team (we
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by cwp 13y ago
What do you mean by modern content encapsulation?
711.
by cwp 13y ago
Basically, the British monarchy continues to exist because it does nothing. The prime minister is elected by the people if he does something the people don't like, they can elect someone else. If the Queen does something the people d
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by cwp 13y ago
"Finally, a command line shell for the 90s" Now that's an odd slogan. Is it trying to make the point that the competition is even older? Appeal to old-school hackers? Subtly tell me that the project hasn't been updated i
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by cwp 13y ago
Perhaps... but as a society, we also love to freak out about danger to children. The younger the child and the less-well-defined the risk, the better. FAS presses all the right buttons.
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by cwp 13y ago
It's a shocking idea, I know, but many people don't consider living outside the US to be all that bad. Some even do it on purpose. Also, compare that fate to what happened to Bradley Manning. Living in Venezuela is way better than
715.
by cwp 13y ago
Sure, the revelations of NSA overreach are important. But I think the Snowden story is important as well, perhaps even more important. It's not really about Snowden, personally. It's about the power and secrecy of the government.
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by cwp 13y ago
It's not that simple. The airline has to agree to let him fly without a passport, and assurances from Ecuador that he'll be allowed to enter might not be enough to convince them to to that. Also, there probably aren't any d
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by cwp 13y ago
Just to clarify, these are tweets from Correa's official twitter account. They read something like this. June 26: Hypocrisy of the century: The Washington Post "accuses" Ecuador of double standards. See the power of the inter
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by cwp 13y ago
I ran a set up similar to this for many years. It's not that hard, for those with a little unix experience. As moxie mentions, email is very forgiving—you have to break it badly and leave it broken for a long time before you start to l
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by cwp 13y ago
Ok... I'll bite. He predicted deflation as part of the economic crisis, which hasn't happened. He's mentioned that in several posts, most significantly in this one: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0
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by cwp 13y ago
No, it doesn't. Obviously, actual violence is much worse than graffiti, and antipathy towards tech workers hasn't reached that level. But the fact that other people have it worse doesn't make it right. Update: The root of the

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