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by danssig 15y ago
The rational thing to do is look at compensation to you . What are you going to get out of the startup? Comparable salary? Then it's probably ok. Experience that will allow you to make your own company (assuming you want to)? That's w
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by danssig 15y ago
As mentioned by another poster: >The revenue per employee at GOOG is $1.2M in a very high margin business. $250k/year is not a lot compared to that.
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by danssig 15y ago
Did it actually amount to 50% more or did it have the potential to? Because if it's only potential than it's worth less than 50%. The other offer is money "in the hand" as it were.
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by danssig 15y ago
Ok, so he found that with some effort he can get the price down. But it's still the case that if you build on the App Engine that you're locked into it. Personally, if I had to rewrite my app to be more efficient anyway, I would be moving
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by danssig 15y ago
Wait a second. These are earnings that Google international made. So, yes, perhaps they have weaseled out of paying taxes in the UK or various European countries but IMO they shouldn't owe the US a dime of that money. It wasn't made in t
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by danssig 15y ago
>it's simply using a loophole to avoid U.S taxation on income earned from non-US sources Income earned from non-US sources on US soil or outside of it? The thing that infuriates me about my home country is that they think I owe taxes o
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by danssig 15y ago
Capital gains aren't exceptional in this. If I buy a car, a house or anything else I'll be taxed when I sell it again.
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by danssig 15y ago
I think Hollywood has been using a program like this to generate movies for the last 5 years at least.
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by danssig 15y ago
>Furthermore - as Wil explained - being fast with the fire extinguisher is probably a better tactic than trying to monitor and disallow all things that may lead to fire. I disagree here. In the case of humans, it doesn't cost much to p
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by danssig 15y ago
You make a post this ignorant and then tell others to do research? Amazing. I worked at Walmart head office for years and I can tell you that vendors deal with Walmart because they have no choice. Walmart is a horrible place to do bu
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by danssig 15y ago
>the company requires their suppliers to open their books for the inventory they sell to Walmart. They do. And they'll start making demands about how you run your business (e.g. "stop buying this local, you need to buy it from China an
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by danssig 15y ago
>But since this projecting of faults is itself a fault that you've perceived in others, your maxim applies to you. What I've perceived is that when people accuse others of certain kind of behavior it is often because they think that way
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by danssig 15y ago
This is exactly right. Anything Google-related has a similar problem. Android/Google is to HN as militant atheist is to reddit.
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by danssig 15y ago
>The other "Android fanboys" that you're similarly decrying said the same. No, the people I'm calling "Android fanboys" are the people who mass-downvoted me for stating something they didn't want to hear. On reddit I would expect this
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by danssig 15y ago
You need to read what I wrote. I don't care about people disagreeing with me! I care that my posts got massive downvotes. I wasn't snarky or anything, I was stating what I see as an inconsistency and fanboys responded by just voting do
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by danssig 15y ago
The Android fanboy behavior in this thread is absolutely appalling. People point out the logical inconsistency in wanting to lump Android together when it's a positive and split out when it's a negative and the result is mass downvotes? D
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by danssig 15y ago
That's not what most people have in mind when they talk about Android vs. iPhone (not IOS!) and you know it. What does it say about people who have to tweak numbers to get the results they want to be true?
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by danssig 15y ago
As I told the other poster; If you start doing this with Android "sales" as well then all will be good. At the moment when people talk about how is "winning" it's always the whole of Android vs. iPhone. Given that I think this report is
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by danssig 15y ago
That's a cop-out. I bet you're totally OK with people saying "Android is destroying iPhone in the marketplace!". You can't have it both ways.
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by danssig 15y ago
How does that make any sense? It's been my experience that most people who call other people racists are, themselves, racists. The theory behind it is pretty simple. Often A will say something like "you're a racist because you did X" but
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by danssig 15y ago
Personally I like to play a little game that goes: the first person to call someone else something is probably that thing. So if A calls B e.g. a racist, I will make the initial assumption that A is a racist. It's amazing how often this l
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by danssig 15y ago
As others have pointed out: you're using a tool that makes you not want to commit very often. Change to a tool that doesn't have this problem, there are nice ones out there now.
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by danssig 15y ago
Probably using SVN or CVS. Everyone I know used those systems that way but moving to a modern RCS usually gets people checking in a lot.
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by danssig 15y ago
>I seriously do not understand why people come/stay here given the way they are treated by our government. The US is really good at advertising.
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by danssig 15y ago
You think it's rhetoric to claim America is on the decline? Hard times are even being felt on Sesame Street [1]! [1] http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/things-are-so-bad-...
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by danssig 15y ago
Winter is not all bad. There are no annoying insects bothering you at 10 below.
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by danssig 15y ago
>Apple machines are a huge timesink for me whenever I try to use them, precisely because I can't customize the things in the UI that drive me batty Actually, it sounds like either machine is a huge time sink for you. Apple machines b
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by danssig 15y ago
Of course most anyone would be against them, but personally I think it's a consequence of how laws work and how word of mouth works. Remember the lady who bought coffee at McDonald's and managed to burn herself? She did that, but McDonald
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by danssig 15y ago
This is what frustrates me so much with all the rabid "ZOMG, they want to take over the world!!!" fear mongering against Apple. Is is so hard to believe that Apple has just found that most users want their machine to just work as easy as p
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by danssig 15y ago
>How would you feel if the car manufacturer attached locks to the hood of your car? Why would I care? I don't know anything about what's under the hood and I don't want to. You know what would be great about them locking the hood? If

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