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by davidu 16y ago
Agreed, this is truly shocking behavior on their part. 1) They do the same thing. When I have the google toolbar installed and use bing, my clickstream data goes to Google. 2) On a micro level, there is nothing wrong with this at all. Of c
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by davidu 16y ago
Go build something instead of complaining. Seriously.
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by davidu 16y ago
Damn, 400 answers on Quora... no wonder why Scoble is so passionate about it. Scoble is a content creation machine, and unlike most answer sites and other bloggers, his content is high-signal.
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by davidu 16y ago
LP == Limited Partner ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_partnership ) LPs are basically the investors in YC who remain mostly silent as to the operations of the firm. They participate in the proceeds and receive limited liability from
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by davidu 16y ago
It's not limited to commercial code... Lots of codebases for complex applications are substantially large. Often the translation files filled with strings alone will be 50% of it.
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by davidu 16y ago
Actually, there is still no downside. I haven't seen the terms, but like any debt or equity investment, I'm sure there is some modest redemption ability in the event an exit or subsequent round never happens.
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by davidu 16y ago
That's a dangerous habit.. even if how you use it is not particularly dangerous. :-)
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by davidu 16y ago
Those would be different URIs, and thus different URLs, and thus have different caching policies. URIs (and in turn URLs) must be consistent for caching to apply. Consider: https://foo/a.txt != http://foo/a.txt just like the obvious
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by davidu 16y ago
You went to a technical school and got a technical degree. That's very different from going to university and studying the liberal arts. I have no idea why we consider them the same in America, but in most places, even though UIUC is a fan
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by davidu 16y ago
It's legal.
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by davidu 16y ago
Colleges help you get out of them what you put into them. Harvard has more smart students and professors, so you can get more out of them. But any college will provide a sufficient environment for you to learn, study and think critically,
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by davidu 16y ago
This. And the fact that lots of people go to college who aren't mature enough to know that. Or they go because their parents make them and so they party and dick around. The reality is that many kids who go to college --- shouldn't.
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by davidu 16y ago
They show a (creepy) graph that appears to grow exponentially. http://s3.amazonaws.com/fromus/media/facebook_users_who_have... But they fail to grasp the absolute reality of their chart which is that it can not grow exponentially. It is
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by davidu 16y ago
Facebook ads perform well for me. So your argument that they don't perform is not true for everyone.
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by davidu 16y ago
There are so many things wrong with this. 1) Symantec is a 13 billion dollar company. They will not be easily picked up. They have the cash to acquire every other company on your list. 2) There is not a single company on your list that peop
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by davidu 16y ago
This. This is one of the most commonly misunderstood aspects of medicine today. As a society, we have become exceptionally good at treating pathological diseases. This is how we know we will eventually cure AIDS because we fundamentally k
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by davidu 16y ago
No, by wire. No need to pay those kinds of credit card fees for such a large transaction.
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by davidu 16y ago
As Jim Gettys explains, this actually a complicated problem and while traffic-shaping on one end of the pipe can help, there is nothing you can do about your head-end's buffers or your stupid middleware buffers. This is really a more frustr
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by davidu 16y ago
There will be a decentralized mobile web. SSL and CAs will eventually be done right and a trust model will exist to get apps from trusted sources. The amazon Android store is a fantastic first step. Amazon might not be the quality contro
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by davidu 16y ago
Seriously? Did you get the email? It basically said "we're closing in 2 months. All you data will be delete." Nothing about thanks for being a customer. Nothing about what the future holds. Nothing about appreciating our trying of thei
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by davidu 16y ago
Their email to customers and FAQ is atrocious. Good example of how to suck at communication. http://www.dimdim.com/faq.html
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by davidu 16y ago
PS -- I use FB and Twitter a ton, and I love SmartTwitter. I've even sent some emails on behalf of SmartTwitter to folks I know who might be able to fix this issue. My point was simply that this will become par for the course, and you shoul
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by davidu 16y ago
My platform is called the Internet. I'm still subject to some rules, but a heck of a lot less than the gardens you guys develop in like Facebook, Twitter and AOL. I included AOL, because while it seems ridiculous someone would do that today
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by davidu 16y ago
I was wrong. This would be considered insider trading.
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by davidu 16y ago
It's not clear how enforceable these provisions are. As a private company, is Facebook subject to insider trading laws? Obviously GS could stop doing business with said person, but what other recourse would they really have?
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by davidu 16y ago
Well written explanation of how internships are amazing. Mine were all similar growing up.
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by davidu 16y ago
PhpMyAdmin is a really great tool. It's also a really great tool with a history of exceptionally serious security issues. If you run PhpMyAdmin on an Internet-accessible server please please please add some security above and beyond what th
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by davidu 16y ago
They are not making acquisitions -- They acquired powerset over 2.5 years ago. More than 10 quarters ago. I'm not aware of any other acquisition since then, or anything in the online space besides that in the last, what, 4+ years? Not tha
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by davidu 16y ago
Agreed, but what you describe and what you say you do are not procrastinating. One observation is that procrastinators are rarely delusional about what they (are not) doing. It's a genuine lack of willpower or a feeling of apathy. Neither o
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by davidu 16y ago
Strong disagree. I procrastinate out of boredom, not insecurity. When I'm engaged, even if it's new territory, I'm on fire. When I'm bored, it's painful to get through certain things, and it makes doing the dishes or laundry look appealing

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