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by donaldc 16y ago
I think the title is misleading. There's nothing, even now, preventing Sequoia from offering all YC startups the same deal, with the same terms.
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by donaldc 16y ago
Is living in california worth over 10k a year? (assuming you have a reasonable salary) Yes. Of course, YMMV.
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by donaldc 16y ago
From the article: The granting of sex is the most powerful weapon women possess in their struggle with men. I'm pretty sure I don't want to be having sex with any woman who views "granting" me sex as a weapon in her struggle with me. That
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by donaldc 16y ago
The product of a human being's work is rightfully his property; that's part and parcel of living in a civilized society. This argument is only considering one side of the equation. The other side: Pretty much all products of a human being
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by donaldc 16y ago
That's harder now, as inflation punishes those who save and we're seeing rising prices everywhere except housing prices. Inflation is currently very low, at least in the U.S. In fact, it has only been recently that fears of deflation ha
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by donaldc 16y ago
These trends are not heading in a direction that portends an infinite ocean of denim and sweats, but rather for a re-emergence of business casual or even smart casual in the workplace for programmers, and again for suits in the managing es
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by donaldc 16y ago
This man is suing for 60 million and will probably get a settlement for less but still large sum. If he were to get $10 million, would that be enough for 10 years behind bars? No. At least, not if it were me. But then again, if it were me
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by donaldc 16y ago
Undergrad: 80k Masters: 87k PhD: 114k In addition to the fact that the Undergrad may be making more than $114K by the time the PhD student has acquired a PhD, there's also the issue of selection bias. Perhaps, on average, people choosing
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by donaldc 16y ago
From the article: In Germany, for example, company founders are held personally liable for unpaid debt for up to 30 years—even after they declare bankruptcy. Surely Germany has limited-liability corporations. How is it that a startup ther
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by donaldc 16y ago
As a Comcast subscriber, I'd more than happy to switch to a different ISP if Comcast starts to limit access to Netflix or any other content provider. How many broadband ISPs are there in your area? In many areas, there are no more than tw
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by donaldc 16y ago
The article seems to downplay the 2-day shipping aspect of Prime. I think they're missing the point -- yes, free shipping is nice, but for many people, getting what you ordered in two days in very nice.
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by donaldc 16y ago
The difference between issuing passports and building a large-scale hospital is that only in the latter case is a large amount of money risked. It would be tricky to find a source of funding for a hospital that may not be able to operate du
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by donaldc 16y ago
I've never had trouble getting the number of fully diluted shares once an offer has been made. If a company isn't willing to share this with me, I'd probably assume they were going to figure out a way to screw me over one way or another.
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by donaldc 16y ago
make it clear that you'd give some flexibility on salary or paid vacation days in exchange for more information I disagree. You shouldn't trade anything for the information. A company should make the information available if they want the
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by donaldc 16y ago
The $3.5 million is in restricted stock that presumably vests over four years. If you left the day after accepting the counter-offer, you'd get nothing .
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by donaldc 16y ago
If they're serious, and it sounds like they are, I'd suggest two more changes that weren't mentioned in the article: (1) An employee in the UK can currently be required to keep working at a company for 3 months after giving notice. This sho
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by donaldc 16y ago
And, for the record, high school has never been engaging, even for really really smart people. I'd argue it is particularly not engaging for extremely smart people. Most classes move forward at the speed of the average student.
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by donaldc 16y ago
Exactly! If I were in high school, I'd be texting all day long. This is a symptom of a deeper problem, namely that high school isn't very engaging for most people.
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by donaldc 16y ago
Can anyone think of ways to speed the sociolegal acceptance of this technology? Perhaps it could first get used by people who are visually impaired, or for some other reason are not able to currently get a driver's license. Given the impo
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by donaldc 16y ago
Except for computers and the Internet, the idea that we're experiencing rapid technological progress is a myth. First, even if this were true, that's a gigantic except . By comparison, one would probably not talk about the mid-1400's bei
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by donaldc 16y ago
According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year in road traffic accidents. That is an incredible number. 1.2 million out of 7 billion. If the average person lives to age 70, that means that on a
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by donaldc 16y ago
I doubt every last bit of their data needs to be hot (i.e. in memory) at any given time, but without specialized paging along the lines of what antirez has discussed for redis, enough of their data probably needs to be hot that, from a pa
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by donaldc 16y ago
I don't think those are the same problem -- could you provide a link? You are correct, the actual problem is paging out LRU keys as opposed to memory holes. The issue is related but not the same. From http://antirez.com/post/what-is-wron
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by donaldc 16y ago
Good point. There are also downsides. Still, in general, I prefer to let my body fight illness as best it knows how, unless it is obviously mis-functioning.
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by donaldc 16y ago
In essence, although we had moved 5% of the data from shard0 to the new third shard, the data files, in their fragmented state, still needed the same amount of RAM. This can be explained by the fact that Foursquare check-in documents are s
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by donaldc 16y ago
It sounds like even if the check-ins had grown evenly across the two shards, that would have only saved them for about another month. Without close monitoring of the growth in memory usage, foursquare was still due for an outage.
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by donaldc 16y ago
Boosting your immune system could only make your cold symptoms worse. This isn't at all surprising. Many of these symptoms are part of the body's efforts at fighting the cold. As long as these symptoms increase the body's effectiveness at
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by donaldc 16y ago
The author/candidate may have ten years' experience, but he still sounds a little naive: (1) He seems to have (twice) gone into intensive studying mode without first doing research on what questions facebook was likely to ask him at that st
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by donaldc 16y ago
There are plenty of SQL and NoSQL applications that are designed to be disk-based databases. Redis is explicitly designed to be a very fast, in-memory database. What you are complaining about is a feature, not a bug.
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by donaldc 16y ago
Eventually, trying new things wears you out and you stop appreciating them. I think that depends on the person. I certainly haven't found this to be true.

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