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by downer 19y ago
That's not unusual for something large and complex. Even video games have multi-year development cycles and double-digit-millions budgets. $6m in 3 years isn't high at all. Lots of little pre-revenue start-ups have sold for more with many
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by downer 19y ago
By "many", do you mean, "one"?
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by downer 19y ago
> I think they do it to separate the top 25% from the bottom 75%. Just because only 1 in 4 people do X doesn't mean those are the TOP 25%.
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by downer 19y ago
They didn't customize their applications for different types of hardware, and drivers are made by the manufacturer, so this is a non-point. Windows et al. were ugly, buggy and crashing due to software problems, not hardware.
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by downer 19y ago
"Dear Erlang I: X I like you. Really, I do. But until you can read lines of text out of a file and do basic pattern-matching against them acceptably fast (which most people would say is faster than Ruby), you're stuck in a niche; you're a
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by downer 19y ago
The point of college is more babysitting, except this time you pay for it (in grade school, taxes paid for it). If this gets you in debt, you then have to work it off by being supervised in yet another babysitting situation/nanny-state posi
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by downer 19y ago
Or you can live somewhere that has left turn arrows at most intersections. Like The O.C.
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by downer 19y ago
> On my drive home the worst case scenario is that I will be killed in a car accident No, the worst case scenario is you crash and are alive but trapped... At night, the ice weasels come.
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by downer 19y ago
> If what I.Q. tests measure is immutable and innate The entire premise is wrong. IQ scores typically rise 5-15 points on a second test, now that the taker knows what kind of questions to expect. IQ tests can be studied and practic
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by downer 19y ago
> Smart people became priests and monks, who, while not completely celibate in the real world, still had much lower rates of reproduction. Actually that's not the case. Popes and priests used to have orgies and sex parties; the reaso
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by downer 19y ago
I never had trouble with pointers because I learned Assembly before C. Everyone who wants to understand computers should learn ASM, preferably with something nicer than x86 GNU Assembler (%eax, come on, how about "R1"). And not that pseudo
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by downer 19y ago
That's got to be the easiest way of getting passwords. Forget keyloggers, the keyboard broadcasts everything. Which is why I always use a wired keyboard. Any examples of wireless keyboards that use a better protocol? E.g. plug it in, set
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by downer 19y ago
"The old testers at Microsoft checked lots of things: they checked if fonts were consistent and legible, they checked that the location of controls on dialog boxes was reasonable and neatly aligned, they checked whether the screen flickere
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by downer 19y ago
> Income is not the important factor. Screw income, businesses can run on fairy dust, Tink! > Read pmarca's blog posts on "product/market fit" to understand. I read that when it was first posted, and it's nothing new, it's the s
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by downer 19y ago
I have heard the claim, fifth-hand, that Yahoo rewrote Stores in C++ in order to get it to scale. I know that when Google acquires start-ups, the rewrite for scaling commences... so it seems at least somewhat plausible.
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by downer 19y ago
Yes, group think kills.
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by downer 19y ago
But what if you can click the actors and get IMDB info, or click animals in a nature documentary, etc.
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by downer 19y ago
Oh yes, let's return college to its former status of being only for the elite. Why do you think so many people go to college? Because it's a practical necessity for most decent-paying jobs. Not to do the job, but to get hired in the
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by downer 19y ago
Re: "Also, how are you going to organize the different versions of your site? Will you just use the same URL for each page"
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by downer 19y ago
CPU info: Small Instance : 1x 2.6 GHz Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218 HE w/1024 KB cache Large Instance : 2x 2.0 GHz Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270 w/1024 KB cache Extra-Large : 4x 2.0 GHz Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm)
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by downer 19y ago
Sounds like a CIO all right.
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by downer 19y ago
> IMO it all comes back to talent and drive which are almost impossible to judge in an interview but they tend to swamp all other factors over time. I would narrow that down even further, to drive . Plus I don't believe in talent; bu
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by downer 19y ago
Apparently this article's advice is "just hire someone who is good at everything!"
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by downer 19y ago
Any laptop is squishy if you press hard enough.
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by downer 19y ago
This never would have happened if they had kept it written in Lisp.
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by downer 19y ago
This is much better than the Reddit headline for the same thing.
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by downer 19y ago
"Most venture backed investments fail because the venture capital is used to scale the business before the correct business plan is discovered." Read: Scale up before they have the income level to justify it. Being "nimble" or "adaptable"
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by downer 19y ago
Summary: Max bandwidth needs multiple connections Large instance (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each): EC2 -> EC2 HTTP : 96 MB/sec (75 for 1 connection) EC2 -> EC2 scp : 40 MB/sec (30-40, possible CPU bottleneck)
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by downer 19y ago
> This is how they want their profiles to look. This doesn't take into consideration that profile layout is a pain in the ass and most people don't want to deal with the mess of CSS. MySpace layouts tend not to be what people want , ju
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by downer 19y ago
Translation: Expenditures outpaced income. I don't get what this article has to do with early-stage investments in particular, except that early-stage usually means no income yet . I guess investing only in proven businesses is a lot sa

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