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901.
by dschobel 17y ago
I doubt this battle will be settled (or even affected) by the fact that MS was first to market with this feature. Who has the better integration and implementation is far more interesting.
902.
by dschobel 17y ago
Precisely. This is an education issue which we should try to address, not just say "well, they'll all be dead soon enough anyway"
903.
by dschobel 17y ago
That's a rather severe position when you consider that the children are the ones who will pay the price for the parent's ignorance. I don't think most people would be comfortable with letting the children of ignorant or misinformed parents
904.
by dschobel 17y ago
It's really frustrating that we can't get honest numbers on how much it takes to bring a drug to market. In the anti-pharma camp you see people quote the manufacturing price, and then you get the pharma companies quoting their entire operat
905.
by dschobel 17y ago
and the very first post in response to the NYT blog: I will never get another vaccine, just another way for the goverment to poison us off. Vaccines are the biggest scam ever created. sigh.
906.
by dschobel 17y ago
More than two-thirds of businesses are started at home; only 21% of all businesses employ someone other than the owner. I'm wondering how many of these are ebay or amazon.com storefront type "businesses". More and more I'm getting the fee
907.
by dschobel 17y ago
It's a calculated risk. Some companies refuse to settle for certain classes of litigation in the hope that it will deter people from bringing frivolous suits down the road even if it means paying more in legal costs up front.
908.
by dschobel 17y ago
how is this account not in purgatory yet?
909.
by dschobel 17y ago
Do the carriers care? Google will still need a carrier and the carriers only care about having the "cool new phone" to the extent that it gets consumers to sign contracts with them. Why should they care if the phone comes from HTC or Google
910.
by dschobel 17y ago
A CEO’s job is to hire people to do different tasks, tell them what to do and make sure they get it done. So a startup CEO is a regular company's project manager with hiring powers added? That doesn't sound right...
911.
by dschobel 17y ago
This is what I was trying to get at. I think there's a whole class of people out there who just like to build things. Being king means responsibility and headaches. Being rich is nice but once you get past a certain point it all becomes abs
912.
by dschobel 17y ago
Did we need the cash? No, we didn’t need the cash. We had over $6 million in the bank. But, if I’ve learned one thing about VC fund-raising it’s that not needing to raise money helps a lot. VC is a strange beast...
913.
by dschobel 17y ago
If you're going to edit his response you should say as much. The full response (which actually sketches some ideas) was: Mr. Wheatley: Scaling is the most important thing at the moment. We have a few ideas around media-based businesses, pr
914.
by dschobel 17y ago
How does the Rich vs King dichotomy account for the serial entrepreneurs who have fairly big exits (and guaranteed comfort for life) and do it all over again minus the branding/prestige of their previous venture?
915.
by dschobel 17y ago
kind of aside, does python support real coroutines yet or is it still just generators?
916.
by dschobel 17y ago
I think C models how the computer works a lot more closely than C++ (and no one would argue that C isn't carrying water out in the engineering world even today). IMO C++'s issue is precisely that it layers all of these leaky abstractions on
917.
by dschobel 17y ago
By that reasoning they haven't needed any of the new technology to come out since Win98. I don't see why that's a mark against Win7.
918.
by dschobel 17y ago
Except in this case neither can agree which one is Mercedes and which one is Honda. MS will never admit to be uncool and workmanlike, and Apple will say their machines can run just as well in big enterprises.
919.
by dschobel 17y ago
And yet, I don't recall the last Apple ad I've seen where they weren't taking a direct swipe at MS.
920.
by dschobel 17y ago
Speaking of which, how does Linus pay rent? Speaking engagements? Or is RH or someone paying him as a good will gesture?
921.
by dschobel 17y ago
So is it crippled or is it a bad business move because it's not crippled enough?
922.
by dschobel 17y ago
I'm fairly sure at this point that Derek is a Dilbert-esque character working in some anonymous cube farm making these posts to make everyone else as miserable as he is. At least, that's what I need to believe to keep my world view coherent
923.
by dschobel 17y ago
The issue most people have with Krugman is that he's living this odd dual-life between respected economist and partisan. He intertwines the two in such a way that you take <serious economics> + <krugman's belief system> and
924.
by dschobel 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879439
925.
by dschobel 17y ago
Monday is the 19th, but otherwise, yes
926.
by dschobel 17y ago
But how does the print revenue compare to the online revenue? You have to wonder if the WSJ pay-wall is keeping more of their readership in the dead-tree world vs something like the NYT.
927.
by dschobel 17y ago
Agree about the google groups thing. Someone should just register a twitter account for HNchi or YCchi like the Melbourne guys did: http://twitter.com/ycmelb
928.
by dschobel 17y ago
Violet Hour would be awesome but I don't think they'd be thrilled to have a bunch of guys in ironic t-shirts ruining their ambiance. :)
929.
by dschobel 17y ago
I'm at the same point as you are, as soon as I hear some trigger names my mind completely loses interest. One of these weekends I'm going to whip up a grease monkey script to finally purge HN of $(incendiary tech blog/author) once and for a
930.
by dschobel 17y ago
Outsourcing research isn't that crazy: http://www.netflixprize.com/

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