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by dschobel 16y ago
That's a hell of an allegation to perpetuate based on hearsay.
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by dschobel 16y ago
No, I mean the MS headed by the man who famously called Linux "a cancer” and still operates on the premise the kernel is in violation of MS patents ( http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/02/microsoft-amaz... ) I mean the IBM which p
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by dschobel 16y ago
How is it any different from other massive enterprise focussed company (IBM, MS, et al) and why does it merit respect?
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by dschobel 16y ago
If you look at it as a group of kids figuring it out as they go, it's an interesting adventure to follow. If you look at it as a group of kids running a business, it's embarrassing. The fact that they hit so many completely unexpected hurdl
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by dschobel 16y ago
Very cool, I definitely foresee using it. Please don't forget to add list export functionality before you sell to Google.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Hayek sums it up nicely: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."
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by dschobel 16y ago
All agreements we had were via chat and voice and not in legal sheet. Chat/email/voice are more than sufficient to establish a contract in the US legal system. Read the introductory "elements of a contract" section from here: http://www.
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by dschobel 16y ago
I'm well aware of what the implementation is. If you read the reference, closing over variables is one of the most common source of customer complaints about a "bug" in the compiler as the implementation is completely counter-intuitive unti
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by dschobel 16y ago
Here's hoping they fix closures in C# 5. (ref: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/11/12/closi... )
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by dschobel 16y ago
1. Nothing is wrong with you. 2. Read this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647146 3. Don't ever settle. It's better to be unhappy and searching than indifferent and resigned.
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by dschobel 16y ago
I'm with you on this one. After the initial 'serendipity' of google, PB's reputation was sealed and he could pick his title and company. While it's interesting to speculate if PB had chosen a pets.com instead of google what would have happe
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by dschobel 16y ago
Similarly, I only read his article to check whether he chose the title as posted on HN. Sure enough, he did. All the credit to him for knowing how to play his audience. That showed a tremendous amount of perspicacity.
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by dschobel 16y ago
That's still a tough sell; you subset off the awful bits and are left with nothing but a "decent OO language"? What's the upside? Conservation of intellectual momentum?
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by dschobel 16y ago
Great quote but it was Calvin Coolidge.
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by dschobel 16y ago
I can't decide whether my inability to tell whether this is satire reflects a failing of mine or of the author. Writing a long-winded blog post about a simple idea, which itself is about distilling ideas to their essence is too obvious, rig
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by dschobel 16y ago
that fool had a net income of over $213M last quarter. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:YHOO&fstype=ii
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by dschobel 16y ago
pretty cool, of course now you're obliged to tell us what tech you're using in your stack. :)
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by dschobel 16y ago
Regretfully there does not seem to be a single interesting or new thought in that post. What am I missing that all the up-voters are seeing?
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by dschobel 16y ago
whoa, when did you leave FB? congratulations, either way.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Is the story getting any coverage outside the SV echo chamber? I'd be quite surprised if we see the issue cross over into the mainstream.
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by dschobel 16y ago
The story was about UAV software, your agenda is extraneous. Otherwise any story can be used as a jumping off point for politics and righteous indignation.
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by dschobel 16y ago
This whole conversation is way off-topic but the operations happen with the partnership of the Pakistani government (so the bit about "...in a country we're not at war with" is irrelevant) against military targets who are not fighting under
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by dschobel 16y ago
So you wonder why they didn't flat out ban or confiscate the book and then you say that paying for it was an abuse of power? That's a curious position...
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by dschobel 16y ago
Exactly, nothing in the government happens sans tax-payer money. "The government uses tax-payer money to clean up after President's dog!" The titles practically write themselves!
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by dschobel 16y ago
In what universe are the web GUIs of tomato and dd-wrt harder to administer than your unix system? I'll take http://www.polarcloud.com/img/ssbn100.png running on $50 hardware any day. And yes, it does QoS ( http://www.polarcloud.com/img
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by dschobel 16y ago
The chess entry doesn't support a fundamental game move (castling). I'd consider that a bug but last time someone pointed that out they got blasted on HN. Anyway, it's a remarkable chess-like game.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Or go to a small company where you actually can see people using your work. As others have suggested, instead of being driven by tools/technology maybe focussing on the product can be satisfying.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Instead of being motivated only by technology have you considered trying to create a product or starting a company? (this is HN after all). Lots of people using (and maybe even liking) something you built can be pretty compelling.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Rather than hot air, what we see is quite a bit of circumstantial evidence and some strong allegations from 3rd parties about what was going on at these meetings. Is it anything conclusive yet? Of course not, but it would be foolish to writ
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by dschobel 16y ago
It's hard to fault him when the facts of the story are so sensational.

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