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by dschobel 16y ago
When I was at my last company we encountered many a client which considered Java the "alien technology". I remember particularly one of the five largest banks in the world absolutely would not allow the JVM in their data center even if it w
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by dschobel 16y ago
for a client application or for the backend? SQL Server + Windows licensing can get crazy expensive. I know stackoverflow made it work via http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/ but I believe even with that program you'll have to cough up the
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by dschobel 16y ago
I'll play devil's advocate and ask-- so if they just fired him on the 2nd day of work, it would have been kosher and everyone would go home happy? Where do you draw the line when there's no employment contract?
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by dschobel 16y ago
What do you mean by "bicycle defense system"? In downtown Chicago I've seen more than one bicyclist hurl a massive bike lock at a car which was acting aggressive (following within inches of the bicyclist and leaning on the horn) but I doubt
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by dschobel 16y ago
Compared to that, how benevolent is Google actually? http://www.google.org/
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by dschobel 16y ago
Sure, but there's no basis for knowing whether he had more or less help than any other human gets from just being a member of society.
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by dschobel 16y ago
How can you make such a statement knowing nothing about how he achieved his success?
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by dschobel 16y ago
You're referring to the Edge Act [1][2] and that only applies to US banks' foreign operations (their subsidiaries, to be specific). It is still very much illegal for them to collude against US customers. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed
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by dschobel 16y ago
I'm not suggesting it, Arrington flat out said it. He was there and knows the VC players better than anyone.
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by dschobel 16y ago
That's an unrealistically high standard and I can't think of any recent case which would meet it. Why didn't the market find a solution to Microsoft in the 90's or Intel in 2000's and, more importantly, why did the Feds feel the need to int
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by dschobel 16y ago
Why would VC firms meeting and agreeing to change terms for their clients in lock-step not be collusion whereas if the brick and mortar banks did, it would be? (and was: http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/04/did-banks-collu.html )
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by dschobel 16y ago
This post reminds me of an interesting phenomenon I keep noticing in my friends-- those who are the least sympathetic to the poor (in the 'those poor darlings never had a chance' sense) are those which came from the most modest backgrounds
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by dschobel 16y ago
Seeing RHEL/CentOS keep coming up led me to some googling and the first result for "RHEL python" is http://www.python.org/download/linux/ (about as official as it gets) which says The IUS Community Project maintains recent versions of Py
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by dschobel 16y ago
The question isn't whether there is a problem but whether there is a solution. The virtualenv/pip people seem to think so.
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by dschobel 16y ago
We're talking about technology, not politics so consensus be damned. There is a fact of the matter independent of perception and lack of consensus in and of itself is not a valid attack on a position. In this case maybe we can listen to tho
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by dschobel 16y ago
I've never heard the distro argument used by any of the python maintainers and I would be surprised if they had. The solution to distros which are bundling three year old software is not to halt your progress for three years, that should be
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by dschobel 16y ago
Zed's pronouncements are works of art. The man is a pro. A veritable Martin Luther for our times.
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by dschobel 16y ago
It's perplexing to me how a country with a great primary education can have mediocre universities. And then you have the exact inverse phenomenon for the USA.
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by dschobel 16y ago
I have nothing constructive to add beyond-- thank you Steve, what a fantastically informative post. It clearly took a lot of time and effort to put together and it is very much appreciated.
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by dschobel 16y ago
You are mischaracterizing his argument. It is 100% economic. The "practicality of it" is to make the economy more sound, not some slavish devotion to laissez faire ideals for subjective reasons.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Why is the employment short-term? Isn't the UK like most of Western Europe in that it's quite hard to fire someone (and then you have to give months and months of severance if you do)?
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by dschobel 16y ago
Posts like this are part of the problem (you wouldn't call Peter Norvig an under-achiever, would you?). There are plenty of great jobs at huge firms and there are shit jobs at startups. Most of the enterprise people I know would hate it if
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by dschobel 16y ago
It could still be comforting and not lousy though.
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by dschobel 16y ago
The wired article c3o links to below (his post is [dead] for some reason though) is a fascinating look at how Demand Media works. Spamming the internet with millions of articles of marginally useful content... I have to admit it's an audaci
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by dschobel 16y ago
Do such content factories really exist? That's horrible yet intriguing.
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by dschobel 16y ago
What value does fiction have beyond artistic? Fire-wood?
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by dschobel 16y ago
What a fantastic article. No idea what it has to do with HN but it was one of the best pieces I've read in a while. Thanks niyazpk!
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by dschobel 16y ago
This is what happens when you staff a company with brilliant "generalist" engineers. Heed the warning folks, hire specialists or your startup will be making phones before you know it!
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by dschobel 16y ago
They're thinking about revenue growth, not user happiness. Obviously they could just roll their own interface/dialer/contact list/etc for android if they wanted to just make a "fully integrated" experience.
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by dschobel 16y ago
It's the twitter problem all over again; they want their data and network/platform to be ubiquitous but while reaping all the eyeball revenue from being the frontend of choice and making every other client second-class.

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