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by dstein 15y ago
That would prevent insiders and common shareholders from selling their shares, but it would in no way prevent an investment bank from unloading their shares through some sort of intermediary.
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by dstein 15y ago
Really the only people making any money here are the underwriter and venture capitalists who took this company public - the guys who pumped up and are now dumping these shares. While they're high fiving eachother with a job well done it's
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by dstein 15y ago
I spent 3 months in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, and loved it. Rent for a nice 2 bed townhouse was $1000 but cheaper is possible. It's a surfing beach with a bit of a nightlife. Lots of europeans, I met several british people there. The food
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by dstein 15y ago
Isn't MongoDB under the AGPL, requiring MongoLab open their entire system?
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by dstein 15y ago
At least this time around they're trying to extinguish companies that aren't innovating and actually standing in the way of further progress.
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by dstein 15y ago
Agreed. The Veer looks like it was specifically engineered for children.
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by dstein 15y ago
Pretty much everyone who's done a startup could accuractly predict what would happen to Diaspora. They were a bunch of young guys who hadn't been in the real world long enough to know they were up against. Funny enough, if they hadn't rec
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by dstein 15y ago
That sounds easy enough even for Techcrunch bloggers to game.
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by dstein 15y ago
Flagged. Does Techcrunch have a bunch of shill accounts that upvote every one of their articles?
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by dstein 15y ago
A few years ago I would've said yes. But, thanks to the iPhone and Android, so much new technology has come to web browsers recently that there aren't many reasons to develop native desktops apps anymore.
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by dstein 15y ago
The bothersome thing about the Skype acquisition is that it's really not going to save them at all. It was a statement purchase. They bought it to show off. They could have bought up a lot of innovative, smaller companies for $8.5B... som
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by dstein 15y ago
QtWebKit: http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKit WebKitGtk: http://live.gnome.org/WebKitGtk I have no personal experience with either. It would be rather bleeding edge on both ends to use either of these to interface with nodejs for a de
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by dstein 15y ago
I did not mean that literally Indonesian teenagers are in India finding PHP jobs. I meant that people in many poor countries (Indonesia, India, Philippines etc) must be competing for these minimum wage programming jobs.
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by dstein 15y ago
Except if Microsoft had bought it, it would not be worth even that much today.
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by dstein 15y ago
It's good that at least someone is trying to address this. There are no decent freelance/telecommuter oriented job sites. The ones out there are generally geared toward the "let's outsource to India" style gigs -- I really can't compete w
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by dstein 15y ago
It sounds like most of these complaints are about mobile Safari and not specific to Sencha's libraries or PhoneGap.
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by dstein 15y ago
What Apple is doing here is not new. They want to eliminate the middleman of any type, and thus become the only middleman.
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by dstein 15y ago
But the strategies they are using now are a lot more sinister than they initially seemed. They're not just organizing links to data, they actually want be a sort of universal turing machine. They don't want any two people to communicate w
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by dstein 15y ago
My tinfoil hat theory is that Google is attempting to be the router for all of humanity's computation and communication.
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by dstein 15y ago
When you look at Microsoft's acquisition history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition... There aren't many very large brand name "statement" acquisitions there. Most are small companies you've probably never heard
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by dstein 15y ago
Dividends reward short term shareholders. Capital reinvestment rewards long term shareholders (if it's successful).
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by dstein 15y ago
Paying a dividend will not save Microsoft. Even Microsoft realizes that.
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by dstein 15y ago
Interesting to note that the market cap of Vonage is only 1.04B. They might have been able to buy up every single other VOIP company on the planet with the remaining $6 Billion.
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by dstein 15y ago
Good luck with that. I tried installing Ubuntu 11 on a system yesterday and discovered the installer hangs if you try to install it on a hard disk that currently contains Windows 7. If I didn't know how to manually use fdisk to reformat t
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by dstein 15y ago
It's just my anecdotal experience. It's pretty easy to prove the IPO market lately hasn't been like it was in the 90's and that's the reason the big tech companies have been staying private.
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by dstein 15y ago
If the valuation starts off so high that means future growth has already been priced in, which means there's no compelling reason for any new investor to buy the shares. The share price will drift downward for years (which happens to most
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by dstein 15y ago
It's more than just lack of competition. What's happened is all cable television and phone companies have realized they are completely fucked. The Internet is way more disruptive than they originally thought. With VOIP and Netflix/bittorr
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by dstein 15y ago
In the US internet bandwidth is in the same category as health care -- it's a luxury you have to pay extra for.
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Netscape Documentary (1998-2000) chronicles the first release of Mozilla(youtube.com)
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by dstein 15y ago
http://www.sixtysymbols.com has a great collection of physics and chemistry clips given by university professors. They're all 5-10 minute tidbits of trivia and general knowledge stuff.

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