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by dstein 16y ago
Maybe the US should aim a little lower, and first try to eliminate the 2-party system. The system is designed to be dysfunctional.
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by dstein 16y ago
I've kind of been wondering if it would be possible to have some sort of mini-stock exchange for startup companies. Like the Toronto Venture Exchange, but specifically for startup tech companies. Just completely eliminate the VC/angel seed
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by dstein 16y ago
Well I know what I'm gonna apply with next year... Google spreadsheets absolutely suck for this type of collaboration.
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by dstein 16y ago
Google is going to have a really tough time marketing this. It's a bold idea, which, one way or another, is probably the correct direction for personal computing. But the timing is just too soon. And I doubt people are willing to hand a g
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by dstein 16y ago
Australia's system of democracy sounds rather... authoritarian.
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by dstein 16y ago
Employees would typically only be given options, not actual stock. I might be wrong, but I think they can give as many options as they want. And as anyone who has been granted options knows, options usually end up being worthless.
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by dstein 16y ago
For that matter, why not make a site for attractive people who have horrifically ugly personalities. There's far more of them.
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by dstein 16y ago
There should be a separate post for remote/freelance jobs. All the jobs posted here are in the US, and I'm sure there's plenty of talented foreigners lurking on HN.
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by dstein 16y ago
Ugh, I hate arguing grammar. Technically what I said was not ambiguous. If you quote the first sentence alone, it could only be considered ambiguous if you consider "dying internet fad" as a favorable bet. My 2nd sentence confirms my inten
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by dstein 16y ago
If we compare whether Facebook or Google can be more easily replaced I could argue that Google has a higher chance of being replaced because some startup can come along and build a better search engine for less than 1% of what it cost Googl
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by dstein 16y ago
The bottom line is this - if you were to place a bet (as in betting your career) on which company will be dominant 20 years from now and which will become yet another dying Internet fad, I'd bet in favor of Facebook. Absolutely everyone ov
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by dstein 16y ago
Microsoft is really the last company anybody should be looking for guidance on Internet technologies. Their strategy has historically been to make web development as difficult as possible, so as to delay the eventual replacement of the PC
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by dstein 16y ago
Try 1998, when DOM didn't exist. That was pain.
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by dstein 16y ago
No he said politicians have a tendency to think they can fix things. So he advocates voting for politicians who do the least.
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by dstein 16y ago
You mean like on Star Trek, where they abolished hunger, poverty, disease, and began exploring the galaxy?
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by dstein 16y ago
Maybe it's time for the country's smartest engineers and scientists to bind together and form a Technocracy party.
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by dstein 16y ago
Yes there would. You could do "ajax" style communication using <layer> tags in Netscape 4 even before IE4 came out.
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by dstein 16y ago
It's fun reading, but to make it really interesting I think you would need to go really far outside your comfort zone. Real rejection is hard. Find out, by going to Facebook, and send a really heartfelt message to that girl you always had
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by dstein 16y ago
I hope Microsoft keeps doing exactly what they're doing. Microsoft's bad reputation is very much deserved. The web, and the world, is going to be a lot better off without this company. Windows, MS Office, and Internet Explorer are example
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by dstein 16y ago
"C is not like a hammer, C is like wood. So a C Programmer is a wood-worker." Uh, no. The data is the wood. Programming languages are tools to manipulate data. The analogy is valid, but I prefer using musical instruments. You can make mu
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by dstein 16y ago
Downvotes are often from people who disagree with you, without being able to articulate why.
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by dstein 16y ago
Yeah, I hope they don't really put a lot of emphasis on it. I submitted my application about an hour before the deadline and couldn't really think of anything at the time. But later I thought of a bunch of better things I could've put dow
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by dstein 16y ago
I ran some rough numbers once. I couldn't find exact numbers but estimated for about $1.5 million worth of ARM-based plug servers, you would have close to enough raw CPU power (in terms of FLOPS) compete with the 2003-version of Google.
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by dstein 16y ago
The iPad and the Macbook Air need to basically become the same product. Kind of like the tablet laptops Toshiba was shipping about 7 years ago. You open the laptop and it's a Macbook with touchscreen display and keyboard. You swivel the s
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by dstein 16y ago
Assuming he wants to invest it but has little experience with money he should keep most of the money where it is, for now. Maybe take $20,000 out and put it into a brokerage account and start learning to trade with it. IF and only if he'
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by dstein 16y ago
You mean children aren't something that you can selectively nurture or neglect, at a whim, until one of them becomes a rock star and pays your bills for you?
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by dstein 16y ago
The Foundation series.
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by dstein 16y ago
You're right, it may not be necessary. But there is speculation that ARM is on sale and Apple could be planning to expand beyond their current markets.
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by dstein 16y ago
There's a decent chance they'd buy ARM Holdings ($8.4B). They could bring the processor design in-house. ARM chips already power all the IOS devices and could also power their server farms. They could also be planning for iOS/ARM systems
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by dstein 16y ago
It boils down to philosophy. Not all developers like the $() function. And it's not even specific to JQuery anymore, most libraries are doing this now. And for old school JavaScript developers, the "ninja-javascript" just doesn't sit rig

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