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by earl 15y ago
Not sustainable? All sorts of businesses collect sales taxes in CT -- every establishment you enter. And despite the (to you) obvious non sustainability of this, somehow the businesses are still there. Which could lead you to believe tha
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by earl 15y ago
Except it doesn't occur outside their state if an amazon affiliate is in CT. Hence amazon withdrawing.
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by earl 15y ago
What part of it involved IL? Are you being deliberately obtuse? You living in IL. States charge taxes to provide services to the people who live and enter the state. You live in the state, therefore it is entirely appropriate for IL to
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by earl 15y ago
So, broadly, the biggest divide in the online advertising world is search advertising vs display advertising, and search sounds exactly like what it is -- search is generally the ads next to searches on GYB. Search is bigger than display b
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by earl 15y ago
I built some software a decade or so ago that did ticketing / concessions / gift cards / inventory / time clock for smaller movie theaters. You wouldn't believe how crappy what they were using was. Still, selling was a royal pain; either
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by earl 15y ago
I miss NYC so much; SF is just such a disappointment as a city. My bodega 2 doors down in the upper east side was a full deli with fresh chicken, turkey, and pork everyday; $6 huge sandwiches made fresh; coffee; and they were open 24 hours
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by earl 15y ago
It's been interesting seeing how your (modest) success has turned you into an asshole - shame really. Perhaps when accusing patio11 of being an asshole -- which I don't believe to be the case -- you could try not being a snide assho
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by earl 15y ago
Bummer. Someone -- I think a startup founder I know and that people have heard of, but I could be wrong -- related to me that when he got a series A or B, the background check was so thorough that the investors noticed he'd accidentally let
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by earl 15y ago
NB: Shazam is run by raging assholes who like to threaten people posting code on their site to implement the algo described in the paper [1:4]. Roy's site is still up, but you may introduce quite a lot of stress into your life by messing a
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by earl 15y ago
Oatmeal should sue. It's just not that complex to build image similarity algorithms that are robust to minor changes like photoshopping the link back to the outmeal's site out or resolution changes or image degradation from compression. A
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by earl 15y ago
groovy helps a bit with this when you use the jvm -- lots of their operators are null aware [1], ie max([3, null, 4]) == 4 and they have a null-safe dereference operator [2], so returning null is actually reasonable as an error d
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by earl 15y ago
How is this different / better than Yahoo S4 [1], which does have code on github? [2]? Why did you choose to build this, or did you start before S4 became public? [1] http://docs.s4.io/ [2] https://github.com/s4/core
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by earl 15y ago
Please read the article. "The advanced discovery is limited to "Outside Counsel Eyes Only," meaning that Apple's engineering staff and in-house legal team will not have access to the materials. Apple's legal team handling the suit will dete
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by earl 15y ago
While the article has it's points, Altucher complaining about $200k for a college education is stupid. For every Stanford or Harvard out there, there's a Berkeley, UW Madison, U Washington, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Ann Arbor, etc.
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by earl 15y ago
Fuck you. There's no upside for women and enormous downside for them to go public with crap like this. For you to cry misandry pretty clearly shows your position. And your claim that she should just shut her mouth and keep quiet is at ba
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by earl 15y ago
I'd tend to say big company. Go to google or microsoft for two to three years. You'll go to a company with strong mentoring to help you dramatically improve your development skills, and you can almost view it as getting a masters in softw
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by earl 15y ago
Except for, you know, the presumably small devs that Apple fucked over in the process.
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by earl 15y ago
But SF hasn't, or at least I can't think of any big startups in the city, particularly that have stayed post IPO. Twitter is probably the largest at roughly 300 people. And honestly, do the math: if Twitter goes public for $10B, and they'v
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by earl 15y ago
HP just seems incredibly stupid. I mean, they're already $1.2B in on this, and they desperately need apps. Why not spend $50MM, go to a bunch of devs, and commission apps? Offer aggressive rev sharing and a guaranteed minimum $50K. $5
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by earl 15y ago
Coming from nyc's subways -- which look like a place you wouldn't be scared to enter if you didn't know it's public transport -- Moscow was a shock. The subways are beautiful, each of the stations is unique, they're clean, and pretty well
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by earl 15y ago
I don't think reasonable people believe that women who have babies can't remain focused on their careers. However, let's not pretend -- there's a lot of caring going on, and somebody, whether it's mom, dad, grandpa, grandma, aunt, uncle, o
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by earl 15y ago
see http://shouldiworkforfree.com/ The only problem with Jessica's chart is she didn't make the NO in red font and twice as big.
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by earl 15y ago
You know what people whose leaving a company would be catastrophic are called? Owners
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by earl 15y ago
I'm only aware of a handful of senators (maybe the macaca jackass, or perhaps santorum) that have been in any way hurt by not knowing how the internet works. I wish they were so incentivized, but they seem to be following the incentives th
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by earl 15y ago
No equity. Are you fucking kidding? Why exactly are you taking substandard comp then? Stop being a sucker. Personally, I'd tell the owners 10% or two weeks, their choice. Be willing to be negotiated down to maybe 3%. If they can't do t
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by earl 15y ago
A fascinating jvm they missed is azul. They claim they can handle 300+GB heaps with pauses < 10 ms by radically changing how gc works. Skim this: http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/azul_pauseless_gc.html Essentially it continuall
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by earl 15y ago
It's almost as if people prefer not to have poisoned water, air, and land; to eat safe food without chemicals; to not ingest carcinogens; etc. This is a real pain for polluting corporations, yes.
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by earl 15y ago
Please, read some econ besides at heritage or cato. The correlation is not that strong, see [1] and specifically [2] [3] and [4]. [2] demolishes your argument -- look at the horizontal spread in the developed countries. These indicators
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by earl 15y ago
Learn some econ. Trade isn't zero sum under specialization, but that's not what's going on. This is just shuffling income around to wherever some shyster of a lawyer has figured out a way to avoid paying taxes while still enjoying the ben
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by earl 15y ago
Then support public funds plus a ban on all private funds for elections. For example, look at the recent senate campaign in CA, Boxer vs Fiorina. Boxer spent $28MM and Fiorina $22MM [1]. The math is you must raise $2.8e7 / (52 * 6) = $89

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