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by emmett 14y ago
But the market is pricing in "some number of those shares will hit the market" already. Since it's equally likely that the market has anticipated too-high as too-low, there's no reason to believe it will cause the stock to sink. It's equall
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by emmett 14y ago
Actually people have "half a child" all the time. Every time a sibling reproduces, for example, that's half a child. So there's a perfectly viable strategy of helping your siblings have more children instead of having more children yourself
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by emmett 14y ago
Google's policy isn't "do no evil". It's "Don't be evil". Subtle, but important.
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by emmett 14y ago
I downvoted you just for the jab about "that will mean this gets downvoted".
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by emmett 14y ago
That says more about who you know than the real distribution of programmer salaries. It's not common, but those kinds of compensation scales definitely exist?
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by emmett 14y ago
Basically for the same reason that this onion article is funny: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
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by emmett 14y ago
This is why, as the balance of power has shifted towards founders, new things have appeared in the funding rounds. The most prominent is the trend towards allowing founders to cash out in a portion of their ownership as part of the deal. An
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by emmett 14y ago
Which companies designed to grow very fast are not startups?
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by emmett 14y ago
Anything where the best practitioners are famous. Sports player. Politician. Artist. You can complete the list.
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by emmett 14y ago
Why are you posting a link to my comments? Don't be a dick.
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by emmett 14y ago
These kind of ad-hominem comments add nothing to the conversation. Please don't make them on HN.
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by emmett 14y ago
Of course I've heard of ORM. Theoretical "Database independence" is easy to achieve: just follow the SQL standard. All your queries will execute. There's nothing java-specific about this at all. ORMs are extremely common across most languag
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by emmett 14y ago
No, the issue is not conflicting SQL. An ORM solves that problem extremely easily. It's the fact that query planners and performance optimizations implemented by each database are different, and thus directly porting your current schema and
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by emmett 14y ago
1. No app of significant size will actually allow this. If you've ever tried to switch over a large data set with a high query volume you'll know that it never "just works". 2. Just because there's an API behind it, doesn't mean that it doe
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by emmett 14y ago
What do you mean by an "accurate valuation"? They have a responsibility to provide accurate information about their business, but the valuation is ultimately set by the market, not them.
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by emmett 14y ago
Bezos' grandmother was dying of smoking cigarettes, and if he managed to push her into quitting it was probably worth being a little mean about it. This is the kind of "deep" sounding quote that's actually not so deep at all. It's obviously
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by emmett 14y ago
You're being needlessly pedantic. It's pretty obvious that by "service" he means a business where you are paid per hour you work: all freelancers, consultants, and all other businesses where the owner is a critical daily employee. Yes, that
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by emmett 14y ago
This comment is needlessly mean and dismissive and doesn't belong on HN.
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by emmett 14y ago
I am inspired. I just did the same as an experiment. We'll see how it goes...
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by emmett 14y ago
As much as I love it, the internet has some pretty unsavory corners. Assuming this makes any news outside the internet, I'd be curious to see what comes out -- "President Obama answering questions on new technology associated with necrophil
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by emmett 14y ago
Ah, but the true reason is that you don't like the language. So anything else I tell you is actually useless, you've already decided you don't want to use the framework. The true reason is your dislike for C#. I encourage you to read http:
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by emmett 14y ago
This is the opposite of how you should approach the problem in my mind. Why don't you want to use the framework? There must be some reason.
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by emmett 14y ago
I'm very curious: what metric do you use to assess your management-talent as low? As a programmer, I used to believe I wouldn't be a good manager, but I'm currently making a run at it and it turns out I'm better than I thought I'd be.
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by emmett 14y ago
The reason startups do press releases about funding rounds is that news outlets write about them. The reason news outlets write about them is that people (like those found on Hacker News) read, upvote, and comment on those articles. Most st
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by emmett 14y ago
1) I disagree with your assessment of 9gag. It's similar to previous social news sites, but different in a couple key ways.[1] Reddit was originally called a "del.icio.us clone" but now we call things reddit clones. There's some ick-factor
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by emmett 14y ago
By success, I mean "make money for the investors". That seems like a reasonable criteria for judging the success of an investment. I don't think I see where you're coming from, actually. Do you object to YC investing in 9gag because: It won
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by emmett 14y ago
With the almost unique exception of xhtml. But that's actually the only one I can think of.
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by emmett 14y ago
Are you against the funding because you think 9gag will fail and YC will lose money on the deal, or because you think 9gag will be successful but you wish it weren't?
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by emmett 14y ago
Poe's law for intellectual property law: I couldn't tell if this was sarcasm, or there really is a "substantially inspired" standard for trade dress. A quick google shows that in fact this is sarcastic.
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by emmett 14y ago
I would add: (iii) It's unclear Uber is actually in violation of the law. Boston may have sent a C&D, but this hasn't been tried in court yet and I would not be surprised if Uber was to win.

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