enko

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by enko 16y ago
> It used to be filled with nerds who wanted to change the world. Now it's filled with hackers who want to get rich. What about nerds who want to change the world, but know they'll have to get rich to do so?
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by enko 16y ago
Cute, but no-one is going to try to seize any "assets", whatever you are imagining they might be. What will happen is instead this: that the Fed would bail them out to avoid a chain reaction, or that the state will have to go to the IMF, ca
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by enko 16y ago
Funny you mention that "rule". It's not very accurate, and becomes less accurate the higher the inflation/interest rate goes. I just worked it out; at 80% inflation it would take 1.18 months to double, not 0.9 like the rule of 72 would sugg
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by enko 16y ago
Terribly! Here's some for starters: - our total misunderstanding of, and gross inflation of, risk, leading amongst countless other things to the total demise of intergenerational friendship and or knowledge transfer for fear of mostly figme
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by enko 16y ago
http://cl.ly/8be68ace3c7b91dc8772 escaped zoo animal?
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by enko 16y ago
The latter is basically as good as the former ..
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by enko 16y ago
Frankly I just wish everyone had frigging herpes so we could all stop worrying about it. And, of course, jack up the r&d necessary to remove it from our lives once and for all.
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by enko 16y ago
I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
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by enko 16y ago
I think that "bad technology" can kill a startup, but slightly different variations of good technology don't have much effect. Choose what you know/like best. And Ruby and Python are both in this latter category. I think it's just that Ruby
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by enko 16y ago
This is a big deal for us mongodb fans, who were bitten badly by the small instance's 32 bit limitation. Sign me up.
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by enko 16y ago
> But for others (e.g. programming) you need to test the person yourself because the university and grades doesn't tell you (reliably) how good the candidate is. In many small programming shops I know of, whether or not you even have a