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by flipped_bit 11y ago
Understand the author's (Clintonesque) pain, as I am going through a similar problem, but don't have it all figured neatly to disengage from the industry yet. My own views are that the software industry has reduced its 'profe
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by flipped_bit 12y ago
I think both authors miss the point that historically (esp. post WW2 which corrected the abberation during WW2) that capital flow was increasingly borderless. It has been labor that is held back in some anachonistic time warp with visa rest
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by flipped_bit 12y ago
>> I'm also fascinated by Bob Woodward, a brilliant Yale grad who spend several years in the Office of Naval Intelligence, before deciding to become a reporter. Watergate was one of his first stories, an absolutely incredible coi
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by flipped_bit 12y ago
This article intentionally or otherwise distorts how the real world really works even in the bubble of SV. The game in SV is more subtle - the meaness comes in different forms by silent exclusions, cliques forming to backstab other members
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by flipped_bit 12y ago
I fully agree with you and I have my theories: 1) The early 2000 dot-com crash + the Enron crash that changed the regulatory landscape to make it harder for companies to IPO. This has resulted in start-ups being formed for the pure purpose
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by flipped_bit 12y ago
If you are a co-founder, and you are being side-lined, and you have no recourse to get back into the driving seat, it is time to go. This can happen if the other founder secured the funds and has the support from the board. Your only reason
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by flipped_bit 12y ago
Thought this will be interesting to this crowd - merging of tech. and music.
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A quick history of the electic guitar.(historum.com)
2 points by flipped_bit 12y ago|1 comments
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by flipped_bit 12y ago
Sorry to get back too late for the response as I hadn't seen it earlier. I do agree that the patent system as it is applied to software (and possibly other areas too like biotechnology) needs to be reformed. I am not defending the stat
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by flipped_bit 12y ago
The core of the issue (if any) is that historically, the patent system is inextricably tied into the free-market/laissez-faire economic system, which for all its flaws, did create the world as we know it for the last ~ 200 to 300 years
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by flipped_bit 12y ago
A slightly long winded way of addressing this dead-horse of an issue, so that even clueless managers and leaderless dimwits can understand why this idiotic concern keeps cropping p all the time: When you look at the history of technology, i
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by flipped_bit 12y ago
Welcome to programming! "Also I waste considerable amount of time trying to do things in the most readable, maintainable and simple way possible" Motivation is tied to your attitude here as you are looking to do more 'interes
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by flipped_bit 12y ago
Possibly Polynesians might have landed in California earlier than the Vikings: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Did-ancient-Polynesians-v... There was a documentary about this too which raised some interesting p
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by flipped_bit 12y ago
Haven't read this book but read this author's "Icebreaker" which has some interesting viewpoints, mainly that Stalin was the true 'evil genius' whose plans to conquer Western Europe were preempted by Hitler. Th
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by flipped_bit 13y ago
I don't think it is too far off. Recently an exoplanet with a long elliptical orbit was discovered: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16501-elliptical-orbit... Also it could be a brown dwarf which are hard to
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by flipped_bit 13y ago
Belatedly realizing the same points. Most start-up work is 'hauling shit uphill' (horribly paraphrasing a quote about acting that Sean Connery said in his acceptance for some lifetime award).