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by gamble 16y ago
Thanks! That interview is much more interesting and informative than the OP.
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by gamble 16y ago
That's not the way patent trolling works. Normally the troll buys a portfolio of existing patents, then waits for someone with deep pockets to infringe. It's usually the victim who tries to argue that the invention predates the patent. I ca
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by gamble 16y ago
I don't want to sound like I'm attacking you, but the fact that you were able to start a company without providing health insurance or a salary sufficient to buy it individually is itself a problem. If your employees got sick, it would be s
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by gamble 16y ago
The PS3 is still hard to develop for. What's changed is that they've finally shipped enough units to make ports worthwhile. The 360 has three symmetric cores and a decent GPU. The PS3 has a single core, a comparable GPU - and six very const
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by gamble 16y ago
I am shocked, shocked that our universities are failing to give graduates an adequate grasp of Sharepoint administration
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The End of Men(theatlantic.com)
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by gamble 16y ago
Anyone know where her sales figures are coming from? Are they self-reported? She's obviously doing pretty well based on her Amazon rank, but I'm a little skeptical of the 100-450k per month number.
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by gamble 16y ago
Possibly. I have to believe that Donna Dubinsky is pretty well off, and she still had complaints about American healthcare. The minute number of people who are able to chance paying seven-figure medical bills out of pocket might enjoy the U
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by gamble 16y ago
I agree. Sun was dependent on selling proprietary hardware at $20k a pop. Even if they had launched a commodity-hardware line, no one would have paid the prices necessary to support a corporate structure built on high-end sales. SGI tried,
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by gamble 16y ago
Public healthcare is a cornerstone of Canadian national identity, in part because we recognize how bad the American system is. There are always ideologues who are inspired to emulate the American system, but they never get any traction with
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by gamble 16y ago
Probably because Intel's chipsets won't support USB 3 until next year. Current PC motherboards are supporting it with third-party controllers, which presumably Apple didn't want to bother with.
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by gamble 16y ago
Same reason why every interface standard that flirts with optical eventually ends up supporting copper: optical components are more expensive, and over short runs you can get acceptable performance with copper.
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by gamble 16y ago
1950-2000 was one of those rare moments in history when industries (whole states, countries even) could coast on regular, incremental improvements to a single world-changing technology. SV was in the right place at the right time, and never
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by gamble 16y ago
Interesting to hear from an insider. Cisco is very good at getting the media to write about how skilled they are with acquisitions. Do you think it's more marketing than reality?
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by gamble 16y ago
Trying to fight the bureaucracy from within is generally Sisyphean. You may hold out temporarily, but you make enemies in the process. Unless you can execute indefinitely without mistakes, eventually something will provide an opening for th
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by gamble 16y ago
This article is mistitled. It should read 'What happens after anyone acquires you'. These anecdotes will sound familiar to many people who have been through an acquisition. Acquisitions are not something any company is naturally good at,
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by gamble 16y ago
The appropriate measure is not whether bad movies are made; (or popular) it's whether good films are still produced. There is some room for concern - mid-budget films for adults like, for example, 'Master and Commander' are essentially de
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by gamble 16y ago
Exactly. The "brain work" rationalization was just a way to sell outsourcing to the middle class, enabling conservatives to break working-class political power. The next wave, well underway since the tech bubble reduced communication costs
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by gamble 16y ago
This is a insightful post, but I think many of the problems with Agile have been apparent since the beginning. A lot of the early Agile proponents went straight into selling snake oil to corporations with deep pockets and dysfunctional cult
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by gamble 16y ago
You are right that it's much more difficult for immigrants. It is possible to send your kids to an English public school if you're on a temporary visa, but not as a permanent resident. If you can afford tuition, an alternative is to send th
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by gamble 16y ago
Consumers already do, if like 99% of people they get the license with a new computer. MS only soaks the people who buy retail.
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by gamble 16y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this article, but Montreal does have one thing in it's favor when it comes to the tech industry: incredible subsidies. With the low wages and cost of living, plus gov't handouts, it can be cheaper to hire developer
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by gamble 16y ago
My husband's company opened a (English-speaking) branch office in Montreal two years ago. Language is definitely an issue for working spouses. It is very difficult to find an English-only job in Montreal if you don't work in tech or finance
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by gamble 16y ago
I basically agree with you. My response was more directed at the comments in this thread glorifying the intestinal fortitude of founders. Founders don't give much equity to employees because the successful ones don't have to, and the failur
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by gamble 16y ago
This is why I restricted my original statement to YC-style startups. A capital intensive startup that someone invests their life savings into at age 45 is entirely different than a software startup founded on a shoestring budget by new coll
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by gamble 16y ago
People are over-moralizing this. Why do CEOs get paid so much? Why are salesmen often better paid than engineers? Does a ditch-digger deserve less money than a lawyer? The market is basically amoral. People get what they can get, not what t
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by gamble 16y ago
I will buy that it can cause problems with personal relationships, though working 12-hour days as a startup employee will do that too. But the idea that failure hurts you as an entrepreneur is just factually incorrect. Unless personal incom
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by gamble 16y ago
I really question this idea that (YC-style) startup founders are taking on more risk than employees. Few founders have a significant amount of personal capital invested in the business. If the startup fails, they're not out of much more tha
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by gamble 16y ago
The problem with resume advice is that everyone who does interviews eventually develops their own set of strongly-held, essentially arbitrary beliefs about every aspect of the hiring process. It's all ultimately about finding reasons to tos
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by gamble 16y ago
Then consider it to be worth nothing... which is probably what it will be worth. It wouldn't be an encouraging number anyway.

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