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by gamble 16y ago
If he really believes this, why is he blogging about it?
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by gamble 16y ago
As an employee, you start out with such a small grant and have so little control over vesting conditions and dilution that participating in a liquidity event to that degree is essentially an act of charity on the part of the investors.
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by gamble 16y ago
It was the post-war political atmosphere of egalitarianism and the fact that Europe and Asia were in ruins that made factory jobs well-paying in 50s America. Once other countries reverted to the mean and neoliberals captured government, so
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by gamble 16y ago
Exactly. This is why HP can have so much more of the laptop market, yet Apple's laptops are much better engineered. Apple sells so many units of each SKU that they can afford to spend more designing each one.
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by gamble 16y ago
You can also get your FU money playing the lottery. It's probably a better deal overall, since the odds are about the same and you don't have to pull any all-nighters to win the lotto.
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by gamble 16y ago
DDT hasn't been effective against bedbugs since the '40s - long before the ban. Use any pesticide long enough and the target will tend to develop a resistance. Now it just agitates bedbugs and makes them more active.
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by gamble 16y ago
Ironic that one of the best-selling Android apps would be an app that so many Android users swear isn't necessary.
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by gamble 16y ago
...unless you're violating the privacy of a police officer, prominent businessman, or a politician. In that case, you'd better be ready to fight a felony wiretapping charge.
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by gamble 16y ago
There's definitely some truth to this, but it has more than a hint of the old trope that "the king is virtuous, but misled by wicked advisors". If Larry and Sergey have a problem with Google's actions or Schmidt's channeling of Larry Elliso
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by gamble 16y ago
> Fred's reason for not paying out from the money he took was that we'd betrayed the company, and after all, it was his money. There's no better way to learn the true character of a man than to ask him to write a very large check based
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Lost In Space(economist.com)
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by gamble 16y ago
> Adobe's PDF reader has been such a long-standing resource hog It makes me feel old to remember a time when Adobe reader didn't suck. The great PDF support in OSX is one of the things that's most jarring to lose when I use a Windows ma
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by gamble 16y ago
My husband was an early employee in a privately-held games company that was purchased for a similar amount. Only the founders and a couple of employees from day one were made rich, in the "FU money" sense. OTOH, it was a games company so no
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by gamble 16y ago
Try the Mercury browser app. I'm not sure why it would be the case, but their tab implementation seems much less eager to reload tabs.
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by gamble 16y ago
The sequel is already covered: http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif
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by gamble 16y ago
It's always interesting to see the business press scratch its head after baffling acquisitions like this and try to spin a coherent explanation of how the two companies fit together. The same thing happened when eBay bought Skype, but wishi
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by gamble 16y ago
It was the money ("our sales skyrocketed") that changed the company culture, not the building. It isn't hard to maintain an atmosphere of egality and shared sacrifice when there's no money to go around. Once the company is flush with profit
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by gamble 16y ago
It'll be interesting to see if people take up Android tablets the way they have with Android phones. My experience with the iPad suggests that a tablet is like a traditional computer in that the experience is dependent on the availability o
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One in Five U.S. Adolescents Has Hearing Loss(businessweek.com)
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by gamble 16y ago
The only fact here is that Google very quickly switched from a whole-hearted support of net neutrality to, at best, a compromised position endorsed by Verizon, a company with a long history of outright opposition to net neutrality and one
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by gamble 16y ago
Four decades and counting, with just one SEC violation. Only suckers rob banks...
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by gamble 16y ago
Google fans: You know how when Apple does something unsavory to further its own business interests, and Apple fans spin the most elaborate arguments to show how Apple doing what's best for Apple is actually in everyone's interest? This is y
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by gamble 16y ago
They were in the wrong, true, but a simple takedown request would have cleared that up if this was about copyright. The bone of contention is that this fellow has set up a company designed to buy up rights and pounce on violations for profi
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by gamble 16y ago
This is BS. Net neutrality has been the status quo for the last 30 years, if only because the network providers didn't have the ability to throttle traffic they didn't like, and weren't concerned about squeezing every cent out of their olig
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by gamble 16y ago
Anyone with a background in law know how easy it would be to automate copyright infringement suits? It seems like the logical endpoint of professional IP exploitation companies like this is an entity that identifies violations, files lawsu
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by gamble 16y ago
Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware the patent was still in question. I don't think it invalidates my point, though. RIM was criticized for waiting too long before settling the case, and thus paying 10x what NTP originally asked for. Waitin
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by gamble 16y ago
Yeah, who would ever do something that crazy? It would be like demanding automakers build safe cars or telling the tobacco industry not to market their product to children.
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by gamble 16y ago
Vaccines are not an entirely personal choice. Many children can't be vaccinated due to an allergic reaction, and some vaccines require a series of injections before immunity is acquired. What saves them is herd immunity. Enough people hav
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by gamble 16y ago
Protip: if you're a founder or aspiring to start a company that may one day employ others, try not to write blog posts that question why anyone would ever work for you.
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by gamble 16y ago
Yep, the difference between them is that Apple had the luxury of waiting a year before tackling the app store (and experience with iTunes to draw from) whereas Google needed an app store on Day 1, albeit a store they could neglect.

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