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by gamble 15y ago
I still see Google as a silly name, but at least it has some rationale in the corporate philosophy and a hint of geek cred. "Bing" just smacks of a committee of corporate drones trying to look hip with an unintentional parody of younger, co
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by gamble 15y ago
The board should fire themselves.
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Google Cozies Up To GOP(politico.com)
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by gamble 15y ago
I'm inclined to call this survey bullshit. There's no information available about it, except a blurb at the very bottom of the infographic claiming that it's from their survey of hiring manager. At best, it only tells you how lazy hiring ma
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by gamble 15y ago
Gruber can be very partisan, but this is one of his better posts, written respectfully and intelligently with none of the partisan slant people often complain about. IMO, this is an example of why he shouldn't be banned on HN.
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by gamble 15y ago
The Cortex-M3 microcontrollers are awesome. Much more powerful than the older 8-bit architectures available at the same price, and amenable to industry-standard tools instead of just the compilers and IDE sold by the manufacturer. I think
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by gamble 15y ago
Probably a few people out there who wouldn't mind having affordable health care.
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by gamble 15y ago
Except that productivity and GDP have been rising as steadily as ever. The wealth is there; it's just being entirely captured by the wealthiest citizens.
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by gamble 15y ago
My understanding of the origins of emacs & vim: emacs originated as the tool of choice for programmers. In those days a programmer would sit at a single text-based terminal all day, working dawn-til-dusk in a single editor process on a
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by gamble 15y ago
You make it sound so big-brother-esque, but users are the ones who chose native apps over the browser. iOS has had excellent HTML/Javascript support since the first iPhone - vastly, vastly better than any of its contemporary competitors. In
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by gamble 15y ago
I'm sure you're right. I'll always remember fondly the amazing deals I often got in the late nineties, before most of the dotcoms offering them went bankrupt.
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by gamble 15y ago
Linear algebra is the foundation of modern engineering. Before computers, the only mathematically tractable problems were those that could be reduced to linear problems. With computers, we can take on those formerly intractable problems by
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by gamble 15y ago
My husband was an early employee at a company that was acquired in a mid-nine-figure deal. The founders walked away with at least a hundred million each. Employee #1 got a low seven-figure payout, after about ten years of grueling overtime.
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by gamble 15y ago
Exactly. This is my biggest problem with the "earning versus learning" philosophy. Both times I was employee #1 the founders had no interest in sharing any aspect of the business side of the company. I was there to build the product; anythi
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by gamble 15y ago
Just because these things can theoretically happen at any company doesn't make them equally likely. Startups are far more likely to go bust or lay off people with little warning.
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by gamble 15y ago
Yes, employee #1 is almost always the worst-off person in the company. They get to work like a founder, without the financial benefits. I've been there twice; it isn't a lot of fun. Either found or join a company that has funding.
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by gamble 15y ago
The X220 isn't remotely as thin as the Macbook Air: http://www.engadget.com/photos/lenovo-thinkpad-x220-review/#... versus http://www.engadget.com/photos/macbook-air-review/#4317649
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by gamble 15y ago
If the Honeycomb delay is a temporary result of working too fast, why is Google giving internal presentations about how they can profit by restricting access to the source to key OEMs?
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by gamble 15y ago
> The precision, and hence the quantity of BTC, can be increased in the future if necessary. The ability to subdivide BTC is irrelevant to the question of depreciation. If 1 BTC goes from $10 USD to $20 USD, then 0.5 BTC goes from $5 US
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by gamble 15y ago
I think women are more motivated to educate themselves because the few well-paying jobs that don't require a degree are largely unattractive to them. I live in an area with a large oil industry and it's not uncommon for kids right out of hi
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by gamble 15y ago
It seems to be standard procedure for Amazon. They carry a far wider selection of products on the American site than any of their international stores. Until the last few years they basically only sold media in Canada.
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by gamble 15y ago
Thanks for responding! Sounds like an interesting company. I wish more founders took this attitude.
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by gamble 15y ago
This will have a hard time competing with the iPad internationally, if it really is focused on deep integration with their digital stores. Amazon has been extremely reluctant to roll out their content stores beyond the US. For example, they
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by gamble 15y ago
This is normally a problem solved by a four-year vesting schedule w/ a one-year cliff. IMO, companies offering minimal equity with a promise to increase it later is a huge red flag, since those promises rarely come to fruition. Equity is gi
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by gamble 15y ago
What are you doing to ensure that employees receive that broad an experience? In the startups I've worked for, the founders were loathe to involve employees in business development, let alone financing.
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by gamble 15y ago
I was in a similar situation to the OP about ten years ago - 21 years old, very little experience, first technical employee at a company founded by two doctors, low pay, meagre equity given my responsibilities - and honestly, in retrospect
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by gamble 15y ago
There's a simple solution: employees shouldn't accept a lower-than-market salary. Having been in this situation myself I understand that the psychology of these situations makes it difficult for early employees to maintain an employer-emplo
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by gamble 15y ago
Exactly. And I'd bet that the employee pool is conditional on staying with HP for 1-4 years, whereas Lynch will get most or all of his payout immediately.
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by gamble 15y ago
I think they're doing a bit better these days. They were able to get some lottery money to renovate the mansion, and Google has made a few prominent donations this year. The main problem is that the site is so large and most of the building
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by gamble 15y ago
Minecraft on 360 is never going to be more than a niche, given the type of game it is. If it's available through Steam, however, the majority of PC players will end up buying through Steam and that population will pressure the non-Steam PC

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