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by gleb 18y ago
Screen's default command prefix C-a is not usable with emacs, which sounds like the problem you are having. I run screen with C-] prefix precisely for this reason. screen -e^}]
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by gleb 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback. WIP.
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by gleb 18y ago
I am fan of Acunote http://acunote.com Not surprising since that is my startup :-) It's tailor-made for a software startup, includes SVN integration and is free for <= 5 users.
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by gleb 18y ago
Anna Schwartz - Bernanke Is Fighting the Last War http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122428279231046053.html?mod=... "The Fed," she argues, "has gone about as if the problem is a shortage of liquidity. That is not the basic problem. The bas
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by gleb 18y ago
Expensive to maintain -- agreed except on the Vette. And you'd want winter tires in a cold place. But for all of them, the difference is less than depreciation on a new $50k car. Ferrari is different of course, but $25k of depreciation (
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by gleb 18y ago
Buy used. $50k used car is a better deal and a better car than $50k new car. Car is an asset, and its total cost of ownership has less to do with its price than where it is in its depreciation curve. $50k new car means $10-15k depreciati
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by gleb 18y ago
It's an opinion piece. It's not even Journal's opinion, but the author's. Opinion pieces are basically rants and should read as such, whether or not they are correct at the core. This is easier with paper edition, where the context is mu
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Warnings are the new test failures(bofh.org.uk)
2 points by gleb 18y ago|0 comments
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by gleb 18y ago
Replace "hiring" with "dating" and the article still works. Replace the whole article with "establish rapport with" and it still works. People are good with judging people.
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by gleb 18y ago
Beautiful link bait. Seriously, it's a really clever idea. Fortunately/unfortunately Google frowns on link bait unrelated to the core business of your site: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/widgetbait-gone-wild so this is definitely somewhere
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by gleb 18y ago
I don't believe Debian ever managed to deal with 3rd party package management tools well. E.g. XEmacs has its own package management and apt-get equivalent, and it never worked right in Debian. It's fundamentally hard problem to support d
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by gleb 18y ago
The referrer information disclosure is a very good point. In general, I kind of wish that browsers did not include Referrer headers when going from https page to a page on a different domain (e.g. https://wiki.yourcompany.com/competitors/
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by gleb 18y ago
193 series are normal undergrad courses. None of them were required (and probably still are not) for a CS degree, but they are an acceptable choice, along with many others. I think I took u (Unix programming), d (C++) and i (Internet prog
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by gleb 18y ago
This is the business newspaper of record from the land of Margaret Thatcher. That they endorse Obama is not surprising, but that they don't mention a concern with his tax pan is. Crazy times.
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by gleb 18y ago
Actually, in terms of remote classes, Stanford is in a very special situation. Stanford has been providing distance learning in engineering for 30+ years, primarily to local high-tech companies. Delivery was done through dedicated TV circ
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by gleb 18y ago
Glad you are happy with Acunote. You probably won't have a reason to switch away from it, not in Mantis/Jira direction anyway :-) That's functionality-wise, the open-source angle is always valid of course.
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by gleb 18y ago
I don't see how Google can draw away Yahoo's online ad revenue. Only in the sense that Google competes with Yahoo for search impressions. On the media side of things Google is not a serious competitor. That Yahoo can't monetize the search
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Some Of These Layoffs Aren’t Really Layoffs(techcrunch.com)
19 points by gleb 18y ago|10 comments
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by gleb 18y ago
While stupid, it's highly relevant. It's worthwhile to read contradicting opinions, even if just to understand why they are wrong. Same reason I have KFPA (a communist radio station in Berkeley) programmed into my car radio.
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by gleb 18y ago
Unlike Firebug and TamperData HttpFox does not change behavior of the browser cache, and correctly reports what is being served from cache and what goes on the wire. Unlike TD and LiveHTTPHeaders it has a convenient user interface for exam
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by gleb 18y ago
By far the biggest reason that car diesels are not popular in US, while they are popular in Europe, is that diesel fuel is taxed similarly to gas here. In Europe it enjoys significant tax advantage. A small contribution is bad experience
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by gleb 18y ago
I hate to be negative about a startup that way, but it's important to realize that "direct-to-consumer genomics" is a scam. I went to a presentation by a founder of one the competitors (there are 3-4 high-flying competitors in the business
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by gleb 18y ago
I agree, there is a real opportunity there. The "seal of approval" businesses are great. You get paid for doing almost nothing, so it has very high margins. The customers prominently feature the seals on their sites, and pay you for the p
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by gleb 18y ago
With Python, there is no real pain that alternative implementations can address. The canonical implementation is good enough, and it will remain a monopoly. With Ruby, providing significantly better performance and reliability may very wel
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by gleb 18y ago
Cash compensation, yes. Total compensation -- I am arguing otherwise. SV engineers are asked to take more risk, and perhaps to sacrifice quality of life more. Thus higher expected compensation. That $175k in NY is probably $200k after b
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by gleb 18y ago
There are good and bad reasons for this. You really should ask. But there is a common standard for how many shares you should have, so the # shares is normally comparable between different companies. Sometimes you do get this crazy compa
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by gleb 18y ago
Sure, but what does that have to do with SV startups?
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by gleb 18y ago
A good engineer has better dealflow than VCs. He can cherry pick companies backed by top VCs, within those he can pick the ones with the best engineering teams, for example. I didn't mean that you should expect to double the salary for any
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by gleb 18y ago
I really meant good experienced engineer. Such a person is worth much more than $150k/year, but you can't get much more cash as an employee in a startup (for good reasons). Also, at that level you are getting at least 10% target bonus,
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by gleb 18y ago
$115M is still a small exit. A successful VC exit is an IPO or similar size acquisition, meaning $300M+, in many cases quite a bit more. At that level the numbers work out. Sure, the last 6 years have been tough, but there's been plenty o

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