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3001.
by graycat 12y ago
A classic case of goal subordination , a standard topic in courses in organizational behavior and/or public administration . So, the definition of goal subordination is an employee acting in a way that helps them but hurts the co
3002.
by graycat 12y ago
Sorry, Sam, SV doesn't see much in the way of serious, powerful, valuable, important innovation . Or, with some high irony, the real builder of SV, the US DoD and aerospace, is the real, all-time, unchallenged, unique world-class e
3003.
by graycat 12y ago
On 'network neutrality', I'm lost: Someone please clear this up for me, say, with this 'scenario': I pay my ISP for 15 Mbps download bandwidth, and some Web site with video clips pays their ISP for 10 Gbps upload b
3004.
by graycat 12y ago
That's a total riot! Some parts are true. The rest are too close to being true.
3005.
by graycat 12y ago
The lectures are from a good sampling of the most successful start-up people in Silicon Valley. So, for any of the lectures, if not all the content seems earth shaking, Nobel prize level stuff, then just accept the good news: It's p
3006.
by graycat 12y ago
He wants to keep some things really simple. Good. I'm reminded of the description of the order during WWII for the US landing at Leyte Gulf: "Land and establish a base" or some such. Just that short. For some hundreds of th
3007.
by graycat 12y ago
There seems to be another point in the article but not emphasized: The potential role of direct fuel injection. So, go ahead and let the compression ratio go up through the roof, from the piston in the cylinder and/or the supercharger.
3008.
by graycat 12y ago
There's an issue here: For the air compressor, how does that work? There is the roots idea of two lobes, maybe a foot long each, interlocked like two gears, inside of a housing that is so tight against the lobes that there are no ai
3009.
by graycat 12y ago
You have a point, but in this context necessarily works has to mean making money for the limited partners (LPs) and, there, more money than the alternatives, e.g., an index fund of the NYSE. Well, follow the link I gave to AVC.com and F
3010.
by graycat 12y ago
Good. See also my related <rant> below.
3011.
by graycat 12y ago
Warning: <rant> Controversial opinions. Long road with sharp curves ahead. Author spent too much time in school, as both a student and a professor. YMMV. My guess is that the article deliberately omitted the main point: As good as t
3012.
by graycat 12y ago
From http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/02/venture-capital-returns.html... at least on average, there is some serious question if Silicon Valley "works" at all well. For > One of the biggest misconcept
3013.
by graycat 12y ago
> Hilarious. Ah, good to get some laughs. But if your kitty cat, puppy dog, or baby walks across your keyboard, or if something falls on your keyboard, etc., and suddently Firefox closes after 10 seconds, and keeps doing that, as you ke
3014.
by graycat 12y ago
Long ago I concluded that in tools, ease of use was tools that were reliable, did fairly simple things, and were easy to understand how to use and not tools that tried to do a lot, do favors, anticipate what I wanted, and do more for (to
3015.
by graycat 12y ago
Trolling? Not at all. Instead, it's just what we are actually doing. I'll let them all know that they have a choice: (1) Make money doing the work to make our software and Web site good, our users happy, and our start-up succe
3016.
by graycat 12y ago
"a clear indication of the author's intent" No, what I wrote is what we're doing. Maybe there's some humor in there somewhere, but it's all simple and obvious and makes good sense to us.
3017.
by graycat 12y ago
What I wrote is literally true, but maybe there is some humor in there somewhere. For WCF, LINQ, and WPF, we looked at the documentation, and it was clear that just working through the tough parts of the documentation alone would be much
3018.
by graycat 12y ago
We are using Windows, the .NET Framework, IIS, ASP.NET, and Visual Basic .NET. We're on the .NET Framework 4.0 and see no reason to move to 4.5. For C#, not interested: The syntax borrows from the deliberately idiosyncratic syntax
3019.
by graycat 12y ago
But, but, but, here's what you are missing, where you are going wrong: The VCs have "deep domain expertise". And we do know this because nearly all their Web sites say that they do! We're talking deep, deep, way down
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by graycat 12y ago
Best I can guess, and I thought that guess was fairly clear, somehow the kitty cat stepped on some keys that got Firefox confused about some Web page and to shutdown. Then when Firefox started again, it kept trying to redisplay that Web p
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Fixed Case of Firefox Sudden Shutdown
3 points by graycat 12y ago|2 comments
3022.
by graycat 12y ago
Could the fickle finger of fate easily cross their Buffet moat, i.e., could this be a short term fad that fades? If they have something solid , that is, a much better solution for an important problem where their solution will have a signi
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by graycat 12y ago
What progress I made in learning a foreign language, for both vocabulary and appropriate usage of the words, was from learning phrases and not individual words one at a time. Or, to learn several words, it's much easier to learn a ph
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by graycat 12y ago
The lessons for getting started are quite standard. First, you need three books or, now, Web sites, one for each of a good English dictionary, a good English grammar, and a good book on rhetoric . For a dictionary, sure, something by, s
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by graycat 12y ago
I thought that when wood and other plants rotted, the main result was a lot of soil which I thought was heavily carbon, from the plants, from CO2, from the atmosphere. Maybe I'm wrong about this? Or, growing up, Dad put a lot of ammoni
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by graycat 12y ago
Yup, that's one way to make money. But as in http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/02/venture-capital-returns.html... on average the VC returns to the limited partners have not been very good.
3027.
by graycat 12y ago
Sure, easily can conclude that BVP and other VC firms believe that they have a particular way to evaluate applications and make money. This does not mean that they have the ability or obligation, or even make an effort, accurately to evalu
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by graycat 12y ago
The start-ups that are of the most interest are necessarily exceptional and significantly different from start-ups in the past, successful or not. Thus, evaluating start-ups when looking for the ones of most interest is challenging, and e
3029.
by graycat 12y ago
Thanks! I suspected I was all wet! I was guessing that there might be tricking some EPR thing due to the two paths being different in SR. Or I was trying to mess up the "bookkeeping"! You seem to want to get the situation back
3030.
by graycat 12y ago
Let's try to fool a wave function: Let's take one, run it through a beam splitter, take the two halves, and put one in a lab that is standing still and has a normal clock and the other half in a moving lab, a space ship, with a

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