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by hapless 14y ago
As repeatedly mentioned, a "meaningful exit" can make the founders extremely rich, and pay employees the equivalent of a routine annual bonus at a normal firm. ($5k-$25k) Candidates have no way to evaluate the value of the equity pressed up
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by hapless 14y ago
The Adobe suite on IRIX/Solaris used a really clumsy macintosh-to-motif auto-port system. The resulting ports were really bad . Before Photoshop on Macintosh, the normal way to do that type of work on a computer was to buy a turnkey sys
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by hapless 14y ago
I've actually used this, and IE5 was by far the best/fastest browser on Solaris at the time. Seriously an order of magnitude faster than Netscape 4.x. With IE, browsing the web was practical on a 100 MHz SPARC. IE for UNIX was ported b
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by hapless 14y ago
a : a native of Hesse b : a German mercenary serving in the British forces during the American Revolution; broadly : a mercenary soldier Powerful, unavoidable connotations are only valuable in a brand when they reinforce the product being s
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by hapless 14y ago
I like the overall scheme. If information overload for women is the hard part, that's the thing to focus on. That said, how will you attract men to a site where they are likely to be filtered into oblivion? The mainstream dating sites may
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by hapless 14y ago
Something I should have mentioned yesterday: Manhattan alone, county of New York, has a higher poverty rate than NY state as a whole. Urban poverty and inequality are inescapable facts in NYC.
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by hapless 14y ago
The BLS figures you cite only include full-time hourly and salaried workers. These are the upper crust of employment in America. My figure comes from payrolls reported to the Social Security Administration: http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/net
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by hapless 14y ago
let's start from the beginning 1. Manhattan is 7% of NYC's land area 2. Manhattan (County of New York) is the richest county in NY by per capita income (as opposed to resident income: Manhattan is home to hundreds of thousands of urban poor
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by hapless 14y ago
Generalized statistics are quite reasonably applied to NYC. The NYC average wage (37k) is only about 10k more than the national median, 28k. Yes, the wealthiest people in the world live in NYC, but the average New Yorker is not substantiall
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by hapless 14y ago
Median family income is extremely deceptive in NYC, because adults typically cannot afford to live without roommates. Median household income is $48,631. The arithmetic average wage is around 37k. By any measurement, 180k is a hell
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by hapless 14y ago
There was a time when the stock market was a source of early capital for new firms to fund their growth and development. That time is past. A firm prepares an IPO when its investors are ready to "cash out." No one should be surprised that
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by hapless 14y ago
At $15,000 a year, you have to take PO numbers, have a collections department, and be prepared to be paid 6 months late.
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by hapless 14y ago
Groupware is still the big unsolved small-business problem in an open source stack. There have been many, many attempts to fix individual pieces of the problem, and a handful of overarching ones, but I'm not sure anyone has nailed it. Cli
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by hapless 14y ago
Statistically, most students in American colleges achieve low marks, fail a lot of classes, or drop out entirely. I suspect these students still encounter daunting obstacles in the real world. The difference between schooling and the real
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by hapless 14y ago
An IBM-compatible with a 386, as opposed to the legions of 286 systems already able to run SCO/Coherent/MINIX
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by hapless 14y ago
SuSE was also the first distribution to embrace ReiserFS, only to find it inadequate. I seem to recall that SuSE used to talk about adopting OCFS2 as its primary filesystem. Thank goodness they didn't go that direction.
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by hapless 14y ago
Someone didn't finish his homework. The legal, supported method of virtualizing OSX is: Guest: Leopard Server Host: ESX 5.1 Hardware: Mac Pro Mac Pro is supported on the VMware HCL. Leopard Server is legally virtualizable on Mac hardware. V
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by hapless 14y ago
Mince pie is a thing in America, they're just much larger than the British treat. From what I can tell, it's a similar filling, just, expanded to a full-size pie. In my experience, you can find it in any supermarket around Thanksgiving and
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by hapless 14y ago
http://partners.netapp.com/go/techontap/matl/sample/0206tot_...
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by hapless 14y ago
Dell bought an existing company. Cisco bought an existing company, and the product is stagnant. Citrix bought an existing company, and the product is stagnant. F5 went to Linux many years ago Juniper is still FreeBSD. They win this one ;)
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by hapless 14y ago
It is only the 9th. Look at the marks of this year against prior years: December 09, 2012: $260k ($500k goal) December 14, 2011: $210k ($400k goal) December 16, 2010: $210k ($350k goal) Early Dec, 2010: $195k ($350k goal) December 26, 2
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by hapless 14y ago
You absolutely can. It's about returns to worker productivity. As the article mentions, factory workers are hundreds of times more productive than they were in the 1960s. They are probably thousands of times more productive than they were
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by hapless 14y ago
Unless you have it done by air, it's about five weeks to get things in from China -- four weeks of shipping, one week of customs. (This is actually mentioned in the article)
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by hapless 14y ago
Timbuk2 still manufactures made-to-order products in America, where just-in-time production makes sense. Who is going to wait six weeks for a custom bag? Price-minimized, zero-margin, off-the-shelf crap for big box stores are a different s
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by hapless 14y ago
The core problem is that it moves part of your OO interface into data. With "isTestPage()" you have a method with well-specified outputs. With "page.hasAttribute('Test')," a load of things become part of the permanent interface of the class
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by hapless 14y ago
If you read the comments, the cloudflare guys mention that, like Amazon CloudFront, it is not yet possible to use your own certificate. That means their cost is essentially zero (some CPU time or an SSL accelerator card). They can serve e
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by hapless 14y ago
If your site is much bigger than a personal blog, turning on SSL by default will cost you a a fortune . Your hosting bill will be virtually unchanged, but the CDN costs are ruinous. Akamai charges about 10x as much for custom SSL service
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by hapless 14y ago
Proportional to its number of users, Common Lisp probably has more libraries than any other language in history. The problem is described in the article: all of the libraries are half-baked "trivial" implementations that cover the author's
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by hapless 14y ago
Their entrepreneurial moment came years earlier. Skype was founded on the back of their conventional capital ($$$) earned from earlier ventures.
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by hapless 14y ago
My high school was in a wealthy area with ~4,000 students. Economies of scale apply. When this becomes the "standard of care" at smaller schools, you'll just see other budgets slashed to provide these dubious "services."

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