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by helmut_hed 15y ago
Was that SOX, or the (hotly debated but eventually issued) changes to the FASB rules regarding expensing of stock options?
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
There are many times more engineers in New York than in SV do you mean software engineers? That would surprise me.
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
So... how did you do on the question?
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
I don't know what Vinod Khosla has recently said regarding his preferences for founder age, but his firm's recent track record of funding is public knowledge. Here's the last three fundings listed on Kleiner Perkins' website: 1) 2012-01-24
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
Has anyone out there done refactoring experiments? Perhaps as an academic exercise? I don't know the kernel well enough to say for sure but I do recall a fair bit of duplicated code in e.g. the drivers. It would be interesting to see wha
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
As a native South Carolinian, I encourage everyone to read the comments on the original article, and compare them in tone, content, and relevance to those posted on HN.
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
Great article. It's nice to hear from experts in other fields regarding things that involve their expertise, but affect me in ways I didn't previously understand. It's not unlike being in one of those conversations with my relatives on ho
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
I like to make multi-platform code, and I do it with CMake, Boost, and Qt. My target platforms are Linux/g++ and Visual Studio (not mingw). It usually works OK after a little tweaking, but you have to maintain discipline on whichever syst
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Norton Antivirus now deletes Visual Studio output as it runs(community.norton.com)
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
Is there some reason this is an exclusively iOS app? Seems like something generally desirable... if appropriately designed. Or is there some business reason for the restriction?
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
I'd like to hear more about this from the other side. Someone on the original thread has commented to the effect that the library permitted the contractor ("Katipo"?) who wrote the software in the first place to sell the IP to the people w
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
I read the link, but there's no data there... just the high-level conclusion. It would be interesting to know which features or approaches he found problematic. Otherwise it's just "doesn't work for me".
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
Yes! Sadly most of the new "visionary", "creative" ideas people try to promulgate are, in fact, bad . Usually there's a reason things are done the way they are, and the complexities of the current system are hard to appreciate from the ou
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
The neighbor from hell "spent two weeks cracking the Kostolnik’s WEP encryption"? I thought this was supposed to take only seconds now...
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
Or, even more frightening, what if this is their job?
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
I was disappointed to see this line: design patterns – at least most of the patterns in the "Gang of Four" book – make code bases get bigger. This hasn't been my experience. In fact, learning about and applying design patterns has been a
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
Am I the only one who wants to know what the numbers that were not even numbers were? What does that mean?
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
After Kevin's detailed and eloquent explanation of events, the best they can do is show that he was logged in at the same time as the hacker, or whoever it was?
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
Richard Dawkins would probably have been sentenced for long imprisonment without a trial Can you elaborate?
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
They may not have been "overvalued" then, in hindsight, but they quickly became even less overvalued, dropping from over 100 in late 1999 to below 10 in late 2001.
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
Here's a plausible scenario under which Samsung is innocent: 1) Starlogger is part of the security software Hassan installed, and 2) The Samsung person he reached didn't know what he was talking about I have no idea if this is really what h
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
Your success in getting private health insurance may be due to the fact that you have "been approved for and paid for my own insurance for years". Bear in mind that the OP had group health insurance through her employer, and then tried t
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
It's my understanding that there is no vaccine against chicken pox, and the greater severity of it in adulthood (and consequent wisdom of deliberately exposing children) is understood by many in the, ah, "pro-vax" community. So it's not re
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
Most of the article reads like Power and Politics 101; I was relieved to discover this part at the end: You should also bear in mind that sometimes, the coup plotters are right.
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
In accounting terms, an "investment", at the time you make it, does not change your profitability. This is because you are assumed to have received in return an asset of equal value. For example, the purchase of equipment results in a dec
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
Love to see posts like this. I've the feeling I'll be happier in keyboard+text land but haven't had the courage to take the leap yet. My favorite use of screen space is a ginormous editor window. If anyone is interested, the October issue
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
It's a citation, but not of the right type. You say it has been proven false that large C++ programs were more maintainable than large C programs. Such a proof would be quite extraordinary, to say the least. There is a vast difference
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
"now proven false... that large C++ programs were more maintainable than large C programs" [citation needed] "You write real C applications completely differently than you write C++ applications, a fact few C++ advocates admit or understan
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
I too feel a lack of control and frustration from the fact that walk signals (such as across 3rd St in SF) and elevator "close" buttons obviously do nothing. Perhaps it's my Aspergers/geek thing, but I feel patronized by the fake buttons.
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
After they have received an investment it is not their company, but a company that belongs to both them and their investors. Indeed, unless those investors are individuals, they have a fiduciary responsibility to act when the company is

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