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by hiou 12y ago
I think you pretty much summed up my point. You are obviously in love with yourself and know there is nothing you can learn from others. I would congratulate you, but it seems like you already do plenty of that yourself. As I said before, I
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by hiou 12y ago
Someone could make arguments about how involvement in sports teaches kids about things like work ethic and teamwork. One could argue that the tax subsidies given to professional teams work in the cities favor based up increased revenues at
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by hiou 12y ago
> a year's worth of painstakingly accumulated tabs. You cannot be serious about this. This is like writing a thesis and just never closing office and never saving. A year?
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by hiou 12y ago
The biggest problem I have with getting an offer to be a technical co-founder is that if this person's main interest is in business, why are the not already rich? A developer's main area of focus is not money so they are less apt
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by hiou 12y ago
I've been using dokku[0] for a while now and love how easy it is to just push random stuff up to a new subdomain. The other day I pushed up a doxygen html of an code base I was working with. I have my blog, portfolio site, random apps
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by hiou 12y ago
I would say that your comments are exactly what the article is talking about. You've decided to exclude yourself because you feel the existence and importance placed on it by others is misplaced and essentially stupid. So you are in es
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by hiou 12y ago
I have found most people I've me that seemed to want to not like something probably had some deeper issues causing them to do so. My childhood was very encouraging and inviting so I developed many wildly different interests. Every thin
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by hiou 12y ago
Can we change this title to something closer to the original title of the article? The current title is inflammatory and will likely just bring out all the conspiracy nuts. "BPA alternative disrupts normal brain-cell growth, is tied to
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by hiou 12y ago
For the downvoter(s) Around mile 20 of the Boston Marathon is "Heartbreak Hill"[0]. Origin of Y Combinator[1]. Care to elaborate on why you decided to anonymously downvote the above comment? [0] http://www.boston.com&#x
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by hiou 12y ago
If you aren't partial to OpenBSD, I've had good success with this: https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install You can turn off logging on the server with /etc/openvpn/server.conf log /de
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by hiou 12y ago
> This sense of stubbornness, dignity and pride is a part of what gives him the personality necessary to embark on a project like this It is always interesting to me, as I see it often in the software world, that people expect extraord
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by hiou 12y ago
The problem with patents is not whether or not they should exist, but the massive friction involved in licensing them to others. If the patent system had more requirements or controls about requiring a fair system of licensing and ownership
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by hiou 12y ago
This makes me think that new "open source" fight in the AI future will not be about source code or patents but the corpus used in the training set.
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by hiou 12y ago
Automobile accidents, are by far the most lethal part of US life outside of disease. This is no different for police officers.
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by hiou 12y ago
I think integrity is a better word here than ideals. We're not talking about doing the best you can, we're talking about doing something that you know will do harm. And yes, I've given up the paycheck twice in that situation.
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by hiou 12y ago
But how much more expensive is that robot to purchase and maintain as opposed to a low wage human worker? Remember, you only lease human labor so when one breaks it doesn't cost you anything. Also, low skill human labor is much more fl
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by hiou 12y ago
Dividends are taxed at the marginal rate? US corporate "Qualified Dividends" are taxed at the same rate as Capital Gains.
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by hiou 12y ago
Here's an interview with Jeroen Vader. I assume he still owns pastebin and may provide some insight into why it works well for that purpose. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17524822
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by hiou 12y ago
The problem is that everyone is trying to hire the best, partly because they know how good that looks when fundraising, partly because that's how you win in winner take all tournament type economies. This ends up similar to NFL Quarter
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by hiou 12y ago
Serious question: Why did it never occur that you might need to take in a less experienced developer and train them? Wouldn't it make sense that there are no experienced developers available because they are currently fully employed?
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by hiou 12y ago
> Asked what evidence existed of a labor shortage, a spokesperson for Facebook e-mailed a one-sentence statement: “We look forward to hearing more specifics about the President’s plan and how it will impact the skills gap that threatens
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by hiou 12y ago
It is completely unlikely MS couldn't purchase SO? I can't imagine their valuation is entirely out of Microsoft's acquisition budget.
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by hiou 12y ago
How is this different from every other Hackathon?
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by hiou 12y ago
> Ellen Pao will be stepping up to be interim CEO > Alexis Ohanian, who cofounded reddit nine and a half years ago, is returning as full-time executive chairman (he will transition to a part-time partner role at Y Combinator) &g
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by hiou 12y ago
I don't want it to sound like you are being dishonest about this, and it's possible there were things going on in Yishan's head that you were not aware of, but "a new team at reddit" in 8 days makes it a bit hard to
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by hiou 12y ago
2 months after a $50 million round of financing and the lead investor of said round steps in as temporary CEO. You would have to be very, very naive to believe that this was solely a dispute on the cost and location of a new office. It seem
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by hiou 12y ago
Its not really at home but the black market, like the guy at the bar that sells drugs and knows a guy who prints guns. Or that shady cell phone shop if you know what to ask for. It becomes much, much easier to become an unlicensed gun deale
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by hiou 12y ago
> but investor + founder could outvote the other founder Seems like such a high risk to take on when as said above a board of advisers can accomplish similar benefits without the risk of a founder disagreement getting you pushed out of
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by hiou 12y ago
Same thing. Got 500 error by messing with that url. Seems like the idea is to chain that together in a way to login before you login.
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by hiou 12y ago
Although I don't know this for a fact, I would assume their free tier is considered part of their sales/marketing expense which may have something to do with that.

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