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by jeromec 16y ago
In my mind inserting the 'and' separates the 'ineffectual' and 'perpetual' so it appears the person being described could be a perpetual grad student as an independent idea -- but maybe they just love school life, so it's not really anythin
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by jeromec 16y ago
Yes, that's essentially correct. And that's why stocks can plunge and lose practically all (or all) their value relatively quickly, as happened to General Motors and many banking stocks in 2008, for example. Edit: To clarify, even when a co
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by jeromec 16y ago
Apparently discussing code on Hacker News is never off-topic ;)
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by jeromec 16y ago
Higher prices mean that demand has been growing faster than supply. But that's not the cause of our higher prices. Listen, I can't keep arguing this. Do me a big favor and just read the first 3 paragraphs here: http://useconomy.about.com
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by jeromec 16y ago
Oooh, it's a bit of a slippery slope to try to argue that. A shift in political winds and/or attitude can cancel/limit alternative energy funding in a heartbeat.
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by jeromec 16y ago
>but I seriously doubt any capability for injecting speculation via "placement". You're reading my text too literally. I don't mean to an arm from the sky put speculators in the middle of the wheat market. As you correctly mention, an o
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by jeromec 16y ago
General anti Wall St. sentiment is not a very potent argument. I'm not anti-Wall St. But I am anti-recklessness when it means wreaking havoc on our national (and by extension entire world) economy. It's difficult to deny that higher pr
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by jeromec 16y ago
I think we need a component of future expectations in prices because it increases incentives I'm extremely wary of the term "increased incentives" in light of recent events sparked by this model on Wall St. and provides funding for ave
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by jeromec 16y ago
>This makes no sense. Who did the placing? Every market has speculators, and even end-user-buyers base their decisions in some part on speculation. Did you read the article? These buyers and sellers of real stuff are the physical hedge
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by jeromec 16y ago
Don't forget that speculation works both ways. It can also bring down prices very quickly and consumers benefit from that. That's like me expecting you to say "thanks" for returning an item I took from you when it's speculation which help
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by jeromec 16y ago
Gas isn't expensive today. What's expensive today are almost all commodities. http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/ This is a systemic problem. Any valid explanation of price increases in a commodity, e.g., oil (gas), has to explain why
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by jeromec 16y ago
Oh come on! I enjoyed that immensely and if it wasn't on HN I would have never knew about it. As a native Californian I feel truly well-equipped now. I had known about the Animal styles, and extra meats, but almost everything else is unbe
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by jeromec 16y ago
Yes, I agree any creator needs an able tool, but that's a clear strength of PHP when it comes to Web deployment. That's a fact. I believe people should use whatever they feel they can get the job done with, even if it's BASIC ( http://news.
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by jeromec 16y ago
We could always do an "Ask PG" to clarify, but my understanding of what happened with ViaWeb is you had a group of smart young people innovating on a problem against bulky institutional competitors. When asked who had an offering even close
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by jeromec 16y ago
Yes, many companies will review all their options once they have plenty of capital, and make decisions based on what's best for their situation. For example, Twitter was reported to be switching from Ruby on Rails to PHP or Java amidst all
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by jeromec 16y ago
Yes, Facebook rewrote and released a faster PHP runtime, which means they embraced rather than shunned it. With comments like the GP you'd think FB hobbled along with PHP on its way to becoming as big as it is now.
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by jeromec 16y ago
Could you explain why? I'm also curious why Facebook, arguably the definition of a modern startup success, chose to remain powered by PHP after they obtained more than enough capital to switch to say Ruby on Rails.
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by jeromec 16y ago
Apparently the CI chondrites class of meteorites are rare, all having fallen within around 200 years (oldest find in 1806). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CI_chondrite Even assuming the possibility of bacteria contagion from Earth the quest
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by jeromec 16y ago
Or the designer who “sucked at math even in primary school”, is a “left-brained person”, or “doesn’t want to mess up the code”… I believe that should have been "is a right-brained person".
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by jeromec 16y ago
I don't think his point is about what's subjectively the best language to build websites, but rather that language is not the focus of how to make a highly successful business.
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by jeromec 16y ago
I would call it a protest, a silent one, and with some degree of effect as well especially if cameras ever showed the audience. However, such prompt removal for such a passive/peaceful gesture is troubling.
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by jeromec 16y ago
"wot car are we drivin', eh lads?" This makes me smile :)
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by jeromec 16y ago
I think the majority of Americans would say "Which car am I driving in?" However, something makes me think the majority of Britons might actually say "In which car am I driving?" Am I the only one thinking this?
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by jeromec 16y ago
Fascinating to read from the opposite view! It's my belief that the better someone is at designing the worse they are at programming, and vice versa; I think your designing is fantastic, so I can imagine how hard getting technical must have
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by jeromec 16y ago
The best stack to use is the one you know you can build to a point of getting traction/profitable with. The toughest barrier to startup success is getting traction/profitable, not the stack you use. Technology, esp. in the realm of computer
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by jeromec 16y ago
If copyright doesn't play into it, then I would agree Sony shouldn't be able to prosecute.
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by jeromec 16y ago
I see your point, and agree that you can't copyright an algorithm.
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by jeromec 16y ago
You guys did a great job. I remember watching the GoDaddy advertisement banner going up in the "startup apartment headquarters", and at one point you following a reporter who was covering you out to her news van, then talking shop about vid
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by jeromec 16y ago
It didn't look like there was no vision from an external perspective. It looked just as described, like Justin.tv was launched to build out a huge live video platform.
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by jeromec 16y ago
I'm transitioning my career from commercial software development to data security research/hacking. I'm sorry you feel so constrained. To me that signals the current system is not optimum, but that's probably a lucrative decision either w

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