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by jhancock 15y ago
I started reading Graeber's book [1] 3 days ago. I'm only about 1/3 into it. The author is an anthropologist and tells his story from this perspective. So far, If I understand correctly what I'm reading, I think the author would not agre
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by jhancock 15y ago
This is an honourable position to take. Unfortunately, it still leaves you stuck not being able to pay people wages they require for financial stability.
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by jhancock 15y ago
Accessible read on banking: http://mises.org/mysteryofbanking/mysteryofbanking.pdf I have always found the "back stories" on how/why our economy came into existence to be "pulled out of thin air". I just started reading this new book: h
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by jhancock 15y ago
I have no idea how to pin a number like $10B or any other on DropBox. I will say this: DropBox has potential to be much more than about syncing and sharing files in the cloud. If they manage to come up with a useful enough "app API", they
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by jhancock 15y ago
How long did you program in erlang? I only did for a year or two but during that time came to appreciate the syntax as well evolved for the type of coding erlang was built to handle. There are a few syntax warts and many "standard lib" od
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by jhancock 15y ago
There are many people in the world with the passion, drive, and brilliance of Mr. Jobs. You will never know most of their names. Most hiring managers and investors will dismiss them.
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by jhancock 15y ago
I've been thinking on this area and my conclusion is to do the simplest thing possible: just publish blog posts, github dumps, etc of your prior art...tag it as #prior-art and let twitter and google help you find stuff.
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by jhancock 15y ago
I've seen a few articles in the last year pointing out that the diff between the USPS being in the black or the red is the cost of funding health care in its pension system, something Congress mandated a few years back. This past year's fu
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by jhancock 15y ago
From the numbers I've seen, Shanghai is not far behind Beijing...lots of available space in less desirable/developed areas, tight in others, pricing that makes no sense for buying as a home. Certainly, there is nothing "fair" about this. W
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by jhancock 15y ago
I'm not sure exactly what 'trevelyan means when he says its not illogical. Though I would use the same term. The housing and public market bubbles, prior to them occurring, were understood effects to China's growth plans. When I say it w
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by jhancock 15y ago
Why does the price on failed buildings have to stay high? Why couldn't the government (through a bank, likely) reclaim a bankrupt project, restructure its books and basically "give away" the units? China certainly has its share of problems
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by jhancock 15y ago
Wasn't really joking or advocating it. Just a thought experiment on the thread we were on. I suppose the answer would have to wait a few hundred years after we initiated the experiment to see where it goes off the rails. Another variable,
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by jhancock 15y ago
How about we increase the size of congress to 1 member per voter? What kind of problems would have then?
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by jhancock 15y ago
Just get 39 other people to pitch in $1, then violate the terms of the sale and share your purchase with the other 39. Sure, its cheating, but if done as a group, you'll feel ok about it ;).
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by jhancock 15y ago
try http://sfbay.cribq.com/ or the mobile version http://itunes.apple.com/app/craigslist-housing-maps-cribq/id... * not affiliated with this, just happen to know it was created to solve your gripe
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by jhancock 15y ago
I should also add that Smalltalk didn't "fail" for its technical faults. It failed (in an oversimplified nutshell) because the companies that owned the Smalltalks had business models of charging per developer seat and their investors would
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by jhancock 15y ago
Lets go through his "8 great exceptions": "1 - variables are not objects." Yes, ok, they are "slots", if you like, that names and hold reference to an object. You can in every Smalltalk I've used, do metaprogramming to change an object's
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by jhancock 15y ago
The "charity" is http://jumpstartinternational.org/ Just after mapping Gaza, JumpStart went to map the country of Georgia. For anyone interested in as a programmer (lead or otherwise) in Georgia (Tblisi, cool city) on interesting followu
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FCC to vote on mandatory wireless-data roaming(news.cnet.com)
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by jhancock 16y ago
>> I'll be moving my domains away from GoDaddy asap. I moved all my domains, ~30, from GoDaddy about 18 months ago. It was a slog. There was no "asap" to it. It took about 2 months to get them all moved over to namecheap. Transf
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by jhancock 16y ago
Go see an MD and/or psychologist soon. Soon, as in pick up the phone or walk down the street and schedule it now and see someone this week. Its great you have reached out to a forum where there are people whose advice you seem to respect
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by jhancock 16y ago
Good intro. I've been using sunspot for a year on a ruby webapp (merb, I found the sunspot lib nicely framework agnostic). It took a few hours to setup and get my content indexed. Its been running in production for a year with zero maint
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by jhancock 16y ago
I'm also using critsend. It works very well for both transactional and newsletters. All my transactional mail are initiated from ruby webapp processes. Creating newsletters turned out to not be too much coding. I wrote a ruby lib for b
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by jhancock 16y ago
Agreed. Try going 4 years older. My IBM branded X41 is the finest laptop I've owned and ubuntu works flawless on it. I bought a replacement battery for it and get a good 5 hours and a few days standby. I like it so much, I even consider
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by jhancock 16y ago
I'm with you if you simply take the 'ism' off capital. The ism part implies or at least condones extremism. Capital is a fine tool; one which can and is being abused. A little moderation goes a long way.
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by jhancock 16y ago
If the value you have is too high to enable "founders" to buy in, you probably have to issue them options instead. These contracts and accounting get more complicated. Best dig through a couple of the free startup legal kits that have bee
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by jhancock 16y ago
Distribute equity to co-founders from day-1 or close enough to when the company has a small value. Its very legit to justify a small value of say $1000 (total share value) if you have no income and no investment yet without regard to when
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by jhancock 16y ago
There has never been a guarantee of no repercussions from utilizing free speech, anon or not. Many pay a high price for speaking their mind. And not just from government. The first front that keeps people in line is their peers, communit
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by jhancock 16y ago
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26 You may be right, if so, my info is going on 8 months old ;). I read yesterday that Apple is now blocking use of their store (books was the example) if they detected your phone was unlocked. S
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by jhancock 16y ago
When I signed up last year for a WebOS developer account, I was shocked at how much I had to go through. This included giving my company info, EIN, and a declaration of if I was developing for open or closed source apps. All I wanted was t

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