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by jm4 18y ago
I'm not buying that. Any startup whose CEO relies on HN and blogs for legal advice is going to fail.
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by jm4 18y ago
Does anyone think this will go anywhere? Since JavaFX was announced it's seemed like nothing more than an also-ran that was dead in the water before they even got started. FTA: "Sun officials demonstrated JavaFX running with video capabilit
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by jm4 18y ago
Point taken. Great... I've got the hacker equivalent of Britney Spears-type celebrity news to look forward to for the next few months.
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by jm4 18y ago
This is vaksel's second submission this week about Mark Cuban and insider trading. The last one was Mark Cuban's one line response to the insider trading allegations and also pointed to his blog. Just what, exactly, does Mark Cuban have to
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by jm4 18y ago
Did you read both Zed's and DHH's posts? Perhaps "damning" is too strong a word in this situation, but at the very least DHH is clearly mistaken. At worst, he is a liar. Memory leaks in Mongrel that were fixed in 2006 are the at the center
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by jm4 18y ago
True, it could have been an honest mistake. However, like I said in my comment above DHH starts off the post wondering aloud about Zed's state of mind and whether he needs help. Even if the Mongrel thing was a legitimate error the opening p
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by jm4 18y ago
Yeah. The guy usually comes off as an angry lunatic but his posts are still informative. DHH, on the other hand, seems to gloss over details and his posts tend to read more like marketing materials than anything else. Although this little f
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by jm4 18y ago
Yahoo had already gone bad before bringing in Semel. I think it started during the dot com craze. They had no focus or direction. They were basically becoming like AOL. In fact, that's most likely the primary reason they picked up Semel in
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by jm4 18y ago
A slight oversight? The whole thing is an oversight! There are plenty of reasons why a person might want to use on a treadmill and quite a few of them stem from not wanting to run or walk outside. Weather, safety, embarrassment about one's
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by jm4 18y ago
It makes sense for Microsoft to continue to develop IE because they are capable of doing so and they also want to be a major player in the web applications market. Having control of a platform is a huge advantage when developing software ta
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by jm4 18y ago
That little comment from Ballmer has really been blown out of proportion. When I read it I thought to myself that Ballmer was just being polite to a developer who had just asked a ridiculous question. It's absurd to think that Microsoft is
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by jm4 18y ago
I'm not so sure it was a mistake. If you want to put on a tinfoil hat for a minute we could speculate that Microsoft wasn't genuinely interested the first time. That botched acquisition was a media circus and effectively destroyed Yahoo. Si
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by jm4 18y ago
There was a whole discussion about this on HN yesterday. Well, more specifically it was about John Doerr's suggestion that Obama choose Bill Joy as national CTO. Anyway, can we give the political stuff a rest? Take it over to Reddit or Digg
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by jm4 18y ago
We don't know if Bill Joy is the most qualified. My point is that we should question Doerr's agenda. If Bill Joy did become a part of the new administration Doerr's firm would likely reap huge benefits similar to the way Halliburton did whe
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by jm4 18y ago
Regardless of Bill Joy's qualifications, this is difficult to accept considering Bill Joy is a partner at John Doerr's firm. I'm not at all opposed to the idea of a national CTO, but this article appears to be a blatant attempt on the part
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by jm4 18y ago
Why is this getting modded down? He's got a legitimate gripe. This is just some random person's thoughts on the election results. Does the fact that he is a VC somehow make this on-topic for HN? I could understand this being posted here if
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by jm4 18y ago
Nope. It's where it's always been: http://java.sun.com/
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by jm4 18y ago
Ok, here's my little rant... I don't get this whole using a verb as a noun thing. It's stupid and when people use the word "fail" like this in all caps it makes them look stupid. Reddit is filled with trashy headlines like this and it's rid
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by jm4 18y ago
Because of software patents. Did you completely miss the point I was trying to make? You and I may not like Microsoft products because of their proprietary nature, but there are plenty of customers making a conscious decision to use them
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by jm4 18y ago
Isn't PowerShell only available to Vista users? That's a small minority of Windows users. Besides, there's not much emphasis on it either so it still feels as if the command line is sort of second class in Windows. I've had a PC running Vis
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by jm4 18y ago
Of course they cut deals with educational and government institutions. It's just good business to do so. Expose the students to your products and there's a good chance they will buy them later because they already know them. Besides, they c
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by jm4 18y ago
This is a mildly interesting article, but inappropriate for HN.
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by jm4 18y ago
They have multiple methods for accessing the videos, one of which is Silverlight. Two of the other methods work on Windows and Mac and at least one of them works on Linux. I don't know what you're complaining about. Believe it or not, there
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by jm4 18y ago
Would you care to share any of those sources? I'm just curious. I've been trying to get away from the Reuters/AP stuff myself and discovered The Christian Science Monitor a while back. Despite the name it's not a religious paper. Anyway, th
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by jm4 18y ago
Do you know what those other 11,615 employees do? I don't, and this is just a stab in the dark, but I'm thinking you're as clueless as I am. I don't know how such an absurd statement gets modded up on a site like HN that tends to be geared
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by jm4 18y ago
I haven't used Verizon, but I have used ATT and currently have a G1 with T-Mobile. Data speed has always been better with ATT, but the rest leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion. That said, the speed on T-Mobile isn't as bad as I thought
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by jm4 18y ago
What do you think the iPhone has that Android doesn't have? As someone who has used an iPhone and now owns the G1 I can tell you that they are incredibly similar. A friend and I were comparing the two side by side. Most of the applications
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by jm4 18y ago
No one here is trashing anyone. Maybe you misunderstood. I am also aware that there are real shortages, particularly when hardware requiring new manufacturing processes is involved. But the fact is that artificial shortages are a commonly u
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by jm4 18y ago
Good point. This has been going on a very long time too. It's not reserved just for Apple products. Video games are a prime example. I remember this stuff going on back when I was playing NES. It really pissed me off when they created artif
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by jm4 18y ago
I've got one too and I'm very happy with it. I've used the iPhone quite a bit and it's ok. So far I like the G1 better. The buttons on the front and the scroll ball make it a little easier to navigate around. The standard applications work

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