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by jmj42 13y ago
>what you're referring to is the quality of deal flow of an existing investment firm. There is no shortage of investors already actively involved in funding startups who wish they could have invested in a particular company. Had the
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by jmj42 13y ago
Yes, but my point was, incubators serve as a fine information channel for technology companies, but there is an entire class of small business which are not suited to incubators, such as bars. The rule change gives these small businesses a
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by jmj42 13y ago
While it's not _necessarily_ true, it is possibly true, and that's the bit that folks are latching on to. They're assuming that there's a "market" of investors who are both interested in and willing to diversi
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by jmj42 13y ago
> I think this addresses the challenge of the general solicitation rule (finding the startups) without the negative of creating a bunch of unvetted startups advertising for dollars. Not really. We, here on HN, tend to frame things aroun
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by jmj42 13y ago
Not really. AD is krb5 mutual auth backed by an LDAP datastore. LDAP is also used for storing various bits of other metadata. You can (with much pain and sadness) implement a AD-like system using MIT Kerberos5 and OpenLDAP (I've don
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by jmj42 13y ago
100+ Employees? Well, my current environment is about 500,000 users across 3 campuses, and 4 domains. Throw in federated authentication (shibboleth), custom apps, *nix auth, etc. With that in mind: It just works! With any large deploymen
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by jmj42 13y ago
I've worked in IT for more than 15 years. More often than not, Microsoft's enterprise products do "just work." In fact, due do volume pricing (making server 2008/2012 licenses very cheap), around here I recommend
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by jmj42 13y ago
huh! I didn't know that. I'm haven't been keeping up LMP development (since about 2007/08). Cool to know, though
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by jmj42 13y ago
Volkswagen has been doing interesting things with diesel for a while now. Back in 2005, they introduced the turbo diesel powered Audi R10, which won the 2006 12 Hours of Sebring and 24 Hours of Le Mans. It was replaced in 2011 by another
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by jmj42 13y ago
> Why does the fact that the farmer is next to you have anything to do with his process? It doesn't. It does, however, have everything to do with discovering what that process is. I walk up to a farmer at a local farmer's market and s
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by jmj42 13y ago
Buy local. I live in central Illinois, so it's fairly easy to find local (within 30 miles) producers of most raw foods (meat/veggies/eggs), with the exception of milk. While this may be difficult in some parts of the country, I find gettin
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by jmj42 13y ago
I a nutshell, the legal definition of organic (in U.S.) means that organic foods are produced using non-synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. In other words, if the FDA (EPA/USDA? Not really sure what organization handles it) classifies a
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by jmj42 13y ago
I'm not sure that that's the responsibility of legislation. If you are misled (even unintentionally) as the the nature of the account you are sharing private information with, then the responsibility for having broken the trust lies with y
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by jmj42 13y ago
I agree with everything you've said, but I don't think the issue is really about those of us who read HN. HN attracts individuals who have a certain amount of both knowledge and job portability beyond that of the average U.S. citizen. In m
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by jmj42 13y ago
>The only place this law causes friction is when employees are either using personal accounts for business purposes or business accounts for personal purposes. Right, which you shouldn't be doing so that you retain that clear separation
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by jmj42 13y ago
> retweets ... using your own personal account. No, I think it's pretty clear. Once information is publish via the company's twitter account, it becomes public information. It would be a very long stretch for retweeting public informa
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by jmj42 13y ago
This isn't even as close to as bad as it made out to be. From the full text of ILCS after amendment: (b)(1)It shall be unlawful for any employer to request or require any employee or prospective employee to provide any user name and passwo
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by jmj42 13y ago
Actually, I don't agree with much of what you've said. Men do have advantages, socially, politically, and economically, that women do not have, and those advantages are far more prevalent in STEM fields than most others. These programs, d
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by jmj42 13y ago
> How do you think people react to hearing that what they perceive (often rightfully) as hard-earned success was, in your eyes, unearned? Ahh, but that's the guts of male privilege isn't it. Their hard-earned success was much easier to
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by jmj42 13y ago
>Useful how, exactly? As a two word phrase which everyone understands to mean the social theory that men have unearned social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are granted to them solely on the basis of their sex, and w
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by jmj42 13y ago
Thanks, I didn't know such a thing existed. We're a little past it though. Her interests are in industrial robots, and she's been building with a Mindstorms kit for a couple of years now. We're likely to move on to Arduino based projects
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by jmj42 13y ago
> The locally-defined concept of "male privilege" is quite possibly the least productive gender generalization to use in a conversation about gender equality. Well, let's clear it up then: "Male privilege refers to the social theory th
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by jmj42 13y ago
I'm sure there are areas of the world where gender equality isn't a problem, but where your're from (mexico as indicated above) it most certainly is. A quick internet search came up with hundreds of articles on the gender equality issues i
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by jmj42 13y ago
Perhaps that's true (anecdotally, it does seem to be), yet, I've reached a point that I just can't stand by anymore. I've refrained from commenting on past articles that fall into the same line of reasoning we see here, but, I guess, I've
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by jmj42 13y ago
No, you got it wrong. >if you think that being a boy or a girl its an advantage then you are part of that problem Unwillingness to recognize that women are at a disadvantage due to long-term social mores is part of the problem. "Boys wi
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by jmj42 13y ago
You know this makes me sick. Time and time again, articles pop up here on HN talking about some organization trying to promote and encourage women in technology and the comments explode with privileged boys whining about about how "it's no
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by jmj42 13y ago
I'm not sure why you think that. Michael Lopp (Rands) is a noted software engineering and management commentator. His thoughts on hope in the face if tragedy are interesting and relevant.
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by jmj42 14y ago
Mulberry was my mail app of choice back circa 1998. At the time, it was verifiably the most complete implementation of IMAP available. It supported server-side searching, server-side copying, shared mailboxes, and I believe partial fetch.
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by jmj42 14y ago
>Young founders don't trust you because you don't know the latest technology that has come out in the past 2 years. Then the young founder is wrong. I'm also 38, and not only am I familiar with (intimately in many cases) with 2 year ol
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by jmj42 14y ago
I find that my rather extroverted wife compliments my introversion rather nicely. Fortunately, she understands my desire to limit large social settings, and my need to "recharge" after, and often leave early. After 16 years, she can even

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