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by jpdoctor 14y ago
confirmed by R.R. Donnelley & Sons I wonder how much the bribe was? I'm sure much less than the profit on puts/calls.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> What about the respect of your peers? Do you also find that completely meaningless? Did you ever take a look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs? People evolve in different ways: For some, "respect of peers" is a need. It might well e
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Is an Oscar meaningless? Yes. > Is it meaningless when the team you root for wins a world championship? Very much yes. > Or when Time names you Person of the Year? They already did, and boy was it meaningless. > Why are th
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Someone on the board of Apple is a limited partner of investors in Color?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Color as a company still has plenty of cash in the bank, which means we’re likely to see another product from it before long. Sounds like cluelessness on the part of the reporter: You don't have a board meeting involving the words "shut
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> This represents a rare (AFAICR) failure for Sequoia. ??? Too numerous to remember. My favorite is still WebVan: $200M flushed down the toilet.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I really really wish there were a filter so that users could eliminate all HN from aggregation sources (read wired, extremetech, etc).
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> we may either regard children who do well at studies as good kids, or we may instead idolize cool kids who bunk classes and have fun all the time. So early in our life, what makes us fall into one group and not the other? Another co
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FTC moving closer to Google antitrust case(news.yahoo.com)
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Because charging for content on the web doesn't work. Yes it does, but the competition is extreme and not very many people are good at making it an honest-to-god business with profit. If you are good at it, you make money hand-over-
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Hamming's essay isn't about inventing something no-one's come up with before. Really? I wonder why the title is "You and your research"? You think he is talking about inventing things that someone has come up with before? Let's
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Hamming Distance, Hamming Code, Hamming Window off the top of my head. He was a busy dude.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> You're conflating all entrepeneurs with a very specific subset you're probably more familiar with. Great! The string of Nobel Prizes from entrepreneurs will be a breath of fresh air. Do you think it will happen first in Physics, C
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> What about the SpaceX's of the world? The folks Hamming mentioned did things and discovered things that had never been done before. SpaceX docking with the ISS? You know that has already been proven out; so not exactly fertile new
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I don't think that's true. Then I'm gonna bet that you never worked at Bell Labs. > I think doing great work in the major problems in your field of choice are the exact heights that entrepreneurialism should strive for. The ti
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I'd be taking unpaid leave from my day job and getting it done! If you take the risk, there is an x% chance of success with your new venture. (You fill in x.) If you continue to work your day job, there is a 100% chance you will con
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> You may find yourself as I saw Brattain when he got a Nobel Prize. ...[he never did great work again] It is a shame that Hamming didn't focus on Bardeen, who shared that Prize (it was for the transistor). Bardeen then went on to wi
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I get it, I’ve talked to people inside the SEC who want to do a better job but feel like they aren’t being given the power to. She has a nice rant, but completely missed the point: The SEC is made of people, all of whom are in fina
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Fundamentally, Zynga's business model and products did not line up with the interests of either its host platform (Facebook) or its end users. You left out: But it did line up with the interests of the investors, who then poisoned
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> and a copy of a utility bill What a dumbass requirement. As if somebody with access to a printer would not be able to produce one.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Would it be overly conspiratorial to suggest that the CIA and NSA are in fact interested in a large-scale implementation of Shor's algorithm? The only thing conspiratorial is that it wasn't mentioned in the article. Hmmmm.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> No sense of spin. What?! FTA: we expect Tesla to become cash flow positive at the end of next month. However, given that we do have a global supply chain and that floods, fires, hurricanes or earthquakes can cause supply chain i
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
As someone firmly ensconced in the six-digit UID I'd like to say: CmdTaco I hold you personally responsible for all that lost time, and I intend to collect if I ever meet you in person. My weapon of choice will be beer, though perhaps mil
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I know they say that there's no such thing as bad publicity, but sheesh! I'm amazed that KP didn't just buy some quietude here. Clearly, much ax-grinding is going on.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> then the other likely situation would be independent class voting There is a third situation, which is that Benchmark walked away from the B. Given the value of an asset sale, they would not have much to lose. > My explanation
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> The answer makes one good point, though: D'Angelo did invest his own money in Quora, basically buying sole control over the company. The first clause (investing money) is a much less profound statement than the second clause (buying
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> The worst have been ones where it was clear the interviewer had pulled questions out of the company's interview playbook and didn't have the depth of understanding to discuss them. I'd argue that also belongs under the "best" list,
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I think your response shows pretty well why "many folks in this debate have focused on the exiting contract and its dates."
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I find it odd that many folks in this debate have focused on the exiting contract and its dates. The recent issue between Netflix and Starz will show you why it is a major focus. As much as we'd like to ignore people/business issues
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Thank you, I have been wondering what drove apple to act so stupidly. I can easily envision Tim Cook doing this. The whole world is watching, and there is major ego on the line. The last thing on earth he'd want is for wall street to see

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