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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Our series A investors wanted vesting and we said no. It's really a noop on their part. They know full well that if a founder ever leaves the company they can recover the ownership by diluting the bejesus out of him after he's gone
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> He says his termination agreement prohibited him from contacting them [other employees] That pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the management and board. The clowns probably included a one-way non-disparagement
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> but most historians don't consider dawn-to-dusk to have been typical agrarian working hours Probably because they've never worked on a farm.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> This just seems to confirm that the best way to get money thrown at you is to not have a need for it. Law of the jungle: If it runs, chase it. If chased, run.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> The Company might well become very cautious about trying to redevelop the technology, precisely because of the NDA. I seriously doubt it. > In a somewhat-similar situation in the mid-1990s, Rockwell International got tagged by
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Not quite. It's more like: You're not intelligent if you think an NDA is worth a damn (as the article shows.)
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Working a 8/9-5/6 job is historically an aberration Very much so. It used to be from dawn until dusk. When hours were first instituted, it was always compared to farm work, since that was understood to be the hardest work possible.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> project genesis It was a big company: I pretty much saw the entire scale of formal defn to skunk project.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> “If you agree to these terms, we have a gentlemen’s agreement that you’ll stop talking to other companies?” ... We agreed. It turns out that's an intelligence test: Anybody worth having a gentlemen's agreement with would be gentle
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Did Bell Labs have a policy of researchers owning their inventions? No, Bell retained the ownership (and revenue stream.)
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> The most obvious comes from the fact that there were a lot of people working at Bell Labs. There's a number of issues I'd raise with the piece, but the above is not one of them. There were a lot of people in a number of R&D lab
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
I'm a Bell alum. First off: It really was an amazing place. The guy across the hall won the Nobel while I was there, but even going to lunch could result in learning about state-of-the-art in something or another. The data rate of avera
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> When most people speak of Math, what they have in mind is more its mechanism than its essence. This "Math" consists of assigning meaning to a set of symbols, blindly shuffling * around these symbols according to arcane rules, and t
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> 720p x 60Hz signal being sent to the TV. Let's do the arithmetic: 720p is 1280x720 pixels RGB = 24 bits/pixel 60 frames/sec 1280x720x24x60 = 1.3 Gbps For comparison: Full broadcast HD is around 15 Mbps Why people think they can see
825.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
I said people watching. You chose to interpret that as households/year. Good luck.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Folks are already paying the amount that commercial-free TV would cost Not even close. Take the entire amount of advertising $$ spent on TV ($100B+) and divide by the folks watching. That is the money that people would have to she
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> We won't even get into how 720 screens don't really have 720 display pixels so even perfect size matches are resampled and interpolated Since there's nowhere near 720 pixels x 60 frames/sec worth of information being sent to your TV,
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Folks do not want to pay the amount commercial free TV would cost. Full stop. If the "investment money" ever stops supporting youtube/hulu/(insert profitless service here), then goodbye web substitute. Even The Daily Show has gone into ful
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
FTA > I literally need to type bundle exec every single time I want to scratch my balls. I don't like having to type bundle exec every single time I scratch my balls. I named the task balls, so I can type rake balls, because it rakes m
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> It would be a serious blow if the study had concrete evidence but the legal threats managed to delay publication until after IARC finishes its review. In fact, it would probably result in liability. We can only hope that they have
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
This paper isn't worth the bits it's printed on. Economist Mark Zandi (the author) missed predicting the biggest economic event not just of his career, but of three generations before him. Mostly, that was due to conflict of interest: Moo
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Mostly from the same place Microsoft's R&D budget comes from: the companies' own revenues. Really? So those YC acquisitions deals are all-cash?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I believe KPCB were referred to as a Keiretsu There was a time when it was fashionable to imitate Japanese business, so VCs actively pursued this type of PR. So it's more likely that KPCB issued PR about itself calling itself a Kei
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Most of the large companies I've worked with are missing somebody in the "air-traffic controller" role. I've worked for 3 large companies, and have had the opposite experience. The problem is that everyone is trying to be an air-tr
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
It's a bit late in the day for this startup. I just had a turbotax issue, and Intuit of all people had easy screensharing with just a code.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Or maybe they did... ... which would explain why the "Get In Touch" button is in close proximity.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> You can't just buy a startup community I don't know that I've seen it attempted before. More generally, I think this is a very interesting development. As developers move into the cloud, staying in places like silicon valley requir
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Written in 1998. And I assume that we're seeing a cached version of the site, which is probably the joke.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
FYI: I first saw this headline in the late 80s.

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