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by loewenskind 16y ago
Is sitting around a TV socializing?
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Well, personally my strategy is to try and get things to pay for themselves. I bought the most expensive camera I could in the hope that some day I could sell a few photos. Passive income is, after all, the holy grail. So if I'm taking p
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by loewenskind 16y ago
And we never will so long as we never try.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I point out the value of them here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2152329
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Dynamic variables can be done in Smalltalk via restartable exceptions but they aren't part of the language. Also, restartable exceptions are not nearly as nice as the condition system. That being said, Smalltalk is a beautiful language.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Smalltalk has restartable exceptions, but they're not as nice as CL's condition system.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>We have more freedoms Such as?
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>You need to go abroad, do your research, make demos, make it work, then bring it back to Japan and say 'Look what we're doing abroad!' ". I don't find that so awful. At least they look at what works abroad. That's better than changin
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>Special variables seems really like a take it or leave it idea. I'm really not convinced that keeping these as explicit arguments of a function are a bad idea. I really like the ability to reason about a function by simply knowing its
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by loewenskind 16y ago
and that's great because, unlike windows, it just changes the file name. Not the extension unless you actually move to the extension yourself.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Or you can time machine to a linux machine that does remote backups. That's my strategy.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Thanks for the link, but these points you highlighted set off a lot of bogosity alarms. To wit: >allegations of Chechen links with Al Qaeda Well, since Al Qaeda is a made up name what do they mean with this? Are they calling any Islam
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>so working for a startup isn't much more different to a desk job in a big company Why would invest so much of your life and earning potential at a start up? Because of that negligible chance that you'll be the next Facebook? You'd be
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Has anyone from Chechnya ever met Osama Bin Laden or any of his people?
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by loewenskind 16y ago
> build a company that can attract great talent while still getting the really annoying things done that come with polishing a product Pay well. I've seen some really top guys in finance work with some really awful management because t
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by loewenskind 16y ago
My biggest frustration is that people care about the motto of a public company. It doesn't matter what the motto is, they're in this to make money. They're not going to turn down billions of dollars because of some nonsense written on a w
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>I think that some people might have had the same worries about paid user/customer support (messing things up such that people had to call us would lead to revenue). That's pretty easy to fix: provide an acceptable level of support with
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Sorry, but this is a ridiculous argument. What good are those savings when something goes wrong?
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>Why Russia? Your question seems to indicate the belief in a global terrorist organization. I would recommend the BBC documentary "Power of nightmares" to clear up this misunderstanding. In short, Al Queida is a name we made up and the
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I couldn't disagree more. The way we've always used the web is to have some content and a web server and let clients use an app to connect to our site and use the services. The difference is, we used a generic app (web browser) and had
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by loewenskind 16y ago
If by "building a business" you mean stealing an idea, tricking people who hired him to work for them and betraying many of the people who made it possible for him to get started, then yes he seems to like that.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
It's not a PR problem. People have been trying to fix the "PR problem" for at least half a decade. If that were the issue they would have made headway by now. The real issue is that a new programming language can be quite an investment.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
What are you talking about? I'm not saying to keep jobs around that make no sense to be done (e.g. having a guy stand at each of a construction site holding a sign to direct traffic). I'm saying that things that still have to be done sh
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Why on earth would you want Flickr to be bought by Google? Do you want one public company to own the whole Internet?
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>Hence, it's hard to charge a high price for labor that people are willingly oversupplying. Not strictly true. Thanks to digital camera availability there are a near infinite amount of people willing to do your family portrait but I su
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by loewenskind 16y ago
That's a shame. He should finish it, eat the hit and then be smarter next time. Sounds like he could make a lot more this way if he doesn't destroy his credibility.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
This theory is, first of all just a theory and second of all from a time before there were products with 0 marginal costs. Sunk costs have to be covered somewhere because if you can never make any money off of the product then why would yo
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>there are quite a few people who love what they do so much that they're actually willing to subsidize their own art-production by working other jobs (e.g. waiting tables). Do you really see this as a good thing? When the only way to m
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>the consensus among the economic community is that markets are highly efficient Really? There are some true believers out there under this impression, but I didn't think anyone credible was. It wasn't so long ago that someone showed
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>If Eric isn't coming to Apple People keep saying this, but Eric isn't remotely as talented as Jobs. I can't imagine they've given a seconds consideration as having him in the top spot.

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