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by lzw 16y ago
By definition this is a form of political correctness. I think that there are a lot of companies run by people eho think they are tolerant but who really aren't and reject candidates for the simple crime of growing up in a differnt part of
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by lzw 16y ago
My preference is for erlang. I believe it is the only one that does concurrency "right", though I don't know the others well enough to prove it. Any blocking, as in transactional memory or locks is, in my opinion, a real concurrency probl
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by lzw 16y ago
Intersting!
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by lzw 16y ago
How difficult is it to get a deal with Orbitz or ITS for access to this data? Do you need a bizdev guy to talk them out of a six figure annual commitment? I've got a very different travel idea, and would love to be able to try it out, and
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by lzw 16y ago
Not in my experience. Barking, piddling on the floor, having to interact with the dog owners when they come over to fetch the dogs, etc. Of course these were probably not the better dog owners out there, they thought everyone was delighte
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by lzw 16y ago
That's the market at work. I'm sure Larry is not crying over this failure, and if it had been a success it would have only succeeded by spreading linux to more institutions and improving the linux marketplace, market size, etc.
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by lzw 16y ago
And what happens if you don't put a radio in your cellphone after it is made mandatory? Men with guns take you to jail (after due process) If we reduce this down to its essential elements, a group of people who won businesses want to use v
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by lzw 16y ago
Really would like to hear how they got access to the data. Does Orbitz do deals like this? I've got a technology that I think would be applicable. Be happy to hand off any booking to the data provider... but just need to be able to get to
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by lzw 16y ago
Whereby "Take it" he says: No. If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. Take [the web server software] Apache: once Apache got better than our own web server, we threw it away and took Apache. So the great thing abo
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by lzw 16y ago
I'll ad a third: 3) Several experiences watching startups I worked for get: a) forced by VCs to spend money poorly that resulted lower exits. b) bent over a barrel playing games trying to get funding from vcs c) lose direction because the C
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by lzw 16y ago
The difference is all between the ears. A positive attitude and open mind go a long way.
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by lzw 16y ago
It takes some training to get to the state where you can sense and recognize when there's a problem where something sucks. I've thought banks really sucked for two decades, but never had the idea of doing something like simplebank. The bes
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by lzw 16y ago
A co-founder is someone who is willing to take as much risk as you, not someone you hire. Look at YC as a bonus. You decide if you're going to do your thing or not. Develop your idea as much as you can and meet with relevant people, or ev
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by lzw 16y ago
Everybody wants to hang out with a traveller. They all have questions. People who would never dream of doing what we do, are happy to tell us their dreams about doing what we do, believe it or not. Everyone seems to find the idea romanti
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by lzw 16y ago
We're using AppEngine and it hasn't been a problem at all. This is part of the reason we chose AppEngine. I'd be very hesitant to choose anything where I have to manage the host myself.
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by lzw 16y ago
Not intentionally. It has sorta happened to be that way so far. Apparently this internet thing has been adopted widely. But the intention is to be able to be fully productive with only an occasional or intermittent internet connection. Re
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by lzw 16y ago
This article is wrong. Apple has released an iAd SDK and featured many sessions at WWDC relevant to people developing iAds, including two that specifically covered the SDK. IF advertising agencies want to make iAds they don't need to wait
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by lzw 16y ago
I think of it as fraud. When I joined facebook it was well known, and advertised itself as a place where your private info was private. Since that time, with no action taken on my part, they have exposed that private info publicly, breakin
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by lzw 16y ago
One of the biggest efforts in making this kind of a transition is the digitization of your life. This is a huge project, and some of the work is still ongoing. 1) Music and Movies. About the easiest as ripping CDs and DVDs is not that har
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by lzw 16y ago
Countries love tourists but they are often wary of anyone who wants to "steal the jobs". Best to be in a situation where you're earning income without having to "work" in the country. If you have a popular web service or a iphone app you c
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by lzw 16y ago
There is a- for lack of a better word-- synergy that comes with this lifestyle change. It really is a different way of living. One of the things that you change is what your values are-- what you value. When we lived in a house a lot of
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by lzw 16y ago
My co-founder and I have been doing this for three years. We have two backpacks and we are nomadic. Interestingly, it isn't online services that have enabled this so much as a lifestyle choice. We value travel and figured it was cheaper
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by lzw 16y ago
Lay people seem to think peer review is some sort of objective process... but back in the day when I was involved with these kinds of papers, it was very political. First thing peer review did was screen papers for "political correctness".
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by lzw 16y ago
Not enough information, I think. But maybe what you're looking for are the stored value cards you can buy at grocery stores. You can hook up with the providers of these and the customer buys one of the cards and then loads credits into th
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by lzw 16y ago
So, they want your help now, for some slice of theoretical profits at some future date, at which point they might be profitable. Further, they're not splitting all the profits with everybody, but just 1/5th of them, and you would get 1/9t
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by lzw 16y ago
True Story: One of the first startups I ever joined had a consulting business. I was employee number 12. 4 of the employees were bringing in enough revenue to fund the whole company while we developed the main product. We started talking t
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by lzw 16y ago
I see, this is some sort of a popularity / "all the cool kids hate apple technologies" thing rather than an issue based on programming. Cause if you think those are a list of problems, you don't know how to write software.
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by lzw 16y ago
I believe a significant chunk of the damage done in our society can be chalked up to people who are ignorant thinking that their opinions are facts. You just gave two examples.
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by lzw 16y ago
If you're blocking access to your site from specific IPs or ranges of IPs, then you fail at the internet. If you have "IT People" who advocate such a policy, fire them on the spot, and then give them two hours to think about what they have
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by lzw 16y ago
I think this article is really all about how we should subborn our individualism to the rule of the collective than about the question of friendships. Reality is, the loners and the individualists have friendships, and so they aren't really

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