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by mdda 15y ago
Agreed, he seems to be mixing up a bunch of stuff here. His rant about HFT seems misplaced : The market rules allow for robotic trades that whittle the bid-ask spread down to wafer-thin margins. Investors generally benefit from the greater
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by mdda 15y ago
If the samples are put out at CD rates (44.1KHz) then 22.05KHz is the highest AC frequency available.
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by mdda 15y ago
But look at it another way : Maybe your hands-on knowledge of KeepAlive is the kind of thing that signals a client that you're not just a regular SEO guy...
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by mdda 15y ago
SenchaTouch (for mobile browsers) has a free commercial license ( http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/license/ ), with paid support if required. The bigger (mobile & desktop browser-friendly) ExtJS has the GPL "issues" - the commercial
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by mdda 15y ago
30% of Americans have passports [1]. And : "Despite the climbing number of American passports in circulation, 30% is still low compared to Canada's 60% and the United Kingdom's 75%." [1] : http://articles.cnn.com/2011-02-04/travel/america
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by mdda 15y ago
But the value of YourCompany today is (for any 'big idea') something like P(small)*Size(idea). The trick of accepting the dilution of YC is to make estimates of whether the idea could 7% become larger/better. Or (more easy to understand) w
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by mdda 15y ago
It may be aimed at establishing oneself within the hierarchy - which happens all over the animal kingdom.
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by mdda 15y ago
The US Government did a horrible job of negotiating the refinancing of the banks. If they were smarter, they would have hired a tough distressed-debt guy and got a deal that was doable, but made it clear to the bank management that they we
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by mdda 15y ago
I'm surprised noone has mentioned HaXe[1] : Which is an open source Actionscript-like language, with types (if you want them), which can compile down to .SWF, .JS, .CPP or even .PHP. All with an open source tool-chain. [1] : http://haxe.o
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by mdda 15y ago
I didn't understand "a push" at first : It's a blackjack term : "In the case of a tied score, known as 'push' or 'standoff', bets are normally returned without adjustment; however, a blackjack beats any hand which is not a blackjack, even w
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by mdda 15y ago
Who else was expecting to open up the diagram and find a bright red box in the top left with Finance written on it? How surprising it was to see that the 1% that everyone is complaining about are faceless managers, doctors and lawyers...
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by mdda 15y ago
"No ending semi-colon is required." seems like a detail that could be handled behind the scenes.
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by mdda 15y ago
> Also the gov't is never going to shut down Google. Also the CHINESE gov't is never going to shut down Google. Just adding a little perspective...
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by mdda 15y ago
One thing that TWNYC doesn't readily admit to is that they have to allow other broadband providers access to their cable. If you insist on hearing about Earthlink rates (rather than the RCN(?) deal) they will probably 'fess up to something
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by mdda 15y ago
I'm an entrepreneur from the UK living in NYC on an E-2 investor visa. The key factor in employing people in NYC is the 'at-will' employment : Just as I only have to give people one day's notice, so they are only obliged to give me the sam
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by mdda 15y ago
At the risk of pointing out the obvious : Why don't you ask the cafe owner whether it's Ok if you hang out for most of the day at a table - and whether they'd prefer you to pay via regular coffee purchases, or they would be comfortable if y
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by mdda 15y ago
I agree with everything you say, but think it should be emphasized that tech people at (for instance) Amazon are fundamentally in the same 'buy a mop' situation, except that Amazon believes that it is/can be so much more. Fundamentally, it'
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by mdda 15y ago
That's what they used to say about IE vs the open source community. But somehow, programmers' nature finds a way...
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by mdda 15y ago
Most people don't understand the work "complect" ([kəmˈplɛkt] vb (tr) Archaic to interweave or entwine). They probably (as I did) thought it was a typo for 'are complicated', making your whole comment a tautology. Or perhaps they thought
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by mdda 15y ago
It's a point of pride amongst cabbies to have the got past the hurdle of attaining 'the knowledge'. And my guess is that their union will be able to pressure the taxi licensing body not to reduce the hurdle, since that is what keeps the 'r
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by mdda 15y ago
Alternatively, wait until the thing is wheeled out in front of a bunch of military dignatories. Didn't a missile demo wipe out a grandstand of military onlookers recently?
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by mdda 15y ago
Maybe think of this as one of the burdens that civilization handles for you : One never has to mix the emotional trauma of losing a loved one with the cold facts of how much money they'd save you by dying before tea-time.
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by mdda 15y ago
I guess : The company pays tax wherever it is domiciled - and that's a matter of corporate tax rates, money transfer restrictions, and other red tape. On a personal basis, it makes a huge difference whether one is a US citizen (where you ha
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by mdda 15y ago
And it's fair, in the sense that applicants from the UK might now also have to wait a couple of decades. In my case (as a UK citizen working in NYC), it's a good job that the E-2 Investor Visa (which only exists for countries that the INS d
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by mdda 15y ago
For H1B visas there certainly was an expedited process - a couple of times our firm paid ~$1000 to get the response within 2 weeks, rather than 'several months'. Reducing uncertainty was valuable to us, since otherwise we might have been m
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by mdda 15y ago
Actually, it's more farcical than you're thinking. Suppose I have a foreign employee that graduated in the US, and has worked for my company (on a valid OPT, followed by an H1B) for several years. In order to progress to the Green Card st
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by mdda 15y ago
Isn't that why Software-as-a-Service is much more palatable to a purchaser? It feels like your company is actually doing something for the money spent. If you were to sell the software as a download, people would demand lower prices, since
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by mdda 15y ago
"Choose wars based on strengths & battles based on weaknesses" - the title of the post makes more sense if you just Copy and Paste it... ('battled' in current title)
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by mdda 15y ago
It could also be that the company is doing far worse than the business plan they originally showed out to the VCs : If there's lower growth rates, it's far better for everyone to notch up a quick 3x, rather than see the business dwindle int
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by mdda 15y ago
In the US, it's probably something to do with quarterly dividends (which makes it the reporting period for financial results). Less frequent dividends would cause the value of shares to drop more significantly post dividend (which happens

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