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by mikebo 17y ago
'He notes that the results could reveal something as simple as a higher level of autism awareness among highly educated people. "At least in part, the more you are educated, the more you might readily recognize the symptoms of autism and pu
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by mikebo 17y ago
If your webserver machines are so secure, why put them in the database at all? Just store the passwords on disk there, rsync the password file across all machines and you're set. I kid, but I really think you and tptacek just have differen
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by mikebo 17y ago
I think the main challenge will be getting the labels to agree to lala-esque music deals with Apple. Most reports so far say that lala's licensing deals are not transferrable. That said, Apple really has to do something in this space. I c
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by mikebo 17y ago
Fred's post isn't about big companies doing talent acquisitions. It's about both why a successful startup would want to do this, and how to structure a deal correctly so both startups are pleased with the deal. I'm not disputing anything i
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by mikebo 17y ago
I think Fred's post is more about startups acquiring smaller startups based on talent, not about large companies acquiring for IP.
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by mikebo 17y ago
Dropbox is really awesome. I'm very impressed with how well they execute. Lots of companies big and small have offered the same basic service, but nobody has built a product nearly as good.
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10 things about Microsoft's PDC 2009: The good, the bad and the ugly(betanews.com)
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by mikebo 17y ago
The point I was replying to was that "... third party apps are just as often or more used on iPhone than on, say, Windows and Mac OS X". I really doubt this is true given the lack of any killer mobile apps. I don't personally consider any
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by mikebo 17y ago
I don't agree. On the desktop there are 'killer apps' like Photoshop, Excel, Quicken, Final Cut, etc. I don't think there are any killer mobile apps yet. Maybe for some it's FourSquare or FB, but I can't think of one app I'd miss that's no
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by mikebo 17y ago
I'm not out to knock thesixtyone.com -- my point was just that I don't see a big change in consumer preferences occurring when it comes to music. thesixtyone.com and others might be able to be successful as a niche product, but most consum
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by mikebo 17y ago
They don't look so good compared to imeem.com, mog.com, last.fm, ilike.com though. I don't see flocks of people giving up on mainstream music. Your point that free music is feasible for some music is valid, but I'm not sure it's that import
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by mikebo 17y ago
But it does rule the platform with an iron fist, and the rules and APIs drastically change every 4-6 months. Ask Zynga, Slide or RockYou.
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by mikebo 17y ago
It does. Replace "mobile device" with "social network", and any other occurrence of"mobile" with "social" and give it a read. Glass houses and all that.
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by mikebo 17y ago
I agree with your sentiment. I also keep quite a bit of money in cash, but these days I'm keeping less so since it seems likely we'll have high inflation in our future, given how much money is being printed. I've moved most of it to gold
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by mikebo 17y ago
I wish the 2 drive mac mini had an option for SSD boot drive as well. That'd make a great desktop replacement.
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by mikebo 17y ago
One of the big improvements ruby enterprise edition made is to make Ruby's GC copy on write friendly. This allows you to run a lot more ruby processes per frontend in a web environmet, since you're usually ram limited. Afaik 1.9 didn't add
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by mikebo 17y ago
The Venture Hacks archives have a lot of good reading material: http://venturehacks.com/archives
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by mikebo 17y ago
And Microsoft tries to crush everyone that makes significant money on Windows -- Quicken, Adobe, Borland, etc. there are tons of examples.
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by mikebo 17y ago
According to WSJ, roughly $15MM in cash, $32.5MM in Facebook stock, based on the previous $6.5 billion valuation. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124993350820120361.html
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by mikebo 17y ago
Databases! It's where theory and data structures meet in practice.
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by mikebo 17y ago
In Pandora's case it's almost certainly a fee per song, as it is the larger of those two values. Micahel Robertson (mp3.com) has a good write up of this http://michaelrobertson.com/ (i can't find permalinks on his site, wtf?) I agree it
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by mikebo 17y ago
Same here. I just moved and don't have internet set up yet. It's been really useful, but I'm a little worried about my next bill :).
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by mikebo 17y ago
Good points. Regarding buying used from a dealer or private party, I think it also depends on if you are financing the purchase or paying cash. BMW and Audi are both offering great deals .9% financing on certified preowned cars. Sure they
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by mikebo 17y ago
What is their runway?
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by mikebo 17y ago
If you're joining an early startup you're making a big bet on the quality of the founders and other early employees. How well do you know them? What's their track record prior to this startup? Joining as an early non founding employee is n
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by mikebo 17y ago
The best $20 I ever spent on photography was the book Understanding Exposure. Fantastic book and will improve your photos dramatically
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by mikebo 17y ago
Distribution of content is definitely cheaper, but that's only part of the equation. Creating content is a big part of the equation too, and the owners of that content will need to see a good ROI on the investment, or there's very little i
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by mikebo 17y ago
This looks like it will be a great product, especially for all the technical pdfs I've built up over the years. Still not wild about the DRM though -- I made the mistake of buying DRMed music that I can't listen to anymore. I'm not going t
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by mikebo 17y ago
Congrats to the founders. A very impressive self-funded company that really did make something people want.
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by mikebo 18y ago
The timeline might be kind of tight, but your best bet might be to interview at another company and get an idea how they value your skillset. Also, check out glassdoor.com and see if the company has any salary information posted there.

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