mwerty

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91.
by mwerty 16y ago
I want my cologne to be associated with expensive stuff, not economy.
92.
by mwerty 16y ago
maybe an effective way to parallelize writes?
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by mwerty 16y ago
1. Yes. 2. I would hide it or claim its a stealth project. Experience has taught that weirding out people is not the most efficient way of maintaining relationships.
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by mwerty 16y ago
The median startup does not offer a better outcome.
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by mwerty 16y ago
> OCaml has an audience in the financial world Who besides Jane St?
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by mwerty 16y ago
So would I. Some anecdotes about his interactions with MSR researchers would have been nice instead of seemingly random dissing of academics.
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by mwerty 16y ago
Taking it would likely change him in undesirable ways for a net negative effect on happiness.
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by mwerty 16y ago
indeed - lets catch up... will contact you this weekend.
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by mwerty 16y ago
Classic contrast bias. It's pretty interesting that he is considered super-unlucky when he is likely in the top 10% of humanity. Number 9 in http://freebsd.zaks.com/news/msg-1151459306-41182-0/
100.
by mwerty 16y ago
Go see the mayo clinic.
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by mwerty 16y ago
Paul Allen went to Washington State University. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen
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by mwerty 16y ago
He's saving lives now.
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by mwerty 16y ago
Could not find a 'motivations for berp' doc. Why/how is this useful?
104.
by mwerty 16y ago
tl;dr: cs != programming web sites
105.
by mwerty 16y ago
How about this logic: Consenting adults should be free to offer and enter into any contract that does violate anyone's freedom's, rights etc.
106.
by mwerty 16y ago
A large part of your performance as a PM is measured on how much BS you are capable of generating in order to manage perceptions - which is natural since you do not have authority over engineers. This is one instance of that. Obviously, tea
107.
by mwerty 16y ago
You can basically be assigned to any team you want but the leadership generally does not let you do work except in a few teams (CLR, Research, etc.). There are a few reasons that struck me during my time there - all related to perverse ince
108.
by mwerty 16y ago
Randomness dominates startups in a way that makes your concern about first impressions unnecessary.
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by mwerty 16y ago
I am turned off by all paywalls. So if I click a link and have to pay to see what your app does, it degrades my experience.
110.
by mwerty 16y ago
I find apt-get harder to use than macports though the packages are usually more uptodate.
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by mwerty 16y ago
Surprised that the paypal link is real.
112.
by mwerty 16y ago
I think links to fulltext are best. I don't think summarizing patents makes sense in this case with such vague content-free titles.
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by mwerty 16y ago
Why are you an angel investor? Since thats super-broad, here are some options (feel free to add more): 1. You think you can make decent returns. 2. You like helping people. 3. You find it a great way to avoid getting bored.
114.
by mwerty 16y ago
Most of this Apple nonsense would make a lot more sense if you imagined Apple had 1m dollars in annual revenue. Then, whatever Apple is doing would not seem so bad because they would be a struggling company. People feel entitled because App
115.
by mwerty 16y ago
Thanks. Interestingly, I cannot upmod you because I did not read it.
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by mwerty 16y ago
So should health insurance by that logic.
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by mwerty 16y ago
Why are you calling it a money laundering operation? Are they not legit or are you just being casual?
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by mwerty 16y ago
Do you have any anecdotes? It would be far more useful and in the spirit of the original question than advice/opinion (which I see no dearth of on this site).
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by mwerty 16y ago
That was a let down. This is not: http://www.darylscience.com/downloads/DblSunset.pdf
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by mwerty 16y ago
I was commenting on the writing, not the auction. edit: I half-agree with you in that its not a success but its also not clear if the traditional ipo would have definitely been better.

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