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by new299 12y ago
Cisco's future maybe bleak but not because we'll all move to Facebook's and Google's model. The systems they build are at massive scale, and heavily optimized to their workflow. Cisco equipment is in general designed to
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by new299 12y ago
wouldn't serve its role, which is to deter crime I wouldn't say that is the sole role of prisons. They kind of have 3 functions: 1. To remove a troublesome individual from society. 2. To rehabilitate an individual. 3. To
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by new299 12y ago
By that time it was estimated that $2 million had been spent on the project. It is thought that development of the bat bomb was moving too slowly, and was overtaken in the race for a quick end to the war by the atomic bomb project.
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by new299 12y ago
You might not, I might not. But they do have somewhat of a reputation for not executing well on the 454 technology. It has been said that they failed to scale out what was a fundamentally sound platform. That they didn't really push on
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by new299 12y ago
No, but I think in Rothbergs case they were ok. Not by any means stunning. Ion Torrent raised around 60MUSD according to angel.co. They sold for 375MUSD, with milestone payments making it up to 725MUSD. I've no idea if they hit their m
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by new299 12y ago
This is really interesting. They certainly have a reputation for killing 454. What other companies have they done this with?
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by new299 12y ago
If you're running it in production then that's a problem. But I'd dare say that relying on an external "apt-get install xxx" is pretty bad practice in production (to deploy new machines).
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by new299 12y ago
It's obviously somewhat prone to failure, as the script can't possibly work in every environment. But other than that as long as it's over https is there a security issue? Obviously, a better alternative is a package manager,
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by new299 12y ago
Rothberg is something of a character. His two DNA sequencing companies (454 and Ion torrent) have both had what I would consider successful exits (solid to Roche and Life technologies respectively). But more importantly both products made t
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by new299 12y ago
>Internet companies are still being funded a decade and a half after the dot com bubble wiped out orders of magnitude more wealth than this. Because there have been some notably successful Internet companies I would guess. But if few of
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by new299 12y ago
>I'd rather this entire space be ignored than see top-tier VCs sour everyone on the industry. Agreed. However, if they don't know how to do DD a better one option would be just to fund more companies at a lower level. With a mo
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by new299 12y ago
I'm skeptical when people say that. Long term, this is more likely to harm science-based startup funding. If these investments don't pan out, they're more likely to just stop funding science/basic tech startups than they
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by new299 12y ago
I'm guessing it's Android based? I wonder how much Google cares about this stuff. It feels like they are really just interested in controlling the platform (Chrome, Android etc.) than making profit in these areas. Seems to come ve
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by new299 12y ago
I think this is absolutely true. I quit my job last week, with nothing in particular to go to (luckily I have a little runaway). I guess time will tell if it was the right decision, but it is a personal one. Startups can be a nightmare, bur
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by new299 12y ago
It might be equally interesting to discover why these various futures are impossible (if they are). Has anyone shown, for example, that in an Artificial life system (or cellular automata perhaps). That a single form can always be introduced
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by new299 12y ago
Oh sure. It's programmability gets used quite a lot I think e.g.: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/tag/fractals/ There are also some really nice graph drawing libraries etc. which I would guess
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by new299 12y ago
There are a few nice things about Latex for scientific publications: 1. It's style driven. I'm not sure how well you can do this is Word now. But in Latex it's pretty easy to reformat your document to match a journal or thesi
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by new299 12y ago
I find the semiconductor industry really fascinating. It seems like the classic example of an industry that can't easily be disrupted by start ups, particularly on the fabrication side. But I've often wondered if it is possible. O
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by new299 12y ago
I think you first have to clearly define what aspects your trying to maximise. Maximising "happiness" doesn't seem to be viable, because you can just suggest that the human brain will be modified such that it will be happy wh
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by new299 12y ago
Agreed, private lessons on a daily basis can help you improve very quickly in my experience, you don't even need to do much self study outside that.
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by new299 12y ago
Doesn't seem like a low salary to me. Seems that it's about average for Italy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_a... 2610USD versus 2500 they mention in the article). So I'd gu
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by new299 12y ago
I'd be interested to know if cancelling the card number actually cancels recurring payments. Last time I tried this, my bank told me the recurring payments would still continue even if the card was cancelled. And I needed to contact th
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by new299 12y ago
I'd recommend paying the going rate for your staff in any case. Equity doesn't make up for a lower salary in my view. It makes up for the inherent risk in working in a startup (things might not go well and you might be out of a jo
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by new299 12y ago
The questioner wrote: "But how are you supposed to do that with a full time gig that has you technically under an inventions assignment agreement? Those agreements, arguably, would own anything you create while employed, at least if it
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by new299 12y ago
ah interesting. I don't do that route. I do the Tokyo<->Osaka route about once a week and wouldn't even consider flying because of the convenience. Flights too Fukuoka would probably be faster too (Shinkansen would take 5 ho
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by new299 12y ago
Your quote suggests flying is cheaper, not quicker as you're arguing. That's probably true, but it does it a lot longer.
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by new299 12y ago
It depends where you are. In areas not well served by the JR you can end up spending quite a bit on the Metro. But you're right the costs are comparable. However given that, I think convenience is the deciding factor in the Shinkansen&
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by new299 12y ago
It's more cost effective in Japan to fly from Tokyo to Osaka than to take the Shinkansen too (Shinkansen costs ~140USD, flights 120USD). However flying is a lot more time consuming and inconvenient. The Shinkansen system integrates wel
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by new299 12y ago
The qikfunder project was previously in the top five on then HN front page but even though it was well voted, got buried after an hour or so. Not sure why, but glad the Ars page is now on.
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by new299 12y ago
Seems like you're suggesting running a completely separate parallel build platform for one project. The parent seems to have taken the pragmatic, but messier choice. Sometimes, there just aren't good clean solutions, and you have

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