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by nirvana 15y ago
Before I quit working for other people I used this as a barometer of whether a company was run by idiots or not. IF they had an open plan office, and were apologetic about it, then they might be redeemable. IF they were proud of it, then
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by nirvana 15y ago
I've never understood how cash outs are crazy. The founders own %100 of the stock before financing. After financing in both cases they own less than %100 of the stock. The company can sell stock and dilute the founders, which often makes
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by nirvana 15y ago
Anyone have suggestions about the best way to learn? I first heard about, and tried, Dvorak layout about 17 years ago. I've tried it two or three times since then, but since its so easy to switch the keyboard back, each time I'd get frust
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by nirvana 15y ago
I've seen you make some really insightful comments recently, but this one isn't. When did "Troll" come to mean "everything I disagree with" or, being generous here "any opinion that disagrees with the majority."? Seriously. Trolls are thos
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by nirvana 15y ago
Storyboard is really spectacular. I think its the biggest advance to UI development since Interface Builder. The thing is, it also sets apple up for the next level of usability. For our next project, my designer is going to have Xcode inst
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by nirvana 15y ago
The kindle has only two things that make it competitive enough to be worthy of discussion- e-ink and lighter weight. In every other category (ok, excluding price) it fails compared to the iPad. on e-ink there isn't really an advantage to m
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by nirvana 15y ago
Having used a retina screen iPhone and iPod I'd say in my opinion the new iPad (which I haven't seen) is going to far exceed the kindle's screen in readability. Where I think kindle probably still has the edge is in ergonomics, specifically
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by nirvana 15y ago
What's funny about this is just how distorted the pixels are. Ever since I've understood what displays were (and CRTs before that) I've always imagined this idealized array of perfectly round, very tightly packed red green and blue circles
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by nirvana 15y ago
People talk about this as if it's an action you can take. The title even uses it as a verb: "open source" it. Is "open sourcing" even the decision of the developer, in reality? Sure, the developer can decide to release the code as open so
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by nirvana 15y ago
Consider options spreads. A spread is where you buy a call at one price, and sell a call at another price. The thing about options is that they are a timed contract. Come expiration date, the value of the option depends %100 on the stock
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by nirvana 15y ago
Take a look at the Apple weekly chart going back to 2004. ITs really impressive. There's some pain in the 2008 era, and its clear the angle shifted in 2009 (when people accepted the iPhone was a success).... and then it went completely ve
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by nirvana 15y ago
I think that's a good strategy... but I wouldn't sell just because there's nothing but good news. If you're long something and its going up, just let it go up. When it stops going up, then maybe think about it. If its going up, there's n
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by nirvana 15y ago
You seem to be indicating that the stock market is worse than or equal to playing the lotto. This could be quite true for many people. When I was a buy and hold investor, I'd calculate my expected return before buying the stock. You can a
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by nirvana 15y ago
I'm sure a lot of people do say it that way. But there is a very real phenomenon-- when the price is high, people want to buy, when the price is low, people want to sell. I had a friend who was a gold dealer and I would talk to him periodi
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by nirvana 15y ago
This is absolutely true. What I've found is that there isn't a silver bullet for this, and to mitigate it I use several techniques. One of them is, just don't pay attention to many stocks. Focus on specific stocks which offer the likeliho
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by nirvana 15y ago
Remember, buy low, sell high. Buying at $365 over thanksgiving weekend would be buying low. Buying here is pretty risky, since all the indicators are pegged. (e.g.: high RSI, etc.) It would be nice to think that the market has woken up an
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by nirvana 15y ago
Which means the project (or at least that benefit) could be obtained anywhere simply by attracting a lot of startups. Cabo San Lucas, Berlin, doesn't really matter to me- just make the cost of living cheap, the visas easy to get and the re
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by nirvana 15y ago
This is probably quite an excellent idea. We ran our startup for three months from central mexico. It was great in every way that matters. The cost of living was really cheap. The neighborhood was really a lot safer than the ones in ame
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by nirvana 15y ago
What is the visa situation like in Ireland? How about the personal tax burden and regulatory burden? (We spent 6 months in the UK and were just constantly hounded by random bodies that believed we owed them taxes, for instance a tax on te
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by nirvana 15y ago
I'm male but both my cofounders are female. One of whom is not a US citizen and thus to be in "silicon valley" this "boat" would be the best option for us. Here in Startup Chile, a lot of the companies are run by women or involve women-- I
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by nirvana 15y ago
I've lived in Silicon Valley and did not like it at all. The population density is really high, the rudeness coefficient is really high as well. Everyone I knew was on anti-depressants just because the environment was so tough. Contrast th
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by nirvana 15y ago
I love the initiative. But man, what an amazing amount of effort to hack around america's broken visa situation. This should be embarrassing to every representative, senator and the president. Worse, I'm half afraid if they build it, the U
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by nirvana 15y ago
They're replacing a massive campus covered in parking lots with orchards. They are building an underground parking garage. They're planting thousands of trees. They're building foot paths, they've hired an arborist to make tree selection
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by nirvana 15y ago
I did business with paypal about 10 years ago. I had a similar bad experience with them. Despite me doing nothing wrong, and my customers being quite happy with what I was delivering to them, paypal decided to get involved and screw thing
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by nirvana 15y ago
Maybe I'm off my rocker here, but this sounds like "suing your way into being acquired". Is Facebook buying Yahoo not something Yahoo probably wants at this point? Yes, I'm sure there's lots of reasons this might be a bad match- I didn't sa
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by nirvana 15y ago
0. You seem to have ignored "the more free and open an economy is." which recognizes both that there are degrees "more free and open" and that these are factors that help it go away. The south to some extent lacked them. 1. In the south, ra
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by nirvana 15y ago
>"Why are they always worse? A very contrived example:" Thank you for providing an example, but your example is not of someone violating the NAP. I was saying that if you violate the NAP the result is worse than if you don't. An examp
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by nirvana 15y ago
>dorkburlger. I don't engage with people who are begin dishonest, as you are, or people whose only form of "debate" is to characterize their opponent, or call them names, as you have. Elsewhere several people have disagreed with me, att
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by nirvana 15y ago
"My questions would be: how many contracts am I signing by simply doing what I like?" The answer to these questions depends on information you're not giving in your hypotheticals. For instance: >"Am I violating a contract by getting in
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by nirvana 15y ago
Interesting. I checked their guess of keywords against one of my apps. They guessed 13 keywords for my app. 5 of their guesses are most assuredly not in our keyword list. However, of the remaining 8, 5 of them are pretty general keywords

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