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by nkohari 14y ago
In my understanding, the person I was replying to was saying that the actual value of equity isn't relevant, because capital cycles through the economy. I was saying that was absolutely not true, because the only reasons anyone would buy eq
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by nkohari 14y ago
Finance doesn't work that way at all, though. Capital is invested because of the potential of growth, and therefore return. You wouldn't buy stock in a company at $10 if you expected it to be worth $10 for the entire time you held the share
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by nkohari 14y ago
This is the reason I've stopped calling APIs "RESTful". Everyone has a different opinion on where in the "REST spectrum" a given API falls, and in the end, very little of what you described actually impacts whether an API is usable or not.
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by nkohari 14y ago
This is infuriating. Our instances aren't ELB-backed, so we have an entire AZ sitting idle while the rest of our instances are overwhelmed with traffic. Why did they make this decision for us? I'm normally an Amazon apologist when outages
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by nkohari 14y ago
Except if you want to, you know, ship.
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by nkohari 14y ago
Unless there's an external factor that requires that you complete a task by a certain day, it's much healthier to think of a startup as a marathon than series of sprints.
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by nkohari 14y ago
This is the kind of insightful comment that brings me back to Hacker News. Thank you.
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by nkohari 14y ago
Xamarin is awesome, and what they're doing seems great. They've just entirely shifted their focus to mobile, which makes a lot of sense for them, but doesn't bode well for core Mono and their port of ASP.NET.
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by nkohari 14y ago
You realize you just used the phrase "panty bunching quotient" in a thread about sexism? Not only does this severely undermine your point, it also makes you look surprisingly similar to the so-called confirmed idiots you're describing.
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by nkohari 14y ago
As meanguy pointed out, the Mono team lost Novell's backing -- arguably, they never had it in the first place. Xamarin is now focused entirely on mobile, to the detriment of the core CLR implementation and web. Not that I blame them in the
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by nkohari 14y ago
Trust me when I say that if you use .NET, you're always going to be stuck with Microsoft. Mono, the only other somewhat viable implementation of the CLR, just doesn't really cut it in practice -- at least for ASP.NET.
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by nkohari 14y ago
Probably not -- the 12% fee would severely limit the margin if you tried to trade them.
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by nkohari 14y ago
My Hacker News account is 1859 days old (just over 5 years). Over those 5 years, I've gone through several stages of my entrepreneurial career. HN has been there from the time when I just was dreaming about launching a startup, through the
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by nkohari 14y ago
If you think about it, though, most things are already sold this way. The people who are less engaged are subsidized by those who are more engaged. Mobile phones and broadband internet are good examples.
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by nkohari 14y ago
Your powers of deduction are breathtaking. :)
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by nkohari 14y ago
Just because it's "litre" in the UK and "liter" in the US doesn't make one correct and one incorrect. The latter is the correct spelling in American English.
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by nkohari 14y ago
Adzerk - Raleigh-Durham, NC We're a small, but fast-growing startup working on a revolutionary Internet advertising platform. We're looking to hire an engineer who is interested in working in a fast-paced environment geared around continuou
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by nkohari 14y ago
Who cares about attention in the valley when you're netting $1B?
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by nkohari 14y ago
Downvoted and flagged not for your opinion, but for your apparent lack of common decency. Go back to lurking and keep your casual discrimination to yourself.
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by nkohari 14y ago
You have missed the point. Read the article again.
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by nkohari 14y ago
DR is all about cost, though. It's likely to cost double (or more) to have two (essentially) identical systems in two different cloud providers -- whereas duplicating the same system in two different zones of one provider is nearly free.
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by nkohari 14y ago
I installed this, but it turns my video camera on at seemingly random times. Uninstalled rapidly.
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by nkohari 14y ago
Please don't be so pedantic. It adds nothing to the conversation.
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by nkohari 14y ago
The key phrase is "for the installed hardware base," by which I mean the different hardware configurations Windows can support. OSX is the most usable OS hands-down in my estimation, but it can only be used (by non-enthusiasts) on Macs.
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by nkohari 14y ago
It's probably not competition that causes stack ranking to be a bad idea -- it's the measures that determine the ranking. Valve's flat hierarchy probably means that you only need to earn the respect of your peers, not of a group of managers
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by nkohari 14y ago
This is pretty much the norm in large, entrenched companies like Microsoft. It's the reason why so much innovation comes largely from startups and small businesses.
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by nkohari 14y ago
This is just ridiculous. Microsoft is a powerful company that has simply foundered, like many before it. They've just never been able to understand (at a corporate level) the changing forces of the software industry. They remain entrenched
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by nkohari 14y ago
I was recently fired by the company that acquired the startup I co-founded. It took me about six weeks to collect my thoughts and recover. Getting fired is kind of like having someone you care about die, in that you go through Kübler-Ross s
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by nkohari 14y ago
You should leave #6 out of your list. Your argument would be much more compelling for it. (Compilation/obfuscation is the norm, not the exception.)
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by nkohari 14y ago
How often do you use a text editor?

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