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If your IRS refund is your only form of saving, then spending it on a MacBook Pro takes you to a whole new level of bad decision making.
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Sure, if you hold 51% of the equity, and even then it would get messy. The power to hire and fire is (usually) the CEOs, devolved from the board. The board is (usually) appointed by the equity holders. For some set ups reversing a CEOs deci
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Position fixed doesn't work in IE6. (But it's better to use it in browsers that support it, of course.)
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Three of the Stages Of Programmer: - Designing too much flexibility at the start of a project and regretting it when it takes ten weeks to build a prototype. - Designing too little flexibility at the start of the project and ending up livin
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The patent system is a attempt at achieving a noble goal (rewarding inventors) but in my opinion it fails both at: - Generally failing to reward innovators. - Encouraging more benefits than it costs to society. The former is because: - Gene
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An example... Gross receipts: $1bn. Invoices paid: $300m. Increase in account credit with vendors: $1.2bn. Cash flow: +$700m. (Positive cash flow.) Net profit: -$500m. Cash flow accounting comparisons are generally only an appropriate measu
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At least it'll be better to use Firefox with a majority WebKit share than it was to use Seamonkey with a majority IE6 share back in '0X!
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I have been using the Safari/Chrome inspector a lot recently to clean up the cross-browser version of The Plan Is. I'm probably biased because I learned how to use Firebug first, but it always feels like Firebug was designed to do what de
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If you wish to create a program from scratch you must first create the universe.
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A lot of people do input validation by disallowing 'bad' characters. The idea is to stop people buying JavaScript in comments, as that would be bad. Just strip enough characters that you can't do functions and everything will be... ...oops.
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You would really need to see the distribution as you can plan for a consistently average delay, but unpredictable arrival can be a real pest.
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It would also be good to see some announcement of launches by HNers (not just YC funded). Set a cap of 2-3k karma or something to keep the volume down - a bit of promotion would be a nice reward for those who do a lot to keep the community
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GPL/BSD licensed software doesn't have to be free as in beer - you are perfectly welcome to charge for it. (The challenge is how to keep charging for it since anyone you give it to can also sell it or give it away.)
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Compared to the average vendor library license even the GPL is clear, concise, unambiguous and friendly. The biggest advantage is that once your lawyers approve the (L/)GPL, Apache and BSD licenses for use you get access to a vast range of
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I don't know, the Cambridge-grad-only dating site seems to be pretty popular. Elitism can be a powerful motivator, especially for people thinking about settling down and having kids. Late 20s and no kids yet is a demographic with a lot of d
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by notauser 17y ago
A UK postcode covers about the same area as the 5+4 digit US zip rather than the 5 digit one. You can get a whole town or more in one 5 digit zip code. I'm not sure many people actually know their full 9 digit zip. Certainly not many of my
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It'll cost you, what, $5k to try it once? You have your other variables tracked well enough that you should be able to see the difference pretty well and see if it's worthwhile. If you go for the low hanging fruit first (a holiday) where th
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It's common to set systems up so that any emergency numbers dialed go to the local emergency number. Our dialing plan directed at least 112, 911 and 999 that way, I'm not sure about the others. A combination of trying to do the right thing
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I think they must have bought some people over from ASDA in the UK - a chain they bought a while ago. I used to go to Walmart in Texas every now and again and it was not a good experience. Now the ones I have been in are starting to pick up
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In my mind there's a big difference between costs caused by things that would be hard for you to do (build and support a reliable cross-compiling Obj-C development environment on Windows) and costs caused by things that are easy for you t
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That's a really good way to destroy a team. A better setup is to have someone who makes the decisions for any particular area (on a notify-but-don't-ask-permission basis). Then the others can challenge if they really care, but won't for any
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It's not just the public sector. There are plenty of shady services firms (law and marketing especially) who work the same way. In those areas the only thing that mitigates abuse is essentially firm reputation and goodwill between individua
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I'm certainly not going to argue against his point, however there's a related and more subtle one which gets ignored a lot. Generally if you are writing off sunk costs there are also some accrued benefits lurking. Before you terminate X you
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I'd prefer to say example.com/a_nice_long_link rather than example.com/qQqueF especially when a single typo in the latter could take the recipient to a random site on the Internet rather than a 404 & search page.
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To summarize: bit.ly shouldn't attempt to shorten links that are shorter than the URL it will generate. However in this case the error is actually in Tweet Deck. The bit.ly API can't reject short(er) urls sent to it in case you really do ju
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I'm always incredibly skeptical of the, "A little of this is going rather poorly, what we need is more of it" argument. Which was exactly the kind of distaste for regulation I was talking about! How about comparing your interstate highway
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BTW - I don't think that you understand the scale of the US, how much larger our federal govt is. Ohio, a fairly middling state, is comparable in population to Finland. The EU has 170% of the population of the US. Both together have less
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Part of the problem with regulated markets in the US (and not just power) is that the ingrained distaste for regulation seems to ensure that when it does happen it's done as badly and obstructively as possible. It is possible to use regulat
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This route (learn to code it yourself) is the one I took. I now have a pretty technically credible* product with actual paying customers and everything. The language I learned first was JavaScript because it's ubiquitous. There are a millio
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Late Stage Investment (factors that lead to a decision to invest)(theplanis.com)
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