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by orijing 15y ago
Does anyone know how valid digital copies of important documents are? Suppose you have a signed contract, or a bank statement, or a government document. When you need some document for legal purposes (say, to enforce a contract in court), w
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by orijing 15y ago
> My answer is firmly standing on "maybe." What does it mean to be firmly on "maybe"?
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by orijing 15y ago
Exactly, which is why thematt is more likely to hire the guy who's been hacking away for two years than the guy who's been traveling for two years ceteris paribus.
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by orijing 15y ago
http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=hacker+news&t=w... So many git commands...
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by orijing 15y ago
> Personally, I'd give preference to whoever does a better job because how a person got to that stage is none of my business The problem is, you do not know who will do a better job. The parent post is implying that the past is a signal
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by orijing 15y ago
That really makes me think though: If they chucked redundancy out the window, that makes you the only person who can do a business critical task. Shouldn't that give you enormous leverage to negotiate with your employer? It often takes a lo
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by orijing 15y ago
Companies do do that. The first sale is called the primary offering, and ones that come after are called secondaries (or follow-on). I'm not sure if LinkedIn will do that, but it's common among small companies that are capital intensive. Us
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by orijing 15y ago
Let's take Dropbox for example. They save a lot of costs by deduplicating copies of files, and it makes file renames/moves/shares really easy for them. Therefore, they wouldn't have the incentive to destroy that advantage: That's one of the
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by orijing 15y ago
As I understand it, banks make a large amount of revenues from fees and such. How will BankSimple succeed if it doesn't use that? How will overdrafts work? Will the check just not go through? I love that they are trying to revolutionize the
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by orijing 15y ago
Yeah, I'm surprised if no hacker just wants to penetrate the Mac to be able to claim victory, like "Steve Jobs, you thought macs couldn't get viruses. Let me prove you wrong"... or something like that?
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by orijing 15y ago
The reason is scale and alternative options: If you're a hacker, why focus on the Mac when you can target 10x as many people on Windows?
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by orijing 15y ago
Is he supposed to publicly comment that he's "disappointed" with the IPO price? I think the Youko CEO did something like that, and just embarrassed himself for being naive...
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by orijing 15y ago
Pandora's already public.
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by orijing 15y ago
It always strikes me as overly audacious when anybody makes a quantitative claim about how much piracy costs, as if they know how many people would have paid, had pirated alternatives been unavailable, and the benefits of viral marketing. A
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China piracy cost U.S. firms $48 billion in 2009(reuters.com)
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by orijing 15y ago
Interestingly I wrote an answer on Quora that describes a game-theoretic analogy to asset price bubbles: http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-(game-theory)-game-which-cap... While I'm not sure if LinkedIn's price is a sign of a bubble, even if
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by orijing 15y ago
That's a misconception. Real economics (stuff beyond the Macroeconomics 101 you took) is about data as much as any of the other hard sciences. Take a look at http://d2o7bfz2il9cb7.cloudfront.net/main-qimg-7395f945e270f... Economics PhD ap
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by orijing 15y ago
It's still the market that decides the interest rate. The Fed simply adjusts the money supply by buying or selling short term securities (historically) in order to create or soak up liquidity. The interest rate that results from these "Open
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by orijing 15y ago
There is no "obligatory time." It is just the benefits package that they would have to forgo should they choose to leave their acquirer.
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by orijing 15y ago
Thanks for the compliments, but the credit should really go to Ankur Dave, who posted that answer on Quora :)
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by orijing 15y ago
Here is the list some notable products from MSR: http://www.quora.com/Microsoft-Research/What-products-have-c... A recent success is the Kinect, which was the fastest-selling consumer product on record.
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by orijing 15y ago
> An alternative explanation is that Google has a very high option value for the cash, which more or less implies they see a lot of acquisition and investment opportunities in their not so distant future. A lot. But don't they have $37
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by orijing 15y ago
When you are as large as Google, it is the same: The interest you end up paying is whatever is supported by the market. Plus, no individual bank or lender is going to loan any company $3 billion dollars. That's just stupid. The point of the
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Ask HN: Questions that should be in FAQ?
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by orijing 15y ago
That's interesting... I just signed up using my Facebook account. Do you have a FB account?
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by orijing 15y ago
Yup, here are my topics: http://www.quora.com/Jinghao-Yan/topics There are 71 of them at the moment, and some of them are overlapping
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by orijing 15y ago
I don't have any story, except a reaction of disbelief... Plus, I can't edit the original post anyway in light of new revelations. The point is, as an ex-intern, I am surprised.
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by orijing 15y ago
Like I said, everything was open. You can't keep a secret at Facebook. Facebook isn't run like Apple--very different.
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by orijing 15y ago
Quora is a great website to read. I participate a lot on it too, depending on whether I have project deadlines or finals coming up. I also impulsively refresh Google News sometimes...
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by orijing 15y ago
The company was very open internally. Everything a full timer knew, an intern could easily find out.

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