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by owinebar 19y ago
Interesting data. My first reaction was that lisp and scheme are still underutilized and underappreciated. But then, the metrics he's using wouldn't count downloads of the PLT books, or Shriram Krishnamurthi's Programming Languages: Applic
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by owinebar 19y ago
It seemed as though pg was talking about the unions of the 1950's. Those unions weren't heroic. The heroism was in the union movement of the late 1800s/early 1900s. Companies/capitalists of that gilded age were often enough a law unto th
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by owinebar 19y ago
I don't know why anyone other than the pre-acquisition investors would be aggravated by it. Is anyone posting here willing and able to quantify what he contributed and really judge whether he was "not worthy" of his share of the equity?
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by owinebar 19y ago
Management at big companies is good at beating the ambition out of their employees.
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by owinebar 19y ago
This is a good question. The other investors may already be in control of the company and just attempt replacing the founders with professional management. They may liquidate, since sunk costs are sunk. According to Paul's essays, the sof
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by owinebar 19y ago
I can't tell why point 22 shouldn't be titled "Sometimes you need capital other than sweat equity". It's not clear to me why this couldn't come in the form of debt. The only type of debt I recall Paul mentioning is the convertible kind. I
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by owinebar 19y ago
It's not just investors. This is a good practice anytime you're trying to sell a big ticket item to a potential customer. It gives them permission to believe the price is worth it.
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by owinebar 19y ago
It's been a few years since I was a sysadmin, but I believe either his DNS system or qmail system will show it. When I first read them, I thought they were very annoying, because it's not one monolithic program, and there are a lot of one-
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by owinebar 19y ago
If you want to see elegant, read dan bernstein's code. Let the filesystem be your database.
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by owinebar 19y ago
Let's say you have developed your own programming language/infrastructure, such as Arc or GOAL or whatever. You want to use your tools for a new venture because they give you a lever your competition doesn't have. On the other hand, if th