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by payne92 11y ago
First, talk with a lawyer and an accountant. The at-stake amounts are large enough that's short money. Second, I'd strongly consider doing some/all of this after Jan 1. That will put your ISO+AMT tax into 2016, which will p
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by payne92 11y ago
Yes, there are many, many examples. Marc Andreessen grew up in Wisconsin and went to the University of Illinois. I co-founded Open Market (a unicorn in tech Bubble 1.0). I grew up in West Virginia in a trailer with no indoor plumbing &
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by payne92 11y ago
The UP Mini is a great little printer ($600 on Amazon). It prints ABS and it JUST WORKS. Highly recommended. And it does have a heated build platform. http://www.amazon.com/Assembled-Printer-Maximum-Dimensions-R...
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by payne92 11y ago
Wow. The Internet service providers complain about network neutrality, while they pull stunts like this.
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by payne92 11y ago
I wonder what's patentable here?
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by payne92 11y ago
You may be confusing OpenStack with Opencompute. Opencompute is a set of hardware designs for high-scale data centers that came out of Facebook. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Compute_Project
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by payne92 11y ago
Uh, no. For one example, see: http://www.opencompute.org/
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by payne92 11y ago
Why are NASA inventions not in the public domain, like any other work of the US government?
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by payne92 11y ago
Related, and for an amusing sense of technology at that time, here are the sources for a portion of Open Market's system circa 1994: https://github.com/SovOMI/OMI-code (Open Market's store builder, shopping
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by payne92 11y ago
I have a hard time with the implication, "no influence". 20 years ago you had to buy nearly every component of your deployment stack, including your development tools. A SQL database license could easily run you six or seven figu
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by payne92 11y ago
Is there a link to the paper?
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by payne92 11y ago
Or monkeys.
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by payne92 11y ago
Not surprising, given their competitive positioning against Amazon. In other words: was this a technical or business decision?
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by payne92 11y ago
Each year: bigger fonts, more Advil. :)
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by payne92 11y ago
I think a better title is: "Finland is a poster child for Apple decimating 4% of your economy" (Nokia)
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by payne92 11y ago
Is there any free content available?
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by payne92 11y ago
The indemnification provision is a big problem. It's basically saying that if someone sues Apple, you are obligated to defend Apple.
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..and we pay their salaries.
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by payne92 12y ago
I would strongly suggest having a paragraph, right on the home page, explaining what an "evidence-oriented" language is and how it differs from conventional languages. In other words, consider looking at your home page through the
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by payne92 12y ago
This patent is likely invalid due to the Supreme Court's ruling on Alice last year. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Interna... It essentially says: abstract methods (e.g. algorithms) hav
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by payne92 12y ago
The legal issues here relatively straightforward and were touched on by one comment in the github issue thread. The Java implementation is protected by copyright. The algorithm itself would be protected by a patent, which he (generally) cou
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by payne92 12y ago
Using technology to protect constitutionally guaranteed liberties is hardly "holding themselves beyond the law".
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by payne92 12y ago
What's far more interesting (IMHO) is research spending vs disease/condition costs. For example, diabetes may not be the primary cause of your death, but you (or someone on your behalf) will spend a LOT of money managing the condi
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by payne92 12y ago
The lesson here (I think) is that the collective (and MASSIVE) R&D effort general purpose CPUs, and optimizing compilers (and now, GPUs) almost always trumps specialized computing architectures. It's really hard to beat the raw per
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Why Spectrum Auctions are a Bad Idea(blog.payne.org)
2 points by payne92 14y ago|0 comments
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Letter to Carmen Ortiz about Aaron Swartz(blog.payne.org)
38 points by payne92 14y ago|30 comments
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It's Not the Wild West Anymore(blog.payne.org)
1 points by payne92 14y ago|0 comments
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"I Have an Idea...."(blog.payne.org)
2 points by payne92 15y ago|0 comments
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by payne92 15y ago
I agree, this post doesn't make senese, because Groupon needs to market to acquire current business, in addition to "expansion" business. ASCOI excluded important current business marketing spend. I left a more detailed comment on this on
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The Entrepreneurial Lottery(blog.payne.org)
3 points by payne92 15y ago|0 comments

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