payne92

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   by payne92 10y ago

   I think GPL has served its purpose, leaving a healthy ecosystem of open source software along with professional acceptance of the model. Now, paradoxically, GPL is less free than many open source licenses. The GPL restrictions will limit a
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   by payne92 10y ago

   Weird "marketing".
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   by payne92 10y ago

   What's the marketing offer?
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   by payne92 10y ago

   This seems like generally terrible advice. Your 401(k) contribution is pretax, like most retirement contributions. So you're getting serious discount by avoiding taxes that you would otherwise have to pay. And if your employer match
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   by payne92 10y ago

   In the US, I would expect this to run afoul of the First Amendment. The freedom of speech is protected, and you cannot be compelled to explain how you decided to say what you said.
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   by payne92 10y ago

   I think it depends a lot on the kind of problem(s) you are imagining solving. Saving money? Talk to the CFO. Making money? CEO, VP/sales, etc.
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   by payne92 10y ago

   Apps aren't just a pile of features, they're also ecosystems. In the early years of Twitter, it would have been relatively easy to clone Twitter, but you won't have had the ecosystem. Poster example: Google+
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   by payne92 10y ago

   I'm sure they are very interested in moving users to a newer platform. Legacy support is "all cost" -- you're typically not getting any revenue. Look how motivated Microsoft was to drop XP support.
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   by payne92 10y ago

   This is an extremely shallow analysis. Price discrimination has always been fundamental aspect of business and economics: companies often offer different "values" different price points. BUT, software businesses have another aspe
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    by payne92 10y ago

    Hollywood has had so SO SO many chances over the years to have Netflix's business: streaming content to customers under reasonable terms. If Hollywood took all past energy spent on DRM, lobbying, finding ways to limit user's ri
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    by payne92 10y ago

    Self-driving cruise control is largely a solved problem, but 100% self-driving is a long time away. Ref: Boston winter, 2015.
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    by payne92 10y ago

    +1 this answer. You'll most likely end up in the same spot as other suggestions: NOT paying the bill. But the WAY you approach things (very good advice here) makes all the difference.
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    by payne92 10y ago

    I think the best answer is buried in the middle of this article: cars are the second largest purchase for most people. The higher the price tag, the more you stand to gain by negotiating.
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    by payne92 10y ago

    With the extended warranty and other add-ons, my favorite come back is, "I like to think you're selling me a really reliable car. Now you have me worried. Should I be worried?" I found that shut things down pretty quickly.
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    by payne92 10y ago

    While intensive technical due diligence at the seed stage is rare (for the good reasons cited in the note), I wouldn't make a unilateral assertion that it's a waste of time. Some startups ARE technology driven (I bet the Theranos
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    by payne92 10y ago

    Seconded. Brilliant piece of hardware. It also enables an interesting shift in cognitive load: instead of deciding what to keep/shred and filing, scan everything and make it searchable.
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    by payne92 10y ago

    I'm politically ambivalent here, but I don't understand why the management of this by Clinton and her team does not meet the standard of "gross negligence".
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    by payne92 10y ago

    Also: email from a founder, don't use a "investment banker", or other intermediary. Don't insist on a phone call or in-person meeting as the next step. If you can't explain it with email, video, etc. to an investo
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    by payne92 10y ago

    While the dialog around various equity-based incentive compensation mechanisms is good, this article is off base in SO many ways: >>With an often high strike price, Only an issue at the later stages of companies (note: this writeup ar
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    by payne92 10y ago

    There's a fair amount of work on voice over IP and packet switched networks that predates (by a wide margin) 1994, including connections to the PSTN. For example, see: https://www.ll.mit.edu/news/ieee-milestone-pa
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    by payne92 10y ago

    Is this all paid content?
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    by payne92 10y ago

    This article is slightly misleading. It says "Under basic contract law, a gift cannot be enforced." The promise of a gift cannot be enforced. But, once a gift is delivered and accepted, it cannot be taken back. If Developer Da
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    by payne92 10y ago

    I think it gets squeezed even more with general purpose GPU computing.
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    by payne92 10y ago

    One Internet, one Earth. Proper nouns, all capitalized.
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    by payne92 10y ago

    Yow, my first hard drive was 40mb. And cost $425 (present dollars, probably $1000)
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    by payne92 10y ago

    I was hoping to use a few for kiosk-type info displays "out of the box" with minimal hacking, but there doesn't seem to be a simple way to disable the sleep timeout. See: http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindl
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    by payne92 10y ago

    ~1995-1996, FastCGI implementations
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    by payne92 10y ago

    I wonder if Intel saying "no" to Apple re: ARM will go down as the same scale decision as Digital Research saying "no" to IBM for an operating system.
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    by payne92 10y ago

    Primary: fancy kitchen timer.
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    by payne92 10y ago

    Or, typo: denies -> denied 'S' and 'D' are QWERTY adjacent :)