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by peripitea 16y ago
Digital distribution shouldn't eliminate record labels; it should just revalue their services. Whereas before record labels were absolutely necessary for bands to make it big (hence the usurious contracts of the old days), now labels are (o
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by peripitea 16y ago
How easy is it to get an O-1 visa? I always just assumed it was out of my range, but if it's just "speak at a few conferences", I could probably swing that. Anyone have experience with this?
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by peripitea 16y ago
I took a quick look, and I don't see anything that stands out. Assets are mostly cached properly, nothing is excessively large, gzip is on, etc. You've been getting a bit over 4 requests per second for the past three hours, plus some more b
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by peripitea 16y ago
That's great advice to give your kids, but you should also be teaching them by example that it's never too late to make a change! If you really want to work for one of those companies, don't wait for a headhunter to contact you! Fix up your
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by peripitea 16y ago
Isn't this flawed in that it ignores Bayes' theorem? The "object was a UFO" conclusion from the video is a good example of this. As compelling as the evidence is for that hypothesis, it's still virtually certain to be untrue.
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by peripitea 16y ago
Can you expand on why closures are the greatest thing ever? I've heard this from a few places, but I've only run into a handful of real-life situations where they were the perfect solution to a problem I was having. And even then, they were
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by peripitea 16y ago
>So hearing that you think there is no hope for us, is quite deflating. He didn't say "there is no hope of successful startups in Africa"; he just said "African startups aren't high on my priority list".
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by peripitea 16y ago
Would you mind giving more details on this? I don't understand how it would be possible for a human to do this with n > 1kish, and even then I would imagine it being horribly slow.
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by peripitea 16y ago
Text for anyone who can't see it due to site being down: Oracle finally filed a patent lawsuit against Google. Not a big surprise. During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle where we were being grilled about the patent situation
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by peripitea 16y ago
> It's survivor bias. I really think it's as simple as that. When you read about a successful startup, they invariably mention the troubles they had scaling. So you immediately think "how can I avoid scaling troubles?", when you should
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by peripitea 16y ago
How valuable are these non-vanilla terms to investors? Presumably you can get anyone to commit to vanilla terms for the right price. Then it's just a question of making big investors care less about these terms (e.g. by repeatedly demonstra
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by peripitea 16y ago
Call me an engineer, but I don't understand why anyone would dismiss security through obscurity just because it's theoretically useless. If you can reduce the lifetime expected value of successful attacks on your system, it should be consid
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by peripitea 16y ago
That does nothing to solve the overall problem, though. It would give us back Buffett's taxes, but they pale in comparison to the aggregate taxes being avoided by the thousands of other super rich. As a businessman, he's required to exploit
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by peripitea 16y ago
Two comments for the maker of HM: -It took me a while to figure out what HM was. You should have an About section or something on your website. I needed to click through to the first PDF before I saw the box about HM being a collection of a
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by peripitea 16y ago
May I ask what company you work for? I've never heard of HR supporting something like this at any of the companies I or my friends have worked for. Is it something they support but don't advertise? I'd love to have a setup like this in a fe
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by peripitea 16y ago
I'm embarrassed to say that I almost closed the window after a few minutes because his accent/demeanor made him come off as a bit of a douchebag. Now I'm really enjoying it.
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by peripitea 17y ago
First, congratulations! I'm curious how you are setting up a company in the United States if you or one of your co-founders is from Germany? I've been trying to figure out the whole startup-as-a-foreigner thing (I'm Canadian), and so far I
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by peripitea 17y ago
How do you get your electricity in towns where there isn't a lot of sun, or where they're going through a temporary rainy bout? Do you have to run a generator during the days? (I imagine the locals would frown on you running it during the n
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by peripitea 17y ago
I would love to hear how other founders have worked their immigration issues out. That's probably the biggest thing from stopping me right now -- all of my potential co-founders are American but I'm Canadian without a green card.
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by peripitea 17y ago
"I mean, look at immigration reform, you know? It is, I think, analytically easy, but politically very, very complex and very difficult." I'm surprised that this wasn't expanded on. Is there really an easy analytical solution to immigrati
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by peripitea 17y ago
The return to CPU-based rendering might do wonders for PC gaming's popularity. It hadn't occurred to me until I read this, but it seems like the decline of PC gaming has mapped fairly closely to the increase in reliance on top-end graphics
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by peripitea 17y ago
We have a similar policy where I work. There are certainly people who work harder, or who take less vacation than they would like. But from what I've seen, most of these people are either workaholics, or underperformers who probably shouldn
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by peripitea 17y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by peripitea 17y ago
The net result was interesting, but the interviewer's frequent interruptions made it more grating than it had to be.
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by peripitea 17y ago
Click on your country in the top right of the page; it will take you to a new page where you can select your market.
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by peripitea 17y ago
I think an underrated problem is that new users are all greeted with these directions: "... answers to one simple question: What are you doing?" I bet that fewer than 10% of the interesting tweets I've read involved what the author was doin
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by peripitea 17y ago
I was watching the conference live, and I had the same reaction: "There's no way this actually works." Then they brought out a lady who did a live demo with it... I can't find that video right now, but it was very similar to this: http://w