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by phillmv 13y ago
What's the exit going to be? Who are they going to sell to? What revenues are they going to bring in? We're talking VC money, not a grant. Did they just hand over the keys to the node community to someone else?
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by phillmv 13y ago
He's not counting all the time he's spent carefully reading the oauth spec and playing with different options ;).
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by phillmv 13y ago
It's not about whether the babies are having a bad time, it's about the breach in privacy involved in referring to the health issues that two of his employees underwent, and directly blaming them for the health premiums.
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I mean, I don't really disagree , per se, but the inequities perpetuated on a daily basis across all levels of the United States government are vast and diverse. This really ain't one of the worst ones.
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by phillmv 13y ago
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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by phillmv 13y ago
Well, healthcare.org was an incompetent contractor. It wasn't corrupt .
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I'm curious: to whom does this matter? The title is a formality, their organization is notoriously flat and being co-founders they probably don't make major initiatives without the other's approval anyways. If anything they&#
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by phillmv 13y ago
It's sorta up for debate. My understanding, which is tiny and very limited, is that you can think of the role of finance operators as "liquidity providers". They're the grease in the wheels of capitalism; by either provi
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by phillmv 13y ago
Because making a successful living heading a $10-20 million company that took 5-10 years to build isn't the lottery ticket we've all been sold on.
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by phillmv 13y ago
The UX is great and a journalists everywhere will thank you. But outside of government websites I don't see how a lot of this is even legal, per se?
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by phillmv 13y ago
I'm still making up my mind on how to think about these issues. I tend to oscillate between "fraud" and "well, that's what the market will bear". Everything you've mentioned applies only post a few rounds
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by phillmv 13y ago
Yeah but comparing C/SDL to JS/WebGL is unfair in terms of maturity of the platform. JS will soon be 20 years old, but in terms of a language community, outside of jQuery plugins it's only ~5 years old. You're not wrong,
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by phillmv 13y ago
The extent to which some people here are feeling personally slighted I think kind of proves Brett's point.
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by phillmv 13y ago
He's belittling the political stance of code.org as represented by its marketing. He's not saying "don't teach kids how to program", he's saying "we're teaching kids how to program for the wrong reaso
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by phillmv 13y ago
It's impressive to me how she takes all this unrelated research and weaves it into "tough teachers" (tho that's possibly the fault of her editor). It seems like the actually determining feature was that, > "The c
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by phillmv 13y ago
It's not just puzzling, it's almost criminal considering how much of the culture and important decisions get discussed here. A lot of the time you have people who are direct parties to <insert thing here> come and talk about
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by phillmv 13y ago
This link came together at a good time because I usually get bogged down in the research stage. I always over research and then I lose hope and confidence in myself and mankind.
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by phillmv 13y ago
This is a little broader than what you're asking but this year I read two books that have really affected my thinking and I think everyone should read. First one up is Command and Control - which is a history of american nuclear weapon
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by phillmv 13y ago
I'd wager that a bigger goal is being able to take part of the Java ecosystem. That said, we really need to know which flags he's running Jruby with - and which The internet tells me that you achieve better performance with -serve
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by phillmv 13y ago
It's one of the largest employers of people like us, they have tremendous mindshare as virtually everyone is a user and in one insidious way or another they form an important part of the net as a whole (see, "sign in with fb"
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by phillmv 13y ago
Wait. I was about to ask if the lesson to draw here was to make it look organic. But mostly serious question here: how does TechCrunch have any Google rank then? How do most tech publications, for that matter? PR hits are extremely common
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by phillmv 13y ago
You seem to have a lot of experience with this kind of stuff. Could you possibly give me a tldr on this story? I recall the exposé talking about how they were trading twitter links for keyword link building. Yet I'm having a hard time
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by phillmv 13y ago
I'd prefer it if no one did it. I can imagine a future where your credit rating is influenced by your Facebook profile and it's not a fun one.
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by phillmv 13y ago
The word you're looking for is "asset", and mediums of exchange are by definition always assets. When people talk about their aspirations for Bitcoin, the most techno-utopians want it to become a commonly accepted store of va
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by phillmv 13y ago
The web's headed that way as well, we just call them services. That said, I'm not sure why MVC is inappropriate for component intra architecture. I love how different programming communities never talk to each other.
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by phillmv 13y ago
> scaling rich complex client side applications. Instagram's really not a good example here. Do comments and likes even update in real time?
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by phillmv 13y ago
>They have more knowledge but certainly not more control. Knowledge is power, as they say. Industry wide wage negotiation is basically a collective action problem; publicizing your wages lowers the barriers/cost for negotiating for
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by phillmv 13y ago
Depends on your appetite for risk. It's just a sign that it's really risky , and the other founders obviously think the odds of it succeeding are low and are asking you to put in sweat equity, as it were.
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by phillmv 13y ago
WELL, if we're talking about INTENTIONALITY then yes the american medical bureaucratic system as evolved obviously singles out the uninsured and proceeds to screw them over. If we're talking about mens rea, then I doubt it; my wag
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by phillmv 13y ago
I'm sure they could drive some value out of a skipped ad. There's definitely some brand impression, and not to mention metrics on what works and what doesn't.

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