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Primates on Facebook(economist.com)
17 points by pj 18y ago|3 comments
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by pj 18y ago
Anticipate and expect are words I do not like thrown out to the span of lifetimes because the random swervings between here and there are enough to defeat improved biological mechanisms. We'd have to radically change how we live to avoid d
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by pj 18y ago
I notice comments are better on most sites late at night.
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A survey of corporate IT: Software as a service | Creating the cumulus(economist.com)
1 points by pj 18y ago|0 comments
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Platform-As-A-Service Is Here; Can It Help You?(informationweek.com)
1 points by pj 18y ago|0 comments
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by pj 18y ago
There is an impression among VC's that every startup wants their money. We've had calls like this too. We tell them we are building sweat equity and they offer to call next quarter to check on our progress. I suspect the author of the blo
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Turning Out The Lights: Coghead(blogs.wsj.com)
8 points by pj 18y ago|2 comments
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by pj 18y ago
Facebook is not taking over /our/ lives. I don't even have an account there. The chart they link to is more interesting than the article: http://i.l.cnn.net/money/2009/02/16/technology/hempel_facebo... What it shows is that new technolo
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by pj 18y ago
I saw http://news.ycombinator.com/x in my referer logs, what is this for? When I clicked on it, it said: Unknown or expired link, like if you leave the add comment window open too long.
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by pj 18y ago
Do absolutely nothing for a year. Assume your life is just as it was. $2M can really mess with your mind. It's not really enough to live forever. But it is enough to live on for a long time. If you are careful, you could invest it and l
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Open Source Funding(opensourcefunding.qrimp.com)
5 points by pj 18y ago|0 comments
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by pj 18y ago
Nothing is exactly the right thing to do.
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by pj 18y ago
The money was coming out of money market accounts. If the DOW went Up 400 pts, perhaps the money was going /from/ money markets and /to/ the market.
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by pj 18y ago
We can swim that far!! Lay on your back. Kick with your feet. Swim... Breathe, it keeps your chest elevated and your nose out of the water. Boats are coming if we need them, we'll make it.
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by pj 18y ago
I'm sorry, it was a bad idea to bring up Social Security. My only point was that the management of the legal requirements for the organization are very very small relative to the amount of funds that are flowing in and out. I do agree that
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by pj 18y ago
And on top of that, when he talks, it makes sense! I mean, it feels like what he is saying is true even though I don't personally have an evidence to support it. The numbers could be anecdotal, who knows. In 6 Billion people, there are
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by pj 18y ago
We're on the slide down now! Weeeee..... How far I don't know... wwoooooo.....
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by pj 18y ago
Well, the Government is an order of magnitude worse than the most inefficient huge companies. The Social Security System is one of the tightest ships in the world. You can't even get index funds with lower management fees in the private
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by pj 18y ago
The critiques of the planned economy, I'll have to look that up. Sounds interesting. I see your point. I suggest we reduce risk by investing in many small projects run by small numbers of individuals, but very focused. To the first paragrap
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by pj 18y ago
Continuous deployment is good, but the comments are valid. There is a certain non-zero probability for errors to occur during deployment. Binaries have to be reloaded, database connections have to be reconnected, sessions have to be restore
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by pj 18y ago
I won't go so far as to say OO sucks, but I have noticed in my own code, that I have tended to use OO concepts a little bit and functional concepts a lot. Over time, I'm using less and less OO and more and more functional, so... that tells
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by pj 18y ago
This amounts to "good will" on the part of the potential customers to keep Twitter alive. I doubt we'll see any ROI calculations. Twitter is just a feature of an information system and that feature can be implemented easily on a company by
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by pj 18y ago
That's exactly what I am suggesting. See, VCs, angels et al are investing their money or other people's money for the sole purpose of turning it into more money. A government run investment firm can have a much broader view of success than
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by pj 18y ago
Taxing /only/ dividends is not a bad idea. It will prevent the kind of CEO salary run up we have seen in the past few decades as well.
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by pj 18y ago
What I am trying to say is that Google won in a blue ocean of internet advertising. Internet advertising didn't exist at one time and in it Google prospered. Same thing happened with IBM, there weren't computers in corporations before them
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by pj 18y ago
The United States government should follow his lead. Giving more grants and low interest loans to startups. The startups, the entrepreneurs, the risk takers, the pragmatists, the efficient and rational are what we need right now to pull us
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by pj 18y ago
This is linkbait, pure and simple. The author is trolling. Posting his own blog posts in HN knowing he'll start a flame war... The post was written specifically to do what it did... unfortunately. Move along folks, nothing to see here...
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by pj 18y ago
There are a lot worth switching to. Cuil is nice. There are more to search results than speed of delivery. I monitor search term locations in several search engines and notice the numbers of results returned for relatively new terms will s
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by pj 18y ago
I think the change in the frequency of occurences of incidents of companies like google is a measure of something. It was the IBM era companies, then the Microsoft era, the Dell era, Google, then what is next? The technology is getting clo
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by pj 18y ago
Crime is an inevitable result of division and exclusivity through monetary means. In this case, TED is keeping knowledge exclusive. It's a shame really. Why don't they just live broadcast the presentations to the world? With all their pre

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