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2041.
by qq66 17y ago
Fear of bankruptcy does not make it OK to fly a plane with 200 passengers into conditions that may be unsafe.
2042.
by qq66 17y ago
Ah, but how many times has someone told you "trust me, I'm Dutch"? That should have been the only warning I needed :) Also, I assume that there is some skill to being a good backseat rider, and while I was not wiggling around, I was not act
2043.
by qq66 17y ago
In Delft a student offered to take me on the back of his bike, sitting on the newspaper carrier. I expressed strong skepticism and he said, "Trust me, I'm Dutch." Within 50 yards of starting our journey, I had been unceremoniously spilled o
2044.
by qq66 17y ago
Customer, to Taxi driver: "I'll pay you $40 to take me to the airport." [Taxi driver takes customer 4 miles, throws him out of the cab in a bad neighborhood to pick up a more profitable customer, and drives away. Customer flips off driver a
2045.
by qq66 17y ago
That makes it so much worse. If they were bankrupt, they would have had no choice but to send you packing. To break their promise to you to raise additional capital is a super-dick move and I hope that future startup founders don't make the
2046.
by qq66 17y ago
Yes, a re-engineering cannot be prevented by the original company through secrecy, obfuscation, or legal threats.
2047.
by qq66 17y ago
Because they retain control of the content when they use an in-house link-shortener.
2048.
by qq66 17y ago
I don't see any evidence that this is a "reverse engineering" of a Segway - it seems to be more of a "re-engineering" from scratch.
2049.
by qq66 17y ago
If you're offering Zuckerberg "secrets of success" I really hope you are a Steve Jobs sockpuppet account.
2050.
by qq66 17y ago
They are in fact dramatically faster.
2051.
by qq66 17y ago
I wonder what things we do today will seem totally ridiculous in 50 years' time?
2052.
by qq66 17y ago
I see these sentence-long domain names with static content from time to time. What motivates people to do this instead of a tweet or similar?
2053.
by qq66 17y ago
What would you recommend in terms of 10 hours of reading that I can do to go out and start myself?