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quasimojo
18y ago
obviously. the banks just want to charge higher interest rates, which they should. i would too given the debt load of the average consumer or company. what this boils down to is the govt legislating low interest rates. they can't. even lowe
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quasimojo
18y ago
How about using web/mobile technology to improve supply chain management, logistics, warehousing, shipping, transportation, and manufacturing so that as a country salesforce.com is taking resumes now, don't delay
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18y ago
The economics of starting a website are still very attractive compared to those alternatives. which is why every superposition of possible websites has been explored eleventeen times. seriously, come up with your idea, i will point you t
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quasimojo
18y ago
why do you want to do this??? there are plenty of c/c++ web apps written out there, i have written some myself. its pain central. you do it only when you cannot spare cycles or memory per session and cut the safety nets. just buy another se
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quasimojo
18y ago
haha keep chasing the "high end" apple. you'd think losing 50% share price would shake some sense into you. let me summarize: 2008: COMPUTERS ARE DISPOSABLE you need to start thinking about $399 laptops, not $3999 laptops what do i or anyon
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18y ago
the next "big thing" is not going to be a website of any kind sell me a car that gets 120mpg and costs less than 25k, you have the next big thing sell me solar panels that can erase my utility bill for $5k installed, you have the next big t
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quasimojo
18y ago
Maybe we're talking about startups at different stages. I'm sure an angel-funded startup doesn't pay anyone 175k wrong!
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18y ago
why would you defer compensation? getting vc funding is the time to pay yourself your fantasy salary. most very-early people i know at startups now are paying themselves minimum $150k AND UP. you can get the funding to do that if you have a
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quasimojo
18y ago
all irrelevant. the google web index is not a transactional system. most uses of oracle are.
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quasimojo
18y ago
haha what a crock by a sad hack who continues to rely on sensationalism (go read his archives, when has he ever been right?) guess what folks, lots of people care about transactions. the "scaling" crowd balks at any notion of referential in
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quasimojo
18y ago
unless its php, java, or perl, (in order of precedence), it is not a web production language at yahoo and beyond fanboying, there is nothing particular about erlang that makes it appropriate for this problem. and don't say "scaling"...yahoo
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18y ago
almost no useful docs, for starters. the single elisp gnu docs are so limited as to be useless
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18y ago
bullshit bullshit. average "long term" investor is in and out of single stocks in two years or less. you're at the far end of the bell curve for people who hold for four years. the myth of the "long term" investor is just that. the reality
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18y ago
his performance is measured on decades who cares? who owns a single equity for decades? some fictional granny investor in pasadena? look at your own trading history...i bet you never held a single equity more than four years. note that i
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quasimojo
18y ago
That's (mostly) true if there's no trust model there isn't one.
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quasimojo
18y ago
draft in the wake of people who fetishize work.
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quasimojo
18y ago
you're missing the part where the actual number friendfeed users couldn't fill a 737
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quasimojo
18y ago
well played facebook! well played. use the app monkeys to help build traffic, then kick them off the rez. haha well played indeed. thats sharecropping for you children. will be amusing to watch the slide/rockyou wankers fall back into the w
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18y ago
the cult of buffett has become amusing. he would be the first one to point out his own investing gaffs and blunders to his own cultists. he would be the first to tell you not to idolize him because he periodically makes bad bets. he's just
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18y ago
no mechanism that allows or even requires content authors to create their own metadata will ever take off. lets go back in time to 1996 and look at the meta tag. the idea was that people would describe pages with terms like "cancer research
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18y ago
greenspan that is where it all starts artificially low interest rates feel good in the beginning, its like everyone has free money the pain can never be avoided the austrian economists have written about the dangers of expanding the economy
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18y ago
good! lawmakers on the radio today were saying 90% of their callers were against it. this is a victory for the stingy saver who doesn't obsess over vacation homes and luxury cars. every THING is about to go on sale, and the prudent will hav
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18y ago
yes, a home OWNER, as in i hold no mortgage. i have zero debt. i have cash to buy distressed assets. i just wish people would stop trying to "save" things.
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18y ago
if 400 years later we still can't really reproduce it? we can, lots of people sell damascus steel razors and kitchen knives, but very few people are interested in a knife too hard to sharpen
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18y ago
dama steel is not that amazing, you can buy straight razors and kitchen knives made from damascus steel aka "wootz" but guess what? for most uses it SUCKS. why? because it is almost impossible to sharpen most surgical-quality steels are mor
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18y ago
good! good! everyone under forty should be cheering this on. if you finally want to be able to afford a house, you need people who currently own houses to go through some degree of hell. the "bailout" is about making sure those who had mone
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18y ago
he is absolutely correct, and it will take out more than just startups we were told that reflating the dot-com bubble on the back of real estate as opposed to letting a recession clean out malinvestments would be bad. we didn't listen we we
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18y ago
profits? hot chicks?
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18y ago
vying to be slower than groovy?
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18y ago
how much shit will you monkeys take? gee i wonder how the fanbois are holding out...they cling to the faux cool of apple products like a bum clings to his malt liquor. what a quandry! now they have to make this jive with the relentless bad
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