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by random42 15y ago
IRS is a revenue collecting body, not a VC firm. Why would they want to take undue risk? I see the following reasons (atleast), the proposed solution is a no-go. a. 17.5% cash >> 17.5% shares of a business, which is struggling to pa
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by random42 15y ago
I suppose the clause is to prevent the (hypothetical) case of an employee working 1 day and leaving with 4 years worth of potential stock options. A company can certainly do what you suggest (i think), but I dont think companies operate to
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Steve jobs talking about the cloud. (1997)(appadvice.com)
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by random42 15y ago
Then do it. No questions about it.
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by random42 15y ago
Spammer are major annoyance. I have an obsessive compulsion to keep my email clean including my spam folder. Because I have to keep cleaning my spam folder, whenever I check my email, I loathe them with a passion, like of people here. HOWEV
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by random42 15y ago
> This is the biggest problem I have with search engines - you want to deep index all my sites? Fine, but you better ... For _most_ of the websites, its in _their_ interest to have good SERP ranking. Not the other way around.
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by random42 15y ago
This article is about an year old. [july, 2010]
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by random42 15y ago
> Someone who can do business deals, write code, and do user interface design, is 5X more valuable to us than a typical backend engineer. Absolutely.... If you can find someone who is _equally_ good at all of those. Very rarely (I perso
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by random42 15y ago
It poses a question I suppose. Does it makes sense for FB to go public ASAP? Wall street obviously seems bullish on social networking websites.
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by random42 15y ago
How about making the frequency once a week (every Thursday or Friday), and let the user specify his area of interest?
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by random42 15y ago
<snark> and I invented time machine in 2001 </snark> Idea means almost nothing. Execution is the hard part.
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by random42 15y ago
When I look back when I started amateur programming, I am truly grateful of the community of awesome folks, which always responded in humble and encouraging manner. It was my first interaction to the brotherhood of programmers.. and it felt
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by random42 15y ago
Seems to be my pattern. I've got to increase my rates 100% in last 6 months, and I have still had to say No to some customers/additional work, because of enough work. I've got encouraging comments from my customers, but dont think I am tha
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by random42 15y ago
Slightly OT: You may want to remove hyper-linking to them in the article. You do not intent to promote them, right?
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by random42 15y ago
How did you conclude "loan is to the business - with limited liability, you don't have to pay it back if the business fails." from "will only look for the loan to be repaid when it makes sense for your business. This will be done on a ca
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by random42 15y ago
Pretty cool. Can someone point me to some similar powertips for emacs + python (+git)?
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by random42 15y ago
Also, the experienced coders also already have template macros for frequently used code snippets, like loop, conditional statements, comparisions, sorting etc., making doing trivial things in C++/Java, as trivial as doing them in Python (or
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by random42 15y ago
Startup Idea(?) - Marketing/PR company to get you beta/real users for your tech/other startup, so that you can foucs on what you are good at, focusing on the product. Charges per user acquired.
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by random42 15y ago
Why dont you put your resume up for HN to review it for you? (Hide any identification information.)
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by random42 15y ago
Well, It is true, but they are exceptions, not the rule. Potential solutions 1. If the author feels like he is the authority and/or is the important part of the comment, he can always declare it in the comment itself. (The profile-link can
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by random42 15y ago
Do a demo video showcasing the application, so that users can get idea whether the product meets their requirements. Compelling offering otherwise.
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by random42 15y ago
How about this solution to improve the readability of HN threads, without degrading the quality of comments/discussion? 1. Show comment-ranges. (1-, 0, 1, 2-10, 10-50 etc.), instead of absolute values. This indicates the quality of a commen
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by random42 15y ago
Depends upon the person, I suppose. The time saved is used either is being more productive at work, or having more time for personal life. Either way, 30-60 minutes are not wasted, every day from your life.
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by random42 15y ago
Oh.. I remember the opposite actually. (No mention of guidelines), when you join.
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by random42 15y ago
May be so. However, Because of the fact that he is a newbie in the community, and not a spammer/troll, I'd like to give him the benefit of doubt. Having a barrage of downvotes, just because you dint know the rules when you are new, without
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by random42 15y ago
You are being downvoted, because your comment does not add anything worthwhile to the discuss/topic. Kindly read the the community guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html You may also find http://www.paulgraham.com/disag
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by random42 15y ago
> I understand that you disagree with how Dropbox went about protecting themselves from civil liability. I absolutely do not disagree with how Dropbox went about protecting themselves. What I disagree with is, trying to claim a tool or
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by random42 15y ago
To my understanding (after several downvotes, and few uncalled-for language), it is simple. 1. Dropship violated Dropbox ToS, by reverse-engineering Dropbox proprietary code. Thats all. Nothing to do with DMCA notice, which was sent by acci
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by random42 15y ago
> to be clear, we _never issued_ any DMCA takedowns to anyone Thanks. Already updated in the comment.
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by random42 15y ago
Thanks, It was helpful information. As said before IANAL. That being said, I realize Dropbox(or Corporate entities in general) is not government and/or legal system and it is not required of them to follow laws, which are applicable for gov

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