retyred

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by retyred 18y ago
oh come on, in this economy, if anyone had a "make $$$ NOW" button under their desk, it would have been pushed long ago. their secret plan was to ride a bubble in the markets, but thats over. i feel bad for the rank and file, if zuck had do
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by retyred 18y ago
interviewing at facebook? my guess is that there will be plenty of openings soon enough, even in this downmarket. the fb crowd have been busting their asses old-skule/90s style...and for what? zuck put the ix-nay on their get-rich quick sch
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by retyred 18y ago
i recommend people always use -nw, it will ensure that on the client or remote, you always use emacs the same way. now kill all the menubars and other stuff too...if you are going to use emacs, use the keyboard and the help system. that is
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by retyred 18y ago
this entire "lots of small firms are the future" meme is probably just wrong. paul graham knows a lot about websites but very little about the rest of the economy. show me the ten person company that can produce the equipment to generate an
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by retyred 18y ago
sadly i think college credentials in the US have lost their luster because its always a let-down. without a doubt there is only one school that i have never met a single retard from: caltech. cmu is a close second. every other school has le
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by retyred 18y ago
his comments on C are completely unfounded. C's type coercion means you can ram all sorts of things into places they aren't supposed to go. typecasting says to me that there is nothing orthodox about C at all. if anything it is modern prote
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by retyred 18y ago
running ads on torrent tracker search sites...that is probably the only viable business behind this technology. not much there to sell a VC, but it is money in the bank.
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by retyred 18y ago
oh jesus between allthingsD, valleywag, blodget and blogmaverick, they've saved yahoo twenty times in the last month in various blog posts. give it up folks, google won. but if its still an obsession, round up some of the thousands of forme
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by retyred 18y ago
yup, and also for companies whose stock prices are depressed (all of them), this is one of the only meaningful things they can do for investors in a recession. and frankly they can rehire people later for lower wages...i see a huge wave of
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by retyred 18y ago
absolutely. i was a programmer at yahoo for almost thirteen years and was laid off. i'm not worried about finding work again, but since i have a nestegg i think i will sit things out for a year or so since job reqs will likely be featuring
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by retyred 18y ago
you can't put fb and google in the same category. fb is still surviving on investment capital and frankly could end up in a serious cashcrunch. google has a blank check for hardware. both companies have reason to worry about hardware expend
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by retyred 18y ago
used to work with paul saab (ps) at yahoo. super smart as this post shows. could never get them to use freebsd paul? :)