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by russell 15y ago
At the time Apple was tiny with little money. It had sold only 50 Apple I's to Byte shop. Regis McKenna was way bigger than Apple. It was common for PR firms, lawyers, even landlords, to do work for free or a little stock in the expectat
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In this discussion startup = hi-tech/software/web. But if you step back and think profit making business, women are not under-represented. An article linked to in the original post says that 44% of all business are partially ow wholly wom
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It's a good read, but it's nearly 15 years old and there may not be enough context to where Yourdon was coming from. Almost as much time has passed since this essay was written as there was in Yourdon' career up to Death March. Much has h
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I'm curious. Are any of you working on commercial ERP products or services? It seems to me that there is lots of opportunity there for well executed vertical applications.
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In the late 70s I worked as a compiler development lead at Control Data. I've kept in contact with many of them because one of the developers has held a New Years reunion party every year for the last couple of decades. Most stayed as dev
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Not necessarily. The amount needed could be too large for angels or might not meet the requirements of VCs. It might be too risky or it might be a nice solid company without high growth prospects. The problem with private capital is that
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The costs of an IPO and the costs of complying with Sarbanes Oxley are so high that no company with revenue less than $100m can afford to go public. I would like to see changes so that smaller companies can afford to go public.
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I dont think you understand the issues. The article and the other posters are talking about the ability of a small company to issue publicly traded shares via an IPO. 2. The internet is not a capital market. If you try to issues shares in
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by russell 15y ago
Likewise, I've had a good experience with 1and1 for something approaching a decade. My GF and I have a couple dozen domains. Whenever she has a new creative idea, she gets a new domain.
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SOPA: Bipartisan Coalition Proposes Alternative To Internet Censorship Bill (huffingtonpost.com)
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"Minimal government" is just a slogan used by the people who are buying our government. Their idea of minimal government is eliminating the EPA, fewer bank regulations, and the like. Homeland security, more IP laws, restrictions on privac
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Wondering , who the hell are these people who write such laws, I Googled John Conyers. In the results was a story that his wife had been sentenced to Federal prison for bribery. I hope this is the nadir and the only way forward is up, but
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Probably, but I hope not. HN has a community of people really knowledgeable in a lot of areas who really try to maintain a high level of discourse. I fear that the priorities of monitization would alienate many members. I couldnt fault P
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He asked about Software Engineering vs CS. CE is CS + EE so CE is going to be very hard at a good school. CS is a math oriented view of our field while SE is more practices and Engineering approach. I would say that the CS degree is more
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I like daylight, so I'm a DST fan. In 1973 we had year round DST, But it was abolished the next year. Why you ask? Hey this is the US, to save the children of course. A couple of kids were killed waiting in the dark for their school bu
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Most common stars are more life-friendly than thought (newscientist.com)
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Interesting idea: digging a 65 story hole and lining it with a building. It may be uniquely suited to Mexico City (on an ancient lake bed). In most places you would have to remove 600 feet of bedrock, not a cheap proposition.
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I live in San Luis Obispo county (pop 250k), next county up from 404error. The city manager of SLO city makes $253k with a base salary of $157, the county administrator $211k, the sheriff $212k. Three quarters of the highest paid are poli
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If this is a bluff, They have blown their single shot. If this is not a bluff, they owe the world the list of names, no matter what. So what is the optimal strategy for the cartel? Release the captive and wreak terrible vengeance if Anonym
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Takeaway: You cant learn from Steve Jobs, because you arent Steve Jobs. Sure applies to me. I have to do it a different way, even when people are inspired and loyal.
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This is done in consumerland. I remember 30 years ago when my first child was born, I looked into diaper services. There were dozens, but when I dug deeper they were all fronts for one or two firms. If you look at laundry detergent, they
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Multiple domain names are not a red flag. My GF is an artist and she registers a domain name or two every time she thinks of a new project.
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Exactly. One of the reasons that Pons and Fleischman got into such trouble is that their calorimic measurements were very inaccurate. They also tried to measure neutron radiation but their equipment wasnt up to the task. McKumbe mentions
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Apple's Form 10-K Reveals Over $80 Billion In Cash (huffingtonpost.com)
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>> If the h-ratio of a user is less than an admin-specified threshold, we flag the user as detrimental to the overall quality of the site... This would give me pause. I read HN more for the comments than for the articles. The comm
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Here is an article from a 2009 60 Minutes show about the work of Michael McKubre at SRI. He has been able to get excess energy. but not large enough or reliably enough to claim complete success. He thinks it's some kind of catalytic surfa
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Having a little trouble with language are you? The headline and the story dont support your interpretation. The story says that closing tax loopholes that allow separate allocation of expenses and revenue will gain the US up to $60B in re
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Here is a guy who doesnt know what he is talking about. And he proposes to implement a new language that fixes Python's flaws. Integer division is a slippery concept. Python 2.4 returns the floor of the result. >>> -(5/3) -1 &
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Kirsten Gillibrand Criticizes Pentagon For Cyber Confusion (huffingtonpost.com)
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2. I remember being at a release meeting for a quarterly software update for a mainframe manufacturer. As they went around the room everyone declared their projects were ready. Until they got to me. I said our test suite was way behind

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