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by sabat 16y ago
That's an interesting story, but it has little value to entrepreneurs, unless there's a lot more to the story. How did you go from unknown to 3K signups? You got listed on Mashable. That's it?
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by sabat 16y ago
I like Natalie. I can't help but wonder, genuinely, if some of her academic success was influenced by her star stature. I've seen evidence that she is indeed quite bright. On the other hand, how many profs are going to give Natalie Portman
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by sabat 16y ago
Do tell -- this is Apache's mod_dir -- what's the bug?
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by sabat 16y ago
I'm running from the head. And yeah, I was aware of the default gemset. The problem I ran into appears to be that if you don't have a named gemset (other than default, apparently) then the shell script can't figure out the name of the ruby
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by sabat 16y ago
I ran into a bug trying to use with RVM -- be forewarned. The new Passenger module-installer for Apache presumes you're using gemsets, and doesn't know about default gemsets. Patch forthcoming.
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by sabat 16y ago
Thanks for that clarification. But the speed of light can only be measured relative to YOU That's still wrong, though. The speed of light is an absolute; it's not My Speed + the Speed of Light. The person I was who originally responded to
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by sabat 16y ago
You're right, of course, and I meant my comment more rhetorically than it appeared. From the point of view of a board of directors or senior mgmt, if outsourcing is such a good idea, why not outsource management? It would be more cost-eff
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by sabat 16y ago
Don’t be an entrepreneur by association. Be an entrepreneur by action and results. That's one of the best things I've ever seen on HN. It (unfortunately) hits close to home.
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by sabat 16y ago
I'm an example -- I have private health insurance out of necessity. It was an arduous process, and I'm lucky to have managed to get it -- even though I'm healthy. If I had so much as one serious problem, I'm convinced I would have been turn
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by sabat 16y ago
I've been thinking this for years. Why not just outsource management?
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by sabat 16y ago
I agree with the author's concepts, but I find this book unreadable. It's just too darned dense -- needlessly dense.
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by sabat 16y ago
Actually that's just flat-out wrong. Light has an absolute speed. It's the only absolute thing in the universe. It's not relative. And -- this comes directly from Brian Greene -- the speed of light always looks like the speed of light, no m
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by sabat 16y ago
There is no absolute clock - you can only compare your clock with someone else's clock. Look, I'm only a layman, but from what I understand, the speed of light is the absolute clock.
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by sabat 16y ago
Good explanation of space/time -- in short, you're always moving in space and time, and the more you move in space, the less you move in time. Vice-versa. Brian Greene does a pretty good job of explaining all this in the Elegant Universe. I
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by sabat 16y ago
Professional troll indeed -- I've had that same thought for quite a while now. Probably it started around the time he posted this about a group of SV 20somethings who went to some Greek island together to party for a week and recorded a dru
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by sabat 16y ago
Just now. D'oh!
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by sabat 16y ago
Well, Borders did just file Chapter 11. That's not really "tanking" in the sense of going out of business, but it's tanking in the sense of appear to be on its way down.
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by sabat 16y ago
Yeah, all the Borders I go to have nice chairs and a decent atmosphere; the only BN that's anywhere near me doesn't have much to sit on and feels like a two-story version of a mall bookstore.
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by sabat 16y ago
That's one disappointing thing: the closing "sales" give you the same discount you can get with a coupon any day of the week. San Mateo's closing, too; quel dommage.
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by sabat 16y ago
My feeling is exactly the opposite. B&N feels generic to me, a larger version of a crappy mall bookstore. Borders always felt more like a real bookstore. Plus: you can search Borders store inventory before actually visiting the store; y
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by sabat 16y ago
Why is it significant? Those are two companies. Two does not compare to the hundreds of public companies that had millions pumped into them and the widespread investment in them.
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by sabat 16y ago
Well said. It is amazing to me that so many people here can't understand the difference between a bubble and isolated investor activity. A small group of potentially bad investments is not the same thing as large-scale irrational exuberance
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by sabat 16y ago
Bubble does not mean too much money invested in a few (potentially) shitty companies. That's a ridiculous mis-use of the word. Ergo: no bubble.
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by sabat 16y ago
You're overestimating the "logic" used by the MBAs who drove the '90s dot-com bubble. The costs were higher, but cash flowed easily from VCs back then, as well.
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by sabat 16y ago
when the bubble pops even innocent tech companies will be affected How so? How will the "bubble" pop? None of the companies in question (Groupon, Facebook, and Zynga) are public. How would a loss of investor confidence in those private co
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by sabat 16y ago
Who knew JWZ owned the DNA Lounge?!
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by sabat 16y ago
Leave it to pg to keep a cool head: There are some concerns about a new budding tech bubble as some startups have reached titanic valuations — Twitter, for example, was recently reported to be worth around $10 billion — without having a bu
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by sabat 16y ago
absurd valuations based purely on audience size with little revenue (Twitter and Facebook) sure as heck is a bubble. That's not a bubble; that is just overvaluation of a couple of companies. "Bubble" implies that the whole of a sector is
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by sabat 16y ago
Apple's revenue and real growth justifies that valuation, easily.
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by sabat 16y ago
There are few to no "wild-eyed optimists" right now, save for a handful of investors pumping money into Zynga and Facebook. If you think that compares to 1998, you really ought to go back and re-read history.

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