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541.
by sabat 16y ago
You're going to turn blue waiting for that. In their world, facts != 'truth'.
542.
by sabat 16y ago
Some economists believe that banning such agreements could harm Silicon Valley's open, collaborative model. Banning such secret agreements would harm an "open" model? Irony, anyone?
543.
by sabat 16y ago
Sorry for the buzzwords. What I meant was: there are whole classes of people who are very used to using Justin.tv (and ustream to a lesser extent) for live video. Maybe some of them would switch to Google if YouTube suddenly offered live st
544.
by sabat 16y ago
Not convinced Google could hurt Justin.tv the way you're imagining; the Justins have too many deals, too much traction.
545.
by sabat 16y ago
Proud beta tester here: works quite well. :-)
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by sabat 16y ago
From what I've understood from countless stories on the web and from real-life friends and associates, your story is the anecdotal one. Brainteasers, logic problems you're expected to solve in seconds, and random quizzes on arcane facts is
547.
by sabat 16y ago
the questions I were asked were stuff like what is an inode, where are inodes stored, what is a scheduler, what is the difference between /dev/mem and /dev/kmem Precisely what I mean by unix trivia. What's the difference between /dev/mem
548.
by sabat 16y ago
This is such a good and obviously needed idea that it makes me want to run out and implement it tonight. (No guarantees that I'll do it, but I'm 100% sure someone will.)
549.
by sabat 16y ago
I suggest you relax and stop worrying so much about time. Consider the 5-year rule: in 5 years, is it really going to be important that I was 10 minutes late because of traffic?
550.
by sabat 16y ago
Don, IMHO, you're using the wrong techniques. Tests of random knowledge and focussing strictly on quick answers to logic problems will get you lucky left-brainers -- they're the ones who happened to know what command options are available f
551.
by sabat 16y ago
Lots of grilling on obscure UNIX trivia and data structures/algorithms but nothing on the broader picture They understand that their process generates false negatives but they don't want any "crud." But quizzing on random trivia is irre
552.
by sabat 16y ago
Actually, maybe I'm really busy, and doing the best I can. I value your time, but I value mine more. And obviously you're not as in demand as other people are. Sorry you can't appreciate that.
553.
by sabat 16y ago
You don't build your startup solely on a free service that someone else has complete control of. Sound advice. When a lot of these startups were conceived, that wasn't as obvious as it seems now.
554.
by sabat 16y ago
LOL, who knew?!
555.
by sabat 16y ago
I would say that you're absolutely right: "Hello, this is Leee-nooos Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as 'Leee-noox'." However: most English-speakers, Americans in particular, are not going to adopt Linus' accent when pronouncing the name --
556.
by sabat 16y ago
Like Leenoox vs. Lih-nux vs. Lie-nux, or v-i vs. "vigh" (rhymes with "high"), it's just preference. There is no clearly "correct" pronunciation. However, the first "a" in Nevada is like the "a" in "cab". That's not negotiable. ;-)
557.
by sabat 16y ago
As with all easy answers, it ain't necessarily that simple. What if you have a startup that's based on the Twitter API? Where do you go? Plurk? Facebook has its own API issues, of course.
558.
by sabat 16y ago
Twitter's behavior in the past year has given me pause. However, as to the claim that it's not yet and never will be mainstream: Oprah has not done shows on Facebook [edit: to my knowledge, anyway; don't watch Oprah myself]. Celebrities don
559.
by sabat 16y ago
Meh. I'm old enough to have been aware of what things were difficult for the previous generation and how they're easier now. And: there are new things that we have to deal with that the previous generation could never have conceived. In my
560.
by sabat 16y ago
Blogga please.
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by sabat 16y ago
I am bloody sick of that troll Nicholas Carr. Couldn't have put it better myself. He really thinks he's good at being reductive. cursing that the young people today don't know how easy they've got it Every generation is sure that these
562.
by sabat 16y ago
prompted lawmakers to issue new regulations, like the Sarbannes-Oxley accounting rules, that made it more costly for young companies to go public I can vouch for this part -- having dealt directly with SOX audits for several years, the co
563.
by sabat 16y ago
So sfgate is just catching up to 2005 news, now? :-)
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by sabat 16y ago
Reference: http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-techsupport-caste-arise...
565.
by sabat 16y ago
Premature and a little arbitrary. While Node.js certainly is useful, and Unix is a staple, why MongoDB in particular? Why not Cassandra, HBase, or another NoSQL effort? Why is it the "new LAMP", anyway -- why can't it just be a new(er) set
566.
by sabat 16y ago
Was this a serious offer?
567.
by sabat 16y ago
Define "brightest minds." I don't agree with their implied definition.
568.
by sabat 16y ago
I'm suggesting something different: that there is an option in user preferences that would let you pick whether you get a new target or not. Default off.
569.
by sabat 16y ago
Good points there. It seems like a more entrepreneur-friendly system, but who ever is in control needs to stay sane. Temptation for overvalue and other excesses is there regardless of who's at the helm.
570.
by sabat 16y ago
The real terms are quality of living We have more people either out of work or closer to poverty than ever in the history of the US. Vote me down if you don't appreciate me pointing out reality. The point of the chart is that the pie may

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