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by sabat 15y ago
Good point, although the original point still stands: $352.8 million on last year's $15 million. Of course, stock price is a prediction of the future, not necessarily a comment on the past.
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by sabat 15y ago
It's a matter of differentiating between a) what we recognize as the real earnings potential (which some see as fairly limited), and b) what John Q. Sharebuyer and Joe C. Fundmanager will probably do (buy buy buy, it's the interwebs!). The
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by sabat 15y ago
Somewhat ironic: PSN HQ is in Redwood Shores, also home to a few high-profile security companies like Qualys, Imperva, and Checkpoint. You'd think that after two successful hacking incidents, the execs would have brought in top-notch securi
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by sabat 15y ago
The server itself can and does catch the signal that indicates the user hit Stop. Whether or not your code can detect this -- that's the tricky part.
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by sabat 15y ago
you have done nothing to disassociate yourself from the rest of the religions of the world. Sounds pretty violent to me. This makes no sense to me. Have you studied Buddhism? Violent? No dissociation? Read anything the Dalai Lama has writ
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by sabat 15y ago
The great irony is that if you believe what the Buddha actually said about religion and its trappings, you should shun it.
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by sabat 15y ago
In a nutshell: Google has developed a reputation for interviewing skill sets, as opposed to interviewing people. Sadly, that's common practice industry-wide.
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by sabat 15y ago
It's still interesting. More interesting: set up robots that can gradually associate particular movements with particular sounds. That could lead to a truly organic (and self-developed) robot language.
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by sabat 15y ago
That is the longest assassination piece I've ever seen. The gist of it is probably true -- that the Ladders copies postings from other sites and does not verify whether all its jobs pay >$100K, despite advertising to the contrary. But t
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by sabat 15y ago
we will see what a real Great Depression 2.0 looks like after the dollar collapses Unfounded and inflammatory.
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by sabat 15y ago
Actually, Google's video/audio calls work in the browser. Not only is the software free, but you already have it.
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by sabat 15y ago
Maybe it's not so much about tools as about teaching yourself design. No, really. It's not that hard, and it doesn't require you to "be artistic" -- a common misperception. Look for books by Robin Williams (a woman, not the actor) as a star
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by sabat 15y ago
What's funny: I've been as close as you can legally get to Area 51 (right at the warning signs, cammo dudes in sight). There is no fence, surprisingly. The reason, most likely: it would have to be a really long fence. That's a lot of land t
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by sabat 15y ago
Hmmmm. This is a cash-equivalent -- or perhaps the SEC could see it that way.
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by sabat 15y ago
And, FWIW, I am not saying you have no reason to complain. But keep your chin up. If this one doesn't work out, you've learned a ton, and the next one will be better.
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by sabat 15y ago
This post is one long moan. Of course startups are hard. So is marriage, and so is jogging. So if you're doing it, you'd better love it, because if you don't, you're going to be miserable. You do it because you love building things and love
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by sabat 15y ago
How can the SEC not be all over this? It's amazing to me that it has either escaped its attention or -- possibly -- it has absolutely no idea what to do about it.
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by sabat 15y ago
Facebook's valuation is not giant or crazy given its size and influence. Color's may be, but time has yet to tell. The bottom line: we are seeing some big valuations, but they're not universal. Most companies are getting an average of $6-10
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by sabat 15y ago
However you interpret the current situation, the patent and copyright clause is certainly not operating as intended by its authors.
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by sabat 15y ago
The fact that a cut of 75% reduces her salary to $11M is mind-boggling. How could she possibly ever add even $11M of value to that company? How could any CEO? Steve Jobs, maybe. But his salary is $1/yr.
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by sabat 15y ago
FWIW, there's a gem for Rails that is intended to solve a related problem (multitenant applications) -- could conceivably be used to assist with the authorization problem as well. http://blog.codecrate.com/2011/03/multitenant-locking-down-
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by sabat 15y ago
An uptick after a huge downturn does not a "bubble" make. Upticks don't "burst".
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by sabat 15y ago
No, because administering the hardware is additional work, a burden that a commodity (cloud instance) does not carry.
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by sabat 15y ago
Here I would've assumed that the situation would be reversed. I thought Wufoo was huge (in revenue) and Surveymonkey was an upstart.
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by sabat 16y ago
I didn't realize it was more than a parser; thx for the info.
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by sabat 16y ago
It will remain a choice. Rails doesn't obliterate choices, just makes it easier if you're willing to take defaults. On the other hand, replacements for default components (e.g. Rspec vs. default Test::Unit) are generally simple to drop in.
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by sabat 16y ago
CoffeeScript isn't interpreted; it's not its own language. You write CoffeeScript code, which resembles simplified and cleaned-up Javascript, and then run a parser over it which converts it to standard Javascript. You'll need CoffeeScript (
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by sabat 16y ago
You're presuming you can actually find the right people to begin with.
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by sabat 16y ago
I suppose the missing factor here is what PG refers to as simply "hard work". By that, he means all the other stuff you have to do to run a successful business besides hacking. He's oversimplifying by putting it that way, IMHO.
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by sabat 16y ago
Get out of your office and find people like this first. Ask them, not us, what they want. You make it sound much easier than it is. Getting out of the office: easy enough. Finding the right people who can tell you the right things at the

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