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by seldo 16y ago
Presumably because the comment is obvious, unhelpful, and somewhat mean-spirited. I don't think anybody here needs a lesson in how to avoid accidentally dropping your production database.
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by seldo 16y ago
My worst was discovering I had written a unique ID generator which was (due to me typing "==" instead of "!="), producing duplicate IDs -- and not only that, it was producing them at exponentially increasing rates -- and every duplicate I
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by seldo 16y ago
So your kid gets beat up. Then your kid beats up the bully. Then the bully comes back with a knife the next day. Or a gun. Bullying does escalate. Therefore, teaching your kid to escalate on their side as well just makes it happen faster.
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by seldo 16y ago
Fuck this. I'm not a violent person. I never have been and never will be. I do not consider it a valid way to solve problems. Reverting to our animal nature is rejecting the progress we have made in our brains overriding unproductive basic
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by seldo 16y ago
I lived in the UK for nearly a decade and knew nobody who walked around with that much cash. For that matter, I grew up in a third world country and nobody walked around with that much cash there, either.
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by seldo 16y ago
Googler friends of mine also confirmed it was actual cash. WHICH IS CRAZY. Because it means somewhere on Google's campus right now is 10,000x$1k = $10 million in cash . The great Google Bank Robbery of 2010 is just around the corner.
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by seldo 16y ago
Wow, that just seems kind of mean. Obviously the notice at the top says otherwise, but there's really nothing very sensitive in this memo and it was so broadly distributed there's no way it wouldn't have found its way out eventually. Why, p
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by seldo 16y ago
I just don't understand why they would care that this information leaked. It's not like they could possibly keep it a secret that every single Googler got a 10% raise at the same time.
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by seldo 16y ago
Funnily, apart from the LoC as a bonus multiplier, my friends at Google complain about exactly those things -- especially code reviews and new hires.
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by seldo 16y ago
The national unemployment rate is over 9% while Silicon Valley is fighting tooth-and-claw to hire. What's wrong with this picture? Software engineering is technical, sure, but it's not that hard -- if some of the idiots I've worked with i
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by seldo 16y ago
Yeah, not exactly a ringing endorsement of rackspace that the rackspace-hosted blog saying they're leaving is down under the load.
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by seldo 16y ago
I've heard that this is also true of all of the pedestrian buttons at traffic lights in central London, though I've never seen an official confirmation.
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by seldo 16y ago
It's funny you say this, because preserving state and history is one the the things JS-based solutions tend to lack. Check this out: http://playground.deaxon.com/css/lightbox/#pic3 That's a permalink to an individual lightboxed photo. No
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by seldo 16y ago
Replying to myself (I know, it sends you blind) now that I have my hands on the beta: This is Chrome. It looks almost identical apart from a VERY distracting list of of your friends' Facebook profile pics down the left hand side, and equall
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by seldo 16y ago
Hence my follow-up statement about the impracticality of playing catch-up with every single social network simultaneously. Just keeping on top of changes to Facebook's APIs takes up way more of my startup's time than I'd like.
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by seldo 16y ago
I'm a little disappointed. A truly social browser should introduce something social that is intrinsic to the browser itself, not just integrate with existing social sites. A browser should be a basic tool that works equally well for everyon
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by seldo 16y ago
The whole point of my article is that real nostalgia is fun. However, faked-up 1970s polaroid nostalgia is just fake. These are real photos and over time they will accumulate real nostalgia; you can't shoe-horn it in right from the begi
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by seldo 16y ago
This is not the default behaviour, and the setting is not available from within the app -- you have to exit, go to general settings, find the app in the list, and change the setting there. I would love to know how many instagram users do th
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by seldo 16y ago
This is pretty different. Impressionism is creating art from scratch; this is taking art that has already been created and stamping it with a cookie-cutter filter effect. It adds no creative input at all, and in fact takes away from what is
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by seldo 16y ago
Percentage of immigrants who are job creators, versus percentage of native-born citizens who are job creators would be interesting. To be worth it to the economy, immigrants don't need to create more jobs than they take, they just have to b
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by seldo 16y ago
The irony of a 32-year-old considering himself "old" and claiming that therefore ageism doesn't exist at YC is great. I'm not saying YC is at all ageist, but the fact that at 32 he believes it would already apply to him speaks volumes about
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by seldo 16y ago
I am not in any way an edge case. 50% of founders in Silicon Valley are immigrants: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/09/economic...
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by seldo 16y ago
As an immigrant co-founder who has created 2 jobs and is hiring to create 2 more right now, I promise that some of us are creating new jobs, not stealing them. Exhibit A: http://awesm.jobscore.com/list (I'm hoping the above job link does
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by seldo 16y ago
That's very different from Twitter's official "promoted tweets", and the prices are probably not comparable.
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by seldo 16y ago
An interesting view of the future and a persuasive argument, though I think your timeline in unrealistic. 20 years ago computers were PCs powered by Windows and they still are; expecting a wholesale paradigm shift and migration in 10 years
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by seldo 16y ago
I'd argue that IBM hasn't really changed at all. If anything, they've reverted. Their acquisition of PwC's consulting arm looked like a diversification, but was really just a further vertical extension of their existing big-hardware busines
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by seldo 16y ago
A very valid view, and one I subscribed to until quite recently, when an article pointed out to me that IBM still makes billions every year from mainframes. The computing environment is not a zero-sum game. Mainframes were not replaced by m
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by seldo 16y ago
Well, since you both asked... I joined Yahoo in the Mobile division soon after the Flickr and Delicious acquisitions, when it looked like Yahoo had grasped the importance of including social elements and user-generated content into its expe
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by seldo 16y ago
Is that sarcasm? I feel like "<x> was <this way> at Yahoo" is pretty much all I ever talk about here :-)
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by seldo 16y ago
I don't think Microsoft has to worry about its survival: Windows and Office will remain cash cows for the forseeable future. But they, like IBM before them, will lose all relevance to new directions in technology -- in fact, it's arguable t

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