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by soup10 14y ago
How much a job pays has a weak correlation with how much it 'matters'. Growing food matters a lot, growing food doesn't pay that well. HFT pays very well, HFT doesn't matter that much. How much something pays is determined by the whims o
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by soup10 14y ago
Good place to work, if being a maintenance programmer for a monopoly with a massive enterprise-quality codebase is your thing. It's _very_ different from working at a start-up, but probably one of the better places to work in the finance w
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by soup10 14y ago
I really don't like the software as a service business model since it under-values the coding part of things. I wish more people would experiment with partially commercialize open source projects like this.
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by soup10 14y ago
For something to have meaning, it has to have context. For instance getting a high score in tetris has meaning to me. But for most people it's meaningless. For some people, "the big bang theory" is meaningful. For others, it's completel
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by soup10 14y ago
Honestly, that screen looks like 5 hours work, max. Summoning an internet lynch mob over a dispute like that is incredibly unprofessional.
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by soup10 14y ago
I disagree, craigslist sucks. It's filled with spam and it's searching and sorting options could be way better. The only reason they don't have many competitors is because they have an information/platform monopoly. Just like many other t
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by soup10 14y ago
Essentially he's just whining that porting his project is difficult because the API doesn't have the more beginner friendly(but inefficient) drawing calls that used to be there. OpenGL ES is not designed to be beginner friendly, it's meant
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by soup10 14y ago
That wasn't me, but I agree. Especially for touch based and small screen devices like iPhones and iPads where HTML5 apps compete with native apps. It's much easier to create a fast and responsiveness non-standard UI natively than with HT
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by soup10 14y ago
Html5 is a heavily sandboxed abstraction layer from hardware. It's designed to sacrifice performance and hardware access to provide a safe way for websites to display rich content. Additionally for non-canvas apps, you must interact with
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by soup10 14y ago
When you are used to the fine grained control you get with a lower level language, html5 will always seem inadequate.
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by soup10 14y ago
> Exploits do not come out of nowhere. They can't be scaled with demand. Why not? All large software projects have flaws. Doesn't more demand for exploits mean more people are going to look for and find them? > The fundamental mora
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by soup10 14y ago
I disagree, the more demand there is for exploits, the more exploits there will be. If there is enough demand for them, we will even start to see employees on the inside of these companies purposely creating them. Companies do not directly
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by soup10 14y ago
Yea, there's far more people working on software actually meant to kill people, like weapon systems. I think the exploits are probably most useful for spying.
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by soup10 14y ago
Bleh, I use a mac because I have to for iOS dev. But it kind of sucks for desktops. You can choose between an under-powered mini, the far-overpriced pro, or the ugly single monitor iMac(I like my apple branding where I don't have to look
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by soup10 14y ago
Because it's an unethical business practice and detrimental to society as a whole. It's like if I buy all the real-estate in New York City, then force all businesses to pay me 30% of there revenues if they want operate there, and forbid any
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by soup10 14y ago
I'm still waiting for the lawsuit that forces apple to provide an option to install unreviewed apps. Nobody would tolerate this kind of total platform control in OS X or windows. Why is it tolerated in iOS? It's perfectly fine to have a a
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by soup10 14y ago
Apple's store is terrible too, a couple random thoughts as to why: The only way to find apps is the top-selling charts. Which means there is extremely strong downward pressure on pricing(since the charts are sorted by volume not gross), an
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by soup10 14y ago
Alternatively, people could just get bored of facebook and stop using it. It's hard for me to point to any killer feature facebook has. Photo's can be shared a number of other ways, same with text and status updates. If facebook didn't ex
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by soup10 14y ago
How do you explain people that are financially secure but work anyway? Working is part of life. Ferraris and vacations to Europe are fun, but there's plenty of more affordable entertainment that is just as fun. It just depends on your per
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by soup10 14y ago
If you haven't already met your financial goals, then selling your company should help, and that should make you happy. If you have met your financial goals, then the only reason to sell is if you aren't enjoying what you're doing or want t
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by soup10 14y ago
Looks cool and well designed, but I think Sean has overestimated the demand for video chat and talking to strangers with webcams.
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by soup10 14y ago
I don't know, I thought IV aside from their research division, is a company of lawyers that manage their patent portfolio.
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by soup10 14y ago
I think "acting out of fear" is hyperbole for making a "logical business decision". It's not like these guys are strangers to the patent business (remember 1-Click?). One thing to remember about the little guy is, he doesn't have any mone
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by soup10 14y ago
What's your guess for what the guys at IV are making? If they are getting a percentage of settlement revenue instead of billing hourly I could see them making that much.
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by soup10 14y ago
Groupon is the poster child for everything that's wrong with the silicon valley startup model. Founders creating stupid companies with marginally useful products and the VCs pumping millions into them in hopes of a quick profit.
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by soup10 14y ago
They pretty much had to make it f2p to have a chance against LoL, the currently dominant game in the genre. Dota 2 vs LoL should be pretty interesting. I'd argue that LoL has an extremely strong first mover advantage. Dota was technically
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by soup10 14y ago
Megaupload is a lot like limewire. They did the bare minimum, like honoring the occasional take down request, but make no real effort to minimize file-sharing of copyrighted content. This is clearly unethical. (unless you don't believe t
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by soup10 14y ago
It's unlikely that significant life extension techniques will be developed in our lifetime. In fact all evidence that I've seen is that aging is one of those "classically hard" problems, similar to strong a.i., fluent/human like machine tr
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by soup10 14y ago
It's not all good. Facebook employees are locked up for 3 months right? So the winners here were the VC's and other "preferred stock holders" who were allowed to sell their stock as part of the IPO. And the banks/underwriters who apparent
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by soup10 14y ago
I have a crazy idea, why doesn't Facebook charge for premium accounts? They would really only need to get what? Maybe 10% of their users to sign up to some kind of premium subscription service to justify their valuation. It's funny how thi

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