startupcrazy

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by startupcrazy 19y ago
Having read Paul's treatise yesterday on the importance of improving our on-line dialectic, this story also reminds me that it may also be acceptable, if not appropriate, to occasionally refer to people as simply 'assholes'. A much better
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
Why all the down votes, I was simply implying that if your wife isn't also your girl friend it is a sad place to be.
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
Man, that is sad.
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
Facebook may be like the Macintosh computer before desktop publishing. You may be not old enough to remember when the Macintosh was really just a toy, but it was. Don't count Facebook out yet, a killer application may just change the entire
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
Indeed, to really address someone's arguments well enough to try to change their opinion takes a lot of time and effort. The question is, what is the benefit to you of doing that? If it is a real live friend that you are going to spend a lo
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
No, Emmett is not right because there is no definition of qualified. It is a meaningless statement. The problem with the statement is that it implies that you are not funded you are somehow not qualified. What does that mean?
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
Oh please, what nonsense. Your statement doesn't even match up with what pg writes.
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
I've worked on professional Blackjack teams. It looks much more glamorous in the movies than it is in real life. Still, potentially making 35k in one night has its appeal.
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
I was wondering when someone would finally make a comment about Lisp. In fact, this could very easily be a story about Lisp. Using Lisp to create grammars to read and execute specification files. This developer was forced by the client to w
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
Chrysler is currently worth less than nothing, but Chrysler Financial has real value. Basically, they acquired the unfunded liability of Chrysler as the price of Chrysler Financial. Chrysler Financial may be work 18B of pension obligations
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
Indeed. All of the Detroit automobile companies are now off shoring to India and China to try to reduce costs. Open sourcing factor floor control and monitoring systems is simply another way to achieve the same results.
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
I wasn't suggesting you buy a Chrysler product. I was suggesting you buy Chrysler. You get it all, along with 5000 lines of very clever Java code that they probably couldn't even find if they wanted to.
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
That I can do!
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
You may want to finish the article. :-)
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
I told you too much already. :-) Several clever grammars were written. If you want any more, you have to buy Chrysler.
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
Agreed. The problem is, hackers don't tend to even have access to this type of problem because you need access to the very real environment of a large factory floor. And, even if you did build a better solution, there are relatively few cus
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
Yes. You have run into the nature of a non-disclosure agreement the big three have everyone sign. You cannot tell the good parts.
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
Writing two or three very clever grammars.
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
Two of my developers were on the original XP team at Chrysler. They don't to XP at Chrysler anymore either.
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
Executable specifications. The new compiler was about 5000 lines of Java. The developer says he can probably reduce most of 3000 lines of it to about 700 productions in YACC. Of course, nobody is interested!
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7 Person Year Application Rewritten in 2 Person Months(metromodemedia.com)
33 points by startupcrazy 19y ago|43 comments
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
Edison as I Know Him by Henry Ford. Around page 5? Edison was really happy with the "power plant" in the car idea of the internal combustion engine.
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
How about... installed for testing and occasionally accidentally used during breaks.
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by startupcrazy 19y ago
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas A. Edison One of the reasons Henry Ford was willing to risk so much to start an automobile company is because Thomas Edison, who Hen
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I Wish We Were So Stupid (As Stupid as Y Combinator)(metromodemedia.com)
24 points by startupcrazy 19y ago|9 comments