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by sunchild 15y ago
Actually, I wasn't referring to gross vs. net revenue. I was referring to recognized revenue vs. cash on hand. If I can convince someone to give me $500 but I owe it all back to them, my only revenue should be interest/proceeds from inves
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by sunchild 15y ago
I'm no accountant, but my understanding is that cash on hand cannot be recognized as revenue if it carries a contingency (e.g., having to pay out to merchants). Please correct me if I am being naive on this point.
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by sunchild 15y ago
My point stands on it's own two feet. I never said Groupon was engaged in fraud. I was responding to the parent comment's proposition that criminal behavior is irrelevant to pre-IPO activity. Fraud is a criminal offense, and fraud is defin
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by sunchild 15y ago
Prey tell: what does the full quote add? It's still misrepresenting cash flow as revenue, if you ask me.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Just look at the closing comments in Mason's email to "employees": "We are generating cash, not losing it — we generated $25M in cash last quarter alone, adding to the $200M we had before. In other words, we’re doing the opposite of running
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by sunchild 15y ago
Fraud is still a criminal offense, last time I checked.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Well, that was my original point above – the difference between cmd-T in TextMate vs. Sublime Text 2 is that TextMate ordered the files with the most recently opened at the top. In TextMate, I got used to using cmd-t to jump back and forth
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by sunchild 15y ago
FYI (OT): The "Bionica" link in the upper left of your blog leads to the default github "page missing". The home link on the right is OK.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I agree. In particular: 1. Airdrop is great. 2. Full screen apps make me happy. (I only use one monitor, though.) 3. I love being able to group items by date last opened in multi-column view. My biggest gripe: Why doesn't the finder aut
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by sunchild 15y ago
FWIW, I've completely given up on iCal in favor of Fantastical.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I missed that somehow, although it seems perfectly obvious now. I'm flexible enough to relearn a familiar key binding. (How often do you hear that in reference to a text editor?!) Thanks!
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by sunchild 15y ago
I've moved from TextMate to Sublime Text 2 over the past few weeks. The only thing I miss from TM is the ability to jump back to the last opened file with command-t. Has anyone managed to hack their config to enable that feature? I unders
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by sunchild 15y ago
I saw similar interactive menus in Japan, esp. for Yakiniku. Their systems are relatively crude, but more than adequate. Press a button to summon your server, choose items off the menu, etc. I actually think you'd want more durable, and l
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by sunchild 15y ago
I'd bet that nine times out of ten, she's going to open that PDF as an email attachment. Then it's up to the OS to match the file with the app. I often think that email is the real file system today.
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by sunchild 15y ago
If the file type is arbitrary, and doesn't correspond to an app, then you're using your internal hard disk as a file store. There are better solutions for that.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I'm not sure what type of "documents" you're referring to, but the images could be handled as with any other media import upon attaching the drive – i.e., within the image browsing app. As for moving images to the USB drive, that's an ex
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by sunchild 15y ago
File systems and file browsers are just never going to be easy for users to understand. That's why Apple is slowly but surely hiding them entirely from "beginners"/"people who don't care to learn how to use their tools". Microsoft's soluti
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by sunchild 15y ago
This doesn't explain the "invert selection" button. I'm pretty sure that one is indefensible.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding how the lawyers who negotiated Apple's license never raised/confronted this issue.
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by sunchild 15y ago
You make a great point in general, but especially about gaming. It's not hard to imagine a world where "gamification" eventually leads to productive outlets that appear to be "games". In fact, we already have this in crude forms all over
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by sunchild 15y ago
We all live on some spectrum of consumer vs. producer. Some entrepreneurs (classic producers) never stop being primarily producers. Those are the people who remain frugal and are indifferent about their fortunes. Others fall toward the c
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by sunchild 15y ago
I can personally recommend Amankila as well. It's one of those places that leaves you alone all the time, except when you arrive and leave. The management is there to greet you and send you off. They very graciously helped me arrange a n
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by sunchild 15y ago
Postini is widely used. I wish Apple would slap it onto me.com. My Apple email is a spamfest.
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by sunchild 15y ago
If you want to think Woz and Bill Gates did "more" than Steve Jobs, then you are entitled to that view. I don't agree, but I don't care enough to argue my point.
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by sunchild 15y ago
That is extremely debatable.
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by sunchild 15y ago
If you think Apple is about getting things for cheaper, then you don't understand Apple AT ALL.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Exactly. Apple seems to have no problem whatsoever hiring the best and brightest. In fact, I'd say it's what they do best, which is saying a lot.
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by sunchild 15y ago
No, no – I didn't mean to suggest that altruism isn't alive and well! My point was that giving is an end unto itself – not a means to establishing a legacy. Also, I just wanted to point out that it takes a LOT of work to manage a big fort
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by sunchild 15y ago
The fact that you feel the need to disparage a man who, as part of a two-man team, charted the course for personal computing in the 1980's, workstation computing and CGI in the 1990's, and then went on to build the world's most valuable con
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by sunchild 15y ago
My personal view is that chasing a legacy is a losing battle. I know some very well-known people who agree with me on that. As for philanthropy, I'm reminded of a billionaire friend who said his fortune was more of an administrative burden

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