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by teyc 15y ago
I'm really curious because this is not the typical YC investment. I wonder what is the kind of reasoning pg goes through, perhaps this is an exercise in customer development?
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Drawbridge - Library OS - MS Research(research.microsoft.com)
4 points by teyc 15y ago|0 comments
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by teyc 15y ago
They shut down the AIR marketplace http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/air_marketplace_faq... but it is worth trying again.
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by teyc 15y ago
Most startups running unix use Java on the server-side anyway. Unless you are prepared to learn about tuning JVMs and learning its idiosyncracies, you could choose to pay the MS tax and use the CLR. The other option is to go with a dynamic
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by teyc 15y ago
No, I do not believe Apple had reason to worry about market cannibalization. The iPod was a new product. The line was segmented well, with each having clear differences in form factor, eg you wouldn't be confused between what a nano might b
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by teyc 15y ago
"I show that firms bid excessively for the pool of incumbent workers... " Not true.
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by teyc 15y ago
(4) ... all the required elements for attracting attention are there: teen girl pregnant father It is true that the title would smack of a national enquirer post than NYT. However, NYT probably could have their own bloggers craft
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by teyc 15y ago
The reason is fairly straightforward. Power moves in social circles. It is the same reason why there aren't many lawyers who make it politically in China. Secondly, support has to be nurtured, and potential candidates groomed by power broke
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by teyc 15y ago
This reminds me of the spate of hacks on Sony's sites. I wonder how many more MS sites are operated by third parties, and exactly how vulnerable are our personal information? Let the heads roll.
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by teyc 15y ago
:) I didn't have time to expand on the ideas.
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by teyc 15y ago
Some analysis here: 1. The publisher in this case has a track record, so there is less risk involved. 2. $15 for an adventure game sounds "well priced" 3. There is a bit of risk reversal on the pledgers since the game might turn out to be a
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by teyc 15y ago
Percentages themselves do not tell the whole story. Better to use the total cost of ownership. A $1000 phone that loses 35% of its value ($350) compared to a $500 phone that loses 50% of its value ($250) can put things into perspective.
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by teyc 15y ago
I don't understand why the author didn't just release the interpreter lock before going into the C routines? See Py_BeginAllowThreads
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by teyc 15y ago
to be honest, I remember reading on HN a similar comments about DropBox, that its a matter of setting up FTP server.
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by teyc 15y ago
This is an interesting social AND a technical problem. The problem for FB is that it is all too easy for them to just fork git, create the necessary interfaces and then hope the git maintainers would accept it (they mightn't) or release it
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by teyc 15y ago
Reminds me of taxation without representation. This is why people end up lobbying politicians directly instead. It gets more done for less. On NPR, Jack Abrahamoff said returns of 2200% are typical.
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by teyc 15y ago
They claim it is BSD for interface and GPL for dbms, but the accompanying documentation seems to describe it more like MySQL-style GPL.
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by teyc 15y ago
Yeah, I saw that. I was pleasantly surprised.
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by teyc 15y ago
This reminds me of how totally ADD Google was before Larry Page became CEO. It just started all sorts of shiny puppy projects, or even bought companies like Piknik to support those puppies [1]. Google today is a much more focussed animal. I
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by teyc 15y ago
Is 12 months enough? Especially when you consider enterprise software vendors need time to test as well.
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by teyc 15y ago
From a developer's point of view there is nothing to do but just move on. From an organisational point, Microsoft has made it very expensive for people who wish to stay on the same stack. The reason is MS needs to kill technologies in order
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by teyc 15y ago
I was listening to NPR where they said the record company made about $8m off Kate Perry's record sales, whereas they were responsible for most of the marketing expense (promoting to radio stations, etc). There was another show about how muc
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by teyc 15y ago
I had always thought X- meant extensions. I didn't realize it meant Experimental.
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by teyc 15y ago
It is so true. Just as a busker would play music for anyone, and gets an appreciative tip once in a while, pre-recorded music can be seen as a leveraged way of busking. In some way, the record industry is doing piracy a service by increasin
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Simple Reactive Programming with Python(valuedlessons.com)
2 points by teyc 15y ago|0 comments
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by teyc 15y ago
Haha this is funny. Here's a demo: http://www.redmountainsw.com/wordpress/2012/01/29/listing-ne...
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by teyc 15y ago
Most enterprise software is based around forms, validation and business rules. Where things start to become unstuck (look for "itfailures" on Delicious) are: 1. The languages and tools change - but are often immature for the task, which mea
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by teyc 15y ago
nice domain. Can you buy a 2 letter .com for $5m?
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by teyc 15y ago
Perhaps the reverse way to look at the situation is that job adverts are so uninformative about the place where one might work, that it is the employers who should present a video about why one might want to work for them. It shouldn't be
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by teyc 15y ago
Here are some tricks that help to settle the nerves: 1. Before the event begins, survey the place where you are going to speak. Stand at the lectern and familiarize yourself. 2. Before the speech when the nerves are rising, remind yourself

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