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by veyron 15y ago
The article makes it sound like the SEC forces you to go public. You don't have to. It's a choice, as I explained here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753915
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by veyron 15y ago
For posterity's sake let's make this clear: the SEC rule regarding 500 owners is as follows: > Companies with more than $10 million in assets whose securities are held by more than 500 owners must file annual and other periodic reports.
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by veyron 15y ago
I hope they are real dividends and not the 100M dividend associated with the BATS ipo ... (paid out the day before it tried to go public)
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by veyron 15y ago
Why doesn't anyone mention the private option? Multi-Billion dollar operations like Koch Industries are private. You aren't forced to go public per se.
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by veyron 15y ago
Why wouldn't they sign a long-term agreement with the content providers?
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by veyron 15y ago
Why isn't `awk` on this list?
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by veyron 15y ago
How is this C#+.NET integration on mono? Are the relevant low-level facilities translated well into linux or osx?
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by veyron 15y ago
There's clear value-add here: for some reason, I couldn't find a discussion surrounding the Wired article. The real reason why the trend is pervasive is because oftentimes one article from one source doesn't reach all corners of the interne
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by veyron 15y ago
The article clearly states that the conversation happened before ip{o,a}d
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by veyron 15y ago
I'd like to see someone set up a turnkey solution, soup to nuts (i.e. website, paypal or other payment service, content delivery) with some simple pricing model. It would then be easy to standardize in terms of format, TOS, etc.
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by veyron 15y ago
> Getting good returns from a 100 billion dollar investment is hard. You don't play with 100B in the same way that you play with 100K. There are few times when a really compelling buyout opportunity emerges. And it is at those times th
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by veyron 15y ago
They were pressured by wall street to actually do something with the money. I for one would have liked to see apple carry the cash balance. Sure they aren't making much from the cash, but I'm pretty sure there are better uses of the money.
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by veyron 15y ago
There are worse banks. For example, Regions Financial quietly slid into positive tangible common equity with the $900M offering last week (for the past few years it was actually negative ...) Bloomberg had a reasonably coherent discussion:
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by veyron 15y ago
there will be no factual breakthroughs until someone in the know actually discusses what happened in a case. for example, if a GS employee spoke out about what really happened with el paso and kinder morgan (they were advising el paso in a
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by veyron 15y ago
But not the bourne shell
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by veyron 15y ago
It's bash-specific (sh doesn't support it)
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by veyron 15y ago
FTA: By inlining C++ is able to run just the raw algorithm. On the opposite the C code has a number of indirections The typical C developer is aware of the deficiencies and would write a custom macro to do the sort (I have a whole
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by veyron 15y ago
FTA: By inlining C++ is able to run just the raw algorithm. On the opposite the C code has a number of indirections That is a reflection of using qsort rather than rolling your own sort. You could write your own macro that replica
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by veyron 15y ago
This example highlights the reasons to avoid function pointers when possible. An apples to apples comparison would use a handwritten sort routine for C instead of using a library function: STD::sort is closer to writing your own sort and pu
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by veyron 15y ago
There really should be an effort to get people to write new code in python3 and use 3to2 to backport (rather than writing in python2 and using 2to3 to convert).
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by veyron 15y ago
Doesn't COPPA require that Facebook users be at least 13 years old? If so, how could she have registered for Facebook in the first place?
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by veyron 15y ago
> viable alternative to C++ that would make many of those vulnerabilities impossible Could you explain this a bit more? Is there a vulnerability which is specifically due to a C++ quirk?
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by veyron 15y ago
storytime! I want to hear more
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by veyron 15y ago
In this case, it does need an open letter. This was CS's way of laying out their case. Apparently there are others who think Classic Specs pulled shenanigans, and CS need to make their position clear to those people. Note that sending a l
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by veyron 15y ago
I think the accusations that they are trying to game HN is what they care about, and that doesn't fit within those 3 options.
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by veyron 15y ago
It's simple: - unlimited data plans were doled out when network operators knew full well that people couldn't actually use enough data to cause a crisis. - Data usage spiked because people found new uses for phones which demanded more and m
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by veyron 15y ago
Maybe they shouldn't force customers to take an unlimited plan in the first place if they couldn't support it. For a very long time, until you could actually use that much data, att forced us to sign 2-year contracts with unlimited data.
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by veyron 15y ago
What are your thoughts about AT&T crippling unlimited data customers going over a specified limit (iirc 3GB)?
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by veyron 15y ago
Content: three years ago this week, when dennis and i were putting the finishing touches on the vision for this company, we had a hundred or so beta testers who helped us reach the finish line. we went down to sxsw to tell the world a
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by veyron 15y ago
Title of the article is Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities.

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