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by veyron 14y ago
Unless you really use it liberally, you can just use jot: $ jot -b test -c 3 test test test
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by veyron 14y ago
i agree that no program should have 1 character name, but what do you currently alias 'c' to?
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by veyron 14y ago
Any idea what type of patents are in Loewe's portfolio?
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by veyron 14y ago
I think you trivialize a very important point, namely that the IPO is a big deal for pretty much everyone (as its used as a recruiting tool for employees and as an exit proposition for VC firms), especially to Zuckerberg (who invariably spu
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by veyron 14y ago
Facebook as the corporate entity doesn't need the cash; the investors and employees need the exit. In light of that, Mark as an investor and employee does need their cash. If the exit wasn't important, they would stay private and run the b
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by veyron 14y ago
Facebook might not have been "forced" to go public, but they still don't really need the cash from the IPO If they didn't need the cash from the IPO why did they IPO? If they wanted liquidity for employees and investors, then the
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by veyron 14y ago
For posterity's sake I'd like to see you give a more detailed writeup.
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by veyron 14y ago
FTA: "I was entitled to a $10k referral bonus offered by the CEO through internal emails." It was mentioned in an email.
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by veyron 14y ago
"I was entitled to a $10k referral bonus offered by the CEO through internal emails." Can you produce this email? (IANAL)If so you may actually have legal grounds for taking action against Miso ...
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by veyron 14y ago
at times i wonder if people forget that "Y-Combinator" has a real meaning ... Maybe I'm getting old, but I definitely don't remember an N-combinator.
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by veyron 14y ago
As I mentioned here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3954910 ) they are not forced to go public. Plenty of private companies with > 500 shareholders stay private precisely because they dont want to have to deal with wallstreet. F
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by veyron 14y ago
Mentioned it a few times in other threads, but it clearly needs to be reiterated: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753915 For posterity's sake let's make this clear: the SEC rule regarding 500 owners is as follows: > Companies wit
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by veyron 14y ago
You forgot to mention that the Federal Reserve is involved (as with domestic wires)
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by veyron 14y ago
Where in the TOS does it allow them to upload photos that the users don't explicitly select?
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by veyron 14y ago
One obligatory warning: oftentimes the cables are older generation or may not support all features. Especially with the mac cables (e.g. thunderbold/minidisplayport)
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by veyron 14y ago
I wish this worked on iPad ...
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by veyron 14y ago
I can't tell if it's just me, but for some reason it doesn't work (just shows a vertical line) on Chrome, SRWare Iron (Chromium-based), FF and Safari.
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by veyron 14y ago
Or on any chromium-based browsers (SRWare Iron)
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by veyron 15y ago
The service is called 'Diagramly' not 'Digramly'
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by veyron 15y ago
I figured that T stood for trans, but I subconsciously hoped that it was a real thing ...
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by veyron 15y ago
What's a T combinator? Y combinator, i assume, was named after the Y fixed point combinator, but I don't recall a combinator named T ...
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by veyron 15y ago
Thanks to sponsored access and the large trader rule, you really just need the blessing of a clearing firm and pay some colocation fees. As a one time cost anyone can get in with 200K deposit (on a 6:1 levered setup) and about 50K in startu
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by veyron 15y ago
What caused the flash crash is a poor implementation of stop and market orders. Essentially, the exchanges do not natively have a concept of "market orders" -- filling now. Instead, some brokers implement them by selling at a penny or buyi
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by veyron 15y ago
The real takeaway here is that if you don't have a service or product that people would pay for, you should shoot for user growth and cash out when you can.
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by veyron 15y ago
The reality is that ads really have to be Re-envisioned for the mobile space. There's not enough real estate on a phone to put up massive banner ads on a phone, and there's good reason to believe we will see something similar to iAd for and
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by veyron 15y ago
The price tag certainly is consistent with a 100B price tag on Facebook. I'm going to assume this merely keeps the bubble going until the IPO. In finance land there are rumors of difficulty finding people to buy into the IPO and this should
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by veyron 15y ago
I'm all for "the X for Y", but is codecademy really that prolific that something could be the Codecademy of ____?
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by veyron 15y ago
Wondering about the effectiveness of the phrase "We’re sorry, we seem to have lost this page, but we don’t want to lose you"
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Ask HN: thoughts about NYT Page Not Found page(nytimes.com)
1 points by veyron 15y ago|1 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
Banned for a week because someone complained to the admins because I made a comment that "Windows is not necessarily the best operating system". Gave up soon after.

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