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1621.
by vl 17y ago
Yes, if you can buy enough shares that your vote will block any attempt to issue additional shares, your share will be fixed.
1622.
by vl 17y ago
Diluting is balanced by desire of the shareholders to keep larger portion of the company and need for the fresh funds. I.e. seed investors + founders + pre-seed employees (+ISO pool) share all the stock between themselves. Now they are all
1623.
by vl 17y ago
One of the articles in Russian says that disgruntled employee is suspected.
1624.
by vl 17y ago
It should be noted that traffic in Moscow is in the semi-permanent jam anyway, so it's unlikely that this video contributed. Photo of the billboard screen (NSFW): http://damian.livejournal.com/596391.html
1625.
by vl 17y ago
Wow, this is the conspiracy theory right here: Google already knows that "glasnost" is coming to China sometime soon though their own sources and tries to capitalize on it by doing preemptive strike and playing for the right party in advanc
1626.
by vl 17y ago
I found Hacker's Diet ( http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ ) by John Walker (Autodesk founder) to be entertaining reading by itself, it also has some useful advice. The Abs Diet ( http://www.amazon.com/Abs-Diet-Six-Week-Flatten-Stomach/dp/1.
1627.
by vl 17y ago
Modern JS engines are fast enough for many tasks not possible before. For example, I implemented AES256 and SHA256 in javascript for "security locker" website ( http://www.memengo.com ). I spent few days hand-optimizing the implementation
1628.
by vl 17y ago
I think that there are two problems with approach taken on hurl's homepage: 1) New user may be confused and not discover sign up functionality behind log in link. 2) Two buttons in the dialog require thinking each time when existing user l
1629.
by vl 17y ago
It would be interesting to see what gives developer better productivity in the long run: Closure or GWT? I'm big fan of GWT myself, and one of the reasons is that it allows me to build bigger projects: my JS projects always reached maintain
1630.
by vl 17y ago
From the screenshots it looks like a large (in good sense) app. Do you have problem with load times? How do you handle them? I'm working on the GWT app and it seems it gets a bit slower to load (not surprisingly) as it gets bigger. I'm gett
1631.
by vl 17y ago
Ironically, giving interest-free loan can produce complicated tax implications. It seems that loaner potentially may be taxed on the difference between 'reasonable marker interest rate' and (in this case) 0%. Receiver may potentially become
1632.
by vl 17y ago
There is a Scheme implementation called IronScheme that runs on .Net: http://www.codeplex.com/IronScheme
1633.
by vl 17y ago
It's also frightening because all codes required to arm the warheads are kept onboard and can be accessed by three cooperating individuals (in contrast with stationary installations). I doubt that missiles can be launched on the "moment not
1634.
by vl 17y ago
If somebody actually touches my screen while pointing at it I immediately say "Do not touch the screen!" It appears that people don't perceive it as rude and just continue pointing without touching.
1635.
by vl 18y ago
Very nice start, I had to do buttons for my last web app and ended up using less nicer tool. I suggest to add next two features which can be essential for some scenarios: 1) Add way to choose background color (i.e. page color) for the forma