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   by vtail 15y ago

   Locations like Hong Kong has very simple tax codes etc. It arguably easier to found a company their than in some EU countries as well.
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   by vtail 15y ago

   BadassFractal, thank you for asking this question - I'm in the same boat and your question produced an interesting discussion. I'm wondering whether you're considering to found a company _somewhere else_, e.g. Hong Kong or Taiwan or any oth
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   by vtail 15y ago

   Thank you for setting me straight. Of course there are many privately-held companies that existed for decades and never took public money. I would bet that most of these companies were created decades ago and that most of the recent "succe
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   by vtail 15y ago

   You're probably not along. At the same time, I believe significant number of people (myself included) will respectfully deem this view too gloomy and pessimistic. One could probably use the same logic arguing about the first (or second, ...
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   by vtail 15y ago

   Looks like a vi to me :)
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   by vtail 15y ago

   To clarify: the fact that his prediction about iPhone future were wrong doesn't tell much - many industry observers were predicting that it's going to fail. What matters to me is good vs bad journalism - ability to acknowledge one's mistake
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   by vtail 15y ago

   These two data points are impressive predictions indeed. Still, to me his track record also includes numerous cases where he was plain wrong and/or heavily biased - e.g. he was well known for trashing iPhone/iPad and praising Nokia until so
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   by vtail 15y ago

   The author of this rumor (Eldar Murtazin) is notoriously known in Russia for his low-quality journalism. I'm actually quite surprised to see him even being quoted by an English-language media. For those who can read Russian, check out his b
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   by vtail 15y ago

   An interesting analysis (which only pg could do) is to multiply each vote by ln(user's karma) or something similar. That could arguably deal with "noobs who don't follow the rules" problem. The above analysis will assume, though, that the p
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    by vtail 15y ago

    But web crawler doesn't have an important input: how HN users would vote on a particular submission.
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    by vtail 16y ago

    There is Myst for iPhone/iPad, btw.
12. 252.▲
    by vtail 16y ago

    Part of the quest. I too was reading from the iPad.
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    by vtail 16y ago

    Try entering anything with monthly revenue >= monthly expenses.
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    by vtail 16y ago

    Very nice! I wonder what your revenue model is going to be, if it's OK to ask that early in the game?
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    by vtail 16y ago

    Disclosure: I'm a management consultant with one of the big firms. Management consulting business is built around providing knowledge to clients. There are several ways to get it: 1. Face a new client problem and think long and hard how to
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    by vtail 16y ago

    Thanks for your answer. I somehow missed the news that delicious is shutting down. Your positioning does make sense. A feature suggestion: when I upvote an article @ HN, I would certainly like it to be stored in my bookmarks somewhere :).
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    by vtail 16y ago

    Ups... I somehow missed that part!
18. 258.▲
    by vtail 16y ago

    http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/gcc/gcc-5646/ http://llvm.org/releases/download.html
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    by vtail 16y ago

    So... why would I want to use your site instead of using delicious? Also, "It's free... for now! Users signing up from February 2011 onwards will be required to pay a small fee." - in contrast with "Bookmark for Free" in the features.
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    by vtail 16y ago

    I'm really wondering if any HN users actually use Octave in their daily lives?
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    by vtail 16y ago

    That is a certain world view, indeed. Milton Friedman had an excellent argumentation defending this world view: http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/fr...
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    by vtail 16y ago

    Oracle is not a person to make such a decision; it is its shareholders who should decide how they want to spend their money. I wouldn't want to have a tax (as an Oracle investor or a private citizen) to support OSS. I may want to contribute
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    by vtail 16y ago

    I've posted this in part to reply to this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2149610
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    The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits by M. Friedman(colorado.edu)

    1 points by vtail 16y ago|1 comments
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    by vtail 16y ago

    I don't understand why this move should piss off anybody in the OSS community. Oracle is a private company and as such has only obligations to its shareholders. They may or may not support and/or promote OSS projects as they see fit, same a
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    by vtail 16y ago

    3-SAT is NP-complete, so if you have an algorithm to solve it in polynomial time, you've solved them all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3SAT#3-satisfiability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-complete
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    by vtail 16y ago

    Here is a though experiment. How fast do you think Salman Khan, of khanacademy.org fame, would advance in a US public school system?
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    by vtail 16y ago

    While unions make it easier for workers to defend their rights, they make it _much harder_ to create a meritocracy in the organization, and so much harder to reward people based on their performance - just ask anybody who have ever tried to
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    by vtail 16y ago

    I'm a bit surprised that Scheme-based languages, especially Logo and Racket, are not mentioned. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_programming_languag...
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    by vtail 16y ago

    Putting emotions aside, decent news ranking algorithm should: - put high weight on the original content - put higher weight on the local reporting - put higher weight on popular news sources (e.g. high quotation index, high page rank etc.)