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by wheels 15y ago
I suppose the Matasano version would be the same thing, but it'd be on your intranet? ;-)
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The problem with blogging(swombat.com)
61 points by wheels 15y ago|42 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
I was aware of all of the things you mentioned when I made my comment. You're conflating a whole mess of things: "conservative", "Republican" and "Libertarian" are all different. The only one of those three that can Thiel can be meaningfu
874.
by wheels 15y ago
I find it really disingenuous to paint someone as intelligent and quirky as Thiel with the "bah, republican" brush. In terms of where he's putting his money, bear in mind that he's a multi-billionaire; donating a quarter million for him is
875.
by wheels 15y ago
What I meant on the German and US systems is that they're both pay-in-get-something out. Germans pay about double for social security, so it's not a huge surprise that the benefits are higher. My point was not that Germans do not get more
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by wheels 15y ago
You guys are doing it again -- idealizing the other side of the fence as if everything was all rainbows and unicorns in Europe. In Germany and many European countries, you pay for healthcare and it costs a lot -- you simply don't have the o
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by wheels 15y ago
This was one of the major draws for me for moving to Europe in my early 20s (from the US). After working one year in the US and having one week of vacation, it was bordering on surreal to have 6. That said, most Americans wouldn't like the
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by wheels 15y ago
It's about a third of that in Berlin. I have a (nice, freshly renovated, wooden floors, high ceilings, new appliances, balcony) two bedroom place about a 5-10 minute walk from our office in one of the cool parts of town (dozens of restaura
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by wheels 15y ago
My best comments on the site are not, as a rule, my top-scored comments. My best comments usually get about 5 points. That's because the best things that I write are usually on very specific topics that I know a lot about. However, th
880.
by wheels 15y ago
Stash an extra charger cable outdoors? I wonder if that could eventually be worked into the product somehow; i.e. a DC current where there's a recessed spot for an adapter...
881.
by wheels 15y ago
I've worked with both the TextMagic and Clickatell APIs (there are Ruby gems for both, we've used them for server monitoring notification) and they're really trivial to use and work internationally.
882.
by wheels 16y ago
I have looked at it actually, and it's pretty neat, but for the way that I do things it has a fatal flaw: the ingredients are exotic (i.e. where I live they're expensive and you'd need to go to a specialty shop for some of them) and don't
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by wheels 16y ago
I've thought about putting together a brief founders' cookbook with a dozen or so of the recipes for things that I survived on in the lean days that you can make for about a buck or two and in about 20 minutes. The real trick is not buying
884.
by wheels 16y ago
So, what I find more interesting in this is that Reddit did bring in a "new" general manager. What worries me is that it's not actually someone new. Neither is Alexis, for that matter. From the outside looking in it would appear that while
885.
by wheels 16y ago
I think I remember that the labels are actually from Trevor.
886.
by wheels 16y ago
This is pretty neat, but the idea is by no means new: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u5vBAMcLUE
887.
by wheels 16y ago
Another thing that's changed is who is creating the dominant programming languages. In the programming-language-as-a-spec days, people versed in programming language design created the dominant programming languages. In the programming-l
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New York Venture Capital to Tech Continues to Beat Massachusetts(cbinsights.com)
3 points by wheels 16y ago|0 comments
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Selection Trumps Motivation (Solving Google’s Social Problem)(continuations.com)
6 points by wheels 16y ago|0 comments
890.
by wheels 16y ago
That's not actually true. I was in the valley a couple months back and was able to book office hours with Paul as much as was useful (and more frequently than I had when we were doing YC in S09). Office hours with Paul and the other YC fo
891.
by wheels 16y ago
This is one of those things that continually rubs me the wrong way. There seems to be a perversion of the term "artist" to mean "someone who create stuff" or "someone who creates stuff that I find inspiring". But artists are people who cr
892.
by wheels 16y ago
I'd felt exactly the same a couple years back, but the root cause was rather amusing. When I started working on stuff for Directed Edge I dove into a lot of academic research. I found myself struggling with a lot of it. I really believed
893.
by wheels 16y ago
I'm 30, and from Googling you seem to be 3 years older than me, but I don't think the use case for learning C has changed all that much over the course of my time as a programmer. Already around '95 or so Perl was widely used, GUIs could be
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Which countries are most in favour of the free market?(economist.com)
8 points by wheels 16y ago|1 comments
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by wheels 16y ago
Did you watch the video? That was exactly the point being made: IKEA is designed such that you're pushed along a specific path where you have to see their entire showroom before you're taken to the part where you actually buy the products
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VCs, Stripper Poles and G-Strings(babblingvc.typepad.com)
5 points by wheels 16y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 16y ago
> I've barely seen a recent success story of a startup where less then 100% of the founders were technical. Groupon and Zyngas's founders aren't programmers. I'd say they're the two biggest hits of the last 5 years.
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by wheels 16y ago
Arrington is a lawyer. These are serious allegations. I don't think he's stupid enough to float something like this as a joke.
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by wheels 16y ago
I have no problems with killing and eating animals. There are 1.5 billion cattle on this planet. Elephants, however, have been hunted from a population of 5-10 million a century ago to around 600,000 today and are now a threatened species
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by wheels 16y ago
I think the question is entirely different for founders and employees. For founders, the question loses some of its meaning, because the company itself is intrinsically tied to personal goals. Founders tend to not refer to the company as "

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