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by zach 16y ago
Rob is quite a character, but there's no question he has a huge heart for this kind of stuff. He was an organizer of Spaceset at JPL when I went there in the 90's. It was basically a space-colonization-themed mock Startup Weekend for high
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by zach 16y ago
Ah, the primetime show with Regis. How many times I played their phone game. I went on the syndicated show, where they got rid of the qualifying round and now award everyone $1,000 even if they answer the first question wrong. However, th
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by zach 16y ago
Very similar to the structure of the Pepsi billion-dollar prize, I think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Billion_Dollar_Sweepstake... Most huge cash prizes are annuitized. I went on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (airing Wednesday) kn
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by zach 16y ago
His tweet of the announcement is, characteristically, more entertaining than the one in the article from the CEO: http://twitter.com/dozba/status/10401328010366976
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by zach 16y ago
Obviously, you entered it on a non-Japanese-speaking corkboard.
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by zach 16y ago
Neat app and one of the best examples of a keep-it-simple webapp I've seen. But let's talk about the ID. Sure, it's a hundred and forty trillion, but it's also less than 48 bits. Note that every visit to the site's root URL generates a ne
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by zach 16y ago
This is one of those companies I actually really wanted to see get bought out by a large player. Milo is a good site but has nearly reached the boundary of what they can offer at their current scale. They seem to have a decent interface to
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by zach 16y ago
So I guess now we're going to be treated to, "If you use the internet so much, why aren't you rich?"
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by zach 16y ago
When I was working at Sega, I innocently asked Toshi Morita if the Saturn port of GCC could support Objective-C. He nearly freaked out since it was already as much as he could handle to keep it working with C++. I never mentioned it again.
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by zach 16y ago
Wow! I missed that; I thought there was still a need to do a lot of wrangling. If they have a blanket exception then that's something else. I fundamentally like the second market idea a lot because I like private companies staying private f
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by zach 16y ago
Sure, I just meant that they were replaced by a more exotic instrument. That's not a bad thing -- RSUs are way better for employees IMHO. But yes, I am poking fun at the problem solving methodology which says "just make a more complicated
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by zach 16y ago
Wow, did you see the field names on that form? They're encoded as long alphanumeric strings. Never come across that before. Looks like they're pretty feisty about people using their forms. I guess this also explains why they set no-cache
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by zach 16y ago
It is primarily about that (q.v. my post on RSUs). But if this reaches an extreme where hundreds of non-accredited investors (very) indirectly hold ownership in a private company, it's far more likely to raise regulatory and legislative ey
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by zach 16y ago
I heard they started issuing restricted stock units instead of options three years ago. They are rights to stock, like a risk-free, cost-free stock option. Now, allegedly , the twist is that they vest when the company becomes public. In
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by zach 16y ago
One jump ahead of the lawmen. Impressive. I would think this is heading for trouble, though. The SEC and public policy in this area are oriented toward protecting non-accredited investors (let's call them "noobs") from the potential hazar
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by zach 16y ago
Since they're actually investing in an LLC, the rules (search "506 offering") would be the same. It can only be "sophisticated" investors and no more than 35 can be non-accredited. Note that there can be no solicitation or advertising of t
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by zach 16y ago
Yes, they would be. So as a result, there are not a lot of stock options floating around anymore. They have been replaced by, you guessed it, derivatives.
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by zach 16y ago
Wow, you're exactly right. You gotta figure that once Facebook got some alert trademark lawyers, they noticed that they had a problem, and eventually worked out a deal to acquire ownership of the trademark. Faceparty has a fairly interesti
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by zach 16y ago
According to the documents, the EU trademark (#3852779) amended its class after opposition based on likelihood of confusion from the Spanish version of the (American) Automobile Association, RACE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RACE_%28autom
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by zach 16y ago
Very interesting. But the class of the trademark is limited to "online chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards," so maybe the only impact would be to expanding FaceTime to teleconferencing. Then again, I can't imagine a company better eq
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by zach 16y ago
As far as simple visual illustrations go, this is the best I've seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-p8yZYxNGc#t=6m31
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by zach 16y ago
Thank you for the encouragement. It's just my own way of making sense of the world but I hadn't actually fleshed it out in writing before. I do have a blog that I recently rebooted at Posterous but I tend to talk on HN much more than I bl
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by zach 16y ago
Sure. Transactions of authority are those things we all know are there -- these stepping stones towards building a relationship. Okay, first, "authority" has cultural baggage, because "authority" sounds formal and institutional and the thi
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by zach 16y ago
Vulnerability is just the precondition to what actually occurs, which is a transaction of authority. The lack of vulnerability is complete autonomy, which is defined as not accepting any authority besides oneself. It's the transaction of
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by zach 16y ago
These look like reasons why you might adopt a stray kitten abandoned in your yard, even if you wouldn't go to the shelter to adopt a grown cat.
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by zach 16y ago
Worth pointing out that many people use Google for even the most trivial of site visits. Many may have skipped the .com and entered "beard guru" into Google, where at the moment I don't see beardguru.com on the first page of results. I won
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by zach 16y ago
What do you want to bet that it's not the word "Berlin" but pieces of two adjoining words like "number line?" http://www.wordbyletter.com/suffixes/words_finishing_with_be... http://www.wordbyletter.com/prefixes/words_starting_with_lin...
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Automatic Navigation Mesh Generator for Games(code.google.com)
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by zach 16y ago
It turns out that it's more effective if you do.
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by zach 16y ago
I would have loved if they called it Fashter.

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