>Criticizing legitimate American counter-terrorism and counter espionage and suggesting that it's equivalent to China's suppression of thought of its citizens This is infuriating. I'm sure China would claim their…
I know I'm not in the majority on this site, but I personally hate web apps. I hate how they look, I hate hearing about how they will replace native. Personally, I'd like to see native app front ends backed by REST web…
But doesn't there need to be a way to bet that something is overpriced?
I always heard it as "if your boss asks you to do something you don't like you can just say 'fuck you' because you don't need the job".
I don't know if "designed by committee" is fair. Plus, a big problem with committee design has been people trying to avoid costing themselves anymore than absolutely necessary no matter what that meant for everyone else…
Startups have been resistant to this so far by following pg's advice of simply ignoring patents until you're big enough to matter. If things keep going as they are though the ecosystem could seriously be disrupted. If…
It seems that no matter how many famous people have their accounts hacked by security questions, idiots will keep using them. Personally I always select a random question from the list and just paste my password there…
Yes it is. He's committed no crime against the US at all so why do they want him? They can't charge him for anything so it's pretty clear he won't be getting a fair trial or any at all.
This is exactly what I'd expect from startups.
That's just it, he committed no crime against the US. He might be tried for treason if American but he isn't. This is why they wouldn't want to extradite him via any official channels but rather use Sweden's "temporary…
You're stance is utterly insane. A person said something people find offensive, so he had to go to jail. What happens when speaking out against corruption in government becomes "offensive"? There is some danger in…
Given how big the upside could be (10 million people buying your book?), one almost has to do something like this to prevent the imagination running wild and having a massive let down later on.
>pursue better business models if you can What do you mean with this? Do you mean work as a consultant? Start your own business? Contracting may not be the best but it's vastly better than being a permanent employee…
Actually, unlike your post his blog post did provide something valuable: it informs others in his/her situation that they don't have to just take this. People accepting these kinds of demands pushes rates down for…
The massive difference between the Internet and space (at least in my current opinion) is that the internet represents instant communication and it didn't take long to figure out how that can make money. Space on the…
Nonsense. It has nothing what so ever to do with science. All the analysis depends on rules that all the other players also know. If someone went in and changed some fundamental entry in their rule book (e.g. "testing…
You're being overly sensitive. He didn't say something bad about your mother, he pointed out what was wrong with a thing, a product and IMO he was mostly right.
Personally my view is the exact opposite. Privatizing space travel will never bring us to the stars. It will get us into orbit for very high fees but e.g. deep space exploration? Too expensive, too low likelyhood of…
>Criticizing legitimate American counter-terrorism and counter espionage and suggesting that it's equivalent to China's suppression of thought of its citizens This is infuriating. I'm sure China would claim their…
I know I'm not in the majority on this site, but I personally hate web apps. I hate how they look, I hate hearing about how they will replace native. Personally, I'd like to see native app front ends backed by REST web…
But doesn't there need to be a way to bet that something is overpriced?
I always heard it as "if your boss asks you to do something you don't like you can just say 'fuck you' because you don't need the job".
I don't know if "designed by committee" is fair. Plus, a big problem with committee design has been people trying to avoid costing themselves anymore than absolutely necessary no matter what that meant for everyone else…
Startups have been resistant to this so far by following pg's advice of simply ignoring patents until you're big enough to matter. If things keep going as they are though the ecosystem could seriously be disrupted. If…
It seems that no matter how many famous people have their accounts hacked by security questions, idiots will keep using them. Personally I always select a random question from the list and just paste my password there…
Yes it is. He's committed no crime against the US at all so why do they want him? They can't charge him for anything so it's pretty clear he won't be getting a fair trial or any at all.
This is exactly what I'd expect from startups.
That's just it, he committed no crime against the US. He might be tried for treason if American but he isn't. This is why they wouldn't want to extradite him via any official channels but rather use Sweden's "temporary…
You're stance is utterly insane. A person said something people find offensive, so he had to go to jail. What happens when speaking out against corruption in government becomes "offensive"? There is some danger in…
Given how big the upside could be (10 million people buying your book?), one almost has to do something like this to prevent the imagination running wild and having a massive let down later on.
>pursue better business models if you can What do you mean with this? Do you mean work as a consultant? Start your own business? Contracting may not be the best but it's vastly better than being a permanent employee…
Actually, unlike your post his blog post did provide something valuable: it informs others in his/her situation that they don't have to just take this. People accepting these kinds of demands pushes rates down for…
The massive difference between the Internet and space (at least in my current opinion) is that the internet represents instant communication and it didn't take long to figure out how that can make money. Space on the…
Nonsense. It has nothing what so ever to do with science. All the analysis depends on rules that all the other players also know. If someone went in and changed some fundamental entry in their rule book (e.g. "testing…
You're being overly sensitive. He didn't say something bad about your mother, he pointed out what was wrong with a thing, a product and IMO he was mostly right.
Personally my view is the exact opposite. Privatizing space travel will never bring us to the stars. It will get us into orbit for very high fees but e.g. deep space exploration? Too expensive, too low likelyhood of…