all of this "a downturn is just the time to get going!!" shit is becoming a tired cliche. do you know what happens in a downturn? people put their money away. yes even for your "awesome" work. so if you like "no money",…
the licensing for a new nuclear facility is measured in decades
no, if you have an H1-B, you are in the country to work. if you leave your employer, you have N days to get out. you can't just decide to go solo.
what innovative device or method will deleverage morgan stanley? what invention will suddenly make mortgage holders solvent? entrepreneurs will not save america because our problem is not a lack of novel ideas. our…
any idiot can scale given a large enough budget. you just buy more servers. everything i have seen discussed about fb's architecture was done at yahoo or google years ago. i'm not saying they don't have an impressive…
sell the domain to someone else. the site is just another me-too financial news site. nothing substantial here to take me or anyone else away from yahoo finance, marketwatch, thestreet, bloomberg, wsj or many others who…
all the newspapers are going to face this crunch...the only way out: 1. sell everything sellable 2. stop printing papers. you are going to go online-only at some point. now the issue is pressed: go online-only or you're…
wars will be at two ends of the inverted bell curve - insurgencies/occupations, and total wars with nuclear weapons. gone is the war that most generals cling to - forces fighting protracted battles in well-defined…
haha thats just the tip of the iceberg. paul graham, seth godin, mark cuban and a hundred other guys you never heard of have milked the yahoo cash cow but good over the years. astoundingly, pg figures low on the grand…
writing's on the wall wantrapeneurs...invest the last $100 in crisco. you can survive two weeks on a tub, and it doubles as a lubricant
oh but the young'ns CAN HAVE...most of it they want to be CEOs, so they just end-run around having a real business...they start some dipshit website, call it a startup, call themselves Founder & (CTO | CEO |…
what gibberish. the arctic is not a "wasteland". nor is the desert. these are simply environments not suited to unaided human habitation. the polar bears don't think its a wasteland. all that fresh water locked up as…
How I Turned Down $33/share from Microsoft to go Full-Time on Yahoo! (jerry-yang.com)
realistically though, if you don't care about your credit rating and if you are in a house you can't afford, just make payments when you get a delinquincy notice. you can likely get two more years out of living in the…
Japan has its own issues that have kept it in a virtually stagnant economy for the last 10-15 years. The entire country's natural tendency is to fold back into itself and create pockets of isolation from the outside…
I think it is wrong to draw parallels to Japan. i agree. when japan entered their deflationary period, they were the world's largest CREDITOR, and consumers had large savings accounts to fall back on. we are entering…
after doing consulting i can tell you that you need a very big client list to make a go of it full time. you need companies like telcos, insurance companies, food industry...not just core tech companies...that won't…
you can write hadoop client tasks in any language you like, afaik
huge geek karma, but i suspect bound to fail this is basically a consulting gig...i doubt they intend to try to compete head-head with the major web cos with their giant colo farms. and who would fund a new massive…
it (really) feels like someone else?
i'm not sure how much more narcissistic the web2 crowd could get, but we'll take the post under advice!!
why are you asking a bunch of rookie programmers???
no, we are not the ones to "solve" it, because there is no button to push, method to be invented, or novel approach to making everyone solvent with web technology. what we are, we're the people who will live with…
what i think is even more worthy of a blog rant is goofs who buy systems with 8gb of ram then shit a brick any time they are using more than 10% of it
if you are doing cardio, you must sweat. this is the simplest rule for knowing if your workout is effective. its an easy rule to remember and works no matter what level of fitness you are at. if you want the single best…
all of this "a downturn is just the time to get going!!" shit is becoming a tired cliche. do you know what happens in a downturn? people put their money away. yes even for your "awesome" work. so if you like "no money",…
the licensing for a new nuclear facility is measured in decades
no, if you have an H1-B, you are in the country to work. if you leave your employer, you have N days to get out. you can't just decide to go solo.
what innovative device or method will deleverage morgan stanley? what invention will suddenly make mortgage holders solvent? entrepreneurs will not save america because our problem is not a lack of novel ideas. our…
any idiot can scale given a large enough budget. you just buy more servers. everything i have seen discussed about fb's architecture was done at yahoo or google years ago. i'm not saying they don't have an impressive…
sell the domain to someone else. the site is just another me-too financial news site. nothing substantial here to take me or anyone else away from yahoo finance, marketwatch, thestreet, bloomberg, wsj or many others who…
all the newspapers are going to face this crunch...the only way out: 1. sell everything sellable 2. stop printing papers. you are going to go online-only at some point. now the issue is pressed: go online-only or you're…
wars will be at two ends of the inverted bell curve - insurgencies/occupations, and total wars with nuclear weapons. gone is the war that most generals cling to - forces fighting protracted battles in well-defined…
haha thats just the tip of the iceberg. paul graham, seth godin, mark cuban and a hundred other guys you never heard of have milked the yahoo cash cow but good over the years. astoundingly, pg figures low on the grand…
writing's on the wall wantrapeneurs...invest the last $100 in crisco. you can survive two weeks on a tub, and it doubles as a lubricant
oh but the young'ns CAN HAVE...most of it they want to be CEOs, so they just end-run around having a real business...they start some dipshit website, call it a startup, call themselves Founder & (CTO | CEO |…
what gibberish. the arctic is not a "wasteland". nor is the desert. these are simply environments not suited to unaided human habitation. the polar bears don't think its a wasteland. all that fresh water locked up as…
How I Turned Down $33/share from Microsoft to go Full-Time on Yahoo! (jerry-yang.com)
realistically though, if you don't care about your credit rating and if you are in a house you can't afford, just make payments when you get a delinquincy notice. you can likely get two more years out of living in the…
Japan has its own issues that have kept it in a virtually stagnant economy for the last 10-15 years. The entire country's natural tendency is to fold back into itself and create pockets of isolation from the outside…
I think it is wrong to draw parallels to Japan. i agree. when japan entered their deflationary period, they were the world's largest CREDITOR, and consumers had large savings accounts to fall back on. we are entering…
after doing consulting i can tell you that you need a very big client list to make a go of it full time. you need companies like telcos, insurance companies, food industry...not just core tech companies...that won't…
you can write hadoop client tasks in any language you like, afaik
huge geek karma, but i suspect bound to fail this is basically a consulting gig...i doubt they intend to try to compete head-head with the major web cos with their giant colo farms. and who would fund a new massive…
it (really) feels like someone else?
i'm not sure how much more narcissistic the web2 crowd could get, but we'll take the post under advice!!
why are you asking a bunch of rookie programmers???
no, we are not the ones to "solve" it, because there is no button to push, method to be invented, or novel approach to making everyone solvent with web technology. what we are, we're the people who will live with…
what i think is even more worthy of a blog rant is goofs who buy systems with 8gb of ram then shit a brick any time they are using more than 10% of it
if you are doing cardio, you must sweat. this is the simplest rule for knowing if your workout is effective. its an easy rule to remember and works no matter what level of fitness you are at. if you want the single best…