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mark is wrong on one count....US treasuries DO have a de-facto guarantee within the jurisdiction of the US govt. this doesn't mean their value is gauranteed, the value of the bond …

i'd hardly call this power-using emacs

boehm garbage collector is news???

well if we're to believe the mantra of the invisible hand, then by definition only weak companies are being destroyed. having too much debt is unhealthy. if your corporation needs …

dude if you added an elisp layer to yi, that would be killer. i want to try it out, but there's so much elisp packages keeping me on emacs (like gnus)

given that you were at y, i'm wondering if you were proposing a udb fork plus some features....

don't go too gaga over this hash-on-the-db appraoch, or its non-rdbms based solutions at all the major web companies. you get lots of scaling, great performance, but you have zero …

recall when warren said "buy american. i am". in reference to stocks? remember how many people here said he was "brilliant"? that was at dow 10k. -30% ago. i think in the end warre…

i guess this is how one 24 year-old impresses another one see: blowing smoke

it is cool, but these tools exist for desktop apps too yet no one i know actually uses them. the problem continues to be generated code...its bloated, has performance issues, and c…

bring it on mark. VCs have been getting soaked in the valley since 2004, you might as well throw your money onto the fire too. i guess you'll have the prestige of having a "fund" w…

so sick of seeing "don't use apache for static files". apache is more than capable of saturating your outbound connection for static content. there is no point trying to do better …

the way you learn from testing is by looking at resource use, throughput, paging, io etc on your box. i'm not how a remote service enables this. man vmstat hackers

how is your tool better than siege, which is in my opinion the best tool available

no, i'm sorry. the whole point of load testing is that i am (for example) looking at my vmstat output etc DURING the test...thats a whole lot easier if i just fire up siege or http…

nothing legal

no, actually the rate on bonds is set in the market. it makes no sense for a seller to give you a better deal because you have a lot of money in any case, in the bond market, ten m…

they haven't had integrity for a long time. sadly for their VCs, it is becoming universally understood that this site is local-payola, it will be impossible for them to earn back t…

these days it seems a lot of the burn rate is in sky-high salaries. employees seem to be treating the fund as a piggy bank. i've been speaking to a lot of VC-backed small ventures …

Brilliant! My advice is to stay in cash (or equivalent). you'll need it to pay the IRS + state their 50% (if for example, you are a california resident). oddly enough lots of peopl…

yelp is ner the top of a long list of sites that 1. people love 2. cannot make money 3. should have found a way to get bought in 2006 get in line behind zuck

i strongly disagree. fixed width works in the world of 1998...everyone with a 17 inch monitor on their desks. today screens tend to be very big (24 inch monitor) or very small (iph…

California seems overpriced and the state budget is in bad shape i live in california and love it...i think in so many ways it is the best place in the world to live...but i must a…

i would think you would want a strongly typed language for something like this

probably the first time i vigorously disagree with krugman....and oddly he appears to be in stark contrast to some of his own writings. austrian economics has probably become too d…