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i don't buy their security claims (weak as they are), and i don't think anyone else should either. the complexity involved in their toolchain implies a very long beta period to rev…

this is great. its nice to see google create and supporting a real market for these so-called alternative skillsets. i say "alternative" because the market for paid code is increas…

do people still dig on this infantilizing thing? i'd have more respect for the startups if they told their VC "fuck you, i'm old enough to vote, procreate, and carry a loaded gun. …

Any industry where the capital costs are low no, that thins margins even more and drives to even faster consolidation. i can make PCs in my garage, yet there are only three real pl…

oh come on, in this economy, if anyone had a "make $$$ NOW" button under their desk, it would have been pushed long ago. their secret plan was to ride a bubble in the markets, but …

interviewing at facebook? my guess is that there will be plenty of openings soon enough, even in this downmarket. the fb crowd have been busting their asses old-skule/90s style...a…

i recommend people always use -nw, it will ensure that on the client or remote, you always use emacs the same way. now kill all the menubars and other stuff too...if you are going …

this entire "lots of small firms are the future" meme is probably just wrong. paul graham knows a lot about websites but very little about the rest of the economy. show me the ten …

sadly i think college credentials in the US have lost their luster because its always a let-down. without a doubt there is only one school that i have never met a single retard fro…

his comments on C are completely unfounded. C's type coercion means you can ram all sorts of things into places they aren't supposed to go. typecasting says to me that there is not…

running ads on torrent tracker search sites...that is probably the only viable business behind this technology. not much there to sell a VC, but it is money in the bank.

oh jesus between allthingsD, valleywag, blodget and blogmaverick, they've saved yahoo twenty times in the last month in various blog posts. give it up folks, google won. but if its…

yup, and also for companies whose stock prices are depressed (all of them), this is one of the only meaningful things they can do for investors in a recession. and frankly they can…

absolutely. i was a programmer at yahoo for almost thirteen years and was laid off. i'm not worried about finding work again, but since i have a nestegg i think i will sit things o…

you can't put fb and google in the same category. fb is still surviving on investment capital and frankly could end up in a serious cashcrunch. google has a blank check for hardwar…

used to work with paul saab (ps) at yahoo. super smart as this post shows. could never get them to use freebsd paul? :)