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What about for people without Flash, where's the download link?

PG, I would have downmodded him for you but some mean people took all my points :(

> I've met work on compiler design, static verifiers, and things like that Not on the heavy consumer apps, eh? > Last I checked, there are openings on the F# team. So you're saying…

It's probably family, not a formal investor.

You can have taste without being able to program well, but you can't program well without good taste. The original point was that MS had smart people so a lack of smarts couldn't b…

> I also a lot of dumb people that can't program worth a damn. What's your point? Try to keep up here, Freddo. Try following the context :) Smart is orthogonal to skilled at a part…

> Never pay to pitch, basically. That's just good advice generally!

I agree that the frameworks are great for automating a lot of the junk we used to have to do manually. The "problem" is that people are cutting their teeth on things that don't req…

My next YC idea: A plugin for Vista that makes it work.

> who will probably work half-heartedly for a few months/year, That's what 4-year vesting is for. Besides, part-time work from an expert is better than full-time work from the hoi …

I know a lot of really smart people who can't program worth a darn. If you want to work at MS you're already lacking in the taste department. And what's the interview process, brai…

> If they assigned a few engineers to work on this, they could replicate the functionality within few months, especially since they know the internals of Outlook. Counter-exhibit 1…

More like how your car can't require its own brand of oil, gas, air filters, light bulbs, etc. If Cisco starts selling its operating system on a CD and you make a clone that can ru…

From what I hear they are going to be the most successful YC-funded company.

> I don't mean plagiarize them, but emulate what they're doing and figure out the parts that you're good at. They DID plagiarize. Nobody's objecting to other seed investors, just t…

It was Picasso and artists.

> who fail to understand the humor in the above para may not kindly apply. I don't know why writing about establishing some kind of sweatshop in a poverty-stricken country would be…

In light of the Lexmark decision Apple can't stop others from being interoperable legally. Their choices are to bludgeon clonemakers with frivolous lawsuits and try to bankrupt the…

Nah, the DMCA bites the bucket in cases like that. It was already overturned for a garage door opener and a printer manufacturer. You can't claim DMCA protection in cases where you…

Requiring usage only on Apple hardware would be illegal tying. Trying to do it technically would amount to the same thing.

> I was a diligent Oriental in high school and college. Orientals are objects. Asians are people. > Frankly, smoking, drugs, alcohol--and using an IBM PC--are signs of stupidity. E…

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It's not about copying the idea. It's about making yourself look like a total asshat by copying someone else's writing verbatim and passing it off as your own. > which I'm sure the…

Calm down. This is precisely how industries standardize. No one thought it was "sickening" when search engines pages started to imitate each other's blue title + grey descr + green…

> It is a bit disturbing that he took everything exactly... Still think they sound legit?