d13hard · HackerTrans

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 may fluctuate with a variety of factors...but, US treasuries can be redeemed with created accounts by a 1982 law, making them the fiat equivalent of the US dollar itself. whether you can do anything with those dollars is another issue, but thats not an assurance issue, its a trade issue

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i'd hardly call this power-using emacs

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boehm garbage collector is news???

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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 to live on faith, thats a red flag. look at the companies with huge (or even just respectable) cash reserves...they might have (or want) to do a layoff, but they know full well the company will make it through this

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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)

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

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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 features. you can't even really query.

these models have superficial appeal until you realize that all the querying you would do in the db model now has to be done out-of-band into some sort of materialized view...e.g. if you want to have a group of rows that meet some criteria, you need to store it somewhere else out of band...the database can't help you with realtime queries because there is nothing to query on

in general i would avoid this model unless you have a huge scaling issue

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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 warren was just a slightly-better-than-average investor whose career tended to coincide with a generational bull. at this point i don't think berkshire will outperform tbills.

warren, give it up. you'll be dead before the next secular bull arrives.

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i guess this is how one 24 year-old impresses another one

see: blowing smoke

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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 can't be maintained as easily as it can be created

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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" with your name on it...but what really sets you apart from kleiner, benchmark, sequioa, mayfield, etc? these firms are also underperforming in the valley and hardly outpacing the sp500 since 99.

and i'll call his bluff on facebook...ok marc, tell us how the business could move to blns in revenue this year? i'm sure their VCs would like to know, because so far facebook is a colossal money pit that actually loses more for investors the more popular it gets. its so obvious that there is no reason for msft or goog to offer to buy the company, they know that they can win a game of chicken with valley VCs. just keep waiting ballmer, you'll get facebook for $800 mln.

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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 than saturating your outbound link.

and if you use thttpd, lighttpd, etc now you have two codebases to track cracks and updates against, two configs to maintain..

for static content you use a CDN.

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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

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

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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 httperf or ab at my console. i'm sorry hackers, you need to know how to do this yourself. just hearing someone tell you your site is slow is useless unless you know WHY. knowing WHY means looking at your system in detail as well as your site design and achitecture. there is no "for dummies" route here. just giving me pretty graphs saying my site is slow is pointless.

its so trivial to run siege...why would you pay someone to do this? is their load tool even as good as siege? how can they possibly match the pummeling i can deliver on the LAN. load testing is best done locally. i won't be downmodded by anyone who does load testing as part of their actual job

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nothing legal

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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 million is nothing. a hundred million is nothing. in the time it took me to write this, five billion in bonds were traded

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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 that trust now. VCs need to drill "don't be evil" into their firms earlier.

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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 in the bay area and even in these times, $150k starting salary is not being balked at or even questioned. $150k seems to be the floor for negotiation with many. and thats for engineering...god only knows what the "ceo" is earning, likely $250k or more.

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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 people forget about this simple fact. depending on how the deal is structured, there is a good chance that your tax bill is $1 million. oh by the way they then adjust your next year's taxes upwards and want quarterlies...so leave some money for those (you will get most of it back since your gain is non-recurring)

but still, you're a millionaire.

edit: whoops! i see you say you are in canada. well i suppose the tax situation is likely comparable....

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