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Comment Re:Mafia (Score 1) 554

by bracher on Friday November 11, 2011 @12:48PM (#38025612) Attached to: Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired

Don't take a job based on shares. Just assume they're going to make them worthless in the long run. Yeah, it makes it harder to join a startup early on, but it's the funded startups you want to work for, anyway.

exactly! at my first startup we referred to them as "lottery tickets" and just assumed they'd be worthless. if the salary they offer you isn't sufficient, then the worthless pieces of paper don't help things along...

Comment Re:I'm making money (Score 1) 542

by bracher on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @04:26PM (#37925076) Attached to: Is the Apple App Store a Casino?

How? By writing apps for all those people that think they're going to get rich from App Store.

It has always been this way. Sun, SGI, MEC, NetApp... They all made a killing in the mid-90s by selling to fledgling internet firms that had no hope of ever making money, but had VC money to spend on their way to failure.

Comment Re:MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell has an excellent rep (Score 1) 961

by bracher on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @03:46PM (#37530596) Attached to: Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating

excoriate was the correct choice of words.

Comment Re: Teflon (Score 1) 85

by bracher on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @06:23PM (#37404372) Attached to: Algorithm Predicts New Superhard Materials

The quest for a new refrigerant gas gave us teflon...

Comment Re:Repub? (Score 1) 268

by bracher on Thursday July 14, 2011 @12:18PM (#36764066) Attached to: McCain Asks For Committee On Wikileaks, Anonymous

...and Mitch McConnell is _not_ the majority leader. Wishful thinking on the part of the submitter?

Comment Re:What an ugly move to discredit wikileaks (Score 1) 495

by bracher on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @04:18PM (#35083182) Attached to: WikiLeaks Nominated For 2011 Nobel Peace Prize

Clearly a wretched hive of scum and villainy... if you're a conservative.

I'm pretty sure they were talking about 1973 when Henry Kissinger won the award. http://www.zpub.com/un/wanted-hkiss.html

Comment Is it just me? (Score 2, Interesting) 152

by bracher on Monday August 30, 2010 @03:11PM (#33418308) Attached to: Apertus, the Open Source HD Movie Camera

Or is this really the Elphel opensource/openhardware camera, and how Apertus hopes to add things around the edges. The camera is Elphel, as is the sensor and the software. The only thing that seems to be community-designed/built is the "rod" packaging, and maybe the battery rig.

Comment Re:Let me get this straight... (Score 1) 359

by bracher on Wednesday June 16, 2010 @02:23PM (#32592890) Attached to: In Ukraine, IT Freelancing Under Threat

I have this vivid memory from the first week of Radical Political Economy at university... The professor was explaining the Laffer Curve, sketching in the usual smooth curve from 0/0 to 0/100. He then proceeded to say that, of course, the curve doesn't look like _this_... It looks more like...... and then draws an overlapping rats-nest beginning at 0/0 and ending at 0/100. Brilliant!

Comment Re:Uh, no. They didn't. (Score 1) 531

by bracher on Friday January 29, 2010 @05:15PM (#30955164) Attached to: Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform?

Exactly. If my aim was to "easily revive board game culture and introduce new generations to classic family games", then I'd got to Target and spend $20. And his scrabble idea would amount to one _expensive_ game of scrabble... $500 gameboard and $100+ for each players' letter holder???

Comment Re:Porn and hamburgers (Score 1) 512

by bracher on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @02:24PM (#29507037) Attached to: French Deputies Moving Against Photoshopped Ads

Yeah, I saw one of those signs at LAX last week, at the check-in counter. Made me wonder _what_ they could possibly be talking about... The signs are wondrously non-specific...

Comment Fourth Law of Motion? (Score 1) 383

by bracher on Monday August 31, 2009 @01:14PM (#29263033) Attached to: Apple Blames 'External Forces' For Exploding iPhones

I guess this is some additional work by Newton that I'm blanking on?

An unexploded object tends to remain unexploded unless acted upon by an external force.

Maybe I should have paid more attention in freshman physics...

Comment Re:Tomato (Score 1) 272

by bracher on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @10:47AM (#27311693) Attached to: Botnet Worm Targets DSL Modems and Routers

openwrt (7.09, 8.09) blocks ssh via the wan by default.

Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native 493

Posted by timothy on Friday February 13, 2009 @08:33AM from the that-sounds-hard-to-swallow dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tuxradar did some benchmarks comparing Firefox's Windows and Linux JavaScript performance. 'We did some simple JavaScript benchmarks of Firefox 3.0 using Windows and Linux to see how it performed across the platforms — and the results are pretty bleak for Linux.' Later on, they tried Wine. 'The end result: Firefox from Mozilla or from Fedora has almost nil speed difference, and Firefox running on Wine is faster than native Firefox.'"

New Google Favicon Deja Vu All Over Again? 227

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 11, 2009 @08:52PM from the matters-of-deep-significance dept.

theodp writes "Last June, Google rolled out a new favicon, the small branding icon that graces your URL bar when you visit Google. Which, as it turned out, bore a striking similarity to Garth Brooks' Circle-G logo. Well, Google went back to the drawing board and has come back with a new favicon, which it says was inspired by — not copied from, mind you — its users' submitted ideas. Some are also seeing inspiration elsewhere for the new favicon, which consists of white 'g' on a background of four color swatches. Take the AVG antivirus icon, for instance. Or everybody's favorite memory toy, Simon. Or — in perhaps the unkindest cut of all — the four-color Microsoft Windows logo, shown here with a superimposed white '7'. Anything else come to mind?" What comes to mind for me is just how obsessed many people are with the Google favicon.

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