theoneill | 15 years ago | on: Larry Page and Wall Street: Who needs who?
Google has two classes of stock.
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theoneill | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Rate my weekend project.
Depends what you mean by memes. The things on this site aren't really memes in the original sense of the word. The reason these things are boring is probably that as humor they fall on the far billboard end of the billboard-Shakespeare continuum: they are designed for quick (but inevitably shallow) appeal.
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Good digital watches for hackers?
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: Asia's new aristocrats
Even in China, my dad didn't eat rice until he was in his teens.
What did he eat?
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: Goldman docs: Facebook income $355m, revenue $1.2bn (first 9 months of 2010)
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)
There's nothing illegal about age discrimination when choosing a cofounder, just as there isn't when choosing a friend.
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: London's high-tech start-ups: Silicon Roundabout
"McKinsey, a consultancy, will share management expertise."
God help them.
theoneill | 15 years ago
That's a metaphor.
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO
50m is not the valuation; it's the amount of stock they're selling.
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: To truly become rich, you need to stop acting like it
Your comment would be more effective without the parts on either end.
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: Microsoft registered fuckbing.com
Seems like the least we can do is use it. I propose we use this by default for links to bing.
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: Failures in mobile space cost Steve Ballmer half his bonus
Not even that. His salary is rounding error compared to his net worth.
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: Will America’s universities go the way of its car companies?
"The supply of papers that apply gender theory to literary criticism remains ample."
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: New York's Water Filled With Invisible Shrimp
Reminds one of the invisible clams in Scientology.
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
The list _delirium and I are referring to is this one of 4 items:
All three appear to be single white 20something males
It's lame when someone writes off a group of people based on such superficial characteristics.
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
In a long enough list, by definition it's reasonable.
The problem is, this was a short list.
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
And their race is supposed to predict this? I've heard white people can actually be quite different from one another.
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
Why is it bad that they're white?
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: 'Remove Google Background' surges to number 2 in Google Trends
You may well be right. The artists involved are exactly the ones that would be chosen in that scenario. Which is unfortunate.
theoneill | 15 years ago | on: Wage Slavery - Applicable to [Nearly] Everybody?
It's just a figure of speech. There are plenty of other figures of speech that would be even more "offensive" if we applied this unreasonably strict standard to them.
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