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Do you use Mac? It seems writing a script would be easier for Mac. I can try to cook one up. I will post it here if I succeed.

I think he asked for the full database dump, not a meaningless country-level zoomed screenshot. But I give you props for revealing even this much; I would have certainly not done so.

Way to miss the point.

Earlier, entities recording: cell company. Earlier, entities with access: police, cell company

Now, entities recording: cell company, Apple Now, entities with access: police, cell company, anybody who temporarily gains access to my phone, anybody who temporarily gains access to my iTunes computer

See, how the "attack surface" is dramatically bigger now?

I found your pricing page confusing. What does this mean:

> I can show my visitors up to 12,000 minutes of streaming video > I can upload & process up to 600 minutes of new video

Second what do you mean by "you pay only once"?

I'm finding that I miss the comment points, but I didn't think I would.

PG should do another experiment where he hides the submitter and commenter names while showing the comment points for N hours (N tbd) after the comment goes live.

I'm finding it really hard to justify TechCrunch's continued practice of publishing purloined documents when there is no public interest at stake.

So your reply about atrocious customer service (i.e., a post about a PAYING customer being unable to get access to his file) is to say "well, you should have backed up"?

The real story here is that a paying customer was unable to get anything better than a free user.

FWIW, I must be lazy or something, but I don't think the user of a VERSIONED online document storage service should be reasonably be expected to also have his/her own backups. What the hell am I paying for then?

Why do you have the others as friends?

If you visit India again or just contemplate the differences between India and America, you'll see that A LOT of the GDP in the USA is generated via internal trade. And this happens because the USA is an efficient economy, with a lot of know how (i.e., "techonology" in the abstract form). India is progressing towards making it's systems efficient thereby allowing internal trade.

You seem to think that exporting goods is the only way to absorb extra industrial and service capacity. Yes, if you want do things double quick. But if you're OK with doing it ploddingly (like India is), a gradual ramp up of internal demand (due increased economic efficiency + scientific inputs) can also lift up everybody's standard of living.

Remember, there's actually not that much of a dearth of capital in India (people love to hoard gold; land is an asset etc). But there is a dearth of investment. Anyway, I'm repeating myself.

I've gotten restricted stock units (orders of magnitude less obviously), and I definitely don't recall them working like a loan etc.

The transaction is that you get N shares over a K-year vesting schedule (cliff + monthly/quarterly vesting etc). The dollar value on shares that TC published is arrived at by multiplying N by today's GOOG stock price.

This is better for the employee than cash because the stock price in one year may be higher than today. For the same reason, it's better for the company to give shares instead of cash, since they can pay out less in today's dollars.

Yes, you did: "bodies from the Tsunami are too radioactive to be recoverable".

Heartless as it sounds, it is absolutely fair to think about how to protect the business and yourself in the event that a fully vested founder were to be unable to do the duties one has reasonably assumed they would do.

Ownership shares are not like salary (imho): they're not just for past work, but also for future contributions.

Without specifics on to what extent exactly they were planning to dilute him, I am not prepared to condemn BillG. YMMV.

Jobs' actual cheating through a straightforward lie to Woz wrt how much they got paid for Atari's contract job they did is FAR worse than a planning conversation BillG had. IMHO. http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/hackers/steve-wozniak/

The parent claimed "least loyal and trustworthy friend".

Where have you supported that claim? If you've "met" BG, I invite you to post some already-known anecdotes etc about his conduct as a friend, which is exactly what I asked about.

"least loyal and trustworthy friends a person could ask for": citation?

Are you referring to the discussion Gates and Ballmer had about diluting Allen? That seems to be a way to dilute a founder who was slacking off. The word partnership is used several times; this may imply that everybody was 100% vested already. If so, this is the only thing they could do to somebody who wasn't pulling his weight.

The reasons for India's population growth are manifold. Your comments adds nothing of value, trivializes a complex problem, and contributed to continued misinformation about this topic.

According to my readings, two underappreciated reasons are:

1) unavailability of doctors/medical centers to do female sterilizations. Women literally riot in mobile sterilization camps if the camp closes before all of them are looked after. Men refuse to use condoms or get sterilized, but women do want to limit the number of children.

2) HUGE infant and child mortality among the poorer classes. If the probability of your child surviving to adulthood was low, you'd have three to five children too.

Neither of these are covered in your glib remark about porn. You should educate yourself more about your country.

If the alternative is to get blocked for everybody, then why wouldn't they agree?

Kama Sutra is about 2000 years old in the current form, according to Wikipedia 2 CE. To put this in perspective, this predates the Muslim/Mongol invasions by about 1000 years, British invasion/colonization by 1700 years etc. Societies change.

Umm, Mountain View/Sunnyvale/San Jose don't have which of the above? Btw, I upvoted you giving a nice list of things taxes support.

I read his post as being about the quake. with the tsunami, all bets were off. i suspect what you're describing is the aftermath of the tsunami, not the quake.

Yes, but each programmer has his own hash table wheel, which is most probably an undocumented, unholy mess of #defines, void*'s and function pointers.

Umm, I regularly do what you described (glue language + low-level language) with C++ and Tcl. This is more productive than C and glue language.

I absolutely LOVE not having to reinvent wheels like hash tables. Recently, boost added an interval data structure. I just wrote a few lines to expose those functions as Tcl commands. Whammo, I could prototype all I wanted in Tcl!

Thanks for the reply. I stand corrected.

Citation? Sorry, doesn't ring true.

Maybe I'm missing something. Are you saying that in your application, handling rarely-occuring unanticipated disconnections via exceptions has such high overhead that its results in unacceptable performance?

If you don't make it clear you're doing it, or if you don't phrase it as a question, then you're being dishonest. I don't talk about anything serious anymore with few people who've pulled this trick a few times on me. I'd rather address people real opinions instead of their made up ones.

Whoa. I've discussed this myself in my ... youth. Now I don't for fear of being labeled as a weirdo. I think still think I would go.

The universe and the brain are both infinite: you can feel the same way either by looking inwards (connecting to people, meditating etc) or by exploring the wonders of the universe. Guess what evolution has equipped most of to do better? Sorry about the babbling. :)

Redhat is not obligated to take on anybody and everybody as a customer.

So you have evidence?

Stay truthful.