| 2009/6/1-3 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:53068 Activity:high | 5/31 History of winners and losers by *popularity*:
VHS > Beta Max
USB2 > Firewire
x86 > PowerPC > Everything Else > DEC Alpha > Itanium
BlueRay > HDDvd
\_ It's too early to tell RE: "Blue"Ray. They may both turn out to be
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| 2008/4/3-9 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:49657 Activity:low | 4/3 Google to lay off 1/4 of its DoubleClick employees. Still
holding on Google from $600-700? Bahahahaha -short G guy
\_ Why are you still happy? GOOG has stopped dropping in the past
couple of weeks and I'm not happy.
\_ How's that short at 100/200/300/400 working out?
\- stock prices usually go up in the short term after
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| 2008/4/3-9 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:49659 Activity:low | 4/3 So, hates google guy, which search engine do you use?
\_ Google for search, Yahoo for news/maps/weather/subject-lookup/mail/
etc. -- one of the hate-google guys
\_ Google for non-news search, Yahoo for news, news search, maps,
weather, subject lookup, mail, etc. -- sour grape guy
\_ I am similar, although I usually try Yahoo! first before
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| 2008/3/13-17 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:49451 Activity:moderate | 3/13 Firefox 3 Beta 4: Fast, cleans up memory good on minimize, stable,
can install alongside FireFox 2.x
Cons: Extensions don't work and need to install beta versions, rich
urlbar is nasty but as of today you can install oldbar extension
Ah-nold would say: Fuckin' fan-tah-stik!
\_ Does it use less memory than 2.x when not minimized? Long ago Fx
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| 2007/4/13-16 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:46291 Activity:nil | 4/13 I use IE7 to browse a web site, and the server says the UserAgent
string is
"UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET
CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)"
Is MS bowing to the Mozilla community?
\_ What are you talking about? IE has always reported its UserAgent
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| 2005/9/1-2 [Computer/Companies/Yahoo] UID:39417 Activity:nil | 9/1 I hate Yahoo. After being pushed persistently by their GUI to
upgrade to YM7, and answering questions that ask me if I'm SURE
that I don't want to install their tool bar and use their site
as the default search engine, YM7 installer still installed a
stupid Yahoo toolbar. Yahoo is getting more and more annoying
like AOL and Netscape used to be. I hate Yahoo, I'll never
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| 2005/8/31 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:39387 Activity:nil | 8/31 Do any legitimate user-agents make HTTP requests without
an HTTP Host: header these days?
\_ Not since Netscape 1.1. -tom
\_ What about search engine spiders?
\_ They don't if they want to index correctly.
\_ Thanks. When GoogleBot makes requests with HTTP/1.0
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| 2005/4/30-5/3 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:37434 Activity:moderate | 4/30 In Outlook Express I get an error message everytime I check my
CSUA account, although I still get my mail. I am using POP port 995
with SSL. Is there a way I can prevent this message, it's annoying:
"The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that
could not be verified. A certificate chain processed, but terminated
in a root certificate which is not trusted by the trust provider. Do
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| 2009/10/6-22 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd, Industry/Startup] UID:53431 Activity:moderate | 10/5 any UC berkeley students that had successful startups
in the past 15 years?
\_ all the Cal grads I know with MBAs are in VC or finance.
maybe they are just better at risk analysis... starting a company
is not a great way to make money!
\_ I'm a Cal grad with an MBA working in Finance (not High Finance).
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| 2009/5/8-14 [Industry/Startup] UID:52970 Activity:kinda low | 5/7 (I am revising my numbers, in my fit of rage at 4am in the morn,
I made some math errors I didn't feel like correcting. anyway...)
I work at a year old startup, 50 employees, pre-IPO (duh!), exit
strategy is to either become profitable company or get bought,
almost profitable but not quite, fast paced, lots of work,
everyone pulls weight, I just found out my non founder CEO makes
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| 2007/9/11-13 [Industry/Startup] UID:48021 Activity:nil | 9/11 I think I have a nifty idea for a software project, but since
I am not independently wealthy AND I don't feel like having it
ripped off so that I wind up with nothing, I was wondering if
the MOTD could advise me on how I could wisely go about getting
funding for this project, and protect myself. If I should only
stick with close friends and relatives, then I will do so.
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| 2005/10/5-6 [Industry/Jobs, Politics/Foreign/Asia/Others] UID:39990 Activity:moderate | 10/5 Hypothetical question: Suppose there's a shortage of resources,
should the free market take its course which will hopefully
make self-corrections, or should the government intervene and
ration resources? What are the pros and cons for either approaches?
\_ don't know about pro and con, I just know that in reality,
free market is never allowed to distribute critical/essential
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| 2003/4/15-16 [Industry/Startup] UID:28128 Activity:insanely high | 4/15 I'd like to recycle my empty glass bottles of Corona beer, except
they have lime slices in them? What do i do?
\- residential level recycling is basically pointless so do whatever
you want. do you think people carefully sort their newspapers vs
"other paper"? --psb
\_ I actually do.
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| 2001/10/21 [Industry/Jobs, Industry/Startup] UID:22787 Activity:high | 10/19 They are laying off 5 people in my group within the next two
weeks? Don't know who yet, they won't tell us. What should I do
in preparation?
\_ How many in your group? Work on your resume. Start your job
search now. Don't wait to get axed. If you have, uh, "special
access", abuse it and read HR and Finance's email to see who is
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| 2001/6/22 [Industry/Startup] UID:21599 Activity:very high | 6/21 Anybody in a startup right now? How is it like? layoffs and money
running out? I keep getting calls from startups and I'm wondering if
I should leave my cushy job to risk it all. Thanks.
\_ make sure they pay cash.
\_ up front.
\_ and ask for 2 forms of ID
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| 2000/11/17-19 [Industry/Startup] UID:19812 Activity:low | 11/17 What are the implications (URL would be great) of being an officer
of a company? I'm VP Eng of a new startup, and I'm wondering how/why
I should push to be an officer.
\_ I don't know if you have vc funding yet, but _unless_ you are really
really really hip and profitable, VCs replace all the "O"s in a
startup after they give you money and move in their own O's.
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