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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by allenbrunson on Sunday October 25, 2009 @05:57PM (#902206)
There are a bunch of passages surrounded by asterisks. Shouldn't that be italics?
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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by pg on Sunday October 25, 2009 @06:14PM (#902234)
Fixed, thanks.
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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by dunstad on Sunday October 25, 2009 @06:38PM (#902274)
At the beginning of section 6. Think Long Term, you say "shear stress", but I think the word you intended to use is "sheer".
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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by swolchok on Sunday October 25, 2009 @06:49PM (#902282)
It's correct as written. See sense 9 at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shear -- shearing stress is the stress between two blocks pressed together along a plane and moving in opposite directions parallel to that plane.

It's a very nice analogy: the startup is moving fast in one direction and the VC or whatever is moving slowly in another one.

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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by cperciva on Sunday October 25, 2009 @09:40PM (#902477)
It's a very nice analogy: the startup is moving fast in one direction and the VC or whatever is moving slowly in another one.

Personally I prefer the phrase "impedance mismatch".

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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by swolchok on Sunday October 25, 2009 @11:03PM (#902552)
It's much harder to explain impedance concisely. I, for one, never took a circuits class, and I wouldn't expect other CS programs to require one either.
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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by dunstad on Sunday October 25, 2009 @06:59PM (#902296)
Okay, thanks for the clarification.
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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by jlees on Monday October 26, 2009 @02:52AM (#902740)
pg actually spelt it out during the talk, as well.
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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by pclark on Sunday October 25, 2009 @06:20PM (#902244)
off topic, but I'd really like to see block quotes in hacker news comments.
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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by RiderOfGiraffes on Sunday October 25, 2009 @06:52PM (#902283)
What do you mean by "block quotes"?

  You can already use "Code Mode"
  to quote exactly, get things in
  a different font, and formatted
  exactly as you wish.
It's a fixed width font, though.
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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by adw on Sunday October 25, 2009 @09:01PM (#902450)
Presumably <blockquote>?
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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by rms on Sunday October 25, 2009 @11:59PM (#902609)
The pattern of block quotes tends to degrade comment quality
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