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"There is a less extreme formulation that is pretty well accepted in academia - namely that the purpose of a business is to "satisfy all stakeholders."" - Owen Byrne

"My understanding is that both "Theory X" and "Theory Y" have largely been superseded by "Theory Z," also known as "a bit of both."" - Owen Byrne

"The first thing I thought of when reading the story was can we do the same thing for God?" - Owen Byrne

"I'm not convinced that it was the "Golden Child" who instigated the change, and that the "adult supervision" should have stood up and objected. My impression of dotcom execs is they're generally more rapacious, unethical and greedy than any founder." - Owen Byrne

"My first thought on reading the article that he wasn't using "blueprint" in the sense of the word that most people around here would." - Owen Byrne

"I don't think that's correct. The text at the top refers to "Holders of Treasury Securities" and the legend on the side says each $ equals 10m of Treasury Securities. I.e. debt. In addition the graphic seems totally screwy. There are 32 rows of 35 dollar signs (total of 1120) which means that $11.2 billion are represented. Which bears no resemblance to either the number at the top nor the one at the bottom. In addition, the number at the top ($3.4 billion) seems quite small in relation to the one at the bottom. Seems screwed up." - Owen Byrne

"When I lived in the valley there were a bazillion Canadians there. Someone told me at one point that the bay area can be thought of as the 5th largest Canadian city. I'm from Nova Scotia myself, but now in MA." - Owen Byrne

"Carsonified had never done conferences before?" - Owen Byrne

""At the top of every company, there's at least one person who really cares and really wants the product and the customer experience to be great." In my experience that person is rarely at the top." - Owen Byrne

"This makes less sense since the parent fixed his spelling error." - Owen Byrne

"From wikipedia: "Monazite is a reddish-brown phosphate mineral containing rare earth metals and is an important source of thorium, lanthanum, and cerium. It occurs usually in small isolated crystals." I'm guessing that's not what you meant." - Owen Byrne

"Which is kind of insane, given that Shopify is based in Canada." - Owen Byrne

"I meant to say "I don't think anybody believes sales and marketing _aren't_ as important as engineering...." - Owen Byrne

"Funny. But I'm guessing not Hacker News." - Owen Byrne

"I don't think anybody believes that sales and marketing are as important as engineering. I think instead that most people here believe that all the sales and marketing people treat engineering as if it doesn't matter at all. And we'll cheer for anyone who says it's not the case." - Owen Byrne

"Good luck finding a $5 movie night. They've pretty well disappeared." - Owen Byrne

"To some people (those with expensive home theatre setups) theaters are often a value-subtracted service." - Owen Byrne

"People do pay more to see a movie in some cases though. Either they pay $20 to see it in a theater (including overpriced popcorn and soda), or they purchase the dvd." - Owen Byrne

"I thought I'd seen it, but couldn't find it in a quick search. And the extra slash on the end of the url stopped it from triggering the dupe detector. Seems like a simple fix to match up urls with or without a trailing slash." - Owen Byrne

"It's implied by the last paragraph (the bit about test-driving) that you have to sign up to see the actual CVs." - Owen Byrne

"Good point." - Owen Byrne

"So my question is - if the startup has $250k in funding, why can't they sponsor for an H1B for the founder(s)?" - Owen Byrne

"I really enjoyed "A Pattern Language, " even though it wasn't relevant to my life other than its influence on the Design Patterns people." - Owen Byrne

"You found the form with 12 fields to fill in to be frictionless?" - Owen Byrne

"The site is nothing but a demo and a "Notify me when you're actually accepting customers." There's links to 5 other sites that do the exact same thing. There's literally hundreds of other sites out there that do similar things." - Owen Byrne

"There is an open alternative - http://identi.ca/ - it hasn't really taken off." - Owen Byrne

"Maybe it's just me, but I find this article slightly more comprehensible than his previous articles." - Owen Byrne

""However, current tastes and sensitivities make it highly unlikely that a comedy group would even attempt making a film like Brian today" It seems from the article that it was highly unlikely that a comedy group would even attempt making a film like Brian in 1979. I highly recommend Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) - it's a great documentary about Python. The author of the article appears several times." - Owen Byrne

"Ok, perhaps I wasn't clear. I love everything in this article, but it's hard to say anything that doesn't increase the complexity of it, which is the whole problem with people hiring programmers. So I'll say it again. Yep." - Owen Byrne

"Yep." - Owen Byrne