I'm guessing a zombie'd process won't respond either. Which is good if you are checking for validity of a process and not just the mere presence of a pid in the process list.

For fuck's sake, equity is not cash, stop using and thinking about it like cash.

And what kind of landlord would even go for this? Mortgages can't be paid in equity, either.

If someone is willing to buy your equity it's as good as cash.

You do need a buyer for it though...

> If someone is willing to buy your equity it's as good as cash.

Which means it isn't cash.

Because part of being in school is being around other people.

Plus you need all the right software.

So... he concludes that CPU bound tasks are CPU bound, and that parallelizing compilation (technically it would be the dispatch of compilation) is better?

Every time I read this guy I fail to get what his allure to developers is.

You have to fail 3 or 4 times before you learn what to look for in a partner.

Startups are difficult.

Right. So have a plan for failure, in addition to your plans for wild success.

> but later people start to get tired of it.

I assure you this is not the case in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Berlin, anywhere that car culture is the culture.

Once a place grows up with car culture, it very rarely loses it. That's the point of the article.

Both Tokyo and Berlin suffered major destruction and were rebuilt after the invention of the car.

I was thinking more along the lines of European towns like Zurich.

Mmmm.. 'k.

Having been born behind the iron curtain I do know there was no Marshall plan outside of Western Europe. But I did not know that cities in China were rebuilt 2 or 3 times for the sheer hell of it during the post-war period.

My point is that I agree with you, L.A. (like most American cities) is a city build around cars. I'm no sure about Berlin and Tokyo, but I am quite sure about the plethora of other west and east European cities I've enjoyed living in. Those cities, much like NY, are great to live in even if you don't own a car.

> "Print This Page". Cute. I am so not clicking through half a dozen pages on this slow-loading iPhone.

Clicking six times on an iPhone is way easier than typing that long-winded sentence with full punctuation and capitalization on an iPhone, wouldn't you say?

On the other hand, you have to admire people that go for full grammar, no matter how difficult it is to accomplish on the device they are using.

It would only require special effort to type the double quotes. The iPhone will fix capitalization for you, including converting iphone to iPhone.

The only commercial maglev running right now is in China, not Japan.

That architecture diagram makes no sense.