limiting

Every web crawler should have some form of rate limiting.

You can set a flag on the Linux kernel when it boots limiting it to the first N cores.

And so our software is designed in a very narrow and limiting fashion.

Where page-views are the limiting resource, and computation is not.

DRM is about limiting the functionality of devices and selling features back in the form of services.

There's no licensing body limiting the number of developers, and no hazing process that makes requires giving up the best years of your life.

For example, you can imagine limiting the number of results returned from one single site to allow other results to show up instead.

General purpose computers achieve good economics by limiting memory and I/O bandwidth to stuff that will fit in a single piece of silicon.

And why should this be relevant to board service?Politics, religion, and social worldviews divide people and have no place as limiting tests in a business environment.

As others have indicated, the limiting factor isn't so much speed of delivery as the inclination to physically inspect items before buying them.

Bitcoin's supply limiting design has added a psychological dimension that encourages collecting.

While I like the sentiment here, I think the danger is that engineers might come to the mistaken conclusion that making pizzas is the primary limiting reagent to running a successful pizzeria.

It's not a responsiveness or tracking issue, it's that interacting with screens at oblique angles is annoying and many times tilt/rotation interactions require pretty large arm movements compared to finger movements, limiting when and where they're useful.

A century ago, knowledge and raw materials was usually the limiting factor in discovery and a single genius scientist could make a giant leap in a field because there were a limited number of people total that had access to the knowledge and materials for furthering that area of interest.

Yet, while doing just that and limiting his ruling to the particular facts before him, Judge Alsup has provided a definitive and logically compelling approach to how such issues are to be decided where they concern APIs and copyright and such reasoning is, in my view, destined to be widely applied throughout the court system going forward.

It also means you create tax risks and complications: if the equity round is too near the time of formation, the $.0001/sh pricing used by founders for their shares may look funny next to the much higher amount per share paid by investors, raising risks that the founders can be deemed to have received their shares at the higher valuation as potentially taxable service income; once you do an equity round, you will need to do 409A valuations in connection with doing option grants and that necessitates getting outside independent appraisals; equity rounds come with strings, including investor preferences, investor protective provisions limiting what you can do as a founder without investor approval, co-sale and first refusal rights favoring investors and concomitantly limiting founders, board seats and/or observer rights for investors, and the like.