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by 13ren 18y ago
Thanks for reading, but your cynicism about my motives is misplaced.
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by 13ren 18y ago
As a software vendor who wants to be benevolent, but not rip myself off, I really like this about Freemium: do “good” and “well” at the same time . (see links to pg's "be good" at the end) But for selling software, if you were truly benevo
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by 13ren 18y ago
How to enforce the division between free and premium? I guess you choose a natural line, that doesn't need explicit enforcement - like 300 photos on flickr. There's no fuzziness about whether you have >300 photos or not, and the consequ
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by 13ren 18y ago
RDF is a new solution. What about the old solutions to this old problem? That's what I was asking about.
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Hybridization and the definition of species (outside.away.com)
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European court allows Lego interop(entertainment.slashdot.org)
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by 13ren 18y ago
I can see that would work well for when you're posting. For when you are reading, I guess it keeps your own personal attention uncluttered by noise. It also implies you wouldn't challenge poorly presented ideas, but just ignore them as nois
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by 13ren 18y ago
Lots of people (51 upvotes) didn't see the first one, so maybe it doesn't do any harm? Also, there's arguably a market in titles - I know I've missed stories of interest to me, because I didn't recognize that aspect of them from a specifi
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by 13ren 18y ago
This episode reminds me of "target fixation". When I was learning to hang glide, my instructor said that when you want to avoid a tree or power lines, it's important to not fixate on it, because the craft tends to follow the direction you l
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by 13ren 18y ago
Databases became an integration point about 30 years ago, when Oracle ported their DB to every platform in sight, and standardized on SQL as a a way to integrate across heterogeneous hardware environments. I agree with this blog post, but t
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by 13ren 18y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html I think you've combined two meanings in the word hostility : one is to argue and debate, i.e. antagonistic or Socratic; the other is to be disrespectful and insulting - aggressive domination, to wi
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by 13ren 18y ago
Yes. Warren Buffett has gone on record saying that if he only had a million dollars to invest (as opposed to umpty billion dollars), he was sure he could double it in a year. His problem is that there just aren't that many multi-billion dol
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by 13ren 18y ago
According to Warren Buffett, don't buy a stock, buy a (part of a) business: Find a good business to buy. If the price is right, buy it. It's like buying anything, really. In a market where all stock prices have fallen dramatically, you'll b
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by 13ren 18y ago
Similar GUI concept to navigating nested menus, adapted for a new purpose. ie: The top-level menu choice is AM or PM, then there are 12 sub-menus, and each has identically named set of sub-sub-menus (00, 15, 30, 45). EDIT a difference is
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by 13ren 18y ago
Didn't work for me (FF2, linux). EDIT no, it does. You have to hover and wait. When you click, it sets the time. (I was clicking immediately.) AH: the confusing thing is that it is already "open" when I visit the webpage. But the instruct
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by 13ren 18y ago
I think you're overrating your new funding. It's cool, but mainly because it means someone believes in you. Money is just money - not important in itself. Get over it as quick as you can. The great appeal of a startup is that early employe
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by 13ren 18y ago
There's an attitude of putting people down going round HN. The applicant in the story put down the other applicants. LeadLog put down him, publicly. And now, HN is putting down auston. Everyone is criticising everyone else's spelling and gr
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by 13ren 18y ago
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/TN/WRITINGS/TCOMPARADIGM/tedCom... http://www.arch.kth.se/unrealstockholm/unreal_web/seminar03_...
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by 13ren 18y ago
Yes, it does. I'm a bit confused though - I wasn't in question about that. Let me clarify: I was wondering if pg's bayesian filter works so well that publishing his email address won't cause a bump in spam for him - since he seems to hide
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by 13ren 18y ago
Her heroes work hard at whatever they love - it's not established why they love it, but it's established that they act on their love. Peter Keating (the shadow or antagonist of Howard Roark in the Fountainhead, with comparable ability
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by 13ren 18y ago
The 7 per day that it's not sure of are already in the spam folder. On the rare occasion one gets to my inbox, yes I click the report spam button.
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by 13ren 18y ago
http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracti...
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by 13ren 18y ago
I consider myself to have about 1.5-2 hours of "genius" per day. I don't know if it really is genius, but during it, I'm operating at an intellectual level where I feel that I'm really making progress, and am able to grasp things, formulate
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by 13ren 18y ago
Does this apply to the particular thesis of his in question? On HN, I've also heard that Seth Godin suffers from "confirmation bias" - but if we generalize about the person, instead of examining each specific thesis (and their support for i
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by 13ren 18y ago
I hope he has a good spam filter... I know pg pioneered bayesian spam-filtering, but I wonder how well it copes with publicly known email address? I tend to assume Gmail has the best spam filtering (with their massive database of email), bu
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by 13ren 18y ago
I was on the verge of leaving HN for a while because of the level of comments, especially the particular story in question, with ScottHanson etc on it. You're done a fundamentally good thing, in my opinion. To catch a thief: I think it's ve
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by 13ren 18y ago
I wonder if a factor is that Jobs makes many more attempts than most people, and goes from "failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" - but we remember the successes? He's had failures that would wash up most of us. Meanwhile, he gets b
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by 13ren 18y ago
In the comment you first replied to I did just that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=359751 EDIT I see now you were part of the sockpuppet trolling rampage. Now defeated and deleted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=360128
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by 13ren 18y ago
and what do you think? Please elaborate.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Why do people on HN discuss the title, and not the content? The average discussion on reddit/programming (for example) is now of higher quality than HN these days, for the same story - and with less oneupmanship. To me, the interesting thin

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