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by ForrestN 14y ago
Excellent, thanks. We hear so much the genesis of businesses but this phase of a business' life is fascinating too. Congratulations.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Wow! From DHH in the comments, it appears it did sell for the full asking price. Very curious to know more about the new owners. Buying a business outright and then running it isn't a scenario that gets covered very often on the startup beh
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by ForrestN 14y ago
It is a blatant ripoff down to colors, fonts, and even copy. Absolutely shameless.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I didn't argue that an iPad will make you happy. Rather that it would make a very young child more engaged, more "delighted" and thus, a bit happier, than would a command line interface. As I said elsewhere, it seems even more preferable fo
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I didn't argue that kids should use iPads instead of the real world. I think it may be better that they don't use computers at all. I was merely suggesting that an iPad might be better for them than a command line interface.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Oh man. First of all, the iPad (which I basically meant generically as "multi-touch tablet") is not a "shiny new tech toy." For most people, it represents many iterations on the kind of computer this man is using with his kids. For those of
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Agreed. Children's development has been tuned by ages and ages according to a world full of stimuli. The reason kids seems to go for iPads is because they are more like the actual world. You touch them, they react.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Which is what? That learning about computing is more important for children 5 and under than happiness?
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Am I the only one that feels a little queasy reading this? First of all: I think it's great to be teaching your kids about how computers function at a basic level. I think it's cool and admirable that his kids can use a command line. But th
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by ForrestN 14y ago
It must be nice to live in a world with such simple people!
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Well, it's true that elites may see populism with some suspicion, and may convey that to each other. But if you turn on Hardball (famous political TV program), many elites and many not-so-elites, depending on your vantage, might be urging O
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by ForrestN 14y ago
"Populist" is generally either neutral or positive in American politics. But most often I hear it used to describe a political strategy, going directly for the masses instead of the upper echelons of power.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Yes. At the margins, it's a complicated argument. But many people and institutions have purchased Morris's work for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and she has shown all over the world.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
As a person who spends all day looking at contemporary art as my job, everyone in my field considers this lawsuit totally insane. The way Sarah Morris's audience (and she has a very big one) approaches her work has absolutely nothing to do
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I found Asana quite frustrating to use, and am happy using Basecamp.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Where have you seen that it is costing them more to secure new business than they make off their customers? I'm fairly confident that isn't true.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I downvoted because the opinion is generic, reactionary and not insightful. Groupon has lots of problems, but some blanket stereotype about VC funding and the identification of Groupon, which millions of people choose to use, as "stupid," i
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Why is this downvoted? Seems relevant and fairly apt, if a bit too pointed.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I think you're conflating style and substance a little too fully. I can appreciate your objection to "ripped it to shreds," but that's not a very substantive objection to the reporting/analysis. Your desire not to be told who is right is pr
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I don't think the parent claimed that it is "some white thing" in the sense that this phenomenon only applies to white cultures. Instead, he was referring to the topic of discussion here, namely an example of white culture perpetrating this
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by ForrestN 14y ago
The fact that non-white cultures also distort their youths' understanding of history to their own benefit isn't a valid argument for Americans to continue to do so. And it isn't a valid argument against skepticism on the part of students.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
This is a bit straw man; no one ever said he wasn't exaggerating. The author isn't objecting to some precisely calibrated sentiment. He's disputing the premise: that Tesla is singularly important, and that Edison is vastly overrated. The a
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Really? I don't quite understand how you're using "tongue-in-cheek" here, but I didn't take the article to be sarcastic at all. I'm not an avid reader of the comic, but it reads to me like someone who's a passionate fan of Tesla, making a s
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by ForrestN 14y ago
It's not about the money, and it's not about "him." You feel bad about yourself. Part of you wants to be unhappy. This likely has a lot more to do with conflicts from your childhood than some new philosophical puzzle presented by late capit
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I must say I feel a bit bad for the writer, especially after the update. He reads, to me, as feeling a lot of pressure to self-identify as happy. As if a truly brilliant entrepreneur, a real success, couldn't struggle with, for example, anx
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Thanks! That makes sense. I just hear so many names of individuals being associated with these windfalls it's easy to imagine them continuing to invest on the basis of their holdings being liquidated.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I understand, and maybe agree with, your assertion. But, you could also say that this is part of the problem. Does even more refinement, and even better solution to the problem of how to share the trivia of your life with the same few peopl
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Clearly there isn't just one reason, right? Can't all of these factors, and others, be contributing? I don't claim to know who's right, or how to weight the various factors, but big exits certainly do free up capital to be reinvested in mor
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I don't think he is arguing that he doesn't like the problems that are being solved. He does mention that he sees the same problems being solved over and over again for more and more money, photo sharing being a timely example. I don't know
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I am very curious if there is more information they'd be willing to release. For example, how many of those $99 customers are happy, how many have garnered business they can confirm came from Sortfolio, etc. It seems like they've started, b

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