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by GavinB 17y ago
Most speakers occasionally have problems expressing themselves, are at a loss for words, or make grammar or usage errors. By the definitions set forth in this article, the majority of native speakers of english aren't fluent. Unless you're
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This line threw me too, but success is something that can be defined in a lot of ways. If you define success in terms of growth rate and speed from idea to market dominance and massive profits, then Google is right up there. It all depends
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It’s actually in Microsoft’s favor to cast the choice as “Mac vs. PC.” There’s plenty of room in the market for a premium brand and a value brand. The endless Mac vs. PC flame war has been tremendously profitable for both companies, and it
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The graphs are beautiful, but where is the information coming from? As far as I can tell it's just guesswork. One major oversight is that even today we still get a large portion of news from the "local marketplace." It's just that now it's
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The idea is that you get paid based on how many people visit your site. There should probably be significant bonuses based on sign ups coming from/through your site.
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Well, we got Chinese Democracy, so 1 out of 2 isn't bad.
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So most people in the top 3% have rational, planned investment and management strategies, and most people in the remaining 97% bounce around in a seemingly random fashion based on their talents and interests. That sounds about right. It's n
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As much as I hate to admit it, I had an 'aha' moment while reading this. I know that feeling, but I wonder if that might be another tendency worth training away. "Aha" moments are one of the greatest pleasures in life and should be activ
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A "digital machine" can have eyes, ears, mouth, nose and skin. Besides that, flesh animals do rules-based calculations--physics.
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The article asks “Is it worth 3 months working by yourself to get 10x a better deal?” It’s asking you to make a false choice. Which e-mail is a VC or Angel more likely to reply to: a) We worked three months on our own and built a prototype
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The YC companies aren't being offered the 2M angel valuation, so it seems silly to compare them directly like this. There's nothing barring YC companies from taking more investment after the 3 months in which they go from an idea to a launc
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The first test seemed to me just proving that you can trick your body into releasing energy reserves by giving it the promise of some energy. In a philosophical sense, fatigue is “in the mind.” But in a physical sense, it’s a (rough and fre
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It all has to do with the perceived attractiveness of the group members, especially those composed primarily of females. If they attractive people are spread out among groups, the cliques are separate but equal. If they're concentrated, t
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The interesting point for me here is NPR's revenue model. They're supported by tasteful sponsorships and donations, and they give their content away. They're more successful at this model than any website that I can think of. They are the
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The problem is that he's really not saying anything of substance. He makes an appeal to rationality and then proceeds on a disorganized discussion that doesn't come to any useful conclusion. Botkin says "We are told that the melting of the
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by GavinB 18y ago
I imagine you'll find it pretty frustrating when people start reprogramming their robotic servants to believe in their preferred god.
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by GavinB 18y ago
Online font use is extremely public. Wouldn't it be easy to just license fonts per domain and then crawl to see who's using it without a license? Dynamic web fonts are the most enforceable copyright there is. With a reasonable fee structur
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by GavinB 18y ago
The big distinction that a google social network has is that its internal messaging system is real e-mail. Facebook relies on e-mail to keep users updated if they don't log in. This means that social networking can be tied directly into you
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by GavinB 18y ago
Once you change it to the old-style theme, remove the nag screens, and delete the junk that comes pre-installed on most comps, Vista is actually quite decent. If MS had just shipped without the nag screens and with a lightweight desktop the
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by GavinB 18y ago
Great site. I don't know how difficult it would be to implement or whether it would hurt the performance, but it would be great if you overlaid the subway lines. See http://www.onnyturf.com/subway/ for an example. Frankly, I don't know
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by GavinB 18y ago
If you measure success exclusively in money, then that's true. Grad school isn't for me, but it's the right choice for the right people.
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Don't start a start-up or apply for seed funding. There are lots of great hackers out there, and only so many spots for top websites. The odds of putting together both a solid product, good marketing, and the right timing are incredibly sl
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The data for both Mac and Windows machines is a few months old. So the paper had to be reviewed and revised after the first draft was written--this is exactly what one would expect for a white paper. The first half of this article comple
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Reznor is a great guy, but I hope there's a future where people who make awesome stuff can get paid based on that, not based on charity, limited editions, and tie-ins. We need a new economic model for goods with real production cost but no
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They have this in New Hampshire, too. The big stores near the border have the best prices in the northeast and are a tourist attraction for visitors from other states. There are advantages and disadvantages, but it can work just fine.
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If you care so little about version numbers, why do you start at 0.01? Why not just start at 1 and save yourself the three characters?
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You might combine that with your current tagline to make this: "Offline Ads Made Easy." You still need to imply that you're letting people buy something or making the buying process simpler. If you settle on a tagline you might think about
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I was a little confused when I first arrived on your site. All of the different words and taglines danced around what it is you really do. It says "Advertise Here," "Advertising Made Easy," "The Advertising Marketplace," etc. The big map
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Several of the comments lead me to believe that people aren't reading to the end of the article. Robin's final conclusion is that the more prestigious name does matter, and that the study has been misinterpreted. That's why he says "Ack!
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If I go to an all-you-can-eat buffet and choose not to eat the crab meat, am I getting ripped off because I "paid for" the crab meat? A good all-you-can-eat content subscription service is a wonderful thing. Yes, there are loads of problems

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