abossy

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by abossy 17y ago
I definitely think so. I remember reading an Gabe Newell interview in a 1999 PC Gamer magazine about this. Newell stated that, after the excellent critical acclaim of Half-Life, that he wasn't eager to begin Half-Life 2, because, "our fans
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by abossy 17y ago
Startups eventually run out of money. It sounds like the Duke Nukem Forever team basically had the same problem; it's just that their money lasted 12 years.
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by abossy 17y ago
Steven Levitt wrote an article 2 days ago addressing readers that are critiquing this exact argument: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/what-bother...
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by abossy 17y ago
Joel sounds like he's replacing Don Dodge.
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by abossy 17y ago
I assume this means he has left IBM. It feels like only yesterday that I was chatting with him on Sametime.
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by abossy 17y ago
Link?
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by abossy 17y ago
Where do you draw the line? I'd love text editors and RescueTime as well. My hope is that Google will succeed in driving innovation on the Web and these types of apps will become first-class citizens.
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by abossy 17y ago
As you can see from the gray line, women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium. Very harsh. The female rating is particular interesting. Are only ugly men on OKCupid (myself included)? Or do men look worse in picture
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by abossy 17y ago
This title is misleading. The TechCrunch article is, "Over A Year After Android Launch, ShopSavvy Finally Comes To The iPhone."
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by abossy 17y ago
I was wondering the same thing. From the actual website: "Atlas is a development tool for building Cappuccino applications. In addition to managing your project files and editing code, it includes a powerful visual layout tool for designing
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by abossy 17y ago
Don't forget the political/social implications of convincing the world's population that these need to be changed.
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by abossy 17y ago
Impossible? They're already monetizing by licensing their firehose to Google and Microsoft. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/wireStory?i... If you have 70M+ users, it takes a small amount of ingenuity to make money, even i
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by abossy 17y ago
Internet companies don't necessarily require a business model. Remember YouTube? They were worth $1.65B to Google. They didn't make a single cent when they were acquired. The virtual world is an attention economy. The most attentive eyeball
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by abossy 17y ago
Yes. Your company will run out of money eventually.
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by abossy 17y ago
Violence had been on the decline since the beginning of time. If it's not our children's children, then it will be their children. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_...
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by abossy 17y ago
That's exactly my point. How do you measure image? During tough times, you focus on measurable returns.
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by abossy 17y ago
His termination shouldn't be all that surprising. Remember, Don Dodge is a big name and costs Microsoft a lot of money. How much value is he producing, exactly? It's difficult to say, since he doesn't work on a directly revenue-generating p
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by abossy 17y ago
Have people passed you up for serious projects because they think they can find somebody "better" for more money?
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by abossy 17y ago
If I am reading that correctly, "Marge" must make an average of $250k each year for their investors to merely break even. That seems like a lot, but obviously they must really believe she'll strike it rich somewhere along the way. Seems lik
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by abossy 17y ago
Do you honestly feel PG and co. are incapable of selecting people that aren't naive nor idiots?
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by abossy 17y ago
I totally agree. The overarching theme here is communications technology. Both the Internet and Television enable us to communicate on a massive scale. They're not even completely distinct entities anymore, and the lines between the two w
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Hulu To Start Charging in 2010(news-briefs.ew.com)
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by abossy 17y ago
Is there a similar platform for Python?
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by abossy 17y ago
I don't know why I automatically interpreted "well-established workflow" to mean password management software. It must have been the juxtaposition of that sentence with "My favorite tool is 1Password for the Mac. Anyway, point taken.
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by abossy 17y ago
I can see his motivation for this -- I was thinking of this exact idea today. There are simply so many rudimentary questions new entrepreneurs ask that can be easily answered. Two examples that I've recently sought answers for are "how do I
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by abossy 17y ago
"Like everyone else in the world, I already have a well-established workflow for managing usernames and passwords." Is this true? I was under the impression that password managers are very techie-oriented. Your average user uses "password"
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Hulu Releases Publishing Tools for Bloggers(techcrunch.com)
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by abossy 17y ago
The chances of a startup succeeding are dismal at best, and YC is already selecting the best of the best. Increasing the startup pool isn't necessarily a smart decision, from a business perspective. The value of YC and a book that lists law
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by abossy 17y ago
Repeat post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868239
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by abossy 17y ago
I believe the e-mails went out late the last two years. Wait until tomorrow morning to open your inbox and find out whether or not you are accepted.

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