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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Yes, you just Godwinned on Hacker News. You need an Internet Time Out.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Yes, Jobs' flaws ARE well known. And so are the facts in many of the other situations that nirvana describes. It is still a hatchet job if the biographer gleefully presents false information from sources without checking the facts.
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cletus, there's tons of research to suggest that simply being overweight perpetuates being overweight because in the vast majority of individuals, being overweight in the first place triggers all kind of "physiological problems" -- such as
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Maybe anyone can be a line cook, but not everyone can be a chef. Chef school is brutal. And not everyone can plan and run a large meal plan for a large group of people with sporadic hours and special meals, either. And, as somebody else poi
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Kamaal never said "this is what you should do," he said "this is how it is." You guys are behaving disgracefully.
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Appname Pro - Official
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I was recently beaten down by an interview with a local tech reporter, who twisted my words and put words in my mouth. She wrote a 300-word article with so many breathtaking falsehoods or near-falsehoods that I just had to shake my head and
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
calibraxis, the thing about that is that what that kid said SOUNDED racist. But really the kid was just a little asshole. If you were white and had coke bottle lenses, he'd still have been nasty to you, he just would have done it a differen
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I agree with you. As I get older & more persnickety, it's got to the point where every time I hear somebody refer to "the community" or "the industry" as if it's a coherent entity with goals and plans and capable of taking action (or ev
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
$200k in office space is one thing, $200k in office space which requires business licenses, typically shiftless employees, health code inspections, constant renewal of expensive but not durable goods (e.g. croissants go bad in a few hours),
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
efsavage, I always used to use variations on your examples. They almost invariably lead to the other person going "Oh" and the conversation dying a grisly death, right there. They don't give anyone any "grit" they can use to get a good foot
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
toast76, lots of people open coffee shops because they're seduced by the dream of hanging out in a cute little cafe all day. They aren't necessarily dedicated to putting the best damn coffee on their customer's tables. More importantly, the
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Plenty of people who haven't read that book come across as insincere, fake, and borderline manipulative. All thru-out the book, Dale Carnegie tells you that you must be genuine in order for it to be ethical.
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Lots of people have died from drinking sea water. It's still a Very Bad Idea. Your argument is along the lines of "They got technical details wrong; salt water is sometimes important; therefore the whole thing is wrong." But that is like sa
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
You're taking the word "pride" and talking about it as if it were a physical thing that really exists. "Wounded pride" is something that can happen to anyone, regardless of whether they give themselves credit for their achievements. "Wounde
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
There's a huge difference between healthy pride and unhealthy vanity. For starters, pride can come from things you didn't even do -- and people who are not you. You can be proud of your kid. You can be proud of your student. You can be prou
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
This may sound harsh, but failing to get a high school diploma (where they only seem to hand them out these days to everything with a pulse) is pathetic. No, it's really not. He already had one high-paying job without it, why on earth wou
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
FYI: Brandstack.com has better logos. Speaking as a designer & a person who's hired logo designers, as well as somebody who bought a logotype off Brandstack.com. I didn't use the name/identity but used it for my next SaaS, Charm. That s
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
The core problem is that he tried to make & sell a product to people who are not tech-savvy, who are famously slow adopters and who are also famously broke & skinflinty. To people, in other words, who didn't want what he had. All th
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Great read. As somebody else said: yay for hustle. What I wonder is if these guys have a contingency plan for when this particular app fad dies out. With consumer-facing apps especially, this seems like a huge danger.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I love vivid metaphors as much as the next girl, but I can't stand false dichotomies. Nowhere in this (vivid and useful) empire/keg/movement theory is there room for scrappy businesses that start small, profit, and grow large. You know - th
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Anyone know of institutions/teachers/administrators who are doing this kind of style in the US? It's completely intriguing.
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The Forehead Slap Test for Startups(unicornfree.com)
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So, what are the chances he walked away with most of the money? From what I understand, these types of acquisitions usually require x years at the acquiring company before the buyout terms mature.
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Let's say you forget and leave your house door unlocked. A guy like Sam comes along, notices the door is unlocked, and steals your TV -- donating it to the Salvation Army -- to make a point. He could have just said, "Dude, your door is unlo
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
If you read a lot, and you probably do, you know that the vast majority of people can't express their way out of a paper box. (Especially if you read stuff written by "amateurs," such as almost all of the internet.) That doesn't mean that w
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I'm not saying the yellow-highlighter crowd is wrong, not at all. But would YOU buy from them? Your question exposes a really important fact about split-testing: People are complex. Different stuff works for different people. The yellow hig
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
"Reading the article, and realizing that these are probably the best arguments against A/B tests that designers can offer..." What makes you say that? Did you split-test them? (Serious question.)
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
You're right. Nobody wants to be told that they're wrong about their most preciously held beliefs about the value of their skills. But for everyone who's championing split-testing, they should remember a little bit about where it first beca
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Maybe in developing countries, but that's not the attitude in other first world countries, because they've pretty much all got it better than we do.

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