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I think that, in the future, the idea of reserving special places in homes and offices to use computers will seem quaint, like the way we think of reserving whole rooms for giant mainframes. No doubt people will still want reserved working-
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If you can't, there are still benefits to be had. Have other loosely-related, monetizable projects. Execute the plan with an intent of garnering massive media coverage. Build your personal brand and reputation. Leverage the fame to jumpstar
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As far as I can tell, the biggest concern is that OpenID makes phishing easier and more valuable. When the same user ID and password open all your accounts, one mistake compromises everything. Let's say clickpass gets huge, and someone forg
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It seems to happen if you spend a long time writing a comment or preparing a submission.
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There's something to be said for the extra screen space afforded by the Macbook Pro over the Macbook. Whether it's worth it depends on how you use your computer.
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I think India is a fantastic place to do a startup right now. Good luck. Sure, it lacks in infrastructure, but I think it makes up for it in untapped markets. There's a lot of room for disruptive technologies to grow within India before nee
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I could see this as a handy web service.
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Dangerous to use Alexa since there is a credible inverse correlation between likelihood of contributing to Alexa statistics and choice of news site.
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There's plenty of me to go around. [Sorry!] Today's billion-dollar markets are not tomorrow's billion-dollar markets. Building a better Digg or Facebook today won't help you kill those companies. First, it would need to be an order of magni
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Translated and summarized: French site Fuzz.fr shut down by a judge. Site editor fined 2500 Euros. Olivier Martinez sued about 20 web sites for writing about his relationship with Kylie Minogue. Among them was fuzz.fr. Fuzz.fr is a francoph
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I always thought a nice system would let me pay by per-second bandwidth rather than by some contrived package combination of monthly cap and top speed. e.g. $30/100KB/s, $40/250KB/s, etc.
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If I'm remembering correctly, relentless, irrational optimism is a personality characteristic that comes out again and again in psychological studies of successful entrepreneurs. I suppose it's related to persistence.
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The software that runs this site is open-source, included in Arc as news.arc. I don't know the answer, but maybe you could find it.
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I took the observations in this article as arguments in favour of doing a startup straight out of school. Having experienced the problems it mentions first-hand (since I was not so wise as to do a startup straight out of school), my logic i
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The struggles of new graduates(pyre.third-bit.com)
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If you're interested in this sort of thing, check out the Innovator's Dilemma and the Innovator's Solution.
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I'd be more interested in the complement -- filters tuned to pick up smart or interesting writing. I'm not convinced that it's necessarily an identical problem. It would be neat to run a battery of standard semantic analysis tools against t
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(In reply to the aside: I modded him up too. Some people mod up and down based on whether the comment is on-topic, polite and well-thought-out. Others mod up and down based on agreement with the thought. Guidelines for each are not immediat
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Someone famous once said something along the lines of: "Persistence isn't trying the same thing over and over. That's just annoying. Persistence is having the same goals over and over."
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I think this insight applies to many life challenges, not just starting companies. Some that come to mind: * Courting, relationships * Building a career within an organization * Some unproven solution to a technical problem * Building a blo
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Build a positive relationship with the headhunter. If you leave the startup, they can help you find a new job. If you stay and the startup succeeds, they can help you recruit new teammates.
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"How the Mind Works" by Steven Pinker has some very well-reasoned arguments to support your intuition that it's in our DNA. [It's basically a popsci introduction to evolutionary psychology and cognitive science.]
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I've also heard of "incubators" which were really "rich guy paying others to do his ideas." I agree though, I can't think of a single example of a successful incubator that called themselves an incubator.
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I would argue the opposite: that lifelong monogamous marriage is unnatural. Witness divorce rates in Western society. (Many other cultures that are overtly polygynous.) Humans, by nature, are slightly biased toward polygyny. Let's assume PG
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How about imposing a small karma penalty to post a new story? Then, set a minimum karma requirement for posters. The karma requirement could be positive or negative. It would eliminate spammers and reduce bad stories in one fell swoop. I no
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If one of these is no longer useful to you, look to the community of users for a new maintainer. If no one steps up, perhaps it's not as useful to them as you hope.
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I'm in if I get in to SuS; I suggest a meet somewhere with lots of whiteboards :)
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I've tried all three. #2 is a good way of becoming unpopular very quickly. #3 is a lot of effort. You need to be very committed to the mission to make it work.
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More than any books or articles, I've been influenced directly by the people in my life, especially friends, mentors, family, and girls I wanted to impress. PG & Joel Spolsky, the Alchemist, the Little Prince.
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A bittorrent plugin for firefox with no UI. e.g. downloading a torrent has the exact same interaction as downloading a file over HTTP. Seeding == leaving it in your downloads list, advanced power user preferences are tucked in an about: pag

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