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by ashwinl 18y ago
A car may be "cheap", but the primary variable cost associated with it is only getting expensive (i.e. it's approaching $5/gal in CA)
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Biography of Joseph Alois Schumpeter - historical context of entrepreneurship(econlib.org)
1 points by ashwinl 18y ago|0 comments
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by ashwinl 18y ago
Summary: (1) People, people, people "Most of our competitors were very poorly run," he tells Fiona Bruce, for The Money Programme. "They did not understand how to bring in people with business experience and people with engineering experien
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Ask YC: Things to do in Silicon Valley?
1 points by ashwinl 18y ago|2 comments
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by ashwinl 18y ago
Brief interactive feature of the commercial space industry: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/html/science/20060912_...
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by ashwinl 18y ago
Agreed. Sundays at 9pm on Discovery http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/nasa/nasa.html
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by ashwinl 18y ago
"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. You might never fail on the same scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously
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JK Rowling's Commencement speech at Harvard(youtube.com)
70 points by ashwinl 18y ago|29 comments
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Science 2.0 -- Is Open Access Science the Future?(sciam.com)
2 points by ashwinl 18y ago|0 comments
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by ashwinl 19y ago
If you want to read more about the PSD culture at Bear Stearns, check out Bear's long-term CEO, book: "Memos form the Chairman" http://www.amazon.com/Memos-Chairman-Alan-C-Greenberg/dp/076...
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by ashwinl 19y ago
brilliant!! thank-you. the best bio of jobs I have read.
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Entrepreneurship in Michigan: Nerds & rich people(blog.mlive.com)
6 points by ashwinl 19y ago|1 comments
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Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web - launch of AIR on Monday(nytimes.com)
1 points by ashwinl 19y ago|0 comments
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by ashwinl 19y ago
Would be interesting to see where China is...
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by ashwinl 19y ago
here's another link: http://www.tedtalks.com/2006/02/webwhat_happene.html
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What happened to Altavista?(searchjournal.com)
9 points by ashwinl 19y ago|3 comments
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by ashwinl 19y ago
I'm a current undergrad at University of Michigan, AA studying mechanical engineering. But, I started programming at 11 when I first got paid for my programming skills. I've worked in the "real world" each summer and have found my hacking a
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by ashwinl 19y ago
I am assuming it is the word, 'Hacker' that you believe is misleading, true? If so, are you implying that because he failed, he is not a hacker?
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by ashwinl 19y ago
Hmm...I think you're right. I use this definition ( http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#attitude ) as my definition of a hacker: "Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help." S
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Ambitious Hacker set out to prove that he could exceed better educated Investment Bankers(online.wsj.com)
6 points by ashwinl 19y ago|10 comments
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by ashwinl 19y ago
Full Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql-Mtlx31e8 Text of Speech: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/exec/billg/speeches/2008/... Why you should watch/read: "The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad
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Bill Gates @ World Economic Forum: A new view for entrepreneurship(online.wsj.com)
2 points by ashwinl 19y ago|1 comments