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by benofsky 15y ago
There are a lot of interesting ideas in this video about customer support, management and pricing. Definitely worth a watch, really inspiring!
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by benofsky 15y ago
The BusinessInsider article [1] refers to them as a "pre-revenue company", so, not much? [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/flipboard-funding-2011-4
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by benofsky 16y ago
I don't see what this offers over HN that would cause the people here, who provide excellent content + discussion, to jump ship; especially considering they're the likely target audience for this website. Also... the design is quite, link-f
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by benofsky 16y ago
Surprised no one's mentioned GigaOm (gigaom.com) yet, personally, I think they do the best job out of all the 'professional' blogs.
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Letting Go of My Peanuts(natalimorris.com)
2 points by benofsky 16y ago|0 comments
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Warner Bros to rent movies on Facebook(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by benofsky 16y ago|2 comments
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by benofsky 16y ago
It's not as big a problem for the big companies like Google and IBM since they can afford to pay people off, they can also afford to have a more extensive hiring process in the first place. Dublin is definitely not so expensive that it outw
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by benofsky 16y ago
I live in Ireland and am an Irish citizen (US citizen too, hoping to move to the US). There are several reasons I would think the US is better for entrepreneurs and startups than Ireland. * The truly brilliant people tend to leave after hig
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Riding in the Google Car That Drives Itself (video)(mashable.com)
8 points by benofsky 16y ago|1 comments
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by benofsky 16y ago
I think this is potentially a mistake, it furthers (in my opinion) the image that Jobs is irreplaceable (being on a medical leave of absence he must still come back to launch products, etc.).
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by benofsky 16y ago
I'm not sure about that, I don't know what pricing is like in the US but here (Ireland) Android phones are significantly cheaper. Most people I know who buy an Android phone, do so because it was a cheap phone, not because it's a 'smartphon
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by benofsky 16y ago
BTW Person I replied to, changed their comment after I replied and I can no longer edit mine. Also, I was wrong about the exceptions: sorry bout that.
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by benofsky 16y ago
This cannot be turned off with a click of the mouse (see my warning below) :-) — although, one who spent 5 minutes reading the source, could turn it off! But still, not click of the mouse. And yes, a second time wasting computer would be id
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by benofsky 16y ago
ha, it looked wrong at the time, thank you :)
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by benofsky 16y ago
good idea, thanks!
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by benofsky 16y ago
Ye there're some problems with the preferences, I'm working on it. Are you on 10.6.5 by any chance?
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by benofsky 16y ago
Ok, quite a few people are having this problem. I'll have a fix soon hopefully! EDIT: It's working now download the new version at: http://therealfocusapp.com/focus-alpha-0.1.app.zip — thanks to all who helped fix!
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by benofsky 16y ago
Hadn't seen that, only a pay for app (and I'm cheap :))! Anyway, Focus is tailored perfectly for me, hope some other people can find use out of it too. Edit: Clarification (I'm sorry I can't reply to your comment, it won't let me), I meant
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by benofsky 16y ago
You may add 5 in the settings. :) EDIT: Thanks btw!
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by benofsky 16y ago
You have to press save or they won't be committed to the plist. Does that work for you?
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by benofsky 16y ago
Please be careful, I intentionally made there to be no easy way (it can actually be reversed in one command but not in the interface) to re-enable internet access before the timeout. Hope you like it! Github: https://github.com/benofsky/Fo
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Show HN my christmas project: Focus.app, cut off your Internet so you can focus(therealfocusapp.com)
61 points by benofsky 16y ago|39 comments
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Military Dolphins(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by benofsky 16y ago|1 comments
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NYTimes article on Leo Laporte's podcasting 'empire'(nytimes.com)
4 points by benofsky 16y ago|0 comments
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by benofsky 16y ago
Very smart (and relatively cheap) way to find good engineers!
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by benofsky 16y ago
Little revenue potential ? That's a crazy thing to say, anyone with 600 million users has a fairly decent revenue potential ... Now what about when you know every single detail about those 600 million people's lives... HUGE revenue potent
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by benofsky 16y ago
Here in Ireland we have what is called Transition Year which is in the 4th year of secondary school. This year is a lot freer in terms of the curriculum and is mostly spent by the students doing work experiences, internships and going abroa
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by benofsky 16y ago
The idea of home schooling is great, that you can avoid the somewhat crazy regimented rote learning education system we still have but it's important to realize that socializing (and learning social skills) is a big part of school, a big pa
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by benofsky 16y ago
Make it clear from the start that success comes from hard work not necessarily raw intelligence, it took me quite a while to overcome this idea instilled in me by my parents (i.e. when your kid does something good, "well done, you must have
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How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today(techcrunch.com)
60 points by benofsky 16y ago|60 comments

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