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by bfe 16y ago
I'm glad the article pointed out the cartoon dinosaur riding a shark on the jobs page, even though they mistook it as not taking things seriously, instead of convincingly signalling, by the fact of its nature and presence (as an awesome and
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by bfe 16y ago
Oops, that was you too - thanks for the correction.
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And someone, I think maybe Marc Andreessen, said Google wouldn't have become Google without Altavista's management flying it into the side of a cliff at the right time.
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by bfe 16y ago
SpaceX looks like it may do a great job in the currently envisioned outside contactor role. The Constellation program under Mike Griffin would have done a great job, but now that's billions of dollars wasted. Keeping the shuttles going woul
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by bfe 16y ago
This seems like the Tom Friedman Talks to a Local Cabbie effect, of interpreting one's recent personal experience as an unfailing guide to global trends.
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by bfe 16y ago
At least one startup comes to mind to qualify under that criterion, Friendfeed (Paul Buchheit).
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Solar panels have only been practical out to missions to Mars or the asteroid belt at farthest. For any more distant mission, nuclear power has been the only feasible power source, in the form of RTGs at least. Spaceborne nuclear reactors h
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by bfe 16y ago
The Earth is about 12% the luminosity from Voyager's perspective now as it was in 1990; that camera might still be able to image it, at least on its own. But a bigger problem might be the Earth getting lost in the Sun. When the image was ta
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by bfe 16y ago
Regarding Intellectual Ventures's business model, ultimately, seeking to license patents out loses steam unless you eventually bring litigation against unwilling parties, which Intellectual Ventures did in December, when it filed three diff
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There's also the option to file a patent application or otherwise build intellectual property protection where appropriate, as a supplement to trying to execute as well and as rapidly as possible.
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I spent a long time imagining posting an astonishingly insightful and erudite comment on this essay, but at the last minute I settled for just posting this.
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by bfe 16y ago
Actually in a more relevant parallel to Brooks's comparison, Larry Page's grandfather worked on a Michigan auto assembly line. I don't think the grandson's economic contributions are that much less tangible or clearly valuable than the gran
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by bfe 16y ago
I think asking "how many jobs does X create" isn't as useful an analytical framework as its inverse, "how productively does X allow its workers to create new things of value".
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by bfe 16y ago
Not to detract from post-twentysomething entrepreneurs at all, but this article's references on closer look don't quite support this spin; rather, a significant component of the spike in "business startups" peaking in 2009 involved employee
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I got a bad feeling for RIM when my new Android G2 even had a nicer sync with Outlook than my Blackberry Bold, let alone comparing the apps at large. I still use the Blackberry as a nice backup alarm clock though.
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I spent a semester doing this as a physics and astronomy undergrad and had an awesome time of it. I was already spending nights either taking observational data at the observatory or working a graveyard shift job, I had another job as a phy
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I think it's inaccurate about the deal with SV Angel and DST, isn't it SV Angel and Yuri Milner as an individual? As for breakeven, I wonder whether that's accurate, but considering the low percentage of shares YC takes I wouldn't be surpri
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I think a valuable complement to this is the idea of finding the fastest minimum viable product you can create and start getting feedback on, and if the original idea would take months to launch, then trying to plan a path to it through a s