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by bkovitz 17y ago
Really good point. It's really of little interest to me whether Google acquired good things or developed them in-house from the start. What I like about Google is that their stuff is good. Unlike many companies, they are doing good work wit
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by bkovitz 17y ago
You have asked a truly profound question. I don't know the answer, but it's got something to do with how brains work. This might be relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_function
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Unlike object-oriented alcoholics, the functional alcoholics have yet to so much as open a bottle of screw-top wine.
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Anonymous proxy servers. Where there's a will, there's a way.
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"Just don't reach for the popcorn." It doesn't work that way.
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"People on Segways look smug" is a good observation, but it's a strange and confusing emphasis in an essay titled "The Trouble with the Segway".
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Ordinarily, I wouldn't post the nearly contentless "Agreed," but since the opposing point was made in reply to my post, I thought I should say something to show that I read and was moved by roc's point. Any recommendations for what I should
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Here are some: Gmail AdSense/AdWords Google Scholar Google Maps / Google Earth Google Books Google Image Search Google Apps Google Code Google News Chrome SketchUp "Innovation" in the strong sense of something super-radically new is not tha
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Do people really yell insults at Segway riders?
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by bkovitz 17y ago
There are dangers involved in eating at McDonald's, going to grad school, talking to strangers, thinking things through very carefully, dressing funny, starting religions, getting married, staying single, doing meaningless homework, getting
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Agreed.
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by bkovitz 17y ago
This is great! I've been wanting this for years!
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This is a good point. Microsoft has guts and even some creativity when it comes to marketing.
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It's part of the mythology of American capitalism: if they're a big winner, they must be a big innovator, because innovation drives the economy! Don't get me wrong, I love American capitalism, and I don't think innovation trumps all other f
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Because the Microsoft Way is to give top priority to holding on to the high-leverage point in a market, and to do the lowest-quality engineering they can get away with to hold onto it. Their internal culture favors mediocre work as long as
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Really good questions. 1. Grad school was miserable because of time-fragmentation. Four simultaneous projects (classes) => couldn't focus on any of them. 2. I think that by nature, I am not really an entrepreneur. I'm a curious person
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by bkovitz 17y ago
This deal is the most demoralizing news I've heard in a long time. It calls for some kind of ritual lamentation. Any ideas?
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by bkovitz 17y ago
"Innovation is all you have"? Microsoft has never innovated, not even at the beginning. Many big players in many industries have never been innovators. These guys have something else: a strong bargaining position. "Innovation is a fleeti
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Interesting, but I wouldn't call the result surprising. Other research questions: Does hurrying through a sharply time-constrained task make you learn less from it? How about juggling multiple intellectually nontrivial tasks? Hurrying thro
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Oops, I forgot the biggest reason: grad school. I want to become a professor so I'm paid to indulge my curiosity, teach, and write interesting books into my old age. I imagine that as a professor, as I age into my 50s and 60s and 70s, I wo
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by bkovitz 17y ago
It sounds like you don't want to run a start-up. Weighing expected return against current income means you're only interested in results, not in playing the game.
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Some reasons: 1. I have very little clue what gets people to spend money. I keep wanting at least a plausible theory of how this could make money before I dive in. I am particularly discouraged by the idea of making a web site that requir
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by bkovitz 17y ago
I feel great encouragement upon seeing that his blog brings in $1500 a month. The writing is mediocre. "Now grab your balls and jump." But apparently it provides enough value for enough of an audience to get the University of Phoenix, Dia
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Declaring a date and numerical measure for a goal so much beyond your control strikes me a little weird. Sure, it leads to productive and joyful action, so that's good. But large-scale market acceptance depends on finding an opportunity for
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Here's my experience with this. Maybe it will shed some light on your situation, maybe it won't. At one particularly insane start-up, I went two months without a paycheck. It was such a bizarre place to work, and so interesting, I didn't
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Thanks. You addressed something I was specifically wondering about: whether these opportunities tend to be in b2b markets that most people don't know much about. I suspect that these relatively esoteric markets do indeed tend to be the be
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Wow, thanks: another rich-information, insight-stimulating data point. I heard an NPR story about bedbugs being on the rise a year or so ago. It didn't occur to me that bedbugs presented an entrepreneurial opportunity.
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Thanks. How did you find that URL?
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I like this. It's a chance to be creative in an easy, shared way. An observation: Many of the posts are very poor, but some are wonderful. It would be nice if there was a way so the good ones would get more prominence. They seem to be dr
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by bkovitz 17y ago
Wow. Thanks for the data point(s)! Your web site cum stats page has got to be the most useful information I have ever seen or heard of, for the small, hacker entrepreneur. Of particular interest to me is that the price for your program is

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