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by ccc3 16y ago
Another problem I see with creating artificial barriers is the demoralizing effect in can have on someone trying to learn a language. Whenever I'm prevented from doing something because some committee thought it was too complex for me, I be
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by ccc3 16y ago
Does this imply that nobody uses the "I'm feeling lucky" button?
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by ccc3 16y ago
- Exactly. How do you have one without the other? If obvious patents are granted, society will be giving it's protection at a net loss. For society there is a cost incurred in enforcing protection as well as an opportunity cost in forbiddi
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by ccc3 16y ago
From the suit: As a result of the Defendant’s unlawful infringement of the Microsoft patents-in-suit, Microsoft has suffered and will continue to suffer damage. The patent system's primary goal seems to have become protecting patent holde
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by ccc3 16y ago
From the article: But as they look at all of the wireless and Internet-enabled systems the auto industry is dreaming up for tomorrow's cars, they see some serious areas for concern. Yes, it is a bit absurd to be concerned about somebody p
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by ccc3 16y ago
Ben Horowitz had a post yesterday about founding CEOs vs professional CEOs( http://bhorowitz.com/2010/04/28/why-we-prefer-founding-ceos/ ). This seems to be almost a perfect example of his point. The founding CEO makes a technical argument
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by ccc3 16y ago
Asshole? Dick? What's the point of that language. Mark's free to hire (or invest) however he wants and you're free to not work with him. Even though I have my disagreements, I found it very useful to hear Mark's perspective on hiring. There
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by ccc3 16y ago
Excellent deconstruction of Mark's post. I'd add one point: I thought that Mark's post was valuable in understanding the perspective of some hiring managers or investors since inevitably a few of those people will be looking at my resume. B
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by ccc3 16y ago
Nice work! Since you're already letting people login with google, it might make it easier for people to pay if you accepted payment via google checkout.
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by ccc3 16y ago
I really like the idea of not being too concerned with a problem seeming initially too small. A funny thing I've found about small problems is that they are almost always connected to other problems. If you can solve somebody's small proble
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by ccc3 16y ago
I think you're absolutely right in saying that Apple has no real competition, but it's interesting to look at the trajectories of the various elements of the smartphone market and consider what things might look like in 5 years (remember, t
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Neil Roseman(former VP Tech@Amazon) on hiring, culture and product development(blog.redfin.com)
1 points by ccc3 17y ago|0 comments
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The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth(trada.com)
4 points by ccc3 17y ago|0 comments
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by ccc3 17y ago
If you're going to work your way through this, it's probably better to go to the MIT site for the class. In addition to the lecture videos, it has the problem sets and a list of readings. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-an
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by ccc3 17y ago
I care about comfort, durability, price and aesthetics With the exception of price, these are all metrics of the shoe's performance. I chose the word "performance" deliberately because it is very general and can be measured differently by
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by ccc3 17y ago
I think saying that customers tend to prefer "simple done well" is an oversimplification (pun unintended, but kept anyway). I've found the real issue is that people have a maximum rate of information absorption and when a salesperson starts
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by ccc3 17y ago
Increasingly it seems that "entrepreneurship" is becoming synonymous with "internet software startup," which I find very troubling. It's critically important to recognize that web startups are in a unique position compared to almost every o
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by ccc3 17y ago
Good point, although I think it depends on the context. I agree that people who just throw my name randomly in the middle of sentences come of as insincere and transparent. It almost feels like a teacher in the middle of a boring lecture tr
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by ccc3 17y ago
The only reason I can think of to make an interface that mimics a physical object is that the new interface is more likely to be instantly recognizable and intuitive to a user looking at it for the first time. In this case you're designing
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Sawyer Opines on the Eastern District of Texas(feld.com)
1 points by ccc3 17y ago|0 comments
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by ccc3 17y ago
After reading this it struck me that no revenue model could really be complete without some statement of the level of uncertainty. In science, for example, you would never make a prediction without also stating the uncertainty in that predi
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by ccc3 17y ago
I wonder how far you could extend the analogy. If distance = $ and force = effort, what startup attribute corresponds to mass? Maybe difficulty of the problem, or level of competition.
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by ccc3 17y ago
Obviously everybody's different, but for me taking a look at the things that excite me moment-to-moment is only part of the answer. Once I've found something I like to tinker with, it usually takes some serious effort before I become passio
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by ccc3 17y ago
Ironic that he brings up HR's "reputation of not adding value"
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by ccc3 17y ago
The article makes a good point, but I don't think I'd call it the death of authenticity. A deceptive banner ad is just the new version of a fast-talking door-to-door salesman. It's the method of reaching consumers with the lowest barrier to
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by ccc3 17y ago
To a certain extent this really comes down to semantics. If someone is writing a complex algorithm to describe a physical phenomenon that has been observed in a lab, are they a physicist or a computer scientist? I tend to disagree with the
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by ccc3 17y ago
presumably there was a significant cost in time and/or money required to gain that experience.
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by ccc3 17y ago
By definition there is not a single business that is profitable from day one. A plumbing business isn't profitable until the tools and vehicles have been paid for. The important consideration is the size of the deficit (in time or money or
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by ccc3 17y ago
Making laws bigger instead of stronger seems to be an increasingly common problem (At least in the US. not sure if the same is true of other countries). It seems to be the result of an imperfection in our political system. In certain commun
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by ccc3 17y ago
A brilliant design. And a brilliant design presentation.

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