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by davi 18y ago
"You want a team of people who aren’t bringing you every little thing, but if you successfully build this team, your reward is that what is ends up in your office is uniquely kooky."
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by davi 18y ago
"All of this from a man who was the son of a millwright, only in America." I wondered, What exactly is a millwright? It's one of those older words that everyone once knew the definition of. Apparently, they set up and integrate heavy equi
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by davi 18y ago
I'd like the color of usernames to change depending on how many times I've up/down voted their comments & submissions. This way people I've liked a lot in the past will pop out at me as I scan through pages on the site. A lot of good su
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by davi 18y ago
Stupid title, good (old) point. I think solving this issue could/should/will be done by whatever ends up really nailing item 18 of Paul Graham's "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund" ( http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html ): "18. The WebOS. It pro
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by davi 18y ago
"... and you care a lot about the issues in Gaza." I care a lot about certain political issues but I would not try to talk about them on HN, and I bet you wouldn't either. It seems weird -- almost sycophantic -- to so readily apply a differ
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by davi 18y ago
There's a difference between things that are interesting to the intellectually curious, and things that are interesting to hackers. This topic provides a good example. The economony is a big, somewhat hackable system. We elect representat
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by davi 18y ago
this works, I use it, it's open source, maybe a good place to start: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/demo.shtml
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by davi 18y ago
Ugh, I can see my writing has been very unclear in this thread. Anyway thanks for the recommendation.
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by davi 18y ago
Currently, just clicking on a username and then clicking on the comments link in the user profile gives me a pretty good sense of what that user is like. My highest rated comment so far occurred yesterday, when I got 30 points for saying so
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by davi 18y ago
I think what you're getting at is that there's a distinction between predicting well, vs. just guessing, and having your guess turn out to be correct. This is true. In the case of repeatable events, over time, the former will do better tha
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by davi 18y ago
Because of the difference between deploying infrastructure vs. maintaining infrastructure already deployed. Companies seem to be willing to deploy infrastructure to collect e.g. 1 dollar payments, but not 10 cent payments. I'm guessing that
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by davi 18y ago
The ones lucky enough to interpret their data stream correctly.
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by davi 18y ago
Most disasters can be predicted at some point before they strike, by at least some subset of observers. Your comment implies that in the case of a disastrous implosion of the global economy, the window of predictability would be so narrow
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by davi 18y ago
Interesting -- in the end, inflation is what will let us make micropayments...
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by davi 18y ago
Re: local news, here's an example of a local paper doing quite nicely: http://www.7dvt.com/about-us Like your local paper, this one isn't a daily. I think this could be a trend. Local papers will be weeklies, and they'll continue to exi
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by davi 18y ago
People like eye candy. People like to have fun. It's a toy. You get to show your friends, and say, "Look at this cool new toy I found." Entertainment is a huge market. "Make something people want."
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by davi 18y ago
Upvoted not for the $100K/mo, but the cool use of microphone, gravity sensor, touch screen, and speaker to simulate a surface with condensation on it.
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by davi 18y ago
I won't say this is the best thing I've ever read on the subject, since that would imply I have sufficient knowledge of the financial markets to accurately evaluate what I'm reading. Instead, let me say this seems , or feels like the
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by davi 18y ago
When I lived in Burlington, everyone I knew read this paper and all the local businesses advertised in it. From what I hear it's still going strong. Quality of content was consistently high. It's a weekly, which I think may be important: m
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Here's an example of a succesful local newspaper(7dvt.com)
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by davi 18y ago
I learned from the third edition of this textbook, and it was excellent; maybe others can confirm this for the most recent edition: Molecular Biology of the Cell - Fifth Edition http://www.garlandscience.com/textbooks/0815341059.asp You c
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by davi 18y ago
I think you underestimate the importance of his items 1 and 2 (call quality and email/SMS) to the business population. A dropped call at the wrong moment can cost a sales guy a lot of money; and a hard-core Blackberry user is not going to
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by davi 18y ago
FTA: "The week that Tim actually works a four-hour work week will be a cold week in hell."
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by davi 18y ago
"Likewise I assume HN is more polite because only more established members can downvote." I think HN is more polite because: 1) when people flag a submission as off-topic, it gets killed 2) people here often care about their reputations,
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by davi 18y ago
depends how well this turns out to work: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/07/sandisk_extremeffs_d...
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by davi 18y ago
Yeah, I wasn't planning to respond at all until I saw that someone had modded it up. I glanced at some of your comment history, and it looks like these off-topic posts irk you greatly. The third act ("Disturbing the Peace Train") of this T
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by davi 18y ago
What to Submit Off-Topic: ... cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )
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by davi 18y ago
From what I've read, Jobs was the hard-charging, demanding, hard-to-get-along-with type, whereas Wozniak was a mellow, easy-going, just-let-me-solder-in-peace type. But imagine if Wozniak had also been a hard-charging alpha dog type. We m
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by davi 18y ago
That's right. For me the new idea in this post is that after you realize that "ideas are cheap", you can continue on to see that "execution is cheap". What's not cheap is money , which you use to polish, scale up, and market whatever you
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by davi 18y ago
It has nothing to do with a preference for complex vocabulary. When I talk to someone I know has a large vocabulary, I am free to use the best word that occurs to me, and if they think I'm up to snuff, they are free to do the same thing. T

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