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by db1 10y ago
Aha, interesting, I'd never heard of Veblen goods before this. I'd also never thought about it in this manner before, making it a better product would make it actually worth the money, and hence less desirable. The world is such a
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by db1 10y ago
Wow, excellent talk. I'm generally wary of these kinds of cosmetic changes, but the game really did look and feel so much better at the end.
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by db1 10y ago
This reminds me of http://nand2tetris.org/ (and the accompanying Coursera course). It's a fantastic course to learn about computing from first principles. The course starts off with just a few logic gates and how you c
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by db1 10y ago
I cannot foresee how this will play out in the long term for the end consumer. In the short term, consumers get a whole lot of convenience and lower prices. What happens after a large chunk of other stores have gone out of business? How wou
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by db1 10y ago
Interesting, this is the first time I'm hearing about promiscuous pairing. How big the team at your company is and what percentage of time is spent pair programming?
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by db1 10y ago
Is Ubuntu 16.04 running well for you? I'm also on Dell XPS 9550, but I'm running 15.10. Had some serious issues with the initial install, wondering if I should risk the hassle of upgrading.
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by db1 10y ago
Really inspiring. I really loved his comment about how there are always new opportunities and new waves for people to ride. This is something I've always personally struggled with, the feeling that everything has already been done and
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by db1 11y ago
Things actually worked out okay. We had a sit down and amicably decided to wind things down. So I guess it hit me hard, but really was not a big deal to my investor.
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by db1 11y ago
I raised a small seed round (200k) on my first company. At that time I felt like it was a staggering amount of money. The company didn't work and out we pretty much lost all of it. For the longest time, I felt really guilty about how I