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by dbrush 18y ago
There really isn't a response to what you wrote other than to concede that I believe that I can't provide a reasonable response to what you wrote.
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by dbrush 18y ago
Okay
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by dbrush 18y ago
"He's relentlessly promoted himself..." How is that?
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by dbrush 18y ago
People at Fog Creek read Hacker News. edit: Other than just Joel. http://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#52853...
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by dbrush 18y ago
Going from bailing hay during the summers in a town called Hope to New York City and starting a startup, all the while having learned on my own not to hate people. Hope has a volunteer fire department, a church, and a post office... only...
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by dbrush 18y ago
Perhaps it is best that we just let this hacker news item go away on its own.
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by dbrush 18y ago
Is irrational actually the word you're looking for?
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by dbrush 18y ago
Which makes his comment even more confounding.
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by dbrush 18y ago
The scarier issue is that for some people there really isn't a disconnect.
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by dbrush 18y ago
This also might be a critical moment when people have to decide what rights and responsibilities a site has to the content it distributes, whether that be HD-DVD keys or a video stream of one's suicide.
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by dbrush 18y ago
So it was with fauxto.com It was a witty spelling of a simple word, but failed miserably at your litmus test. Changing the domain alone to splashup.com brought a 4x increase in average daily traffic.
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6 Most Useful Adobe AIR Applications Ever Made(news.softpedia.com)
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by dbrush 18y ago
It was intense for me, but they were quite adept at making me at ease. They asked great questions and were quite honest about their positions on things, (their level of interest, their feeling about the market I'm in, etc). I'm using "they"
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by dbrush 18y ago
I could more readily agree with what you're saying if a great resource like Hacker News didn't consistently get high-ranked items with headlines like "10 Ways To Get Motivated To Change The World By Starting A Startup" For what it's worth:
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by dbrush 18y ago
Why is this so bad? The difference between what was said there and what is said behind closed doors is... closed doors. Many people in this community, or with similar goals to many in this community, talk that way. Perhaps many people are l
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by dbrush 18y ago
Youtube re-encoded a ton of their videos for iPhone viewing. Perhaps Youtube could offer re-encoding in the cloud or something. A proxy that does this would probably solve the iPhone/Video argument, but it would be expensive to implement an
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by dbrush 18y ago
There is a great distinction to be observed between the words "me" and "us". It seems as though your experience leads you to your conclusions, but I'd bet rather confidently that your conclusions are conjectural rather than empirical with r
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by dbrush 18y ago
"Don't hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe's Flash software: Apple's terms-of-service agreement prohibits it." That is probably the most trivial issue preventing Flash from running on the iPhone. Companies negotiate and
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by dbrush 18y ago
I made the same mistake of trying to give unsolicited advice after I made my way through Y Combinator. You soon realize, though, that the people that want it will ask for it, and the people that need it, if they need it enough, will discove
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by dbrush 18y ago
If you'll read some of the other comments, particularly the ones from the Heysan team, you'll notice that they have established a revenue model and probably don't require your unsolicited advice and proclamations.
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by dbrush 18y ago
As far as I see it... In Michigan the auto companies underpin so many other industries and fields that if the big three fail we'll be looking at the current foreclosure epidemic as a vacuum cleaner relative to the black hole that will ensue
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by dbrush 18y ago
Agreed. For instance: "How to build a company with a market cap of $180 billion" - Me vs. "How to build a company with a market cap of $180 billion" - Bill Gates Also, having gone through the very same process Gabor is, I can say the conten
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by dbrush 18y ago
Here is a bit of history on the language. http://blogs.msdn.com/smallbasic/archive/2008/10/23/hello-wo...
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by dbrush 18y ago
"Even the first Google search algorithm was hardly a "simple solution"...." And who else was going to try to build a better search engine, rather than just another search engine with more traffic?
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by dbrush 18y ago
Google would've been doomed...
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by dbrush 18y ago
Flash isn't insidious about it's "cookies" just as browsers aren't insidious for allowing developers to use cookies and The Pirate Bay isn't insidious for allowing people to use BitTorrent... for whatever legal or illegal purposes they choo
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by dbrush 18y ago
[citation needed]
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by dbrush 18y ago
This is all fine and well for content created with Flash and Ajax, but it just doesn't make sense to me to criticize Flash and Ajax because Google can't index a menu bar within applications built with the technologies.
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by dbrush 18y ago
Sure, Apple can be seen as standing up against an association that isn't necessarily for the best interests of the artists. However, their choice to shut down iTunes would also render the billions of DRMed songs, that people payed for, usel
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by dbrush 18y ago
Why is it important to you that others don't read it?

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