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by dcurtis 18y ago
Though the article was horrible, I found the quotes from Elon and the ex-CEO to be interesting. It's not often you see a quote like this: "Martin is the worst individual I've ever had the displeasure of working with." In some ways, it sort
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Yeah, it's pathetic and Apple has really failed at this. But at least they admit it, and say they are trying to improve.
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Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? If Obama Has To, Yes He Can. Maybe.(nytimes.com)
41 points by dcurtis 18y ago|37 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
The reason equity grants are so popular at startups is because they work. When employees own a physical piece of the work they are creating, and when they have a definite vested interest in making things to the best of their ability, you (a
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Unfortunately hunger is a biological urge, and it's not exactly something you can choose not to fixate on. Anything else makes sense, but I really don't think it applies to dieting all that much on an extended basis (for a short period of t
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Don't you think they've deserved it? They've sacrificed a lot of credibility for a ton of exposure.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Ah, now I agree totally with that. And I've found that you can really easily make something that sort of works OK in IE6 most of the time if you follow all of these suggestions: http://anthonyshort.com.au/blog/comments/how-to-get-cross-br.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I understand your problem and I empathize with you. But you are at the very, very low end of the experience curve. It makes sense for me, as a designer, to cater to the largest number of people possible, and to provide them the best experie
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Catering to the lowest type of anything in business is always a recipe for bad user experience. Also, I seem to remember you telling me that you use a computer with a resolution of 800x600. If you also use IE6, then you are, in fact, the lo
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Would be nice to have a warning also. "Hey, you're doing X and if you don't stop, we'll disable your account!"
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by dcurtis 18y ago
It's pretty amazing how utterly terrible Google's customer service can be.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Interesting tips. Here's another way to give a really good presentation, but with lots of movement/action happening on the screen: http://vimeo.com/1925542?pg=embed&sec=1925542&hd=1
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Unlike KDE, Gnome, OS X, etc, Windows' taskbar never shuts up. It always pops up annoying bubbles, makes clicking sounds, randomly shows and hides icons, and doesn't standardize the way you can add/remove icons. OS X fails a bit in this are
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by dcurtis 18y ago
To my astonishment, this writeup was actually interesting. I wonder what they could do to improve the quality of the comments on TechCrunch. These 11 types seem to make up the vast majority of the things said there, unfortunately.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Everything they do is a knockoff of something else, and it's usually not better (I actually cannot think of a single case where it is better). I am not just randomly anti-Microsoft for religious reasons. They make terrible products that hav
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by dcurtis 18y ago
The Xbox is not the internet. It is a dedicated internet-powered appliance. And while they may have done a good job there, they have failed in every other internet initiative. Microsoft does not understand the internet and has never made an
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by dcurtis 18y ago
"I’m retired from blogging and have moved to the comfort of my email newsletter, where 9,400 of my close friends and I have a nice intimate discussion." I like Calacanis and the things he has to say in his emails, but to say the 9,400 peopl
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Microsoft has destroyed their brand so completely that I don't even consider this a viable product. I don't trust Microsoft.
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Frogmetrics: Handheld Surveys You Might Actually Want To Fill Out (YC Summer 08)(techcrunch.com)
84 points by dcurtis 18y ago|13 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Yes, any amount of stock ownership-- or potential ownership, as with options-- is considered "equity." Although these numbers in percentages are skewed-- in fact, the actual equity compensation is obviously spread over four years. So to p
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Post Series-A, it is somewhat common though not universal. Once you start adding employees who don't hold significant amounts of equity, you have to create meaningful performance incentives. The best way to do that is with a monetary bonus.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Wow, green or not, I am amazed that the Model T got more than 20 miles per gallon. That seems extremely efficient for the first mass production car ever.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I remember the very first time evolutionary biology made complete sense to me, back in high school. I remember when I first made the connection between the theories on how amino acids are formed and the way DNA is constructed and replicated
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Not entirely true. USB 2.0's "peak" speed is 480Mbps, but it actually performs worse for large transfers than firewire. From what I understand, it's designed for short bursts of data at very high speeds.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This is generally true, but I was under the impression that Google gave unusually generous grants as a form of compensation.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Does anyone have any hard data on the prevalence of random WiFi hacking? I think the chances of someone trying a GPU-accelerated bruteforce attack on my home network is ridiculously low.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
You can see this live at FlightAware.com. You can watch specific airports, flights, aircraft, etc... http://flightaware.com/live/
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by dcurtis 18y ago
At least this guy's 15 million is on green paper.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
$7.5 million signing bonus? What kind of board of directors would approve such a retarded amount? The guy would have taken the CEO job without the bonus; it serves zero purpose to the shareholders to give him $7.5 million. Why don't compani
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Did anyone else feel a little tiny bit like vomiting while reading this? It's fascinating.

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