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The Strange Case of the Missing Microfiber(businessweek.com)
1 points by dcurtis 18y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Easy answer: no.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
It'd be cool to have a secure group that can edit/see the whiteboard, for internal company meetings, etc..
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by dcurtis 18y ago
It would be a pretty easy argument to suggest that some blogs became bona-fide news outlets when people started to use them as their primary source of news. I don't read newspapers anymore. I get 90% of my news from blogs. TechCrunch has a
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by dcurtis 18y ago
He doesn't explain how he got rich though... "I joined a VC" ... "I was lucky!" I'd be interested in hearing a lot more about his past and how he forced his way into the VC industry with no experience.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Huh. How'd you find that, and why is it there?
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Maybe I should have expanded a bit. I think the Wal Mart healthcare system would be about as good as the Wal Mart-branded clothing. Not good. If Taco Bell started to service your car while you were in the drive through, some men in business
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by dcurtis 18y ago
VerticalResponse.com works pretty well for sending out email campaigns.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
What a preposterous suggestion. Should we start having Taco Bell service our cars?
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Not a single YC company that I know of has made any remarkable amount of money without being sold. But, in fact, many YC companies have made considerable amounts of money by selling themselves. Why is having the goal of being sold while mak
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by dcurtis 18y ago
You mean to say that homeless are lazy and have no work ethic? That's true of most homeless, I think. But a small minority of them probably are good physical laborers who just lack the ability to find good jobs. I wonder how one could weed
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by dcurtis 18y ago
The majority of "the valley" is suburban and there is absolutely no glamour to living in San Jose. An hour from Palo Alto, and you're in Gilroy, a rural community in the middle of nowhere. In a lot of ways Silicon Valley is rural/very subur
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by dcurtis 18y ago
It's buggy and has an ugly icon. Otherwise, it'd be amazing.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I'm sure that is the basis of this guy's argument, but the biggest differences are the physical ones in the brain. Did those physical changes occur due to social pressures? I don't know and neither does the author. It is a weak argument.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
To suggest that the only major difference betweeen humans and chimps is social seems kind of stupid to me. The human brain is obviously more advanced and capabile of more complex resoning beyond that of simple social interactions.
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Who's going to put more money into Joost?(alleyinsider.com)
1 points by dcurtis 18y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I love twitter. I think it's an awesome service. The problem is the company behind the service. You might hear a lot of complaints about twitter-the-company, but twitter-the-service is generally regarded highly.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Apparently, if you submit a PDF, Hacker News automagically converts it to a Scribd iPaper link. Some people apparently find loading the flash iPaper viewer as more annoying than viewing a raw PDF.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
You value your free time at a rate of 300-600 dollars an hour? Wow.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Wow, Webmonkey was how I learned HTML. I hope the relaunched site is as good as it used to be-- concise, easy-to-follow tutorials.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
These are interesting insights, but Scoble is basing all of his points on the current version of Friendfeed. Surely, in the future, most of these problems will be solved (at least to some degree). The people behind Friendfeed are not stupid
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Are you kidding? How many buffets have you been to with real, decently awesome sushi? Filet Mignon? It's a several leaps above Hometown Buffet in so many ways...
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I had no idea that brochures were made for these types of things. Who is the target reader?
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by dcurtis 18y ago
A couple of years ago, I discovered Etymotic ER-4p headphones. They block out practically all the ambient noise. When I need to concentrate, I put them on and listen to some calm music. I've never liked earplugs, but the triple-flange thing
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by dcurtis 18y ago
If you look at the research, though, there are a few reports of patients having severe insomnia for weeks or months after moderate doses of provigil.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Humans are extremely sensitive to color fidelity. Look closely as those processed images. You can tell that something is "off" about them, because while the algorithm is extremely good, it can't reproduce the true color gamut of reality, or
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I am pretty sure Google doesn't use your back search history in advertising targeting. They've said this many times. If they did, here's my past few searches: jordan ritter, glowing resin bar, mac hard drive use visualization, ironport, joo
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by dcurtis 18y ago
That logic may be true about bikes. But what if my Facebook profile says I like the movies Godzilla, Jurassic Park, and The Bourne Identity? It's very easy to extrapolate a common movie "typeness" that someone likes from a list. Then you ca
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by dcurtis 18y ago
In the beginning, what was revolutionary about Google was the experience, not the search results. A lot of that has to do with visual design. But mostly, in Google's case, I think it has to do with the extreme focus they have on search.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This was one of the first keyboards I ever used. It was also the worst keyboard I have ever used. And because I learned to type on it, for about a year afterwards, I couldn't type properly on normal keyboards. Stay away.

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