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by dlevine 14y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. The motivation behind writing a blog post every day is to force myself to put something down without worrying so much about what I'm writing. I have this perception that every post had to be an essay and a masterp
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Taking a Break(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
6 points by dlevine 14y ago|2 comments
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by dlevine 14y ago
It's a lot easier to slink away and hide in a corner than to own up that you have failed. I did the former twice, so I have a lot of respect for Danielle. I'm curious to see what you guys come out with next, but I have no doubts that you wi
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by dlevine 14y ago
Agreed. Something seems off about this post. Having worked at Google and also having founded multiple startups, I understand the allure of startups. However, I have to say that in my experience, no one leaves a job that they are perfectly h
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by dlevine 14y ago
All I can say is that Jody was a great guy. My cofounder and I hung out with him one night about a year ago when he was in San Francisco, and he was one of the nicest and most genuine people I've ever met. Almost sold us on moving our start
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by dlevine 14y ago
We've talked about this a fair bit at 42Floors. The consensus is that the more senior people need to make an example of themselves by liberally taking vacation. If they set the example, then everyone else will take vacation. At a previous s
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by dlevine 14y ago
I reread the trilogy pretty recently. Still a great read!
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by dlevine 14y ago
You can get a black edition DeathAdder, which doesn't have the blue light. I got this mouse even though I don't game, because it appears to be one of the only high quality corded mice on the market (Microsoft's mice have severely dropped in
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Why everyone loves the iPad mini(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
3 points by dlevine 14y ago|0 comments
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by dlevine 14y ago
There is no question in my mind that Apple will gradually switch from Intel to ARM. I don't think it will happen until 2014, when the first 64-bit ARM designs come out. At the current rate of improvement, ARM processors in two years will of
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by dlevine 14y ago
I bought a Nexus 7 and then sold it a month later after pretty much never using it. The only device that it could feasibly replace is my Kindle, and I preferred my Kindle for reading.
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by dlevine 14y ago
The problem with AMD making ARM chips is that they would be cannibalizing their own market. Their best move would probably be to license the ARM platform and use their chip designers to make custom chips (like Apple and Qualcomm have), but
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by dlevine 14y ago
I think that ARM-based chips will probably have significant market share by the time AMD exits completely.
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Has AMD's Clock Run Out?(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
72 points by dlevine 14y ago|59 comments
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by dlevine 14y ago
I have a Samsung Convoy II. It's not super-thin, but it does pretty well as just a phone (plus texts). It actually has a decent web browser for when you need to check email (about once a month something comes up). Ruggedized, waterproof,
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by dlevine 14y ago
The book "Mastery" by George Leonard is a distilled version of "The Inner Game of Tennis." Highly recommended, and it can be had for a few bucks shipped on Amazon.
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by dlevine 14y ago
I actually like eBay, and use it pretty frequently. It's a great place to buy cheap stuff made in Asia, such as cheap bike parts and cheap electronics. I guess the problem with that is the profits on cheap items are much lower than on highe
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by dlevine 14y ago
It's important to understand that Byron Sebastian wasn't a founder of Heroku. He was an executive who they brought in later to run the company (because the founders were busy writing code and making the platform awesome). Unlike with other
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by dlevine 14y ago
I bought a Nexus 7, thinking that it would replace my Kindle (with the benefit of also being a tablet). I found that, even thought the Nexus 7 is higher resolution, it's harder on my eyes for some reason. So I sold the Nexus 7 and went back
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by dlevine 14y ago
This is actually a pretty good upgrade IMHO. The backlight is a huge upgrade - I have wanted this for years. And a sharper screen is always great. I bought a $79 Kindle last year (over the Touch) because it was smaller and had physical page
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by dlevine 14y ago
I believe that Michael Saylor announce this about 13 year ago (in 1999). If I remember correctly, he had a column in Newsweek or Time talking about it. Then Microstrategy's stock tanked (they had to restate their earnings), and his fortune
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by dlevine 14y ago
Also, Ray Kurzweil is not known just for his imagination. Some of his research has enabled groundbreaking technologies. For example, he is one of the creators of speech recognition technology (Nuance, which spun out of Kurzweil's company, a
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by dlevine 14y ago
Sounds like the story of Stephen Glass, whose meteoric rise at The New Republic was halted when it surfaced that many of his articles were made up (in part or in whole). There was a movie about it starring Hayden Christensen. Pretty interes
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Why Ouya isn't going to work(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
14 points by dlevine 14y ago|6 comments
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You get the new games if you paid more than the average when you originally purchased. I paid $7, which was a bit more the average when I originally bought the bundle (day 1), and the new games show up in my account.
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by dlevine 14y ago
Lee is a really nice guy, and has multiple successful companies behind him. Seems like a great move on Facebook's part.
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by dlevine 14y ago
I think Jared is a smart guy and I respect him a lot. However, I think that both Niroka and Officehours.TV could have eventually worked out in some form (they both seemed like credible products when they came out). I think that the key miss
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by dlevine 14y ago
Unless you are using Lion, where the scrollbar is hidden, and you can't actually see whether there is any more content below the fold...
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NeXT was definitely like this.
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by dlevine 14y ago
The JOBS act makes this technically possible, but there are a number of roadblocks that would need to be surmounted before this could happen. First of all, any crowdfunding platform that plans to do this would need to register with the SEC.

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