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How Twitter is Blurring The Distinction Between Ads and Content(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
4 points by dlevine 15y ago|0 comments
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Are You Solving Problems or Just Building Products?(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
6 points by dlevine 15y ago|0 comments
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How I Made Information Consumption Into A Conscious Choice(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
5 points by dlevine 15y ago|0 comments
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by dlevine 15y ago
This is cool, but the light isn't nearly powerful enough. I have a CREE-powered flashlight that I've been using for the past 4 years or so. I think it cost about $60, and it runs on a single AA for a couple of weeks when I run it in flashin
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by dlevine 15y ago
This has been another big learning. Basically, it's super-important to validate your ideas before you start building. I have trended towards doing more and more customer validation as things have gone along.
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by dlevine 15y ago
These were built over about a three-year period. One of my big learnings (to be detailed in a future post) is that I have product ADD.
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Post-Mortems For Ten Products I've Built(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
131 points by dlevine 15y ago|29 comments
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by dlevine 15y ago
Why did SocialCam split off from JustinTV? Did JustinTV turn into TwitchTV and then divest SocialCam since it wasn't directly related to the direction the company was going in?
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The Browser Shuffle(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
6 points by dlevine 15y ago|1 comments
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by dlevine 15y ago
Or, if your Wordpress site gets hacked, your entire site isn't p0wned. I have a friend who had his WP site hacked last week. Fortunately, he hosts his application on a separate server, so there were no (major) security issues.
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by dlevine 15y ago
I was thinking that this was going to be a filter on HN that blocked the comments by people you didn't like. That would be kind of a cool project. Basically, you could click "hide" and no longer see comments by a particular person. Over tim
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by dlevine 15y ago
I have discovered that the only real way to learn is to make mistakes. You can read about mistakes in a book, but until you actually make them and experience the consequences, you haven't really learned. Once you make the mistake, you will
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by dlevine 15y ago
It's funny how things come full circle. Circa 2004, Firefox was the browser that forced Microsoft to reinstate its browser team (which had been disbanded around 2001 after the release of IE6). It had a revolutionary interface, and did a lot
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by dlevine 15y ago
Congrats! I knew Aaron at Google, and he was one of the smartest engineers around. He also built one of the coolest pieces of software I've ever seen (Robocraft). It was a Starcraft clone where users had to code up AIs for each of the units
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by dlevine 15y ago
Ah, 6.001 Brings me back to the fall of 1998, and many long Thursday nights spent working on problem sets. This was before you could do the exercises on the web, so you had to go into an ancient lab with grayscale terminals (unless you want
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by dlevine 15y ago
This was Hacker School ten years before Hacker School. Sure, the methods of instruction were a bit different, but the overall purpose was similar.
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by dlevine 15y ago
How many employees did Viaweb have when it was acquired?
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The War Between Intel and ARM Heats Up(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
5 points by dlevine 15y ago|0 comments
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by dlevine 15y ago
Apologies. I misread "extensive" as "exclusive" in the article. It doesn't matter - I'm sure that Intel gave Motorola a sweet deal to get an "extensive" commitment.
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by dlevine 15y ago
I'm guessing that Intel cut Motorola a really sweet deal to get them to sign an exclusive contract. The decision probably had little to do with Intel being a better platform, and more to do with cost per chip. Let's face it - Windows 8 runn
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by dlevine 15y ago
I have dinged people because they wouldn't write on the whiteboard. To be fair, every time this actually happened, I gave the candidate the chance to write his solution on paper, and I ended up dinged him anyways because his work was sub-pa
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by dlevine 15y ago
I agree with you here. This is a contrived example - I would expect a bit more from an "article" voted to the front page of hacker news. Sure, you shouldn't hire a developer merely because he went to the right schools and did well, but I ca
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by dlevine 15y ago
I'm not sure which incubators you are talking about. This post seems like more of a rant than a productive analysis. I have seen some indications that there are too many seed-stage companies right now, but I'm not sure if any one incubator
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The Most Important Things I Learned Last Year(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
4 points by dlevine 15y ago|0 comments
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by dlevine 15y ago
Agreed. I built something like this in a few minutes when it was needed for a recent project. I was looking at Javascript "libraries" to do this, and then realized that it could be done with a tiny bit of CSS.
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My Take on Lean Startup Development(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
3 points by dlevine 15y ago|1 comments
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Remembering What is Really Important(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
11 points by dlevine 15y ago|0 comments
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by dlevine 15y ago
I guess that I'm kind of worried this won't be a good thing (at least for Web OS). Without any concrete plans for upcoming Web OS devices, it is unclear whether HP will actually continue to develop the OS. There aren't all that many devices
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by dlevine 15y ago
Probably something like 95%/4%/1% That's not percentage of the company - that's percentage of the equity held by employees. In some cases it might actually turn out a bit better, like 90/5/5 or something like that. Regardless, the outcome s
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The Low-Power Revolution(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
5 points by dlevine 15y ago|0 comments

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