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The Web in the High Castle(medium.com)
1 points by drb311 11y ago|0 comments
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by drb311 11y ago
Dear HN... What's the best way to get smart? Watching? Reading? Or something else?
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The Web Can't Last for Ever(medium.com)
3 points by drb311 11y ago|1 comments
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Kurt Vonnegut tech writing tips(medium.com)
1 points by drb311 11y ago|0 comments
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by drb311 11y ago
Clever way to bootstrap a franchise business. Nice work. I've stayed in some really basic hotels in India. You get to choose between cheap and awful or expensive and decent. The bad places aren't always bad to keep costs low. Ofte
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by drb311 11y ago
I love those antique ads. "You See What You Are Doing All The Time". If you have to write copy for any kind of ad, make sure to use the words "you" and "your" a lot. It worked for Underwood and it will work for
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by drb311 11y ago
Don't forget the Horowitz in Andreessen Horowitz. Ben Horowitz is an authority on management and I bet a17z investments get as much focus on sustainability and fundamentals as anyone. I recommend his blog http://www.bhorowit
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Predicting the future of tech(medium.com)
5 points by drb311 11y ago|1 comments
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by drb311 11y ago
Strikes me you have three choices: 1. Force yourself to sit here and do nothing else until the task is done. The Chandler method, which requires a great deal of discipline. 2. Keep telling yourself "I'll start just after I check H
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by drb311 11y ago
There's an old saying: "If you want something done ask a busy person." Busy people always come through for you. I used to think this was because they were super efficient, super disciplined. But maybe your task is a welcome d
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8 Tech Trends I'm Excited About(medium.com)
1 points by drb311 11y ago|0 comments
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by drb311 11y ago
That does blow a hole in my argument... but what lead NYT to observe that Google was 'flouting dotcom tradition', if stocking up with (and being lead by) CS PhD's was the norm?
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by drb311 11y ago
Not just a BuzzFeed article, but a BuzzFeed CATS article. You should be ashamed of yourself. (But I agree -- BuzzFeed has grown up.)
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by drb311 11y ago
You're right. I should have said "first internet businesses", and now I have. I could still be totally wrong, but at least now it's genuine ignorance not a typing mistake.
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"Google is a technology-driven company -- one founded by computer science prodigies who have hired more than 50 computer science Ph.D.'s." In 2002 this was weird. Internet entrepreneurs were not expected to be compsci Ph.Ds b
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by drb311 11y ago
If children can thrive in a cave they can thrive anywhere. Happy and loving children come from happy and loving parents. Enjoy them and do what feels right and kind.
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by drb311 11y ago
Amazing what 50 bucks can buy. Are smartphone manufacturers really as naive as the story suggests, churning out phones at a loss in the vain hope of future profit? I know they're in trouble but they're not THAT deluded, are they?
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Mobile Facebook is bigger than the whole mobile web(medium.com)
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Lessons from strangers: engineering code for human happiness(medium.com)
1 points by drb311 11y ago|0 comments
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by drb311 11y ago
"It just works" is a tricky promise to make good on. Microsoft never made this promise and nor does Google. As a Google fan I accept a certain amount of flakiness as part of the brand identity. It's always celebrated a quirky
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URLs, hyperlinks, and the core of the web(medium.com)
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PEP 8, beautiful code, and the tyranny of guidelines(medium.com)
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by drb311 11y ago
You're awesome. To make it really authentic, the text that states the artist and track title shouldn't be so sharp. It should look as blurry as the video. Other than that this is a perfect bit of fun. I love the Internet.
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The One Second Website(medium.com)
2 points by drb311 11y ago|0 comments
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by drb311 11y ago
This flow chart explain things that are hard to grasp in words. Dan Roam's Back of a Napkin is a good guide to thinking and communicating in this visual way. You can get quite a long way with the freebies on his site, but it's wor
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by drb311 11y ago
Damn that page loads fast.
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by drb311 11y ago
This is a tarted up version of Guy's 10/20/30 rule of PowerPoint: 10 slides -- because that's the max a viewer will hold in their head 20 minutes -- because that's the max people will pay attention 30 point font siz
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by drb311 11y ago
Good breathing will help but it's not the key. The best starting point for nervous public speakers is: http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/10/4/presentation-skills-co... Focus on their needs not your t
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by drb311 11y ago
I've been trying to shock the monkey for 4 hours now and still haven't won the $20.
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by drb311 11y ago
It will all be properly announced within a couple of hours but somehow I can't stop myself reading these previews and leaks. I'll be glad when they set Photos free from Google+. I hope they do something with Hangouts too.

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