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by drx 14y ago
You don't necessarily have to be good at running a company to be good at criticizing how others do it. Same way you don't have to be a professional football player to commentate football.
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by drx 14y ago
It's not as zero-sum as you seem to imply.
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by drx 14y ago
I don't see why everyone is interested in blood sugar aide devices. I don't really give a crap about how much insulin my body produces, nor some BS about insulin resistance.
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by drx 14y ago
Because they need to do one thing and do it well. They don't have a 10000 person team to venture into "larger audiences", they do one specific thing or they die. People don't wake up one day and think "oh hey, I'm in the market for a craigs
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by drx 14y ago
Try selling IFTTT to a business, see what happens.
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by drx 14y ago
Exactly what pops into my mind when people say things like that.
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by drx 14y ago
If I were Joel, I'd be proud someone rejected a 2x raise to work for me.
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by drx 14y ago
You should re-run the experiment and make it double-blind.
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Evernote acquires iPad app Penultimate(blog.cocoabox.com)
54 points by drx 14y ago|28 comments
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by drx 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morale
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by drx 14y ago
I downvoted you by mistake, sorry.
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'Self-Combusting' iPhone on Airplane Due to Screw Lost in Botched Repair Job(macrumors.com)
1 points by drx 14y ago|0 comments
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by drx 14y ago
> I know people are going to say "what about iOS/Android" but why the hell would you want to write anything on those devices. Writing on an iPad is very convenient. I would love to transfer as much work as I can on iPads (from laptops).
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PEP 421 -- Adding sys.implementation(python.org)
41 points by drx 14y ago|9 comments
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by drx 14y ago
Would be interesting to see PCA and CA* applied to the same data. On a quick google trip I found [1] Principal Component Analysis of Senate Voting Patterns ( http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3xm9z62w#page-1 ) [2] Shlomo S. Sawilowsky, Real d
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by drx 14y ago
> I would like to avoid making these mistakes. But how do you avoid mistakes you make by default? I try to do it by challenging a lot of what I think, almost all the time. It's a solution, although it's very taxing. (I'd like to say I c
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by drx 14y ago
This is clever, but likely an easy way to get perma-banned from PayPal, as they run checks for unusual behavior to detect fraud. And even if they didn't notice, they will if your account is ever under review.
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by drx 14y ago
I really, really wish I could use per-site password authorization without using two factor auth.
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by drx 15y ago
You could try scraping archive.org for some estimation of dates.
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by drx 15y ago
He used PCA as well as ELA, making your first statement unfounded.
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by drx 15y ago
Sometimes there's no alternative. Off the top of my head being separated by a visa situation is an example.
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by drx 15y ago
> pg started mailing his companies to stop commenting on HN because it's a fever swamp Wow, really? That's unfortunate that HN can no longer function PR-less. BTW, would you mind linking to a source, or something? I must have missed it
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by drx 15y ago
This (fact-based news) has been at the back of my mind for a long time. If you stick with it and it ends up working out, this could be the start of something really interesting. What are your plans to monetize? It seems that the NPR model w
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by drx 15y ago
Characters with speech habits are not necessarily a bad thing -- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BuffySpeak (warning: tvtropes link)
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by drx 15y ago
Reddit is now worth at least ten times as much as when it was acquired.
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by drx 15y ago
Would you mind linking to some examples? I'd love to read them.
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by drx 15y ago
Imagine the accounting headache due to being hit by such a revision.
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by drx 15y ago
I found some examples here: https://www.circuitlab.com/user/CircuitLab/
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by drx 15y ago
Neat stuff. I briefly considered doing something like this myself, there are some interesting ways to monetize this if you manage to become the web circuit designer/simulator. Some things you might want to consider: * be more Mac frie
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Don't talk to the police [video](youtube.com)
4 points by drx 15y ago|0 comments

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