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by dschobel 16y ago
Losing one or two of the big ones (fb or twitter) would be a glaring hole in their offering and it also seems like the same thing would trigger companies to cut them off; namely, too much success. I know they're smart guys (by proxy of YC)
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by dschobel 16y ago
Could not agree more. I never got in shape until I found a workout which I loved and could not wait to get back to (ironically, it was crossfit which the author calls out as "sadistic"). All of a sudden I even enjoyed planning my diet just
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by dschobel 16y ago
Exactly, while it might help others to expose the VC, you would be putting your own reputation at risk. When seeking revenge, bring two shovels and all that.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Must be something about Alex Rodriguez... When the guy showed up at the same country club in Miami my father asked him if he played for the Dolphins...
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by dschobel 16y ago
for the 0.000001% of time that gmail is down? your homebrew mail setup can beat that?
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by dschobel 16y ago
that's where lightpeak/thunderbolt steps in.
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by dschobel 16y ago
How to solve the signal/noise problem? Amplify the signal. Call it undemocratic, but insight and perspicacity is not uniformly distributed so it's absurd that pg/$whoever_you_respect's upvote on an article counts as much as anyone else. As
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by dschobel 16y ago
If you can sideline all the people who want to bullshit about how the ipad2 is the future of personal computing or the quality of the writing at TC, you've already won.
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by dschobel 16y ago
I believe he was making one of those things humans like so well... what are they called... ah yes, a "joke".
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by dschobel 16y ago
I'm happy to not bury SF just yet, just in case Oracle or someone of that ilk decide to send a few suitcases filled with money to the GitHub guys.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Bingo. Also known as bikeshedding or more formally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality
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by dschobel 16y ago
Valve is an extraordinary company. That quote does not apply to non-extraordinary companies and hence is idiotic to repeat as a general rule. It is as meaningless as if you quoted Feynman saying "think about a problem long enough and you'll
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by dschobel 16y ago
The fact that you can't delay "forever" is a cheap semantic trick. You can delay for so long that you run out of money / investor patience. There's a vast graveyard of game companies which can attest to it.
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by dschobel 16y ago
I think the fact that Matt frequently comes in here to discuss Google's search results shows that it is not just PR. Unless you want to categorize everything Matt says publicly (whether here, on his blog or on twitter) as PR...
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by dschobel 16y ago
The particularly pernicious thing about this flaw in the most common implementation of double checked locking is that it seems like such a simple optimization to one of the most common programming patterns, the singleton. The singleton is s
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by dschobel 16y ago
What's your source? All I found are civil suits against Toyota asking for the EDR data but nothing criminal for "withholding crash data from the government regulators".
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by dschobel 16y ago
All of that? perfectly reasonable; the original claim? still slightly absurd. If you want to look at it by comparison to the iphone led smartphone revolution, the timeframe there was: first iphone release: 1/2007 first android phone: 10/200
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by dschobel 16y ago
"The next six months are going to set the foundation for the future of personal computing." Gruber needs to make the leap and become a political talking-head on cable news already. Unleashing lines like that without a hint of sarcasm or i
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by dschobel 16y ago
And then one day someone will come along who pays his farmers $2000 per page and claim that Mahalo is polluting the web with their lousy $1000pp content. The issue boils down to the fact that the search landscape is fundamentally a represen
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by dschobel 16y ago
Stranger things have happened: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/#examples
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by dschobel 16y ago
Great execution but needs more "$X is a dead simple way to $Y" so as to properly channel TC/Arrington.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Or maybe he was just skewering Google's notorious interview process...
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by dschobel 16y ago
I think the difference in engagement by those guys is that Cuil was trying to be stealth and downplay the hype of being "google 2.0 by ex-googlers" whereas your marketing has been squarely aimed at them.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Paper for everyone! Silly slogan when you're trying to replace something low cost and pervasive.
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by dschobel 16y ago
+1. Most efficient program I've ever seen. We have lots of lawyers and finance people in my gym so it draws people with little time and a tolerance for abuse (which should make it perfect for startup people).
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by dschobel 16y ago
Google gets no benefit from Microsoft using their data. What happened to the Google line of "the more happy searching people we have online the better" (usually brought out in justification of their android investment)? Shouldn't the same
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by dschobel 16y ago
pg just shed a single tear.
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by dschobel 16y ago
No kidding, if I were GH I would be furious that that story was sitting at the top of HN (which is about as influential in the circles GH cares about as it gets) for the better part of a day. It's embarrassing for both Andrew and for HN.
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by dschobel 16y ago
A warning to not send money to people you met on an open internet forum? Really? If someone can help lrm242 great, but I don't think anyone else has delusions that HN is anything but an open forum on the web and therefore entails the most b
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by dschobel 16y ago
I agree it's hard to be negative about someone striking out on their own but I think he does have a point that unless you know Jean personally why would you care when the sum total of the content was "google is great but I want to do my own

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