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by dstein 16y ago
Let's see if I can explain it another way. The price of everything eventually reaches $0. There is only a certain period of time from which you can profit from any particular good. If you make a hamburger, you have probably 2 hours to sel
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by dstein 16y ago
The most exciting thing is that because of the accelerating pace of technological deflation, the cost of almost everything is asymptotically approaching $0. Access to all information, global communication, books, entertainment (movies, tv s
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I imagine after the Kik incident any startup that had social mobile apps has probably already written RIM off as a platform worth developing for. If RIM's strategy is to "scare developers" into building apps for their platform then they ha
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by dstein 16y ago
IANAEconomist, but I believe the impacts of Peak Oil will ultimately be overshadowed by "Peak (American) Capitalism" in a similar same manner that the Real Estate bubble was overshadowed by the global financial bubble that created it. By a
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by dstein 16y ago
For the "real world" applications I think you should at least consider Scala and Clojure also. Because they're both JVM based you can rely on the Java infrastructure that's been built up over the past 15 years. If you're doing web developm
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Google's Marissa Mayer at Stanford, June 2006: "Don't kill projects, morph them"(youtube.com)
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Think Apple's 30% fee is bad? Envato takes %75!!
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The following video, narrated by Alan Watts, and animated by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, eloquently describes exactly what you have figured out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4&feature=playe... You essentially have come to
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* Would it have killed you to have included a built-in spellchecker? For IE9 we really focused on what customers, partners and developers told us mattered most, their sites. Developers wanted the ability to create richer and more immersive
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I didn't say MS was "out to get the users", I just mean that every response Microsoft has to perfectly reasonable questions like "why don't you support [insert standard here]?" has the same patronizing tone like "we've listened to our custo
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by dstein 16y ago
The condescending attitude Microsoft has for users and developers can also be seen in their responses to Reddit's Q&A with the IE9 team: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dk3s0/the_ie9_te...
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But this time it's social.
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I've seen this type of situation blow up pretty badly. Coworker started a side-project, quit company, side-project becomes really successful, and the company sued the ex-employee. Legally the situation was perhaps iffy (they ended up se
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by dstein 16y ago
When did getting a job become more about programming and not being a good problem solver?
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by dstein 16y ago
Hipmunk looks like simply a front-end for Orbitz.com.
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End-to-end web programming in JavaScript using NodeJS is breathtaking to see in action.
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bootstrapped with ONLY $5 million in venture capital investment! Sometimes I wonder if Techcrunch understands the buzzwords they write.
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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade. -Tony Robbins
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by dstein 16y ago
Then....why is this wikileaks business a front-page headlining story pretty much everywhere? Doesn't that completely counter your claim? Just because "its on the news" doesn't prove that anybody gives damn. I don't see citizens rallying
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by dstein 16y ago
You gotta hand it to Wikileaks, they've got balls. But I'm afraid it's all going to be for naught. Nobody likes to be told, let alone admit, their government/banks/military is corrupt. No good will come from any of this because the avera
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by dstein 16y ago
I guess RIM went to the Oracle school of business. They're going to find out exactly why this is a VERY bad move. They're going to have an awful time trying attract developers for their platform.
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by dstein 16y ago
Milestones. You can work on multiple projects, it might even be encouraged in the beginning stages of a startup. If you can get your ideas built into semi-working prototypes they'll be in a better place should you decide to come back to t
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by dstein 16y ago
Burnout was one of the toughest things for me to manage, initially. I eventually found ways of dealing with it and preventing it. Because I now know exactly what burnout feels like, I can anticipate it, and make changes in my work and lif
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by dstein 16y ago
For the same price they should be buying Twitter.
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They really need to give up and turn their attention elsewhere, because whatever replaces Facebook simply cannot be built by Google. And it doesn't matter how hard they try, because Google will build their social network in typical Google
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I'd be surprised if they're not working with Rockstar Games to build Grand Theft Auto maps from Google maps data.
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Don't forget these are just today's prices. These costs are dropping a couple times a year, and presumably dropping at a faster rate than your cable internet bill (which is probably rising). There will absolutely come a point in the future
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by dstein 16y ago
You've got it backwards. Techcrunch and YC are not in any way responsible for the economic environment that has been forming over the past decade. We're experiencing the second wave of the tech boom from the 1990's. TC and YC are cheerle
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by dstein 16y ago
They're missing the real story of what's going on right now. Because of a variety of circumstances, like... * recession * weak job market * convergence of mobile/web/social technologies * cloud computing reducing startup costs ... we are
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by dstein 16y ago
If anything, Dropbox isn't thinking big enough. They really need to start thinking about how to provide a ubiquitous, multi-platform, private, cloud filesystem. Stop encouraging people to "back up" their files, and start using encouraging

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