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by dstein 15y ago
It's probably a marketing thing, since people with PhD's aren't usually the entrepreneur-type.
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by dstein 15y ago
This is more like "Steve Yegge discovers the power of linkbait".
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by dstein 15y ago
Don't kid yourself. Side projects can be done in your spare time. But a true startup will require full time dedication.
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by dstein 15y ago
They already have a small business product: https://www.dropbox.com/teams
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by dstein 15y ago
My wild guess is they're going after the enterprise market. Dropbox would need to expand in some big ways to provide a secure "all-cloud" filesystem that enterprises could use to replace their own data centers with.
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by dstein 15y ago
More importantly he has revealed that Google will be adding cat picture features to Google Plus. Facebook is in trouble.
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by dstein 15y ago
As the article only touched on, this is precisely why the next computing giant will not come from Silicon Valley or anywhere in the US. The current software patent situation has ensured it.
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by dstein 15y ago
How well is it going to be received compared with the level of effort required? ChromeOS is pretty bad and Google has been working on it for a long time.
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by dstein 15y ago
I think Google's strategy for ChomeOS is all wrong. Nobody wants low powered laptops without a proper OS. As soon as the iPad blew up the netbook market Google should have retargeted ChomeOS as a tablet OS. A lightweight (zero-weight) OS
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by dstein 15y ago
I bought the refurbished iPad 1 I'm typing this on for $370 from the Apple website.
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by dstein 15y ago
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cyberspace/jan-june06/google_... http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june10/google_01...
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by dstein 15y ago
Well I didn't intend to write an essay proving something's that's fairly obvious. I think Google's intentions look harmless on the surface, but there may be some sinister consequences if they continue down this road. And at the very least
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by dstein 15y ago
Welcome to what I call Google's vision of an "Orwellian Computing Age". Your every action & communication will be monitored, and your entire digital identity can be deleted by a centralized, seemingly autonomous authority. Better comp
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by dstein 15y ago
Yes exactly. In a more broad sense I think all nouns (people, places, urls), should not count against the limit.
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by dstein 15y ago
Twitter's self imposed 140 char limit has limited their options in a lot of ways. Twitter should have dropped that a long time ago. Or at least not count hashtags, geotags, or urls against the 140 limit. This would've opened a lot doors
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by dstein 15y ago
Try trading in the stock market. Missed opportunities become a way of life.
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by dstein 15y ago
It's merely my cynical conclusion that this VC fund is mouthing a lot of hogwash. Two-thirds of the companies they have funded are exactly the kinds of companies that this manifesto says are the problem. Their essay really doesn't really
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by dstein 15y ago
According to their last statement: So, we will continue to invest in very talented entrepreneurs who are pursuing ambitious, challenging tasks. We will treat them with respect and hope for the best. Basically they're looking for
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by dstein 15y ago
I finally managed to get the page to load on my tablet, and yeah "et cetera" sums it up pretty nicely.
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by dstein 15y ago
That's a very long winded way of saying nothing.
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by dstein 15y ago
This won't work for programmers. Like MP3's, open source has trained almost all programmers to expect all code to be free, all the time, and come with free support.
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Roger McNamee: Microsoft and Google are dead, HTML5 is the future(fora.tv)
4 points by dstein 15y ago|1 comments
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by dstein 15y ago
The trick is to alternate between high intensity and low intensity work when it feels right to do so. But to always be making some notable progress. Some days I just need to zone out, I can't concentrate, so instead I brainstorm, make a t
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Ask HN: best sovereign territory to host your grey market app?
10 points by dstein 15y ago|2 comments
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by dstein 15y ago
But if you bootstrap and find customers willing to pay for your product you've got a lot longer than that.
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by dstein 15y ago
Why is that important?
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by dstein 15y ago
I would much rather them spend the time to make the regular website iPad compatible. But Google has some funky JavaScript on the inputs capturing every keystroke and sending each keypress to the server and none of it works on iOS. You can
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by dstein 15y ago
"Bash with Balls" might've been better.
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by dstein 15y ago
I'm so utterly disgusted by the whole patent system I care not to read any further. Basically every software patent that starts off with "a method of..." is usually bogus. The whole system needs to be scrapped.
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by dstein 15y ago
The bubble is clearly in social networking marketing rather than actual technology. The value that VC's are putting on unmonetizable audiences is completely absurd. However the story is different for legitmate tech companies. There is a g

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