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by ekanes 17y ago
They're pretty different actually. eBay is a website that stopped evolving, whereas Facebook is a platform that's evolving at a decent pace without signs of slowing down.
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by ekanes 17y ago
It's great that it went well, but it's a stretch to say it proves anything. It was the first (mainstream) attempt at this model, and so many people (may have) paid to ensure that it worked.
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by ekanes 17y ago
It's not the same. This is about, "what brings out the best work/commitment in people?" What you're actually talking about is presumably a perceived injustice, which might anger people if they felt it was undeserved. If we're playing poker
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by ekanes 17y ago
If you're interested in this, you should check out The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. He walks you through how large companies (most of his examples are from the hard drive industry) are often structurally incapable of embrac
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by ekanes 17y ago
Steve's 1974 appearance on the Tonight Show: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/videos/Funny-Guy.ht...
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by ekanes 17y ago
"The authors of the PLoS study noted that when experimenters observed low cooperation rates, the animals had been food deprived. Fully satiated rats, on the other hand, freely cooperated and easily solved the Prisoner’s Dilemma. These resu
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by ekanes 17y ago
It's easy to get hung up on finding "the right (perfect) idea", but the highest probability for a new business to succeed is to do something that is already being done by others, who are making a living at it. Add to it, change it, inno
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by ekanes 17y ago
"Withdrawing from thousands of cards, thereby circumventing the security of financial institutions (who have billions available to them) qualifies as taking on stronger forces." No. He stole money from people. Thousands of them. Actual peop
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by ekanes 17y ago
Some good points, but I beg to differ with, "If social tools were creating real economic gains, we'd expect to see a substitution effect. They'd replace — disintermediate — yesterday's gatekeepers." User reviews on sites like Amazon or Yelp
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by ekanes 17y ago
a) This lets you batch your downloads, so you get it all done, and later reading is more pleasurable. b) If you want something to read on the plane, you could load it all up at the gate and then enjoy it later. Looks great - just bought it.
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by ekanes 17y ago
a) This lets you batch your downloads, so you get it all done, and later reading is more pleasurable. b) If you want something to read on the plane, you could load it all up at the gate and then enjoy it later. Looks great - just bought it.
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by ekanes 17y ago
Hey guys, we're looking for a PHP developer. Work from anywhere: Yes (Provided you're willing and able to connect with the rest of the team during daylight hours (we're sprinkled all over the place in Canada and the USA. To apply, send me
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by ekanes 17y ago
Why would you have to move? I'm guessing you're thinking along the lines of a funded startup, and access to capital and "deals" versus bootstrapping it yourself, but my guess is froo's startup is closer to the latter. When you bootstrap it,
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by ekanes 17y ago
Looking forward to it, thanks for organizing!
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by ekanes 17y ago
This could deploy more quickly since it's actively assisted by the explosion. This shoots up, rather than floats up (admittedly "float" in this case is a pretty high wind velocity! ;)
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by ekanes 17y ago
Thought their pricing was interesting, lower than I would have guessed: "Martin Aircraft has built several prototypes so we have a good idea how much they cost to manufacture. Depending on production volume, the initial cost will be about
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by ekanes 17y ago
Agreed, it's a great concept and nice execution. Suggestion: If any of the devs see this thread, it'd be great to have privacy settings, so (optionally) only approved folks could see your travel plans. Edit: After RTFA, I see that "...And a
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by ekanes 17y ago
"Notes" is a great idea, but storing them anywhere but locally raises the probability that they could leak, which would be disastrous for your users and possibly fatal for your startup. Good luck with the product though, neat stuff.
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by ekanes 17y ago
An oversimplification: pg's "job" is to reach smart geeks living anywhere, convince them he knows what he's talking about and then fund the best among them. Blogging = high return on effort. He's reaching many geeks and selling them on his
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by ekanes 17y ago
(I think mbubb might have been responding to the common usage of the word atheism, which is a conclusion that "There is no God.") If one can't prove that God does not exist, then Being Certain (without proof) therefore requires faith.
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by ekanes 17y ago
>> With this move, Google is declaring war on a host of web companies that are heretofore thriving and collaborating and making tons of money. From the perspective of those other companies they are indeed "declaring war" and it's al
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by ekanes 17y ago
>> I think it's also important that parents provide the opportunity for their kids to have autonomy. If they aren't exposed to different things, they'll never take the initiative to be passionate about something. Right on. Our kids
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by ekanes 17y ago
Quite simply, the difference is that Michael would tell you about it. When you're aware or relationship or bias, you can (somewhat) mentally adjust for it.
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by ekanes 17y ago
Agreed. My guess is the shoes broaden his foot and make it easier to run on sandy and unstable surfaces.
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by ekanes 17y ago
Wow. That was amazing, thanks for the link. Note that you can see (supposedly) how his feet land as he runs at 3:11
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by ekanes 17y ago
They'll still be invented, just somewhere else. The iPhone is a good example of how this might play out. It's a locked-down system full of problems for developers, but that doesn't mean innovation in the phone industry stopped. You had a de
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by ekanes 17y ago
That's a solid reference for some perspective. I too am underwhelmed with it, but this is just the 1st version of a new /platform/. They can add all kinds of things later.
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by ekanes 17y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1BUH9eXy18 Prescience much? :)
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by ekanes 17y ago
Fantastic stuff. A usability suggestion would be to change the color of links that lead to empty "no results" pages. You could of course "unhook" the links, but that would make it harder for people to navigate there to "add" an item, which
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by ekanes 17y ago
You're missing the point over a technicality. Yes, while he didn't say that all McDonald's workers are idiots, you don't write sentences like this if you're saying it's like any other workplace, with it's share of smarties and dumdums, to u

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