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by el_dot 16y ago
Nay, basketball is not much different. Get the best players + good coaches and you'll win the most games. End of story. "a good deal of detail, and outright truth, is sacrificed to back-up the original thesis and offer a more compelling rea
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by el_dot 16y ago
eh, then Wall St. will just pass the extra expense on to Main St. in the end. its a lose-lose solution
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by el_dot 17y ago
According to Shenk, we are erroneously led to believe that stars like Tiger Woods and cellist Yo-yo Ma were born to climb to the top of their fields, when in fact the environments they grew up in are just as responsible (if not more so) fo
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by el_dot 17y ago
You can outsource what you suck at, but its a bad idea to outsource to someone who sucks at it as well. I think what the post was getting at was that most people buy fashion magazines for the ads, because the ads are well crafted and made b
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by el_dot 17y ago
While I am in agreement with the sentiment, these "its good for society" arguments don't really move anybody. Just look at the music industry and it's pleas against piracy. Most people don't view their actions at such a global level; they d
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by el_dot 17y ago
Well it's a big enough minority that ars technica is noticing it. And most people just tend to tolerate ads, it doesn't mean they like them.
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by el_dot 17y ago
Exactly. There is a major opportunity lurking here. Online ads suck, actually ads in general suck, but how does one fix them? Sounds like a good challenge.
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by el_dot 17y ago
Don't file patents, which often make it much easier for competitors to see how you solved a given problem. If they reverse engineer your product, that means they are late to market. You will always have a competitive advantage if your riv
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by el_dot 17y ago
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create the
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by el_dot 17y ago
"We're the largest mobile device company in the world. Larger than Sony, bigger than Samsung. And by revenue... even bigger than Nokia." - Steve Jobs when introducing the iPad. It looks like they are satisfied with what they've done, now th
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by el_dot 17y ago
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by el_dot 17y ago
I would also suggest Introduction to Computer Science and Programming from OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute... It's the right approach, they teach you the concepts so that you can pick up any la
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by el_dot 17y ago
The question to ask yourself is what exactly were you trying to learn from philosophy, sociology and literature critique ? And why did you think such books would benefit you? If you read the wrong types of books, the ones that do not reson