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by felipe 15y ago
After years of frustration with task apps, I tried to migrate my system to pen and paper and... back to a task app in 2 days! The biggest pluses of an app (as opposed to paper) are quick text search and copy & paste, especially for URLs
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by felipe 15y ago
If you depend on other systems to commute (VTA, BART, etc...), then 45 minutes makes a huge difference. A one-way trip from South Bay to East Bay can easily take 3 hours if you take VTA+Caltrain+BART+Muni, while by car it takes just 30-45 m
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by felipe 15y ago
This is fascinating, thanks for sharing. Maybe the "take the note" equivalent in tech is the acceptance test in an iterative development model. One question: In theatre, does it work the other way around too? That is, do actors also critici
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by felipe 15y ago
Actually I would argue that your traveling experience is exactly what made you aware of the opportunity of living a decent life right there at home, and if you never had such experiences you probably would not value your current situation a
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by felipe 15y ago
It takes 5+ seconds to auto-complete the city, and then 10+ seconds to reload the page after I click on the city. That's pretty slow in my opinion. BTW, that's a great UI, much better than timeanddate.com (which I normally use)
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by felipe 15y ago
The problem is how to measure improvement? I have personally seen cases where the person stopped treatment because of "no noticeable improvements", and it was disastrous. In certain conditions (bipolar, for example), just the fact that the
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by felipe 16y ago
Start-up knowledge, experience and advice comes from entrepreneurs, not VCs. Read their bios, they are financial and marketing professionals. Nothing wrong with that, but they are not the kind of people who started companies from nothing an
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by felipe 16y ago
Jobs left and was rehired with the specific mandate to make Apple profitable, at a time that Apple was in deep trouble. Google is in a very different situation.
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by felipe 16y ago
See firefox, inkscape as successful examples. Firefox is a great alternative to a sucky dominant player (IE). Inkscape is a great alternative to expensive dominant players (graphic software). The problem with this case is that Skype is ex
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by felipe 16y ago
My point is that Square only makes sense for a merchant who: 1. Already has an iPhone or Android; and 2. Takes the order him or herself. Reason #2 alone already excludes the huge majority of businesses. Inside that minority, reason #1 exclu
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by felipe 16y ago
"Simply revolutionary" I don't understand why a 0.15 drop is such a big deal, considering the service requires an expensive iPhone (or Android) and a major mobile plan.
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Skype head Zennstrom eyes China start-ups(atimes.com)
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Innovation Works (former Google China CEO) Videos for the Startup Community(techrice.com)
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by felipe 16y ago
As a Brazilian, I am well aware of the reason for the policy. Two wrongs don't make a right.
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by felipe 16y ago
I also live in China. 1. In China the system is set-up for that. The little web-cam and the system are integrated with a push of a button, and the process is very quick. In Brazil they didn't have anything. They were taking pictures with of
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by felipe 16y ago
> I've been to Russia before the cold war ended. I've been all over the middle east. I've been to China. I've travelled all over Europe. I've been to Cuba and I've been to Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Nicaragua. What all of these places
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by felipe 16y ago
How about East Palo Alto?
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by felipe 16y ago
The "background noise, thick accents, and quick speech" is actually the most difficult part. Google did not really do anything new. Speech recognition is around for a while, as well as translation engines. Although putting the two technolog
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by felipe 16y ago
I am a western (Brazilian-American) living in China. All this drilling and tests may sound crazy, but I do think it teaches an important value that is missing in the west's education: discipline My wife is a teacher. She taught kids in th
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by felipe 16y ago
ringojs works on GAE: http://ringojs.org/wiki/Google_App_Engine/
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by felipe 16y ago
I live in China and use Skype often: Skype-to-skype calls work no problem, but Skype-to-phone calls are indeed blocked. Skype-to-phone calls work on the first second or so, and then the call sounds like "scrambled" (for a lack of better wor
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by felipe 16y ago
> The original plan of CrashCorp was to create mobile games using augmented reality, but the young company soon learned that the hardest part was developing the back-end geolocation infrastructure that would support their applications.
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by felipe 16y ago
QQ has reached 500 million users in 2007 [1]. Recently QQ announced they have 100 million simultaneous online users [2]. [1] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/qq_china_im_web20.php [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ
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by felipe 16y ago
You need to put that into context: He went through the Cultural Revolution. The fact that he is treated with respect and according to the rule of law is indeed something to celebrate, compared to what happened before. Also, his key point is
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by felipe 16y ago
Good observation. Yes, it makes sense, because Google is a media company, and not a technology company like many people think.
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How Baidu Won China(businessweek.com)
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by felipe 16y ago
What's most fascinating about Niklas is his recurring theme of P2P on Kazaa, Skype and Joost. At the first sight it seems that these companies are disconnected (different markets) but his true accomplishment was to leverage the P2P technolo
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by felipe 16y ago
It would be very helpful if you could document the process while you help someone (sort of like a case-study or maybe even a diary/blog?)
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by felipe 16y ago
I don't want to sound like I am defending your employer, but I just want to provide another perspective with the sincere wish to help you: * Unfortunately internship does not reflect real work environment. In a "real job" there's always tha
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by felipe 16y ago
The point of the article is that Silicon Valley used to be focused on hardcore infrastructure like semiconductors, networking, operational systems. Note that almost all companies you mentioned are related to either marketing, media or enter

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