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Chinese govt funding Silicon Valley returnees start-ups(siliconvalley.com)
2 points by felipe 17y ago|1 comments
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Google apparently violating copyright of chinese authors(shanzai.com)
1 points by felipe 17y ago|0 comments
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by felipe 17y ago
Reality checks are best provided by customers, or potential customers.
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by felipe 17y ago
Very well said. Besides, I don't see how someone can prove or disprove anything by attending a 3-day conference. It seems to me that their product would cannibalize their own consulting business -- Which is a perfectly understandable reason
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by felipe 17y ago
They want to teach people about web browsers, as long as they convert to Chrome. Note the Analytics UTM params on the Chrome link in the "What Browser" page. Yeah, very ".org" and altruistic...
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by felipe 17y ago
I think the issue is the focus on efficiency rather than effectiveness . GTD is great on the efficiency part (i. e.: tracking and execution), but not on the effectiveness part (i. e.: what should I be doing right now, what are my passion
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by felipe 17y ago
Side note (but interesting): I noticed that people here barely know who Google is (not the techies, but common Internet users). I noticed that several times. One example: Other day I had to talk to the apt manager, and her English is bad (a
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by felipe 17y ago
I second that! I am an overweight guy, not your typical "Bay Area Fundamentalist Cyclist". I started biking to lose some weight, but mostly because I am truly concerned about the environment and I thought that would help. The "looked down"
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Real Human Interface(youtube.com)
1 points by felipe 17y ago|0 comments
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by felipe 17y ago
I think "quiz" type of questions are pretty ineffective at filtering out candidates. You do filter out the bad candidates, but great ones could also be left behind. Who knows, the person could be an brilliant developer who got nervous durin
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by felipe 17y ago
From my experience: It is expensive. I was paying $1.2k per month on my COBRA. It is not the same amount it costs while you were employed. It is the cost the company would otherwise pay for the benefit. What companies deduct from your p
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by felipe 17y ago
As a former Nokia software engineer, I can tell you the difference is that Nokia has a bigger focus on hardware at the expense of software and usability. Basically, Nokia produces software the same way it produces hardware, using an interna
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by felipe 17y ago
For a moment I thought the title said "available parking" instead of "free parking". Now that would be a great hack!
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US$5m business plan competition... in China(asiabizblog.com)
1 points by felipe 17y ago|0 comments
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by felipe 17y ago
I think you should treat it like a business. Profit will maximize the impact of your change, and allow you to sustainably provide this solution to many more people than you would otherwise. Google "Social Entrepreneurship" for more detail
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by felipe 17y ago
> "The Chinese have a hundred million people on electric bikes," says Jamerson. "That means a hundred million potential customers" for electric cars. That's the kind of absurd and ill-informed thinking that brought GM to bankruptcy (and
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by felipe 17y ago
BEA has its own JVM as well, and guess who bought BEA? http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jrockit/index.html By the way, I think JRockIt is the best JVM out there for server-side deployments. I've used both JRockIt and Sun's JVM on
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by felipe 17y ago
I don't want to minimize their achievements, but it never takes one or two people to build something that large. There is an entire organization to support their efforts -- sales, customer support, QA, etc... There is a tendency to "hero"-i
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by felipe 17y ago
I recall one passage in the book "What the Dormouse Said" mentioned in the article about a company (I'm not sure but I think it was Ampex, by 101 towards San Jose) where a high-level executive actually asked his product managers to take LSD
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by felipe 17y ago
RIGHT! The place at the Nacional building (old downtown) was Paulisoft. Man, you could smell the scent of those 5 1/4" Nashua floppies as soon as you get out of the elevator! ME TOO, My friends and I would carefully select the games over th
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by felipe 17y ago
Wow, I'm surprised!! I am Brazilian too, though my very first computer was a TK-85 (aka Sinclair ZX81), when I was 13... At the time Brazil was under a "market block-out" that blocked all imported computers, so we were forced to use the cra
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by felipe 17y ago
Exactly. Actually the site nextbillion.net did a case study a few years ago about this subject. I cannot find the exact link right now, but I am sure it's somewhere in the site :)
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by felipe 17y ago
It is worth mentioning that Muhammad Yunus is not only a microcredit pioneer but also co-created Grameen Phone, the very first mass cell phone provider in Bangladesh. They implemented a very innovative business model to make cell phones acc
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by felipe 18y ago
These "poor people" can't get regular bank accounts so they have no way to cash paychecks They don't go to a payday loan to cash a check. They go there to get a LOAN. It's a cash-advance so they can pay some bill out of desperation, like
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by felipe 18y ago
It's sad that our society values and rewards extroverts so much, that introverts like the author feel the need to alter their minds in order to fit in. The very existence of the tweeters and facebooks tell something about that need to rewar
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by felipe 18y ago
> My biggest gripe with traditional time management method is that you lose sight of the big picture and only concentrate on the small urgencies. The Stephen Covey's method ("7 habits" fame) specifically deals with this issue. I highly
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by felipe 18y ago
We are using Authorize.net's recurring billing service, and we are very happy with it. Mostly because we don't need to worry about the security issues you mentioned (encrypting, secondary processing server, etc...). Authorize.net stores the
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by felipe 18y ago
Three small things that demonstrates how Bezos is an unique leader: 1) " we presented the paper to bezos " -- Wow, engineers have direct access to the CEO. 2) "we presented the paper to bezos ( he doesn't do slides )" -- Wow, a CEO that act
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Ion Teleportation Scheme Could Scale Up Quantum Computers (spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by felipe 18y ago|0 comments
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by felipe 18y ago
I think you are talking about BSO-Origin. I worked there for 4 years, and they called divisions "cells" for that reason. I think it worked wonderfully for IT services, and I wonder why other companies didn't adopt that model as well. BSO-Or

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