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by frederickcook 17y ago
They've created a great platform and established no way to make money off it. It is like Twitter in the early days, but like DHH said, it has the disadvantage of being on a thousand different niche websites instead of one aggregate. One pos
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HCL CEO on alternative management styles(nytimes.com)
1 points by frederickcook 17y ago|0 comments
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by frederickcook 17y ago
touché
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by frederickcook 17y ago
"Everybody wants to be entertained," he told me. With a look of disdain, he explained how most users simply want to consume - while far fewer are prepared to do something worth watching. " As this thing gets more press and more people try i
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by frederickcook 17y ago
Having context to put lessons in is very important for effective academic learning (or almost any learning). For an engineer, learning electrical theory from a text book makes a lot more sense if you have toyed around with an Arduino before
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by frederickcook 17y ago
Exactly, it seems very likely that he could be acquitted in higher court on the basis that the comics serve 'serious artistic value,' but again, it is easy to see that a 40 year old man will not risk 15 years in prison when he can be out in
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by frederickcook 17y ago
"Fake it 'til you make it." If you say you can do it, people believe you. Once you have done a bunch of stuff and people know you can do it, you can tell them you'll figure it out, and they'll believe you.
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by frederickcook 17y ago
And as you get older, shit you know you know, but can't remember.
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by frederickcook 17y ago
Maybe the bus should stop at a couple of places along the way and perform some Customer Development?
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by frederickcook 17y ago
I think the fact that this comment keeps getting up-voted is an indicator of the high ratio of Google employees to startup founders on HN this morning.
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by frederickcook 17y ago
I absolutely disagree. With YCombinator and the dozen similar programs out there, the traditional barriers to starting companies, namely "not knowing what you don't know" are being removed. For a web start-up especially, the only cost assoc
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by frederickcook 17y ago
Pardon my ignorance in this matter, but hasn't commoditized, scalable hosting (such as Amazon EC2) largely mitigated the issue of service degradation?
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Mystery Debris Pattern Could Be First Image of Asteroid Collision(popsci.com)
1 points by frederickcook 17y ago|0 comments
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by frederickcook 17y ago
Thanks to everyone for reading. As @nedwin says below, the quality and quantity of the responses here demonstrate the quality of this community.
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by frederickcook 17y ago
I am 24 years old. Quite interesting. Perhaps I am assuming that the availability of media for most of my formative years is the reason I had never taken extended periods to simply think before. A poor assumption, since obviously other form
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by frederickcook 17y ago
Glad you enjoyed, and I had a huge smile reading that quote. I'll have to go dig through my copy of The Black Swan to find that. Sorry about the justification; I'll check to see if I did that or if Posterous did that.
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by frederickcook 17y ago
If they can be considered ideas worth working on (intellectually stimulating and/or financially rewarding), and you have the required expertise to make it worth following through with them, then that is an enviable position to be in.
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by frederickcook 17y ago
At the risk of this becoming one of those annoying discussions between two people who really love yoga talking about how much they love yoga, I too find a certain clarity of mind through yoga. However, I do agree that it is a different kind
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by frederickcook 17y ago
I see your point. Mental rumination is, indeed, a form of production, and when I get home from my run, I reproduce that which I produced in my head into a paper or speech or discussion or whatnot. The essay is indeed weak in that it does no
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by frederickcook 17y ago
Yea, I had read that a while back. "And of course there's another kind of thinking, when you're starting something new, that requires complete quiet. You never know when this will strike." Thinking about this now, I don't necessarily know t
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by frederickcook 17y ago
Is that a standard, one space after sentences? I haven't been in an English class in a while, and haven't heard someone make that comment before. For music, good call, I listen to quite a bit of classical while working. If there are lyric
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by frederickcook 17y ago
I absolutely agree that ideas need to start somewhere, but I think that truly innovative, original ideas won't come directly from consuming something. The same way any web application must process an input in some way to add value to it, fo
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by frederickcook 17y ago
Nice, I definitely enjoyed the read. Same idea for sure. It reminds me of another Mixergy interview with the founder of Twitpic, who said he goes for a drive almost every night to clear his mind.
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Ask HN: Rate my essay, please: On thinking(frederickcook.posterous.com)
49 points by frederickcook 17y ago|31 comments