geirfreysson

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   by geirfreysson 17y ago

   That's totally true. I guess the lesson is that it matters who acquires you. If you can't go for the public, cross your fingers and hope your parent company won't do anything evil.
2. 32.▲
   by geirfreysson 17y ago

   A lot of companies/founders aspire to be acquired. This is the downside of that. I have a lot of sympathy for Last.fm in this scenario.
3. 33.▲
   by geirfreysson 18y ago

   Hackers forming a union? Surely, that would be like herding cats ...
4. 34.▲
   by geirfreysson 18y ago

   Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Black Swan" had some pretty good insights into the "unknown unknowns" of military combat. http://www.wajapi.com/books/80
5. 35.▲
   by geirfreysson 18y ago

   I counted the occurrences of the words "me", "my", "myself" and "I" in the article with a bash command: tr -cs 'A-Za-z' '\n' < paul_carr.txt | grep -i -w -c "me\|my\|myself\|i" Result: 82 out of 1858 words. That's 4.4%, ca. 1 out of eve
6. 36.▲
   by geirfreysson 18y ago

   Standing on the shoulders of giants. And cashing out.
7. 37.▲
   Animoto: The No-Infrastructure Startup (fastcompany.com)

   13 points by geirfreysson 18y ago|5 comments
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   Why Did Google Abandon Firefox? (gigaom.com)

   16 points by geirfreysson 18y ago|32 comments
9. 39.▲
   by geirfreysson 18y ago

   I like this quote as well: I don’t want to hold 13-year-olds by the ankles and shake them until their allowance falls out of their pockets, but I do want to be sure that when their parents are thinking about a gift for them, the first thing