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721.
by grinich 13y ago
It's a lot harder than she makes it look.
722.
by grinich 13y ago
I don't think interplanetary travel will ever make economic sense. It's for other reasons that we reach for the stars.
723.
by grinich 13y ago
At least the physicists' models let you land on Mars.
724.
by grinich 13y ago
When Gauss was a teenager, he put forward the theory for least squares. He also published the 17-gon creation proof before he was 20.
725.
by grinich 13y ago
Even better, check out anything by Nancy Duarte. She's incredible. Helped Al Gore on the Inconvenient Truth deck, regularly consults for Apple, etc. http://www.amazon.com/Nancy-Duarte/e/B002BMAA0K/?_encoding=U...
726.
by grinich 13y ago
Please don't make comments like this.
727.
by grinich 13y ago
Do people still use these apps? The one I built years ago is out of date, and actually not on the store anymore. http://michaelgrinich.com/hackernews/ I've been considering rewriting it from scratch (very needed), but have no idea wheth
728.
by grinich 13y ago
From that link: Founder Jerry Kaplan says that in its lifetime, the company generated "no meaningful sales". Business => $$$.
729.
by grinich 13y ago
Tablets weren't a business before Apple got involved.
730.
by grinich 13y ago
It's less about the money and more about filtering for people who are serious about attending. Just like WWDC or F8, I'm guessing you'll get to speak with engineers and designers at Dropbox to get a sense of where the platform is going. If
731.
by grinich 13y ago
It astounds me how many American's don't realize this, and instead attribue global dominance to "the American dream" or some crap.
732.
by grinich 14y ago
I totally meant to link Bunnie's blog posts in that Quora bit! Thanks for the reminder-- he's awesome. :)
733.
by grinich 14y ago
I wrote a pretty extensive post on Quora about how to build hardware products. Here's an excerpt... Designing for mass manufacturing is essentially impossible to learn without actually building several products. The challenges of negotiati
734.
by grinich 14y ago
Move car parking between bike lanes and the street, as they do in Amsterdam.
735.
by grinich 14y ago
Just because they're capturing it doesn't mean they're processing all of it immediately. This kind of data is great to keep around for simulations when you return home. Having ~10TB onboard storage isn't crazy.
736.
by grinich 14y ago
Probably writing code.
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by grinich 14y ago
I actually had a friend (not in tech) send this to me a few weeks ago. Here was my reply... I don't really agree with a lot of this. It seems written by someone who is frustrated that they're not part of the "tech boom" and is angsty about
738.
by grinich 14y ago
Yeah, "most popular" is usually a really bad metric. Often the top listed are items that nobody dislikes, but also nobody really loves. If you surveyed the most popular food in San Francisco, you would probably just get "salad" instead of h
739.
by grinich 14y ago
Cubesats are always secondary payloads, usually jettisoned after the first main stage burn. Their mass is insignificant compared to the main payload, so they usually ride for free. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
740.
by grinich 14y ago
Seriously? Using a rounded rectangle is fodder for product speculation? It's a goddamn curve.
741.
by grinich 14y ago
In what way has this strategy changed? I think it's timing. You probably could have said the same thing about Google before they launched Adsense. There's nothing stopping Facebook from building a platform to run ads across the web. My gues
742.
by grinich 14y ago
That wasn't an engineer: it was Chris Cox, who is VP of Product. (Though he started as an engineer.) This is actually a very insightful interview about how the leaders Facebook think about the company's strategy. http://on.aol.com/video/an
743.
by grinich 14y ago
I think there's a not-so-subtle distain for "outsiders" moving to these areas and out-pricing locals. It also often happens in gentrifying areas of lower socioeconomic level, but those stories don't make it to the NYT... I bet there's a nea
744.
by grinich 14y ago
Just for another data point, I think it's totally fine.
745.
by grinich 14y ago
> I really do not get all the celebration and back-patting, it's disturbing. This is way less about a real accomplishment, and more about what people need to feel. After the bombings, people felt vulnerable and scared. And for the polic
746.
by grinich 14y ago
>> which is a concern because an English professor finished these Occupations aren't necessarily a good signal for intelligence or domain expertise... even a patent clerk will surprise you once and a while. ;)
747.
by grinich 14y ago
Yeah, it's way better now. Voltage and Tatte are very friendly for hackers, and Starbucks, Cosi, or ABP aren't bad either. The entire ground floor of the MIT Stata Center is open to the public (literally 24/7) with ultra fast WiFi. If you n
748.
by grinich 14y ago
Are you kidding?
749.
by grinich 14y ago
App should just save automatically. Usually when people use save, they actually want to take an action. (ie: exporting the file somewhere, sending it to someone, etc.) This thread should focus on identifying those actions and finding more u
750.
by grinich 14y ago
Vendor prefixes were like Morrissey’s solo career: on paper, a good idea – but in reality, a horrible mess. Best line of that blog post :)

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