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by herdrick 13y ago
HN polls are useless now. Too many trolls. :(
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by herdrick 13y ago
Arithmetic is a "bombshell"?
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by herdrick 14y ago
Really? I'd take as given that this is happening now, as it's cheap. But back then? Can you link to some evidence of this?
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by herdrick 14y ago
He's criticizing git.
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by herdrick 14y ago
Quick tips: - You should choose when and where to talk about her and her death. See, people who know you will want to know how you are doing and how it all happened, or why you are not yourself lately. Or you hear from someone who doesn't k
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by herdrick 14y ago
I think there's little issue with heat, as a major advantage of capacitors is efficiency in charging and discharging.
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by herdrick 14y ago
That sounded amazing but it's just a bad title. "Facebook knows you’re gay before your parents" would be true.
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by herdrick 14y ago
All Google did was better results over Altavista "All"? What else do you think a search engine is for?
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by herdrick 14y ago
"But it can only give you an upper limit on the value of the innovation, since if it paid to do it the labor intensive way, that would have been happening. It needs improvement."
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by herdrick 14y ago
"This is really what the search engine that Google launched in 1998 did that was so great. Its results were ordered in a way that seemed like magic."
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by herdrick 14y ago
Well, Google isn't generally thought to replace human abilities. And fast transportation isn't either, yet with both you can reduce those things to human work. See my follow-up to this: http://herdrick.tumblr.com/post/45193590173/the-boat
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by herdrick 14y ago
Author here. Would love to get some feedback about how to make this scale of innovation work better.
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Google was worth 1,838,389 workers in 1998, maybe(herdrick.tumblr.com)
40 points by herdrick 14y ago|28 comments
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by herdrick 14y ago
Yes. What a debacle. We're all going to regret this.
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by herdrick 14y ago
Wow, this guy worked with Doug Engelbart and Kelly Johnson!
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by herdrick 14y ago
Hey everyone - before commenting, please notice how many people have already commented with essentially your opinion. No need to pile on. What we have here is a cascade of overreaction. HN and other communities are overreacting too. Think
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by herdrick 14y ago
Very cool.
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by herdrick 14y ago
How much does a house cost where those startups are?
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by herdrick 14y ago
This is so great. Thank you.
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by herdrick 14y ago
I don't know. Google has come up with Glass and is working hard on the self driving car. Sounds pretty innovative still to me. I hope the author is wrong about the pipeline of new stuff.
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by herdrick 14y ago
OK, glad to hear it.
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by herdrick 14y ago
they are not simply complements. Which argues against this change, right? If you think the next Dropbox could have some red flags along with its positive signs, you'd want to mostly ignore red flags.
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by herdrick 14y ago
My country has always been and will always be poor. You feel no connection to ancient Greece? Your ancestors created astonishing wealth - you don't think you can anymore?
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by herdrick 14y ago
Google didn't do that, sadly. Their initial offering price was set by their underwriting bank, and most of the shares were distributed in the usual way. A small chunk of the shares were auctioned with the help of, IIRC, W.R. Hambrecht.
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by herdrick 14y ago
What a sad waste.
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by herdrick 14y ago
A key point of the post is that in Germany it wasn't dropping out. It was joining a school of a different sort, a much better one for certain kinds of learners.
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by herdrick 14y ago
This is a great talk.
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by herdrick 14y ago
This is great, nice work!
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by herdrick 14y ago
Cute. :)
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by herdrick 14y ago
Oh no no no! I thought the same about Jobs back in 1985 but everything that we've learned about him since points up how irreplaceable he was. Without Jobs, Wozniak would have been a brilliant, happy, but obscure engineer at HP, Ive talent

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