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by indiejade 17y ago
There's a difference between "first mover" and "first to market". First movers enter a market space first. First to market means that a company has launched an actual product within that market space. Startups all the time get funded wit
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by indiejade 17y ago
A good article, but not a new theory. Two schools of thought regarding optimal competitive strategy: (1) "Traditional" economic input/output model: first-mover is a definite advantage, especially if being "first to market" allows a company
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Hands off: a new generation of "touchless" touch screens(economist.com)
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by indiejade 17y ago
Those are all (cause -> problem -> money for solution) dependencies. I don't see why you want to get money from a company owner to solve any of them.... Not exactly. They're (Problem -> Root Cause -> Solution) "dependenc
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by indiejade 17y ago
To take your even more specific example of delivery trucks, someone has got to deliver the food that everyone eats. You can't arbitrarily assign the total resultant negative externalities to whichever companies own and operate them. Why n
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by indiejade 17y ago
3. Michael T. Duke, President, CEO, and Director, Wal-Mart $12,238,209 total compensation 6. Eduardo Castro-Wright, Vice Chairman; President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores U.S. Division $9,987,493 total compensation 8. Thomas M. Schoewe, EVP and
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by indiejade 17y ago
Actually, no. What are they getting in return for that? Actually, yes, I think it is reasonable. The top 1% earners typically are CEOs of large corporations, celebrities, or professional athletes. In any event, their brands put more str
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by indiejade 17y ago
Separation of control can't be over-emphasized. When FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook, I decided to go in and manually delete a bunch of information I'd intentionally kept off Facebook, but didn't mind having on FF, and to completely de
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by indiejade 17y ago
And yet when I got back I didn't discard so much as a box of it. Throw away a perfectly good rotary telephone? I might need that one day. Sounds like INTP tendency: Because the present is inextricably linked to a sense of the past, INTPs
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by indiejade 17y ago
According to a new report by the Innocence Project, those 250 prisoners served 3,160 years between them; 17 spent time on death row. Remarkably, 67 percent of them were convicted after 2000—a decade after the onset of modern DNA testing.
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Is it possible to opt out of social networking?(jonoscript.wordpress.com)
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by indiejade 17y ago
Subway hires "sandwich engineers" . . . or so I've heard.
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by indiejade 17y ago
This line of thinking is failure waiting to happen. Sooner or later, a team of engineers needs to have the value of its time-consuming product quantified. If you hire somebody who is on your side, then the variable is certain to go up, a
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by indiejade 17y ago
do you think this attitude might have something to do with it? No. I say this as a person who has been homeless because nobody would hire her. I'm not the most genius on the planet, but I'm also not an idiot. I've dealt with far too ma
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by indiejade 17y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and disagree. What most startups need is not another engineer. What most startups need is a business person who understands engineering. We can quantify value. After attending the Hacker Fair 0 (Mtn Vi
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What you should know before going to have your taxes done.(consumeraffairs.com)
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by indiejade 17y ago
The average consumer is so clueless. Contract cancellation fees are some of the most abused tactics that typically come in the fine print. As consumers, we want switching costs to be as low as possible. Which they should be. Two years
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by indiejade 17y ago
The problem with this notion is that elementary school teachers need to be generalists; subjects don't really start getting "split" subjectively (with different teachers) until middle and high school. [Edit] Citation FTA: A new study sugg
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by indiejade 17y ago
The commentary on "awkward silence" is interesting. Personally, I think it's kind of impossible to have an awkward silence; never do I find silence to be an uncomfortable thing, especially if there's the "comforting" sound of keyboard typi
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by indiejade 17y ago
In general, I really like the look (CSS3 + HTML5 = Awesome!), but maybe you should have linked to the "about" page, which is a wee bit more explanatory than the demo of your links. It takes a minute to figure out that "slices" and "bites"
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by indiejade 17y ago
when I am contacted about commercial use I am HIGHLY permissive and allow 98% of businesses to use my photos for free. Mind if I ask why? If you allow business to use your photos "for free" isn't that essentially the same thing as giving
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by indiejade 17y ago
Requiring taxpayers to file returns without being told what the government already knows makes as much sense “as if Visa sent customers a blank piece of paper, requiring that they assemble their receipts, list their purchases — and pay a f
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by indiejade 17y ago
Actually, the corporation would technically be classified as a "psychopathic person" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-684415688278839051&... Documentary is standard movie length, but highly recommended. The readable bytes, if no
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by indiejade 17y ago
There's a big difference between writing that: (A) Calls a company out on poor product or customer service, and writing that: (B) Diverts or directs audience to a specific competitor. The "specific competitor" part is what makes this art
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by indiejade 17y ago
Opaque: Translucent: Transparent. All three define varying degrees of perception. Opaque and translucent are defined as being muddied or "clouded" by material that can distort the original image. Could be paralleled with excessive/unneces
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by indiejade 17y ago
The problem with this line of thinking is that a founder can have the "coolest" tech idea ever, but without any business sense (growth), he's just swimming around in the same circle, over and over. They're complementary skills, not opposin
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by indiejade 17y ago
Definitely not for the potentially epileptic.
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Survival of the Kindest(berkeley.edu)
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by indiejade 17y ago
International Standards Organization years; standardizing date-time formats across various UNIX systems. Many people from Europe, for example, prefer the month to be stated after the day of the month. "2 January YYYY" whereas in other pla
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by indiejade 17y ago
A very well-written article. Good advice that can be applied to a variety of professions, but somehow especially appropriate for people in IT and social media. :) While the word "friendship" may have become diluted in this era of social

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