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by jedc 18y ago
But Tesla is starting from scratch, not decades of experience. Provided they can learn and improve quickly they should hopefully be more competitive soon.
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by jedc 18y ago
Agree completely. I'm inspired every time I watch it.
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by jedc 18y ago
Very true. That's a pretty strong statement for Techcrunch; they could go from a one-man blog to a blog/event and now hardware "empire" in just 4-5 years. Even if the tablet is crap, that's quite an accomplishment.
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by jedc 18y ago
Completely agree. The truly big test for Apple would really come 12-18 months after Steve's departure, when the product development pipeline matures. If they're able to keep the same "magic" with or without Steve, then it proves that he b
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by jedc 18y ago
The other half of it is what he got from paying taxes. * He could hire his employees because they were educated (paid and/or subsidized by taxes.) * He could take on loans and other debt because the financial system is regulated to ensure i
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by jedc 18y ago
They just do everything by database checks these days. No more (or virtually no) mysterious black vans driving around...
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by jedc 18y ago
Thank you for such a detailed and reasoned answer. I'm learning a hell of a lot from this thread already.
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by jedc 18y ago
Lesson learned for them, then.
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by jedc 18y ago
It sounds pretty vague to me. For being a press release about his health, it doesn't really say much. (Not that it should reveal everything, but horomone imbalance is vague.)
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by jedc 18y ago
I did an aero undergrad, ended up in the nuclear field (running reactors & such). While I'm not a strict software "hacker", I mess around enough to hold my own here. So yes, there are others!
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by jedc 18y ago
I've been surprised at just how business-saavy the "tech guys" on this site are!
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by jedc 18y ago
"Anyone's welcome who has interesting things to say." This is why HN is the best news site for tech news anywhere. I'm like Furqan (the author), a bit of a mutt, and have enjoyed reading and participating here.
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by jedc 18y ago
Their big test will be the first launch of the Falcon 9 rocket early next year. It took 4 launches for a completely successful Falcon 1 launch; hopefully they'll have even quicker success with Falcon 9.
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by jedc 18y ago
I'm the guy who modeled 37signals revenue. You can download a spreadsheet with all my calculations if you follow the link above... I would appreciate any feedback from those who have experience in the area to improve my assumptions.
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by jedc 18y ago
For marketing and development. My guess is that a large majority of that must have been marketing.
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by jedc 18y ago
It's my understanding that the bulk of the internal White House staffers are fairly young. Likely because of hellish working hours/conditions there.
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by jedc 18y ago
Not only does it bring massive swings in expectations, but I'm assuming that it brings massive swings in product development cycles, too. Better to bring new products out when you think they're ready than according to a pre-defined conferen
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by jedc 18y ago
Even more successful would be Cambridge University. 83 Nobel Prize winners in total. (31 Nobels from Trinity College, Cambridge alone!) http://www.cam.ac.uk/univ/nobelprize.html That said, Cambridge is a far bigger University than Calt
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by jedc 18y ago
Very cool. Back in college our final assignment was a GA to find the best trajectory for a hypothetical space mission. (You had to go by particular planets in particular windows in time.) It was great fun playing around with it.
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Estimating 37signals revenue and profit - $8million in 2008(blog.jedchristiansen.com)
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by jedc 18y ago
If it helps, I tried modelling 37signals' revenue a while back. Based on some of their posts and a few guesses I think they've got about 10k paying Basecamp customers, and across all their products will have about $8million in turnover thi
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Star Trek, suicide and Bush voters(blog.jedchristiansen.com)
2 points by jedc 18y ago|1 comments
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by jedc 18y ago
Say it ain't so! I love the fact that I can force myself to disconnect on flights...
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Amazon offering free access to large public data sets in EC2(alleyinsider.com)
1 points by jedc 18y ago|1 comments
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by jedc 18y ago
With the caveat that only one of the two dimensions can be determined easily.
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by jedc 18y ago
This is horrible. Hopefully it gives the Justin.tv community a reality check. They were egging him on?!? As someone who volunteers on a suicide helpline, I'm amazed that people won't condemn that kind of behavior before it causes real h
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I live for this: The challenge of entrepreneurship(thisisgoingtobebig.com)
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by jedc 18y ago
And he clearly has a very good eye for how Richard Branson promotes his businesses! Definitely concur... very sharp commentary.
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by jedc 18y ago
Brad Feld and the Boulder-based VC's seem to use IntenseDebate. Again, biased for the home team. :)
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by jedc 18y ago
I think it's fantastic, and I've definitely seen a dramatic pick-up in commenting activity on my blogs (business & personal). That said, I've also seen a number of comments get through recently that are essentially spam, which has been

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