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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Profit vs. growth is a false dichotomy. Of course a growth investor is going to insist that "98% of startups should be growth focused". In this regard, profit and venture investment are two different (and, essentially, competing) sources of
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
It's only a witch-hunt when the accusations aren't true.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
shut down the product i started in 2007 because the product i started in 2010 started taking off.
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Tests Cast Doubts on iPad and Kindle Restrictions(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Boycott the Box Office: How Your Money Supports the MPAA(jonathanhstrauss.com)
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Incorrect. Shielding humans from radiation has been a solved problem for decades. The fact that Skylab didn't need to do it does not mean that traveling to Mars is impossible.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
You forget that astronauts were lining up to fly the Space Shuttle even after two of them exploded. There will be no shortage of qualified volunteers for the first Mars mission, and the idea that people will go insane simply by being in a c
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
The book "The Case for Mars" makes a similar argument (that getting to Mars using mostly Apollo-era technology has always been possible, we just lack the political will). More importantly it makes a compelling argument that we must do thi
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Sounds like a good reason to not go with those guys from Croatia I think this notion that you have to suck up to investors and tailor what you do to jump through their arbitrary hoops is toxic. Focus on making your business so awesome that
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Just because most (not all) programmers are self-taught, doesn't mean that's the natural or optimal state of being. This is mostly a criticism of academic CS (which aims to produce systems programmers and researchers). The underlying implic
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Idea: Hack-a-thon for Kids(danieleugenewilliams.com)
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Twilio just added support for the UK and they've said they'll continue to add support for more European countries.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Testing unproven hypotheses requires, among other things, money. Pivoting requires, among other things, money.
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Dartmouth Engineers Solutions to Binge Drinking(nytimes.com)
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
The point of the original post was that we devalue literary criticism because it's so often taught poorly. But the same is true for a lot of disciplines!
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
It's not true that literary criticism is only useful for the study of literature. One key reason why we teach criticism is to develop critical-mindedness in general; this has important social as well as personal benefits for the students.
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A Long Goodbye to Web 2.0 Expo(blog.web2expo.com)
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Pot, meet kettle.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Stop saying "leverages" unless you're describing lifting a heavy rock using a stick. The word you're looking for is "uses".
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
If the elimination of risk were really the objective, they'd require passengers to travel in paper gowns with no carry-ons or luggage. But the fact of the matter is that they make the rules they think they can get away with, not the rules t
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Fake cyberattack is the new fake terrorist threat.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
What's the worst thing that could possibly happen.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Then why didn't GE pay it? Somebody's got their definition of 'minimum' screwed up.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
We need an alternative minimum tax for corporations. If this is OK for individuals it should be just fine for billion-dollar businesses.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Referencing Malcolm Gladwell unironically == zero credibility
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"Clojure in Action" author Amit Rathore will teach on CodeLesson starting Dec. 5(clsn.us)
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
It is freaking crazy that a progress report concerning a piece of public legislation should have to contain a bar graph comparing which side has spent more money. When money influences the outcome, something other than democracy is at work.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
This isn't right. It's certainly meaningful to own less than 50% (or a controlling interest, whatever) of a company.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
I don't get why this expresses stuff in terms of percentages instead of absolute dollar amounts. I can't buy a house with 15% of a company but I can buy a house with a million dollars.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
The only question here is what "in the end" means. I can make a bet that, say, OSX won't exist in its current form in twenty years. But that doesn't inform any particular action I should take today. "The end" can be a long time away, and in

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