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by jonas_b 18y ago
However, I think it's more likely that someone in the possession of whistle blower information would contact a prominent blogger than some hot shot Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist at NY Times. Also if there are a lot of blog
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by jonas_b 18y ago
I've found that for people with an analytical mindset like me, there are a few different stages of how to approach people who respond to feelings rather than reasoning. 1. Ignorance: I was in this stage for a long time, which meant that I c
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India's Enron: A Software Giant(economist.com)
3 points by jonas_b 18y ago|0 comments
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The Economist: How Property Bubbles Help us(economist.com)
10 points by jonas_b 18y ago|6 comments
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by jonas_b 18y ago
Isn't calling Microsoft an underdog in the mobile space a bit of a euphemism? Rather like describing GM as an underdog in the automobile space.
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by jonas_b 18y ago
Isn't it funny how conspiracy theorists always seem to lose the bigger picture. He compares the meltdown of a command economy that a had oppressed its own people for better part of a century with a recession i the US, arguably the worlds st
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Education is broken, Is "The Met" the solution?(businessinnovationfactory.com)
2 points by jonas_b 18y ago|0 comments
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by jonas_b 18y ago
An interesting article which ends on positive note, with the OP giving a scenario for how the countries in the vicinity of Congo could form a common market, similar to the early EU/EEC that would be a way out of poverty and conflict. I'm af
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by jonas_b 18y ago
From Peter Klein (via 37s) "The proposed bailout of GM, Ford, and Chrysler overlooks an important fact. The US has one of the most vibrant, dynamic, and efficient automobile industries in the world. It produces several million cars, trucks,
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by jonas_b 18y ago
Is that for fact true? I would very much like to believe it since I've spent some time i NZ and found it to be very hospitable to companies in some respects. That would mean that the US kick ass (Im considering relocating to the US btw).
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by jonas_b 18y ago
I liked Colin Powells take on that one: "I'm also troubled by not what senator McCain says, but what members of the party say - and it is permitted to be said - such things as "you know that Obama is a muslim". The correct answer is that he
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by jonas_b 18y ago
Ive had this with Swedish as well. Jag kan inte prata svenska turns into: I can't speak English
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by jonas_b 18y ago
I can see the problem that this company wants to solve. However, for most people, including me, the problem is that there are too many "Press 9 to speak to a human", not too few. The real problem to solve, is how to automate systems so that
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by jonas_b 18y ago
Why is there no broadcasting functionality? Isn't real time location much more interesting than where your cat were yesterday? Then you could put one on your girlfriend as well. Pussycat tracker.
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by jonas_b 18y ago
To me, the first thing they should get to look nice is firefox. Everything else is secondary. I don't understand when people complain that "XY release sucks because they included the wrong BitTorrent client". I've read serious reviewers sta
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by jonas_b 18y ago
I agree that education is vital to improve democracy, but I think you're making an unfair comparisson, comparing Denmark to the US. It'd be more relevant to compare the US to the European Union. How many Danish people hold the European Parl
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by jonas_b 18y ago
Sounds a bit like the army without taking crap and doing idiot chores all day long. On a more serious note I genuinly believe that if not made obligatory, everyone should be strongly encouraged to spend an extended time in the outdoors. It'
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by jonas_b 18y ago
To me, a Law firm that has 3m revenue per employee sounds a lot like a symptom of a system that's broken. A real startup, to quote PG, would be the law firm that turns this multi-billion dollar market (Im just guessing here...) into a multi
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by jonas_b 18y ago
My experience from the armed forces is that cool new gear is always nice, but you should never become dependent on it because if it could fail in a battle environment, it's quite likely that it will. Moreover, additional equipment requires
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by jonas_b 18y ago
There is a Swedish company called Tobii that does something similar yet a lot more advanced, including lasers and what not to track eye-movements. One of their ideas is that people with physical handicaps could use their eyes instead of mou
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by jonas_b 18y ago
I too believe they did their creation a massive disservice by taking these mash-ups as an example. Their suggestions list is far more exciting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_Command_Sugg... I almost had one of those "hal
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by jonas_b 18y ago
I'm hoping for Japan or South Korea.
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by jonas_b 18y ago
Yes actually. But with a graphical aid to make it (hopefully) more intuitive.
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by jonas_b 18y ago
Well, I shouldn't claim that to have done the coding myself. It's "borrowed" code from Newcars.com, but I since I probably will have to redo most of it, I hope they will not disagree too much if I use it for demonstration for a couple of we
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by jonas_b 18y ago
Cheers for the comment. I'll try to see if I can define my vision for this project The idea I had in beginning was to merge all the search boxes out there into, to avoid having to go to the main page of every site before I could search it.
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by jonas_b 18y ago
Sorry, meant to respond to your question of the larger picture, but it ended up as a follow-up on another comment. Anyway, thanks for the friendly and constructive tone. It means a lot to me.
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by jonas_b 18y ago
Well, I does seem irrational doesn't it :-) I added a few extra "tags" to some of them. IMDB has 'movies' as tag and twitter has micro-blog. Perhaps I should remove them for the sake of clarity?
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by jonas_b 18y ago
"The splash page is impenetrable. That kind of minimalism worked for Google because you can type in anything and get results." That's true. I guess I neglected since I've thinking about this a lot, and all my friend that I have spoken to al
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by jonas_b 18y ago
Thanks for the input guys. I can see from your comments that I should've been much more clear on describing the purpose of the feature, but I guess I was just so happy to have created something that at least works (me not being a programmer
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by jonas_b 18y ago
My name is Jonas. I'm a Swedish guy and the creator of Zendo - an Application Launcher for the web. I'd be so grateful for any creative criticism the HN community would offer.

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