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I've been enjoying Trello as a collaborative tool for general task management. Where does Asana shine vs Trello?
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Any estimate of the number of bots posing as people on facebook? Any way it could be like 100 million? Can facebook could prove or disprove either way? Seems both advertising prices and their valuation are linked to this number, I'm curio
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Much more concise. I was curious on Jeremy's view on getters, setters in JS - can be summed up as it is "impossible to reason about the side-effects of your code" (aside from the fact that it also does not work on IE). http://irclogger.co
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A library of pre-assembled circuit boards that connect with tiny magnets(littlebits.cc)
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The article points out a weakness in the author's philosophy of management, not the weakness in Jobs as a manager. The notion of 'personality disorder' seems largely out of context for someone of the mindset change the world. 'Old Steve'?
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Regarding China factory regulations vs US factory regulations, does anyone have a good point of view regarding working conditions at Apple's factories in Asia? ie, http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hexyl-hydride-n-hexane-pois...
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Its simple - FB is not transparent about the value exchange. Why? We represent top 1% most aware users here.. most users do not understand they are exchanging their data / attention for a social networking service.
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Well, you are basically saying don't waste time referring people to Dropbox given their incentives. I did this trick a few weeks ago when Vladik initially posted. Cost me $13 in total (+ about 10min of my time) to go from 2.8GB to 10.8GB.
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Please don't point at YC for this - don't ask an innovative tech incubator to take on a broken culture of business ethics. PG/YC has taught the world to build companies around products that people want and to be relentlessly resourceful. I
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"he's worked hard on it over a period of many years, his standards of quality are extremely high, and he's spent even more years developing the skills" - completely agree with that too. However, just view this as pre-requisites to building
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Exactly - the takeaway is that Bret can create amazing things as a result of building off of his own creations. He's not running, he's building reusable components for a rocket ship.
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I really did not mean to discuss the clinical definition of a sociopath, so much as the common definition that I have read about - society's meaning of the word. Many 'sociopaths' who are designated as such may not fit the clinical profile
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Only tangentially applicable, was including for some humor and as a reference to the 'Gervais Principle' (an article that posits the Office's brilliant ability to characterize the effect of a psychopath on an organization). Robert Californ
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I meant selection criteria in the same sense that ability to succeed in college may be selection criteria today. It does not require birthing more kids, rather a consistent use of this selection criteria from generation to generation in a
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Its just speculation of course. But 2 angles: 1. Communication capacity is the reason empathic capability is important. Human-human communication relies on perspective-taking and evolves over time as our brains get more exposure to peopl
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The designation of 'mental disorder' is largely one of subjectivity and social convention. In some contexts, lack of emotional empathy is simply a gift[1]. As is the ability to apply rational empathy to a situation. Physiological concerns
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"we try so hard to hire people like ourselves" Part of this is self-selective in that we communicate well with people that think like us. Perhaps the other side of the coin is that is takes a lot of energy to determine that someone is a go
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I always thought it would be cool if a company built a big bird's nest tower in cities that would host a bunch of flying drones. Then, consumers could rent the video-capture drones online to fly over approved areas, upon which the drones w
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The Stream Map of the World(ribbonfarm.com)
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Thanks for the note - I was disagreeing with the message / sentiment of article. I meet so many first-time entrepreneurs and worked at funded startups where the founders think it is about impressing investors. Kudos to Stormpulse for the h
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Ugh. To put this advice in context, social capitalists raise money based on reputation, hackers raise capital based on results of their startup / product. Pragmatically, success needs to be a mix. To me - this is very clear distinction in
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"Management caring deeply about their company’s products and using them every day is almost always a prerequisite of making great products" ..when management is also happens to be in the target market of the product. Quite a broad and inco
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"How incompetent is the rest of their organization?" Really incompetent in the last complaint I filed with them. Just basically threw it out without communicating why. When I called to ask why, no call back. Looks like these guys are on
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Lobbying Firms Index outperforms S&P 500 by 11% per year since 2011(economist.com)
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Reminded me of http://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-... - “So are you saying that we’re all just, like, really excellent sheep?” Also, Marc Andreeson's take on a similar stereotype, The Organization Kid - http://pm
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Writing has been on the wall for some time. Surprised anyone that uses Delicious seriously did not switch to Pinboard or equivalent. No sure Avos is to blame so much as delicious users not being proactive about the inevitable.
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Somewhat related, I recently checked out the 'console' of the online editor, Cloud9 ( http://c9.io/ ), and was amazed at the in-editor git functionality (mostly I was amazed that it worked in such an early version of the product). I can pul
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I can't read Mandarin - does the text along the side translate to 'Deathtrap'?
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A fridge with sandwiches and healthy snacks would be cool. Keep onboard menus of restaurants near the pickup/dropoff so I can arrange for food easily. Yea, I live close to caltrain, its a 12min walk for me. Personally, I like the extra 3-
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I ride Caltrain several times a week and think it does the trick. I've got t-mobile tethering pretty much whole way from PA to SF (only 3 spots where signal goes out temporarily). Also, gadget charging not a problem on caltrain - on the ol

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