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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
This isn't a tragedy of the commons. The food, office space, couches, etc., that the entrepreneur used were not "common" property—they were paid for by directly by AOL. I'm flabbergasted that you can applaud him for this. It's like a former
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
AOL is a public company that has a responsibility for ensuring the safety and security of its employees and IP. That includes logging in or badging visitors, requiring contracts like NDAs, and requiring background checks. This entrepreneur
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
While I applaud Eric's inexhaustible dedication to his company and mission, taking advantage of AOL in order to accomplish it is disgustingly unethical. It just makes it harder for other entrepreneurs who share that dedication but have chos
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
Agreed. I keep referring back to Maciej Ceglowski's fabulous post, Don't Be A Free User: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user Posterous had a good four year run, but the strong hint from the press release is that they'll b
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The new Windows logo is out of perspective. Here's how it should look.(blog.tarng.com)
13 points by joshuamerrill 15y ago|16 comments
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
Hmm. While music labels do still have reach, in fact, there's very little profit anymore in the creation of recorded music. Today, records primarily serve to build hype for concert tours, which, contrary to your suggestion, are not put on b
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
To be precise, the record labels do not own the copyrights to the songs, but rather to the specific recordings produced under contract with the artist. The rights to the song are held by the music publisher, which is often a different entit
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
I would make the argument that the music business—and by that, the author means "major label" music business—is already being killed, and one can see its utter demise just by extrapolating the current trend. I suggest three reasons why this
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
* TapCanvas, a venture-funded startup, is seeking a Founding Engineer in Silicon Valley or San Francisco * In 2012, TapCanvas will bring mobile apps to everyone. We're creating a brand new market for mobile apps, and we have a chance to
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
Hmm, I tend to agree with samwillis. I'm not trying to tear down the contributions of others, but it's worth stating that although the shadows and gradients are nice, there's nothing about these progress bars that requires CSS3.
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
Ditto. The month-to-month service is extremely appealing for those of us dragging around the ball and chain known as AT&T. :(
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
I don't think there's any such thing in the universe as "unlimited." ;) But seriously, if you're using the phone on Wi-Fi, which is where the vast majority of people use their phones, then the only cap is the one on your broadband connecti
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
"By definition getting to the same results without co-founders requires a much higher level of ability than if being part of a 'collective'" I think in order for this to be true, you'd have to assume that the team as a whole is greater than
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
As a single founder who's about to close his seed round (and was rejected from YC), I'm deeply concerned that opinions toward single founders are devolving from aversion, to bias, to self-fulfilling prophecy. With every step, investors are
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
Yes, I stood in line for nearly 10 hours in Los Angeles on June 29th, 2007, to get a first generation iPhone.
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
Apparently pre-ordering was not the issue, as he has already pre-ordered two new iPhones. I think he was just enjoying chatting with fans. I went by early this afternoon and met him. I got a photo with him, and so did several other people.
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
Similarly in mobile, where worldwide subscribers have grown from ~400 million in 1999 to over 5 billion today. The smartphone segment of that is still relatively small, but it's growing 100% year over year. Meanwhile, today's largest Intern
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
I haven't observed web startups running into a "cash crunch." That said, it does seem to me that the market is exuberant right now. There are business cycles that imply things will go the other way at some point. I also want to point out th
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Was this empty first-row seat reserved for Steve Jobs?(twitter.com)
2 points by joshuamerrill 15y ago|0 comments
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
Still, the "Zuck sees all" explanation is far more colorful. :-)
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
The first person who responded to the post works at Facebook and is a friend of Zuckerberg's, therefore, it would have appeared on his News Ticker. Mark Zuckerberg is mentioned far, far too many times on Facebook every day to track each rep
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
I absolutely agree with you. I appreciate the author's advice, though I have a hard time imagining 3 or 4 cofounders doing fundraising when there isn't someone calling him or her self "CEO." (I personally take no special pleasure in calling
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
In black and white, the GeoEye-1 satellite is capable of resolving objects on the ground as small as 16 inches. Average Joes like us don't see this imagery; it's sold to USG, while companies like Google are required to buy lower quality out
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
Ah, gotcha. That makes more sense. Other than that, my #1 piece of feedback is that after pressing the large red button on the homepage, the user is expecting to see his or her mobilized site. Instead, the user sees a message saying: "Thank
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
You absolutely need to remove the TechCrunch and KillerStartups logos if indeed they have not reviewed you. It's highly misleading to your users and an abuse of their brand. In addition, the testimonials each have New York Times icon logos
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
That seems to be in line with Steve Jobs' vision of the future, in which PCs become "trucks" while average people drive "cars." I do see early but pronounced signs of that split.
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
Funny. It was so patently obvious that PG was holding back on a couple of the startups today. One was positioning itself as "Google Maps but better." PG recommended the company focus on something Google wasn't doing well, so that "...at lea
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
Elaborating: some things that are simple in a fixed layout can become very difficult in fluid ones. Two brief examples: 1. Try embedding a YouTube video into a fluid layout. You'll need a JavaScript solution to remove the ugly black bands
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
Having designed www.mogotix.com, which is completely responsive, I can say that fluid layouts absolutely create challenges that fixed layouts do not. That said, they're not insurmountable, and the benefits are substantial.
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by joshuamerrill 15y ago
Agreed, since economic output is measured in 1990 Dollars, there's no need for a logarithmic scale here.

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