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by jpwagner 17y ago
citation needed...four steps to the epiphany page 17
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by jpwagner 17y ago
It's great to broaden one's thought processes to relate to all kinds of startups. I'd be curious to know who's working on non-software startups. Tim Ferriss got started with an energy/vitamin supplement.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
from wikipedia: Vonnegut played himself in a cameo in 1986's Back to School, in which he is hired by Rodney Dangerfield's Thornton Melon to write a paper on the topic of the novels of Kurt Vonnegut. Recognizing the work as not Melon's own,
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by jpwagner 17y ago
I expected something completely different based on the title...
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Am I the only one who gets a funny feeling when upvoting something with a rhetorical answer of "no"?
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by jpwagner 17y ago
The answer is obvious (to me): Without yellow there would be no blue! Blue is built on the fundamental assumption that we can model the world using yellow. Yellow is the most green.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
That is an interesting thought and one of the many problems with the way data is typically organized. This IS the "sports" section of the paper, but whether or not this is the appropriate paradigm is certainly worth questioning...
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by jpwagner 17y ago
And I'm sure you also think people should not spend their money on Rolexes when a Casio will do, or on Mercedes when a VW will do...etc. People pay for what they want to pay for.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
But when lawyers told Mr. Malamud and Mr. Swartz that they appeared to have broken no laws, Mr. Malamud sent Mr. Swartz a message saying, “You should just lay low for a while.” It's not illegal, so what's going on? Trying to collect $1.5M
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Good to link to the prior discussion, but that item is no longer open for discussion, so it's not inappropriate to re-post if an interesting discussion is to continue. feature request: dupe only detected when discussion is still open.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
who gets to define "common good"? (and who can lobby that committee?)
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by jpwagner 17y ago
I'm not going to go back and forth with you. If that's true, it's self-evident.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
There's a development impact...Apple has to find a way to close them off. Then Palm writes a new workaround, and Apple has to expend more effort again. The underlying statement to Apple is: if you don't want Palm to do this, you have to op
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by jpwagner 17y ago
A noble cause, but the implementation may need more thought. Outspending the lobbyists is not a sustainable solution. What would prevent lobbyists from spending more? (requiring an increased "tax", etc...) How would this "tax" eventually b
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Certainly it's tactical, though I wouldn't say it's all publicity. I think they're trying to hardball Apple into opening up (or negotiating an agreement for use of) their distribution channel.
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Tom Siebel: Opportunities in a post-IT marketplace(ecorner.stanford.edu)
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by jpwagner 17y ago
You're way off here. The article suggests that the workaround took ~40 hours. Plus, it's not just "free-riding" on Apple's software, it's using Apple's music distribution hub. You may be thinking it's as simple as writing a winamp skin and
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Actually that was his definition of wealth, quoted from Buckminster Fuller.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
I'd define "rich" as |wealth| You may define it differently, but that's language isn't it.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Two comments: 1. "Smart" is not a scalar; "rich" is. 2. True that hard work alone will not make you rich, but [extreme] hard work coupled with working-on-the-right-thing has a very high chance of making you rich.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
http://highdeas.com/
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by jpwagner 17y ago
and for text-groups...
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by jpwagner 17y ago
This might be true if the application asked for a 10 minute video, but the extreme time limit makes it such that production value means next to nil (as long as you can understand what they're saying...)
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by jpwagner 17y ago
13. "Ignore your instincts...consciously decide to go harder on the people [you] like and easier on the ones you don’t" that doesn't sound like ignoring your instincts!
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by jpwagner 17y ago
store the password change history...
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by jpwagner 17y ago
sWeet, it's like HN without the pesky users... sorry, it's not a terrible idea in another context, but HN is its users. decent plug for cubbyscott though.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
No he doesn't... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ware_(judge)#Noted_ruling...
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Holy crap: 110,000,000 undetected landmines out there! I had no idea that was a problem. Such an unnecessary problem!
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Unless of course you need to hire someone who doesn't telecommute 100% of the time.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Good read. One glaring issue I see is that if you redistribute wealth and "give it to the poor, who will spend it on something useful, like food and clothing", then the next time they need money for useful things, where do you think they wi

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