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Professor Larry Lessig - The Code Is the Law (1999)(lessig.org)
2 points by jval 14y ago|0 comments
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by jval 14y ago
> Axiom 3: Company has no other visible means of income This is not true. There are plenty of other ways for social sites to make money. If Twitter is doing billions off promoted Tweets, then surely a company like Facebook which has eve
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by jval 14y ago
Sounds like Foursquare?
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by jval 14y ago
I don't necessarily agree with the idea of declaring something a national treasure but the problem of companies screwing around with APIs is a big one, and it is probably better solved by having developers group together in some way to get
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by jval 14y ago
Whenever I see articles like this, the first thing that comes to mind is this anecdote by Gary Kasparov: ~~~~ In 2005, the online chess-playing site Playchess.com hosted what it called a “freestyle” chess tournament in which anyone could co
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by jval 14y ago
> The system needs to be fixed. This is another problem with having an advertising company (Google) supply a browser that is very popular (Chrome). In fact, Safari and IE are also run by companies with large presences in the online ad m
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by jval 14y ago
I think this article is trying to get at a supposed culture of failure worship that exists in the Valley but I don't think that the point is clearly made that anyone is that obsessed with failure. Everyone wants to be successful and nobod
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by jval 14y ago
Without this degenerating into an argument over semantics, by that line of reasoning any police officer would simply be a 'police officer in a small neighbourhood police station' no matter how large the police body is. The warning was issue
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by jval 14y ago
Sorry mate, but Victoria is not a 'small Australian city'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)
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by jval 14y ago
Comments like this are the reason I love HN.
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by jval 14y ago
I sincerely hope the YC team has made sure the HN entity is legally separate from any asset-bearing entities they might have. Last thing anyone wants to happen is for you guys to get sued by some sort of errant copyright or defamation BS an
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by jval 14y ago
I honestly think that Facebook has gone backwards pretty quickly over the last few years. I'm not sure what their internal metrics look like, but I would hazard a guess and say that long term users tend to spend far less time on the site as
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by jval 14y ago
I can agree with a lot of the criticisms in these comments, because the future will definitely be cool, and Taleb has selectively forgotten about a lot of the great technological advancements and focussed on things that haven't advanced. Th
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by jval 14y ago
Great post, another classic example is Atlassian! Perfect example of a B2D startup that has grown into a fully-fledged enterprise company with a very small/non-existent salesforce. http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/16/atlassian-2011-revenues-1
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by jval 14y ago
I don't think Yahoo is going anywhere. No amount of celebrity CEO newspaper pieces will change the fact that Yahoo's has: - no valuable proprietary technology - no network effects with users - no supply chain or scale/cost advantages; and
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by jval 14y ago
I'd be interested to see whether the NYC connection was part of why a16z offered him the job. Depending on how you read the announcement it could either be a huge win for NYC or a huge loss. Probably need to wait for some more info from peo
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by jval 14y ago
I think another thing that people forget when they talk about a16z is the fact that they seem to be quite hands on and they make a point out of turning technical founders into CEOs. Chris Dixon makes a point of the former fact in his blog p
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by jval 14y ago
I wonder if he had tears in his eyes when cashed out?
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by jval 14y ago
Hopefully Woz comes to Melbourne, we have better coffee and 85% more awesomeness.
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak becoming an Australian Citizen (afr.com)
1 points by jval 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Is New York ever going to beat Silicon Valley?
4 points by jval 14y ago|5 comments
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by jval 14y ago
Well done guys, keep scaling and keep representing the Melbourne tech scene!
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by jval 14y ago
I really like this idea. Isn't HN meant to be the kind of place to share this stuff? I love the philosophy behind it, I feel like these guys are having a serious crack at building something that ordinary designers can use to make really bea
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Eight Great Growth Trends of this Decade(bain.com)
2 points by jval 14y ago|0 comments
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by jval 14y ago
Ughh, these moments suck. Every startup goes through them but it is just painful to watch founders getting forced out of the companies they started.
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by jval 14y ago
Pretty sure 'Academic Peer Review' is just asking other academics what they think of the university. Which essentially makes this a marketing/branding game by the sounds of things. I have no idea why it is weighted so heavily. Presumably mo
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by jval 14y ago
This is a great piece. Building and scaling a business model is just as difficult and important as building and scaling your technical platform. I think that people often talk in general terms about how they plan to monetise, but miss the d
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by jval 14y ago
Lame. Apparently we have been in a bubble since 2007, depending on who you speak to. I recall in a famous YouTube clip circulating at the time that people thought it was ludicrous that Facebook was valued at $16Bn. Of course people are goin
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by jval 14y ago
#hustle2win - how many more of these are on startup websites?
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by jval 14y ago
Dear Apple, Please spend part of your enormous amount of cash reserves building a crack team to fix this. Regards, Users.

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