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Oversimplification is confusing (or, Don't ask stupid questions)(dubroy.com)
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by karzeem 19y ago
Journalists loves lists, and they can be fun to read, but this doesn't have much value for people trying to predict the future. Let us not forget the oft-quoted words of His Eminence Alan Kay: "The best way to predict the future is to inve
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Web apps: e-mail and games remain hot, office apps cool(arstechnica.com)
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by karzeem 19y ago
It's a shame that at a lot of big companies, HR is the division with the least intelligent employees. At most places, it's not the kind of job that attracts the best and brightest.
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Like Amazon's DRM-free Music Downloads? Thank Apple.(wired.com)
5 points by karzeem 19y ago|2 comments
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Instructables -- step-by-step instructions for everything(instructables.com)
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by karzeem 19y ago
This article isn't notable for its content as much as for the evidence its presents about where social networks are in the media. I was a freshman in college when Facebook and MySpace came out, and to anyone my age, articles like this woul
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The Facebook Commandments(slate.com)
1 points by karzeem 19y ago|1 comments
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by karzeem 19y ago
It reminds of a line from a PG article about building a new Silicon Valley, where he mentions that plopping down industrial parks is silly, since it's not for lack of buildings that most cities aren't hotbeds of tech innovation. Places bec
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Amazon Launches DRM-free Music Store(arstechnica.com)
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by karzeem 19y ago
The ads on Facebook get abysmal clickthrough rates (often less than 0.1%). $10 billion is a P/E of more than 300, and even for a very hot company, that is pretty far into outer space. If these are in fact the numbers being thrown around b
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Hat Heads vs. Bed Heads(alistapart.com)
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by karzeem 19y ago
People make way too much of the Facebook platform. The part that's relevant to innovation is allowing third-party apps access to a list of who and what a user likes. It's silly that people are obsessed with building those apps inside Face
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by karzeem 19y ago
Doubling your investment in six months is pretty good, but VCs would much rather wait three or four years and get 20 times their investment. Since it's a minority of companies that turn a profit for their investors, a Parakey-scale success
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by karzeem 19y ago
The content owners' problem is that they look at this is a black-and-white issue. The DRM on iTunes is about as restrictive as is acceptable, and it's at a level that users rarely bump up against. Here's a free idea for, say, NBC Universal
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by karzeem 19y ago
There are certain types of apps that will probably never reside in a browser, and certainly never with AJAX. Heavy-duty stuff like Final Cut Pro and the Adobe CS springs immediately to mind. I know a lot of people use GMail as their prima
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by karzeem 19y ago
What's the exchange rate of Acebucks to US dollars? My guess is that it's roughly the same as the one for Chuck E. Cheese currency. The economics of this sort of model (which is similar to that of "Free iPod" promotions, if I'm not mistak
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What's the Future of the Music Industry? Freakonomics gathers opinions.(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by karzeem 19y ago
It's very cool, but in a way that demands a qualifier. Arrington should have written something like "This isn't hardest app to make, or even close to the most important, but it's a brilliant little idea." He also should have said that it'
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by karzeem 19y ago
Like the commenters at Rough Type say, "graph" is just the word for how programmers conceptualize a network (as in graph theory). Winer is right that there's no reason to expose consumers to that kind of jargon, though. The reason that it
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by karzeem 19y ago
I used to have sort of the same issue with Ning as I did with pre-launch Xobni, which is that descriptions failed to make clear exactly what the prodcut does. They're both pretty clear now, but you're right that for most people, there does
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by karzeem 19y ago
The bit about boredom worked out a little differently for me. I remember being bored at least a few times a week as a little kid, but I'm 22 now and can't remember the last time I was bored. It was definitely before late high school, mayb
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by karzeem 19y ago
Here's what happened: I added the app, made a message to see what it looked like, and then sent it to no one because I didn't think my friends would care. Then I removed the application. Granted, some people will definitely get a kick out
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by karzeem 19y ago
"If this is half as effective in humans as it is in mice it could be that half of patients could be cured or at least given one to two years extra of high quality life." Um, Dr. Cui, there's a big difference between those two outcomes. Res
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by karzeem 19y ago
Occam's Razor is a pretty lovely bit of guidance, if not philosophy, that's both general and useful. My college had a great books curriculum, and the few books from the last 100 years changed my thinking as much as all the earlier ones com
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by karzeem 19y ago
Ugh, Booze Mail. Success is success, but man, how depressing is it that this is popular? It's the "According to Jim" of web apps.
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by karzeem 19y ago
People's arms would probably get tired, but hell, I'd work out for a device that sexy.
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by karzeem 19y ago
It's exactly to avoid these kinds of issues (and perhaps a little for union-related issues) that entertainment production companies return unsolicited screenplays and ideas unopened. Since unsolicited business plans and ideas basically neve
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by karzeem 19y ago
You're right that it's a stupid debate that doesn't belong here, but all the down-modding and vitriol smacks a little too much of a tyranny of the (correct) majority. To the poster, you're not going to find any funders here, but there are p
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Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments (not hoaxes, as the URL suggests)(museumofhoaxes.com)
5 points by karzeem 19y ago|0 comments

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