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by kloncks 16y ago
I wonder why Apple's different. From what I read, their average salaries are much lower but their loyalty is much higher. Besides, you don't hear of too many Apple employees quickly leaving for other places, at least not as much as Facebo
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by kloncks 16y ago
What Palm really needs (and what I really wish it had) is a non-phone device carrying WebOS It's unbelievable how important and how big the iPod Touch (it's 40% of all iOS devices) is for the iOS platform.
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by kloncks 16y ago
To be fair, we have now done exactly that. If we have food on us, we'd give it. Not saying I don't care or rationalizing that it's not my problem. I'm just saying that the way I explain this could be used by many others to explain it as wel
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by kloncks 16y ago
What really killed me was seeing the homeless buy or sell drugs/booze. I went from a really wealthy suburb to a college campus that was more representative of "the real world" and encountered the homeless on the edge of campus for the first
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by kloncks 16y ago
You really won't find that culture anywhere but here, really. Even Europe doesn't fully have that yet. Finding success while working in Egypt is really not impossible. It lends to just working differently. You probably can't grow a consumer
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by kloncks 16y ago
Such an interesting discussion for me. I'm Hany, an Egyptian American, currently living in the states and involved with technology. The one thing that I absolutely will say is better in the United States than other places is funding. The id
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by kloncks 16y ago
I think whatever you saw is probably due to the fact that this was a very quick interview done outside in an impromptu way. PG's body language could have meant a million other things. Scoble's one of the greatest advocates of startups and n
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by kloncks 16y ago
Great article and well-thought out argument! But when I see this I think: why the hell would I want to retire at 30 when I can just start another company?
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by kloncks 16y ago
Thanks for the good discussion as well. It's refreshing to have a civil thoughtful engaging conversation about such topics, for a change. Thank you Hacker News and thank you lionhearted as well. Two quick things. When I say "heinous" practi
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by kloncks 16y ago
I think his point was that Western progressives don't even get along with all of the population of the West, let alone "traditional Muslims". In this country, we're divided along such an issue and we have HUGE areas/pockets that no one coul
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by kloncks 16y ago
I wasn't asking rhetorically and I am, in fact, a proud Muslim myself. I appreciate that you used the word 'culture' before your argument but it's still wrong to use the word 'Islam' before 'culture'. It's just culture. Not Islamic culture.
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by kloncks 16y ago
I didn't know this and it was very interesting. But, honestly, not all that surprising. The beauty of this country is that it's a melting pot of cultures, religions, ideas, colors, and ethnic classes. It's what makes us both different and g
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by kloncks 16y ago
Someone in the comments said Basecamp. I second that.
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by kloncks 16y ago
You should read Hackers and Painters. It's exactly what you're talking about and includes most of his essays.
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by kloncks 16y ago
The design for this website is one the things that consistently gets me. It's so simple and gorgeous. Dustin Curtis, in a tweet, also agrees: "This is absolutely awesome: http://ohlife.com Very well designed and very simple."
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by kloncks 16y ago
Two things. 1. Don't worry about the idea. They tend to change a lot. Pick something that interests you, roll along with it, and if you don't like just move on to a different idea. 2. I'm a college student too. One thing that hasn't been me
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by kloncks 16y ago
I really like this question. As a technical guy, I struggled a lot to come up with an adequate answer as a business-minded friend and I were discussing this. We almost became co-founders. I'll be interested in what others' experiences entai
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by kloncks 16y ago
I'm sorry but I don't understand what you're getting at. Could you please elaborate on your point?
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by kloncks 16y ago
There are a ton of books on the subject, most are fine. Regarding graphic design, I would check out something like Pixel2Life ( http://www.pixel2life.com ) as it provides a lot of tutorials and step-by-step exercises. Regarding the bigger i
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by kloncks 16y ago
I'd say that compared to Oracle's evilness, Google seems quite innocent and tame. Certainly the most evil company in this whole debacle is Oracle, not Google.
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by kloncks 16y ago
Reading this text with this stylesheet is so painful. My my, look how far we've come with CSS. Even something as simply as some line-height and a "double-spacing" effect would be so welcome here.
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by kloncks 16y ago
Any thoughts on TapWorthy?
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by kloncks 16y ago
I can read Arabic. How is this show at all relevant on HN?
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My Lousy College Experience With Computer Science(ihany.com)
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by kloncks 16y ago
I wouldn't have believed this earlier. But, today we're getting ever closer to it. Best example: http://www.academicearth.org
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by kloncks 16y ago
Oh, that's right. Two phones, it's just that one is a lot crappier than the other. (Also in the article :)
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by kloncks 16y ago
Best comment on this was said by MG: "Wait, So 20 Phones On 4 Carriers Outsold 1 Phone On 1 Carrier? Shocking." Indeed. Full article: http://tcrn.ch/ccmuFj
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by kloncks 16y ago
Same with my school. The only way something like this could have happened is if the valedictorian writes one speech for the principal to screen but delivers a totally different speech for the actual event.
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by kloncks 16y ago
I would have loved to have the experience to not just hear her speech in person, but to see the reactions from everyone. The faces of her fellow students as well as teachers/parents.
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by kloncks 16y ago
...what else would it be?

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