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by michaelpinto 16y ago
He's going to use to prevent a revolution from overthrowing him...
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
What kills me is that wikipedia scrapped content out of countless sites on places like geocities which are no longer around — so wikipedia gains the benefits from having the oldest page on said topic.
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
A. Stop reading articles on "What Does It Take to Become an Entrepreneur?" — if you really want to do something you're either doing it or not...
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
Back in "the good old days" you wouldn't dream of creating a website using anything but Java code and hosting it on your own server sitting in the back of your office: That required grabbing a $100k a year coder, a sys admin at at least $75
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
I don't know if you folks are aware of this but Steve Gillmor in his previous career was a record producer — he worked with everyone from Firesign Theater to Grace Jones. That's why is writing is so filled with references to music. You can
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
I've been following this industry now since the "old days" and the author is essentially saying that a miniframe will never be quite as good as a mainframe. Or that a workstation will never be as cool as a miniframe. Or that a PC will never
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
Is Apple also taking a cut of the advertising? That's where the real money is with publishers.
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Proof of the Tech Bubble: The Colbuffington Post(mediaite.com)
1 points by michaelpinto 16y ago|0 comments
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
Two Words: Demand Media You have an entire company that is based on gaming google that ready to be publicly traded. And next you have AOL buying the Huffington Post which is designed to cheat actual newspapers out of pageviews — something t
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
All of his logos had that! In fact I think a real good test of a brand is if you can blur the logo and still recognize it. Of course part of that is the ability to saturate the mass media with your brand — and Rand was part of that golden a
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
First it was the record shops. Next it was the video rental stores. It seems odd when you think about it that it wasn't the book stores first?
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
I have never met a medical doctor or a nurse who was worried about not having a job — in fact this may be one of the few professions where they'd kill to work less. Even if efficiencies boomed in healthcare thanks to technology you still ha
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
Paul Rand designed the famous NeXT logo for Steve Jobs — do you think Steve made one change to it? No. http://www.paul-rand.com
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
Is there a way that I can apply to be kicked out of Y Combinator without being in Y Combinator?
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
This sounds like a Robert Scoble rave review from 2007!
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
The traditional notion of a career path is that you get promoted from job x to y — this works in large organization. However in a small biz a career path is taking on the extra work load and creating the job you want to grow a business. Th
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
This is more for doing layout techniques so it's more of a library where HTML5 is a markup language. You should think of this more like jQuery.
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
This skips the very first step that most designers would do: It was a process called "specing the type" — a graphic designer and/or art director would mark up the copy by hand writing notes on the typeface, leading, column width, etc. It sh
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It May Be a Sputnik Moment, but Science Fairs Are Lagging(nytimes.com)
1 points by michaelpinto 16y ago|0 comments
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by michaelpinto 16y ago
If you are retouching a favicon pixel-by-pixel I can see that racking up a few hours: £585 = $944, so if a designer is say charging $150 to work on a complex logo that would quickly add up. It's actually much harder to create something good