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by mixmax 15y ago
Talking about powerful engines, check out this rocket Engine sporting roughly 180.000 horsepower. Made by a few crazy rocket amateurs in Copenhagen. http://copenhagensuborbitals.com/heat1x.php
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by mixmax 15y ago
A presentation is someone telling a story. it's an emotionel Endeavour, not a presentation of facts. if it was you could just write a report or send out a memo. As a presenter you need to bear this in mind. Like any other story it should be
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by mixmax 15y ago
It's from Cryptonomicon - a thousand pages about wargold, allied codes, enigma, cryptanalysis, startups, datahavens and money perfectly weaved together as only Neal Stephenson can. One of the main stories in the book is about Avi and Randy
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by mixmax 15y ago
In Denmark, where I happen to live, I've had two companies funded largely from a businessplan. The venture and startup ecosystem isn't as developed here, and frankly I don't think you'd get anyhwere without a businessplan and a powerpoint d
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by mixmax 15y ago
If you look behind the numbers they aren't as impressive as they sound. GE, for instance, has 287.000 employees, and it only takes one to tick them off in the stat they present here. A product that has some traction, as 37signals does, will
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by mixmax 15y ago
Thanks for the kind words... The story is true, but somewhat exaggerated to make it a worthy read.
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by mixmax 15y ago
I think you might be misunderstanding the post - or at least interpreting it differently than me. I dont' think it's so much about success as it's about being different. Once you step over the cliff into the unknown there aren't that many p
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by mixmax 15y ago
that's not quite correct. They're still in Danish territorial waters when they launch. The reason they launch at sea is safety. It's hard to know exactly where the rocket will land, and there just aren't any good places in Denmark where the
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by mixmax 15y ago
Some six years ago I bought a boat that I now live on. This means that I'm in daily contact with other people around the harbour that also live on boats. These people are outside a lot, get a lot of exercise (if you've ever owned a boat you
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by mixmax 15y ago
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
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by mixmax 15y ago
while we're talking about karma can we please have points on comments back?
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Study shows powerful corporations really do control the world's finances(physorg.com)
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by mixmax 15y ago
That's because it's a classical chicken and egg problem - the idea is only valuable if a lot of people use it. Here's a back-of-the-envelope calculation: If I go to Hacker news, what are the chances there'll be someone to chat with? Well,
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by mixmax 15y ago
"Eventually, by connecting many such chips, Dharmendra Modha of IBM Research Almaden, in San Jose, California, hopes to build a shoebox-sized supercomputer with 10 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses" and for comparison: "the ultr
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47 Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know(businessinsider.com)
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by mixmax 15y ago
That's actually very interesting - what you're proposing is that to create a viral effect you don't send the same joke to everyone but tailor it algorithmically to suit each recipient based on his history or some other parameter. The trick,
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by mixmax 15y ago
There's a flaw in the argument that most people miss, namely that since it's so easy to create and distribute information everybody does it, making it so much harder to create a viral effect. To extend your example: If just 1% of the popula
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by mixmax 15y ago
" You might think Google could deal with this by just not infringing Microsoft’s patents, but that’s not how software patents work. Android has roughly 10 million lines of code. Auditing 10 million lines of code for compliance with 18,000 p
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by mixmax 15y ago
You've probably not met good business people but "idea guys" that, as you say, have the greatest idea since sliced bread and want you to build it for 5% equity. These people are a dime a dozen and generally worthless. The thing is that good
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by mixmax 15y ago
The Swedes had a serious financial crisis in the mid 90's and learnt their lesson. They've been running a sound fiscal policy ever since.
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by mixmax 15y ago
besides it isn't true. PG posted at some point that comments which had a lot of points before actually have more points after the don't-show-points change.
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Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It(coding.smashingmagazine.com)
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by mixmax 15y ago
If people were rationel beings maybe you'd be right - but they aren't. A famous Harvard Business Review study actually showed that only economiste and pshychopaths (!) could be shown to be consistently rational. Normal people second-guess e
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by mixmax 15y ago
I respectfully disagree. There are a lot of things, especially when you're dealing with market sensitive information, that's best done behind the scenes. If, for instance, the Prime Minister of Spain calls the IMF and asks what kind of deal
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by mixmax 15y ago
more likely you've just grown up and are now experienced enough to see through the BS. There's a generation ten years younger than you that doesn't.
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That old razzle dazzle(economist.com)
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by mixmax 15y ago
I'm sorry but this isn't an anecdote it's a rant. The only hard quantifiable information in your post is that you've worked at Accenture and that you visited a friend who was in the middle of his PHD. The rest is just emotions and yelling a
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by mixmax 15y ago
I think it's quite easy to convince executives in an UX investment, you simply need to show previous results. "We did this UX thing for company X and it improved their bottomline with 20%" If an executive doesn't think that's interesting
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by mixmax 15y ago
the selfposts (the ones that link to hn) link to hntop100 on your site. Just a friendly heads up :-)
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by mixmax 15y ago
That's correct.

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