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Excellent marketing gimmick from Reddit(blog.reddit.com)
1 points by mixmax 16y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 16y ago
A good friend of mine recently commented that I always brought up role models that he had no idea who were, and I quoted as known and famous. The people in question were names such as Niels Bohr, Steve Jobs, Larry and Sergey, Richard Dawkin
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by mixmax 16y ago
Ray Ozzie is the CEO Microsoft should have had instead of Ballmer. He actually understands tech, and is a visionary. Ballmer could just as easily have sold used cars, and doesn't have the deep knowledge and vision of software that's essenti
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by mixmax 16y ago
when Richard Branson started Virgin Atlantic there were other formidable competitors already in the game. His market research consisted of a phone call to book a trans atlantic flight with British Airways. After holding the line for half an
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Obama to appear on TV science show 'Mythbusters'(reuters.com)
2 points by mixmax 16y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 16y ago
someone needs to do a little escaping there...
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A Inside View of the IMF's Massive Global Influence(spiegel.de)
1 points by mixmax 16y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 16y ago
Sandman is correct in his asessment - I completely understand the point and context of the article as explained in these comments. I simply didn't understand why it seemed to be interesting enough to gather 100+ votes. You can call the orig
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by mixmax 16y ago
Not trying to be snarky, but why is this upvoted? It's an article about an unfortunate guy that got killed on his bike and died. How is this interesting? What am I missing? Since the article has 100+ points there's obviously something I've
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by mixmax 16y ago
Excellent points - this is why I love HN, it's a great place to have an intelligent discussion.
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by mixmax 16y ago
What a great way of turning my argument around. Kudos :-)
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by mixmax 16y ago
It's not about company size - it's about vision. If you look at the Ipad and the tablets that came before it it's pretty obvious that it's another category. There's a vision with the Ipad that wasn't there before. It just works. The problem
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by mixmax 16y ago
I didn't mean to imply that the Ipad is a fashion statement, my point was that whenever someone comes up with a X-killer they've usually already lost. For example, I think that Diaspora will never take off because they've positioned themsel
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by mixmax 16y ago
Atari's greatest hit the 2600 was never equalled, but they never managed to create a successor for the product. Maybe because they fired Nolan Bushnell, or maybe because of the leadership of Warner. so I don't think anyone out-ataried the a
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by mixmax 16y ago
It's interesting to see how everyone tries to copy Apple's success without getting the point. What made the Ipad (and the Iphone and the Ipod) a success was the fact that Apple created a new category that didn't exist before and marketed th
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by mixmax 16y ago
That's a good point - you don't hear much about IBM either. Though Microsoft is much more consmuer oriented, and thus more known to the average Joe.
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by mixmax 16y ago
This is more significant than you might expect from a first glance. the media writes about companies or technologies that are innovative, game changing, cool, popular, controversial or scandalous. Companies that are feared, loved or admire
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by mixmax 16y ago
"no opposing arguments are allowed here no matter how good they are". In my experience that's not correct. I haven't been commenting much lately, and when I do it's often because I disagree with something, and thus have an opposing argume
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by mixmax 16y ago
So a blogger gets a tip from a source, knows the people involved, acts on it and smells a rat. He sticks around and talks to a few people he knows, makes a few calls and gets a breaking story. Sounds to me like bloggers are the new journali
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by mixmax 16y ago
I still remember the recursion hack, I had no idea it was you. Funny, harmless and very clever. Kudos.
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by mixmax 16y ago
You're absolutely right - interesting point. A friend of mine is a diesel truck mechanic, which to me seems like a job that doesn't have much to do with the Internet. Yet he spends lots of time researching and finding information. When he d
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by mixmax 16y ago
I somewhat disagree with this - it depends entirely on what you're doing. If you're writing a 3D gaming engine you're absolutely right, but if you're writing simple webapps, which most people are nowadays, you don't really need to know what
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by mixmax 16y ago
I'm rather new to programming, but sometimes there's good advice to be had from people that are just starting out - they don't take things for granted. Anyway, here's my list: - How to think. If you can't hold abstract thoughts in your head
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by mixmax 16y ago
There are actually other motivations than having a shot at significance. Maybe the founders want to retire on their $20 mill. Maybe they want to go on to building bigger and better stuff with the money they've made. Maybe their investors
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by mixmax 16y ago
"Danes are magical" I can assure you we are not.
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by mixmax 16y ago
If you think that's high you should be happy you don't live in Denmark. "The large public sector (30% of the entire workforce on a full-time basis) is financed by the world's highest taxes. A value added tax of 25% is levied on the sale of
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by mixmax 16y ago
Everyone is here for a different reason. Some people love startups, some love technology, some love programming. Some just like to learn new things. If you look broadly at the topics, discussions and members I think it's somewhat obvious th
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by mixmax 16y ago
Or Google could have waited until youtube was bought by Microsoft. Or Viacom. Or Disney. Or Apple. Then they would have had a formidable competitor with a significant advantage. Things just aren't that simple.
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by mixmax 16y ago
I got a response from Peter Norvig a few months back. I've also gotten responses from the some Danish members of parlaiment which you've probably never heard of. John Graham Cumming ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc ) beats me
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by mixmax 16y ago
These guys are friends of mine. Before the rocket they built the worlds largest homemade submarine. Homepage: http://www.uc3nautilus.dk/ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC3_Nautilus Images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hobonerd/s

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