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by mixmax 17y ago
And here it is in PHP: echo "Hello world"; One line. Just saying....
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by mixmax 17y ago
Two friends of mine did a startups some years ago. One technical guy and one business guy. The tech guys title was simply "technology" and the business guys title was "everything else". It worked - everybody understood it immediately and it
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by mixmax 17y ago
One of his points is that when you have a certain amount of information you should go with your gut - if you wait until you have 100% information you'll almost always be too late. Guess he heats his own dogfood for better or worse. I wouldn
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by mixmax 17y ago
I'll mail this link to my mom right away.
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by mixmax 17y ago
I've just seen a lot of dry-ice in my lifetime, and this looks a lot like it :-) They probably don't use it for actual cooling but more for showing off. Though I'm not certain I don't think it would be harmful to tape, after all it's just C
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by mixmax 17y ago
This is exactly Jane Jacobs thesis in the greatly influential book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" What Jacobs found is that communities thrive when there's a certain amount of chaos and layered complexity that arises from p
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by mixmax 17y ago
It's dry ice not fog, essentially it's solid-state co2 that evaporates. I used to use this stuff all the time when I did techno raves and underground parties back in the 90's. It looks frikkin cool, and I would presume that's why they use i
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by mixmax 17y ago
Though it might seem like it that isn't the case - people here are generally helpful and down to earth. The problem is that there's an ingrained fear here that the site will turn into reddit[1] with all of the oneliners, memes and silliness
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by mixmax 17y ago
Exactly - they missed an obvious opportunity to upsell. If Trevor had gotten a mail stating that he needed to upgrade he would most probably just have done so and been happy. It's not like he can't afford it :-)
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by mixmax 17y ago
Microsoft just doesn't get the web at all... What exactly is the usecase for making excel spreadsheets that I can post on my facebook wall? They even copied the "beta" thing from Google.
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by mixmax 17y ago
How risky is it to be an entrepreneur? 10-30% chance of sucesss. I'm pretty sure it's a lot lower than that. Especially if you count success as exiting with fuck-you money[1] [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuck+you+mo
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by mixmax 17y ago
I think you meant to link this: http://jmesnil.net/weblog/2009/09/28/how-books-shape-my-appr... but you linked to the image in the page instead.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Remember that everyone starts out as a beginner.
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by mixmax 17y ago
when you're looking back at there's usually a vision, when you're looking forward there rarely is. It's the way the mind works - we like to connect the dots.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Old news for the man that hacked Hacker news, but certainly not for mere mortals like me :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976
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by mixmax 17y ago
This is rather scary. historically, activity at Eyjafjallajökull has frequently preceded eruptions at the nearby Katla, which is a much bigger volcano and contains more rhyolitic magma. Karson said that there's evidence that Katla has prod
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by mixmax 17y ago
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Maybe you meant this: First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't sp
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by mixmax 17y ago
Warren Buffett started his career going door to door selling chewing gum, Coca-Cola, and weekly magazines [1]. I'm sure he looked rather silly. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett
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by mixmax 17y ago
I remember the parrotsecrets site (that sold an e-book on how to care for parrots, and apparently made tons of money doing so) and it looked a lot like this site. Maybe that kind of design actually does sell better. But as you say - A/B
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Massive fireball reported across Midwestern sky (edition.cnn.com)
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by mixmax 17y ago
Of course! Stupid me...
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by mixmax 17y ago
Great design is a way of making products that aren't commodities, and for which there are no direct substitutes. Dell can be squeezed on price because I don't care whether my box comes from Dell or some other manufacturer, while Apple can't
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by mixmax 17y ago
"..has been proven time after time over the last few centuries" Could you come up with some examples of this? Not trolling here, but I can't come up with any pre-internet free models off the top of my head.
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by mixmax 17y ago
And they're one of the most visited sites on the planet. They can't hide behind the "We choose growth over revenue" anymore since they're already so huge. If they can't capitalize big-time on the users they have now they have a serious pr
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by mixmax 17y ago
How exactly does this gratify our intellectual curiosity?
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by mixmax 17y ago
People weren't born to have a natural understanding of probabilities, we didn't have any need for that expertise on the savannah. This is a huge problem in an increasingly complex world where most decisions involve many factors that must be
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by mixmax 17y ago
This comment calls for the classic Steve Jobs quote on taste: "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste; they have absolutely no taste. And what that means is–I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way–in
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by mixmax 17y ago
I went to a DHH talk in Copenhagen when he left Denmark for the US. One of his major stated reasons was the insane Danish car tax (180%). He would probably not have been able to afford it had he stayed behind :-)
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by mixmax 17y ago
There was a saying on the Lockheed Martin Skunkworks department where this plane was designed: "If she looks beautiful, she'll fly beautifully"

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