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by mixmax 17y ago
In theory that's true, but in practice it isn't. It's so easy to take a quote out of context and turn it around. Just look at Fox News. Or the headlines over at Reddit for that matter. "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the m
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Why online news is ad-based and not subscription-based(maximise.dk)
2 points by mixmax 17y ago|0 comments
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B2B ideas are sorely missing from the list, yet these are the customers that have problems they are willing to pay real money for.
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by mixmax 17y ago
The Ipad and other devices that will undoubtedly appear are probably the best shot they've got. It's not about paying it's about psychology and transaction costs that are too high and cumbersome. Apple already proved with the Ipod/itunes co
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It will be interesting to see whether the publishing industry, and particularly Old Media, will be able to leverage the Ipad and start making some money on their content.
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It's interesting to note that the sites that are most successful in the long run are the ones that take the higher ground and employ some basic ethics and decency - and actually live by it. This is a perfect example of a sleazy practice tha
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by mixmax 17y ago
Actually they're not. Bengtson is an architect, and Madsen doesn't have a formal education at all. While they're by no means stupid they aren't geniuses either. But they're dedicated as hell, and that's what makes the difference.
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Going to space in a homemade rocket: What you can do if you put your mind to it(maximise.dk)
2 points by mixmax 17y ago|2 comments
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by mixmax 17y ago
I can't find the source right now, but I remember reading a paper where it was assessed that a new technology needs to be roughly twice as good as what it's replacing if it is to be successful due to the inertia the post describes. The post
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by mixmax 17y ago
This gem is from the posters resume page: So this guy dies and goes to Heaven, and when he gets to Heaven, he’s trying to explain to God how he spent his life. Wait, wait, God says. Let me get this straight I gave you a body able to swim o
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by mixmax 17y ago
Thanks for the research. Just a little nitpick - could you please not use URL-shorteners. It's nice to know where you're going before you hit the link.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Not to get into a flamewar about OS'es, but why start out with Safari? If you're looking for a large demographic, which I presume is the case, it would make the most sense to develop primarily for IE,then Firefox, then Safari. Is it a quest
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Live Ships Map - Vessel Traffic and Positions(marinetraffic.com)
31 points by mixmax 17y ago|10 comments
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by mixmax 17y ago
Here's a link: http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&...
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by mixmax 17y ago
Interesting to note that 97% of their revenue comes from advertising. That's a weak spot for them, and surely they know it. If some better disruptive technology comes along they could have serious problems.
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by mixmax 17y ago
An good friend of mine toys around with tesla coils quite a bit. Here's his tesla coil page: http://dzl.dk/projects/tesla/tesla.html A few years ago he got involved in a pretty crazy project: Another friend (artist type) had heard that as
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by mixmax 17y ago
Ah yes - sorry about that.
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by mixmax 17y ago
The article and my reply was in relation to startups, not women in CS. Of course it might be pure gibberish, but I believe it does happen to coincide with currently accepted wisdom in evolutionary science.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Here's a related take on why there are no more women in startups from an evolutionary perspective. In reproduction, which is what evolution is made of, men and women are very different. A woman can only have one baby every nine months, and
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by mixmax 17y ago
Move to a boat, that will solve the problem instantly. I have roughly 16 square meters of indoor living area, and that has to accommodate kitchen, sleeping quarters, bathroom, steering, a sofa and a table where 8 people can eat for when I h
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by mixmax 17y ago
The thing that's rarely answered sufficiently is the question of how to find a good co-founder. The answer is often "Find someone you worked with or went to school with that wants to start a company with you" The thing is that there are a
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by mixmax 17y ago
Ah yes, sorry for that. I was mixing Malthus up with the Club of Rome that revived his ideas and published the limits to growth . ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome ) Thanks for catching this :-)
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by mixmax 17y ago
This is mostly bunk. I'm not going to go through the whole thing, but I'll take the third video as an example: First, the graph the author has drawn obviously isn't exponential. The graph is too flat and rises too quickly, but it certainly
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by mixmax 17y ago
I managed to get halfway through Godel Escher Bach. Glad I'm not alone in not having finished it.
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by mixmax 17y ago
At the height of his career he did yes, but he started out like everyone else doing the laborious tasks himself.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Facebook is a great example of a very risky bet that paid off bigtime. As you say, noone in their right mind would have predicted that facebook would grow this big - but the VC's that did and took a huge risk got an enormous paycheck out of
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by mixmax 17y ago
Investments in innovation are very risky, but the payoffs match the risk. Basically as an investor you need to understand this and to decide how much risk you're willing to take. If you invest in a proven technology and a proven team you're
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by mixmax 17y ago
I respectfully disagree for a few reasons - Everyone privately buys and sells a lot of small things in the harbor where I live (fishinghooks, rope, etc.) and a digital transaction would be extremely cumbersome, if possible at all. Instead I
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by mixmax 17y ago
This is interesting because there are a number of derived numbers that may be very different than you think. If you for instance think the rate of uniques that turn into paying customers is 2.5% it may actually be 5% which is a very differe
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Glad to hear you're actively doing something about this. It's been discussed a lot here, and it seems to be a real problem.

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