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by mlinsey 16y ago
Building a business requires quick iteration on ideas. Quick iteration requires building products quickly. One of the qualities that separates good and bad hackers is speed. Not many startups fail because their code isn't good enough, but
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by mlinsey 16y ago
First PG post to ever reach -2?
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I've noticed the same thing. My hunch is that the work involved to reach the pinnacle of human understanding in a certain subdiscipline makes one acutely aware of just how far they are from that same level of understanding in every other s
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by mlinsey 16y ago
OK, I am unqualified to comment on this proof because the math is over my head, but what is wrong about Deolalikar's response that is posted in the article? The author copies the comment, does not point out where it is wrong, and goes on t
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Reading your comment on my iPhone 4 made me curious: after a few minutes of trying, I can't make the signal drop enough to lose bars by touching it anywhere besides the gap between antennas, which makes me lose two bars every time. Even if
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Yes. They have been outspoken advocates of net neutrality in the past. I could understand if net neutrality fell by the wayside and lots of companies started bidding on preferred access, Google could reasonably say "we wanted net neutrality
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I always thought that Levchin's PayPal experience would give Slide an opportunity to dominate the micropayments space that is generating so much revenue for competing social games companies. That thought wasn't very well fleshed-out (what
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by mlinsey 16y ago
On the plus side, it's easy to get an intro to those investors because ingeneral other entrepreneurs and hackers will gladly open their rolodex for you if you are building something they think is interesting.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
It usually also means that the people in the war room are only working on that problem, and that they are working extremely long hours.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I would, yes. Especially over the vanilla Kindle. At least the Kindle DX would support full-size PDF's without panning. But I still think the delay in page-turn times on e-ink would give iPad the edge.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
E-ink is still a much better screen for reading text than the iPad's LCD. Not only does it perform much better in sunlight, but the lack of a backlight reduces eyestrain substantially (the Kindle iPad app has an option to use white text on
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by mlinsey 16y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
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by mlinsey 16y ago
The answer is clearly to rely less on social antibodies to specific addictions and more on recognizing and fighting the general pattern of addictiveness, an effort that this essay itself is a part of. The more we learn about the generic pr
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by mlinsey 16y ago
It does not include free books. No mention of "almost free". http://www.scribd.com/doc/34551590/AmazonRelease6-19-2010
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Bezos: The Kindle format has now overtaken the hardcover format(mediabistro.com)
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by mlinsey 16y ago
"depending on where the company is and how early the hire is." In the case where a new hire gets 30%, presumably the company is early enough that they are basically joining as an additional co-founder. Certainly possible.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Wow, somehow this was the first time I learned that...but then again, Mercurial has never really been on my radar screen as a tool to use. Of course, with your VCS, you get better network effects by picking one that other projects in your l
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Why Mercurial? Most Python projects I've used are on git.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
To answer your first two questions, it would take many years. But unless you're privy to insider information from a lot of different companies, you can't rule out that all those devices are several years into their development already. I
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Congrats to Jessica, Andy, Borden, and Chris! Great job so far.
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Google Isn't Just Reading Your Links, It's Now Running Your Code(blogs.forbes.com)
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I don't see a downvote button on -4 comments, so doesn't that mean there is still a floor? Or do I not have enough karma? (~1100 now)
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Really? The original iPhone had a competitive advantage based on a "real" webkit-based browser, visual voicemail, a large multitouch display, on-screen keyboard with good auto-correction...etc, etc. What smartphones had those features befor
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Yes. This was all an unfortunate result of Microsoft taking the "Browser is the OS of the future" hype a little too literally...
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by mlinsey 17y ago
At the end of the day though, the general public doesn't care one bit how Apple "treat" developers, so it's all fairly moot. I keep hearing similar logic from lots of people - but surely you would agree that the general public cares about
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Someone once told me that the NT kernel is designed so that with a couple config changes you can make it behave like Unix or OS/2, with Windows being just one "personality" on top the device, supposedly because MS was contracted to build se
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by mlinsey 17y ago
This whole thread is anecdotal, but they are still interesting anecdotes, so here goes. Here's my experience with these companies: Microsoft: Interviewed with them for an Internship. Very organized, on campus recruiting followed by a fly up
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I remember in one post PG mentioned that his solution to procrastinating on the internet was to get a separate computer to do all of his non-work-related internet browsing on. If I'm remembering correctly, that's the only thing he would use
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I'm sorry if I came off as attacking you: there wasn't any intent to do that. I just was trying to point out where I think you misread Winer's article, which is in the grand scheme of things a pretty minor mistake, probably not even worth
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by mlinsey 17y ago
To me, the biggest surprise of iPad launch day was just how well the keyboard works. According to various (dubiously reliable) online typing tests, I range from 40-70 WPM on the iPad. Accuracy is acceptable; much better than the iPhone key

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