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by moocow01 14y ago
I think there is a valid argument somewhere here but a lot of the points are based on things that can not be taken as fact. For example, the point about people moving to urban cores is a story that has been reiterated by just about every c
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by moocow01 14y ago
It would be great if they could get this down to almost no cost so its accessible to and preferred by hard drug users. While drug abuse and addiction is an extremely sad human habit, it is magnified by the side effects of needle sharing an
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by moocow01 14y ago
I think its easier to shout "bollocks" about this than it is to consider that there is probably truths as well as over-exaggerations in this article. I do believe that the plethora of instant stimulations is having a major impact on our cog
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by moocow01 14y ago
"You won’t be the only developer after that job. Second, it won’t be like this forever. Supply and demand are out of whack, and people are catching on and catching up" Seems like a nice way to kick off an agenda with a bit of fear mongering
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I feel a little bit mixed being that Google seems to be using this to market Chrome. I have the latest version of Firefox and Safari and Google is informing me that I need a modern browser to experience it, which actually seems to just be C
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by moocow01 14y ago
Hmm I wonder if in the case of ketchup/condiments this will initially be less successful than we think. Your going to have to get consumers to learn to not accidentally dump half the bottle out when turning it over and shaking it like you w
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by moocow01 14y ago
Robotic Barista == Big Coffee/Espresso Machine In my opinion this is how coffee shops can collectively put themselves out of business... I have a coffee machine in my house and office. Its dirt cheap for me to make good coffee but I still
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by moocow01 14y ago
Fantastic way to skate by in your corporate job. Add a frown and pretend to be just slightly irked but still deep in thought. Sip coffee every 2 minutes and then stroke chin. Repeat daily - you'll be in that corner office in no time.
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The Short Happy Life of Joe Developer(danoneverythingelse.com)
4 points by moocow01 14y ago|0 comments
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I don't have insight into it but this sounds to me like the underwriters making excuses for a "poor performing" IPO. I have no idea which way FB will head on Monday but am pretty sceptical that this is at all relevant to their 1st day perfo
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by moocow01 14y ago
I'd imagine a notable chunk is likely going to servers and infrastructure costs and another chunk will be reserved for current or potential legal expenditures. But yes I agree its hard to understand how they are able to put all of that mone
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by moocow01 14y ago
If there is one thing I've learned its to ignore benchmark tests on relatively established technologies. You'll drive yourself into the looney bin if you hop from one thing to the next based on these comparisons that inevitably popup every
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by moocow01 14y ago
Or otherwise said - Half of Americans make predictions based upon pattern matching. Based upon the history of the internet industry and especially social networks its a lot riskier to say something will be relevant in 5-10 years than not
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by moocow01 14y ago
I have a limited perspective (I guess as all of us do) but I find that the coefficients listed for offsetting the wages by city are not very on-par with the average wages that I know of in the expensive cities (SF/NYC). They are not drasti
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by moocow01 14y ago
Despite how much money is glorified in our culture, its a relatively ho-hum thing after reaching a certain point. I am definitely not mega-wealthy but I've reached a point where I've realized how little potential it has to make me more hap
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by moocow01 14y ago
It amazes me how many people listen to others without understanding their motivation. Peter is an investor - if he's able to monetize a model where a group of students drop out of college for a startup and on the whole make his fund money,
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by moocow01 14y ago
I agree about the non-accredited schools. That statement made me cringe more than a little bit. I also cringed when tech was pointed to as a model of innovation in education assuming he is referring to codeacademy and the likes. Don't get
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by moocow01 14y ago
I think the bigger question is what will the meltdown look like and how will it change our society?
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This was more or less what Opensocial was trying to do but I believe it is pretty much dead.
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The other thing that isn't reflected is staying power or perhaps it might be called company lifetime revenue/profit/etc. Historically for internet based companies this metric on average has been very low especially when put in comparison wi
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Its an asset but what is the value (in dollars and cents)?
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Cut your losses and move on. You will only have so many opportunities to play the startup game in life... and probably many less than you anticipate. They may be very likeable and connected but they are not performing at their job. They n
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by moocow01 14y ago
Exactly... which also makes the assumption that VCs are the gatekeepers to entrepreneurship which is obviously not true. Any customer is going to care less if the creator of a product they like was 9 or 90.
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Ah yes, when I buy any product I always do a search beforehand to make sure the founder was of the correct age when the company was founded
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What you describe is also my definition of a healthy financial system but IMHO we are increasingly moving away from that description and I think the fact that socio-economic mobility has been decreasing in the US somewhat verifies this. Jus
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We should be burning the financial system to the ground... well maybe not literally but pretty damned close. The despicable thing is that the insanely rising cost of education is just plain class warfare under a veil of financial hocus pocu
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I applaud this. I'm really tired of this one way street where employers get to be sleaze-balls behind the mask of a company name while an employee doing anything that skirts the line of not being upstanding is 'irresponsible.' We need more
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The Fiction to Reality Timeline(ritholtz.com)
1 points by moocow01 14y ago|0 comments
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I don't know about Steve Jobs but every company Ive been in where this has started to become the culture it has been a sign of a sinking ship... and every time that sign was accurate. If you think public humility is motivating it probably i
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by moocow01 14y ago
The problem is that if we modernized most of our iconography, a heck of a lot of things won't be able to be represented simply with something distinctive enough. This is largely due to what I'll call the merging of things into the same for

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