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by mpbm 10y ago
Yeah they are. Social habits and popularity are inherently valuable. Another way to say the same thing would be "what do people spend their attention on." If you capture and/or channel their attention, that's valuable.
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by mpbm 10y ago
The point of tools is literally to enable laziness. Feel free to go back to the telegraph if you really want to work harder.
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by mpbm 10y ago
<I wish people understood you just can't go into a foreign country and do whatever the hell you want.> I think the MNCs (multi-national corporations), particularly the tech MNC's, don't give a shit about countries. And
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by mpbm 10y ago
So...it's a screen, a keyboard, and a battery? Am I getting that right? I find it interesting that they went from a phone dock to the exact opposite of a phone dock. Like, a 100% pivot. There isn't even an optional way to attach t
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by mpbm 10y ago
Anyone have any idea what this is saying? All I get out of it is that The Princeton Review's list and the U.S. News and World Report's list of entrepreneurial schools were totally different and apparently the author has no idea wh
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The Role of Higher Education in Entrepreneurship(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mpbm 10y ago|1 comments
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by mpbm 10y ago
As I understand it, technically, in the United States patent infringement is patent infringement; no mitigating circumstance. In the UK or Europe there's an exception for personal use.
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by mpbm 10y ago
I think it's more about the culture you're surrounded with. From visiting that area several time I personally know that I don't want to be immersed in that culture. There isn't necessarily anything wrong with it that cou
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by mpbm 10y ago
Thanks. That's one of the best compliments I can get.
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by mpbm 10y ago
yeah, I read it as an attempt to help founders get back to the stuff that matters by spending less time developing pitches.
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by mpbm 10y ago
What I'm getting from this is that if you use Tor and never reveal personal information you get 90% of the benefits. The encryption was just a way to prevent non-members from obtaining the benefits of membership. The relocation and rek
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by mpbm 10y ago
You need version control and diffs, not git. In a visual system I think it makes more sense to use visual diffs, or algorithm generated summaries. Technically, what git shows you is already a visual diff ;) and they like to draw the diff tr
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by mpbm 10y ago
I'm working on something similar and I agree with him. Writing is literally stone-age technology. It's adequate for many things, but it's only got one feature. We need something with more dimensions. There were a lot of attem
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by mpbm 10y ago
You can use gifCam to make quick little animated gifs that are a lot easier to produce and more portable than videos. Here's an example from my project Howstr. The dictionary has a lot more. http://github.howstr.com/qui
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by mpbm 10y ago
I've been working on using graphs to model logic as well and it seems like encoding information in color should be avoided. It's tempting, but it doesn't degrade gracefully or scale. There's no non-arbitrary connection b
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by mpbm 10y ago
I'm working with graphs myself. There's some good research on graph visualization, but most of it is behind paywalls. If you're a student you can probably get in. The hardest part is combining the graph (nodes & links) wi
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by mpbm 10y ago
Aw yeah, this is the stuff I'm working on. Did you know writing is literally stone age technology? True story. The serialized list of symbols we use to exchange thoughts doesn't have enough features for the modern world. It takes
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by mpbm 10y ago
The sexism connection is tenuous. Par for the course. They're both wrong. Experiences are great and stuff is great if it's building on itself. Both of them are crap if they're just stuffing things into a bloated "misc&qu
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by mpbm 10y ago
Are a lot of people cursing in their Medium titles, or is it just me? I don't disagree with the author's statement that the only reliable chance at success is to work hard. However, I think he's taking down the "keys to
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by mpbm 10y ago
Meh...it seems disingenuous (or something) to strongly imply that the people who mistakenly think they need to balance their work and their life just aren't trying hard enough to enjoy their work. Maybe the author is implicitly assumin
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by mpbm 10y ago
Yeah, that's a hard problem. The computer can safely add contextual information but when it starts deciding that you don't need to see things you're really taking a risk. Personally I couldn't see myself trusting AR when
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by mpbm 10y ago
It changes your relationship. If they get it for free there's a hard limit on what they can expect from you. The second they pay $0.01 for it they'll expect customer service. Maybe you can find out who your product's best use
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by mpbm 10y ago
The search function in gmail sucks donkey balls. Since a lot of stuff gets buried under the sediment of new emails, being able to search it properly is valuable.
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by mpbm 10y ago
Not having the official delegated authority to do something and not having any options are different. Step up and let it be known that you want to help.
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by mpbm 10y ago
Might be something in her personal life. There usually isn't much insight you can get into that domain, but keep it in mind. Does "the board is stakeholders of our service" mean your "startup like thing" was sort of
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by mpbm 10y ago
I suppose the logical extension of this thesis is what solution, analogous to weighted links for google and private facebook for Facebook, will emerge in digital personal assistants, self-driving cars, VR, and/or AR? It's the solu
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by mpbm 10y ago
Perhaps it's just me, but I developed the suspicion that the reason their experiment didn't work is they were just a spam marketing account following other spam marketing accounts. Like two vacuum cleaners trying to suck each othe
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by mpbm 10y ago
Ugh. There were good takedowns of this idea back when the crowdfunding campaign was running. Just off the top of my head, some of the stuff that's wrong with the idea: the surface is going to get covered in grime, blocking all sunlight
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by mpbm 10y ago
Seems like recruiting has the same basic problem as every other human-to-human matchmaking in that it is possible to identify potential, but not to predict the future. There are some advantages to employee-employer matchmaking in that the r
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by mpbm 10y ago
Just make everything as recyclable as possible so we can repair and repurpose it in addition to recycling.

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