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Why Tech Companies Design Products with Their Destruction in Mind(wsj.com)
2 points by mpbm 10y ago|1 comments
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by mpbm 10y ago
I don't think it's the sort of thing that yields to calculations, but I think it does yield to consensus. So, generally speaking, the most prestigious people are whoever other people agree are prestigious. Sort of like peer review
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Any time you ask for money your job changes. If you just want to work on an open source project, you're a developer. If you want people to give you money for your work and/or the results of it, you're a marketer. So there&#x2
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by mpbm 10y ago
That's a natural extension of "software is eating the world". The cost of experimenting with a small team making offers on the internet is small, but the potential returns are enormous. You can afford to have 100 offers rejec
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by mpbm 10y ago
I'm in a similar position. I built a thing that I'm turning into a startup, but I'm coming out of the military and don't know anyone in a position to join me on a startup, let alone interested. The first strategy I'
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by mpbm 10y ago
Letting the most prestigious people make important decisions isn't the best system, but it's probably better than the other options.
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by mpbm 10y ago
Rick and Morty did it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_qvy82U4RE Rick and Morty screw up the universe they're in, so they just hope sideways to a universe where their dopplegangers died seconds ago. They bury their b
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by mpbm 10y ago
"If these characterizations are even close to accurate, we should expect the pervasive, damaging biases against women leaders to diminish substantially, if not end entirely, once Millennials assume positions of economic, academic, and
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"I definitely know that feeling you are talking about. Happened to my previous startup (project) which failed." > Do you still feel that way, or did the feeling change when it didn't work out? "Survival is not an issu
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They don't actually critique YC's test program, they just mention it. There's a weird tension around wealth redistribution that's rarely confronted directly. On the one hand, people worry that not helping the helpless is
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by mpbm 10y ago
Well, step 1 is don't die. Step 2 is don't suck. So you have to account for survival first. If you need to get a job, then get a job. You don't need to find a fulfilling passion until step 1 is taken care of. Also, I think it
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by mpbm 10y ago
Title should be "The Science in Lean Startup is Hypothesis Testing."
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by mpbm 10y ago
It sounds good, but I say as an Air Force vet, it's not going to happen. The military rewards loyalty over everything else. The only way to get it to tolerate the failure inherent in experimentation is to go to war.
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by mpbm 10y ago
Intuitively I think what's happening is we got that productivity bump around 2000 when most jobs incorporated computers, but we haven't figured out how to actually make people better. Computers have made it easier to compose and s
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by mpbm 10y ago
Ugh. The article doesn't answer the question. It just buries this speculation towards the end: "Stern and Guzman are agnostic about why this is happening. But one obvious answer suggests itself: the increased power of established
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by mpbm 10y ago
This is nonsense. It's still a computer, it's just got the minimum feature set necessary to capture a string of characters and save it to the cloud. At best, the lack of distractions would make it easier to "write" in th
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by mpbm 10y ago
Oh wow, yeah, are we supposed to get "zero x" out of "oh by"? Even having that explained to me barely makes sense. Something like "FYI" (for your information)would be more intuitive. Even trying something like
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by mpbm 10y ago
For those who can't/won't read the article, basically what he's saying is that he "needs" the AR-15 standard because it's the best engineered gun. It's equivalent to saying that you "need" t
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The "need" from the article refers to why the AR-15 standard is the right one to own, compared to all of the other guns available. He meant that, assuming you are going to own a gun, you "need" to get something AR-15 com
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by mpbm 10y ago
The entire point of the article was that "an AR-15" is a nonsense phrase. There isn't any such thing as "an AR-15." Today, the "AR-15" alphanumeric code refers to a set of modular standards for interoperab
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by mpbm 10y ago
Why would one expect a person who can't keep up with the simple instruction "eat less" to keep up with the complex instructions "get surgery, install this tube, keep it sterile, empty it out into the toilet after every m
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They aren't actually "early adopters" if they have to be paid to adopt.
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For those who won't/can't make it through the article: - overarching theme is that "Silicon Valley is Rome in the time of Caesar"; things are good now because the winners win so big that they slurp up money from all
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by mpbm 10y ago
But isn't that the whole point of technology? Ultimately we want to fulfill all our needs without any more effort than physics requires. As we get closer to that we have to shift society around, but isn't that a good thing?
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There is, or at least was, a pretty steady drumbeat of stories about founders living in their cars, offices, and campuses on purpose. As long as you're a healthy male with no dependents in a moderate climate it's a pretty reasonab
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Just wait until people start actually using IoT and "smart" devices. The hackers will be able to ransom entrance to your house, use of AC in the summer, hot water in the morning, access to your on-demand rideshare, etc.
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by mpbm 10y ago
A better way to think about security going forward will be WHO you trust, rather than HOW you trust.
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I think the takeaway from this is that the way to convince anyone of anything is to 1) have a track record of being right and 2) be nice.
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I'd say a common framework for understanding "greatness" is to categorize it as "good with the thing" and "good with the people who are good with the thing." It's unusual for a profitable project to b
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I'm not convinced we'll be able to create an artificial version of a general purpose intelligence anytime soon. Once we do, things will be complicated. But until then, the vast array of focused, inflexible processing systems are n

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