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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
"Airtime lets you find and make new friends face-to-face, using common interests broadcast over video chat. Mix, flirt, mingle. Get some Airtime."
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
Believe me, I'd wait a few more seconds for it to do that than it erroring out to a prompt with "UNDEFINED SYMBOL: GTK_BUILDER_NEW", or worse, crash with a core dump where I'll never find it or know what to do with.
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
So, no more install.sh scripts that you have to chmod +x, no more "undefined symbol" errors from games expecting old library files, no dependency hell (though, admittedly, I don't encounter those as much anymore). That I can definitely ge
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
Buffett is notoriously liberal in both his political views and the way he runs Berkshire Hathaway. He's given alot of leeway to his direct reports (CEOs of the companies they own), not because he's some prescient slacker with a time machine
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
Wow, you are so "The WELL" circa 1997. Communities grow (and thrive, even) as the swell of users come and, ultimately, go. Besides, there are more than enough subreddits to subscribe to that are almost completely devoid of any "drivel" you
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
Icon space. Assuming most people don't put their related apps in folders, they instead have it all on display. Like shelf space at the grocery store. The more product users can see with your brand, the more they'll 1) Trust the brand 2) Use
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
But, this is exactly what learning programming is like. And, from what I've read, learning code and learning music is cognitively similar from a didactic standpoint. Programming tutorials force you to physically type examples in verbatim
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
Okay, what about a TV that can play Angry Birds, take a picture and send it via SMS or email, and let's you surf, chat, share your life, and meet new people. "Most people in the world don't have any use for a computer" Wow, so short-sight
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
Wouldn't cars be the domain of Detroit or Tokyo, not the Valley? Why would it? Perhaps the technology behind some of it would come from there, but doesn't that start from consumer electronics anyway? He's being a bit too forward-thinking, d
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
1) Teachers are supposed to come up with those lesson plans for their classroom anyway. So what if they want to distribute it to other teachers? If the school or the state wanted to control the lesson plan content so tightly, they'd design
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
So, pricing it around 1/10th the price for 1/17th the users is execessive, but it should be worth at least a billion, right?
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
He didn't say every day :D
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
"Education performance has stagnated ever since the DoEducation was created. Who benefited? Not me or my kids!" Education performance lagging in the US is not the fault of it being federated. The shining education systems by competency in M
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
What answer would that be? Because looking here[1], the effective tax rate during our largest job growth (Clinton Administration) was also when we saw the largest effective tax rates for the 10, 5, and 1%. I guess I have to correlate until
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
So, how many discs do you rent a month? Because if it's <5, then I'd say, okay, you'd be better off without the $8 netflix. But, if it's more... We love netflix at home. They're seriously starting to ramp up on TV series licenses and 80
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
"(See the Department of Education, TARP, Medicare, war, etc.)" TARP money has been paid back almost in full, depending on who you talk to. The DoE budget is like an eyedropper full in the wake of an ocean, compared to the DoD and elderly en
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
So, when does one prove causation? Because by any economic metric, the times when we've been fiscally strong is when the top marginal tax rate was higher than 36% currently. When they lowered it in 2001 from 40% while going to war , it cre
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
Injecting formality into a construction site I can see: Steel-toed boots prevent smashed feet, hard hats stop brain damage, tool belts keep the floor/ground clear from obstacles. What does a suit confer other than "you have to wear this bec
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
"Basically, there is nothing inherently better about jeans and a t-shirt" More comfortable, more durable, cheaper, better selection of comfortable footwear that doesn't need servicing by a person at the airport or the main floor of an offic
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
The brand value because of the 37 signals past cachet. The same reason brand x can be owned by random hedge fund company and people will still buy it.
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
It screams that technical recruiter type ethic: "at least 10 years Ruby on Rails experience required" when Rails isn't even 10 years old yet.
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
Not as much threatened as forlorn about our seeming decline in status as a scientific hub for the world. I find solace somewhat in the breakthroughs we've discovered and developed over the years, but must sadly concede that, hey, people are
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
I know that the world is essentially flat and that we shouldn't be so jingoistic anymore, but does it trouble anyone besides me that CERN is under the Swiss Alps near Geneva instead of under the scorching sun in the New Mexico desert? Shoul
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
Or, if you really want to change the world, alleviate the spectre of massive world hunger by coming up with radical agricultural techniques and selective breeding for drought resistance, then teach that technique to everyone you know for
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
"For startups, having large numbers of investors is bad" But isn't investment about spreading risk? The more risk you spread, the less founders would have to a) give up in ownership and b) answer to anyone but their own vision. I think the
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
I think we've seen n+1 examples of that, some right here on HN. The airbnb saga was a shaming so vociferous that it made them change parts of their business plan. Ditto on just about any torch that reddit or consumerism (hell even /b/ or An
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
No, it's "king of the mountain, piss on the peons" syndrome. You mix two parts cash infusion, one part Valley atmosphere, a soupcon of pseudo-hacker swagger, then mix in a big glass and let the "semi-technical biz guy" speak on behalf of ge
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
It's a pretty expensive undertaking. You have to be a subscriber (at non-trivial cost) to be a member/reviewer. The vendor would have to create multiple puppet accounts at $20/pop to shill up reviews. But, what of all the other actual rev
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
If pricing seems to be a question, just put the project up on the most accurate consumer-pricing a/b simulator of all time[1]. [1] http://www.kickstarter.com
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
"HN is not exactly immune to this" Wait, isn't the whole premise of Y Combinator exactly that? Giving $20k to hackepreneurs to build a company? The mentality isn't born in a vacuum.

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