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by neolefty 15y ago
Using a commercial (but certainly not approved) VPN on a home DSL: It works for a few minutes and then starts to degrade. I wonder if it's related to this new tactic. It's a little hard to distinguish from old behavior, unfortunately.
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by neolefty 15y ago
Final paragraph: The full legacy of Steve Jobs will not be sorted out for a very long time. When employees first talked about Jobs’ “reality distortion field,” it was a pejorative — they were referring to the way that he got you to sign on
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by neolefty 15y ago
Agreed. He put his worst face forward. The article is all uphill from there.
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by neolefty 15y ago
The real question is: will Cheney get a new apprentice, or will Bush kill him and get an apprentice of his own? Or was Rove the apprentice? And was Mitt Romney's true parentage concealed, and was he secretly raised in the Utah desert by t
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by neolefty 15y ago
What if airbnb had the equivalent of sub-reddits? For now, it just has the "sleep somewhere" sub, but you can imagine all kinds of user-created ones. A cross between Meetup and AirBnB?
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by neolefty 16y ago
Or for young whipper-snapper civilizations who want to live faster, you could turn that black hole + galaxy-sized mass into a really big hydro-electric plant -- that is, power your civ from the potential energy.
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by neolefty 16y ago
Looks like it's not actively backlit? Way cooler than it has any right to be, at least in the daytime. Brightness is automatically directly proportional to the light coming from behind! Wonder what they have planned for night.
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by neolefty 16y ago
Anand does some performance tests: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3991/apples-2010-macbook-air-1... summary: pretty good!
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by neolefty 16y ago
Notable that both YouTube founders stayed with Google -- they left YouTube to, according to the article, work on other Google projects. That's pretty impressive on Google's part; it implies that they've built enough of an internal startu
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by neolefty 16y ago
Microsoft Office. Windows only. Oh yeah, Mac too.
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by neolefty 16y ago
Yes, and they made great use of it. But if they hadn't backed it up with good design and instant gratification, they wouldn't have gained traction.
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by neolefty 16y ago
Question: Is there a way a financial management site can be viral? Marc claims that neither Mint nor Wesabe was.
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by neolefty 16y ago
To summarize: - Give instant gratification; require as little work as possible from your users - Be visible; Mint advertised heavily; neither site was viral Other smaller factors too, but those seem to be the biggies, based on Marc's articl
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by neolefty 16y ago
I'm impressed with Marc's lack of rancor towards Mint -- very classy. It lends credibility to the whole article.
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by neolefty 16y ago
Couldn't get the kids off his lawn? I can totally sympathize.