normloman

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by normloman 11y ago
I'm not buying the land to remove the houses. I'm buying the land so developers can't get their hands on it.
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by normloman 11y ago
Something tells me if you fill a village with people of your choice, you'll get homogeneity. And without the chance interactions with diverse people and perspectives, those creative people will feel a bit less creative.
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by normloman 11y ago
If I had the money, I'd buy all 400 of these villages, and demolish them (save for a few historic buildings). Let them turn back into forest. Then I'd identify one village that was a good candidate for development. Start a new tow
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by normloman 11y ago
Here's another possibility: Google's taking a page from the Innovators Dilemma, and moving their disruptive projects away from corporate meddling. Most innovative projects die at big corps because they don't fit into the comp
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by normloman 11y ago
Yeah I couldn't tell if "esthetic compass" was a nice way of saying asshole.
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by normloman 11y ago
No, you missed my point. Why does it matter what Steve Jobs liked? The tweaks in this story seemed to stem from Job's personal preference, and not any usability concerns.
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by normloman 11y ago
Yes! I wish more people would actually read that book instead of throwing the word "disruption" around vaguely. After reading it, you'll realize the established business almost always has the advantage, and start ups only suc
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by normloman 11y ago
I'm not on the function end of things. Form makes a measurable difference. But some of it's subjective. Steve might have had the perfect calculator in mind, but perfect for whom? We knew so little about usability in those days - i
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by normloman 11y ago
Some of you will present this tale as proof of Job's restless devotion to perfecting the Macintosh down to the last detail. I see it as an anal retentive bully having his way. For all we know, the original calculator app might have loo
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by normloman 11y ago
Founders presume the stupidity of the competition because they're arrogant. Silicon valley, with it's notion of creative destruction and disrupting the establishment, encourages arrogance. We're blinded by the notion that new
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by normloman 11y ago
Inaccurate assumption #1: There was a time when all men wanted traditional relationships. Inaccurate assumption #2: That all women rejected these traditional arrangements. Inaccurate assumption #3: That all women are now regretting the outc
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by normloman 11y ago
Tell that to everyone who's been in a relationship for 6 months before breaking up because "he/she seemed so perfect when I met them"
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by normloman 11y ago
"and so many women (the historical gatekeepers of sex and relationships, fair or not) began to hold out on local suitors because they didn't meet some platonic ideal they'd seen once somewhere." Citation needed. Pretty s
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by normloman 11y ago
The medium always shapes the conversation. So yeah it's different from the real world. Maybe you don't see flame wars on Twitter. But do you ever see in depth discussions? Long form story telling? Even 2 way discussions are rare,
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by normloman 11y ago
This is true when you're just looking for a quick fuck. But as someone in a long term relationship, believe me, superficial qualities matter a lot less. My wife is beautiful, but so were other girls I dated. I stuck with my wife becaus
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by normloman 11y ago
Self driving cars aren't coming tomorrow. They are years away. Maybe a decade. How long can uber coast on VC money before that happens? And then how do they guarantee dominance in the self-driving taxi market? Basing their value solely
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by normloman 11y ago
You may think sprinting is pushing you faster, but by working yourself to exhaustion, you're really going slower (and neglecting your health in the process). For your own sake, give yourself time to recharge. Work/life balance is
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by normloman 11y ago
I was talking about people who didn't have time to cook. You have time to cook, you'd just rather spend it doing things you enjoy more (and that's fine.) It's the people who can't cook, even if they wanted to, becau
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by normloman 11y ago
True. And I didn't make that argument because it should be obvious to everyone. A key difference is that frito-lay doesn't imply you can subsist solely on cheetos.
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by normloman 11y ago
I'm also skeptical that one can live well on soylent alone. There's nothing bad in soylent AFAIK, but there's no way of knowing whether soylent is missing anything vital. With this in mind, I wouldn't be worried if someo
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by normloman 11y ago
It may be faster than cooking for yourself, but not always cheaper. http://www.watchusthrive.org/Libraries/Resources_Documents/B...
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by normloman 11y ago
Right! Even if you don't like to cook, not having the time to is symptomatic of overwork.
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by normloman 11y ago
Who's desire does it fill? My rational system 2 brain? Or my impulsive system 1 brain. The reason you can't justify shitty content with "we're just giving you what you want" is because we really want something bette
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by normloman 11y ago
- You have, but he is stubborn and refuses to see the downsides even though they are obvious to everyone else. That one!
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by normloman 11y ago
What you're forgetting is: 1. People have to read this calendar. 2. People have to edit this calendar. 3. Other people in the office don't know Excel as well as him. 4. Other stuff is designed to work with our calendar software, b
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by normloman 11y ago
The "give people what they want" philosophy leads saving word documents as HTML.
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by normloman 11y ago
It's the ones that know the functions that you have to worry about. Especially finance people. Excel is the software they are most comfortable in, and they never want to leave it. My boss just made our company events calendar in excel.
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by normloman 11y ago
No no no. People at my company already use spreadsheets where they don't belong (in the place of databases, note taking apps, regular expressions, and one time someone tried to do page layout with it). The last thing we need is for the
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by normloman 11y ago
I agree with what's been said here about payment. It is hypocritical that the author want's ad free music, but won't pay a buck and a half for a track. That said, the ad supported web still has problems, and I don't see
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by normloman 11y ago
But we're not talking about founders lying about their start-ups chances (the lottery ticket is a winner). We're talking about founders lying about the present situation of their start-ups (not being transparent about financial he

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