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by nudge 16y ago
You just keep saying "it has been observed empirically". Name the drugs. edit: Also, explain (as I keep asking you to) how it is that the companies are to earn back the money spent on the R&D investments, if there are no patents. You sa
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by nudge 16y ago
Please just explain how it is that you think we would get new, expensive-to-develop drugs, if there were no guarantee of a limited monopoly for the inventor. Forget the abstract arguments about corporations being "encouraged" or whatever yo
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by nudge 16y ago
I'm not forgetting that at all. Of course they make enormous profits. But they would make no profits if they did not have a temporary monopoly on the drugs they invent, because others would sell it for cost price (next to nil) and they woul
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by nudge 16y ago
I'm willing to accept I'm wrong, but could you answer my point so I know exactly how it is that I am? In particular, exactly how is it that the large upfront R&D costs I mentioned would not be a problem in a patent-free world? Also, I w
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by nudge 16y ago
This is a great point. Often people conflate the (probably) sensible VC preference for a two-person startup with the idea that two people are necessary for a successful startup. These are two totally different ideas, and only the former is
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by nudge 16y ago
How would you encourage the development of new pharmaceuticals (the process of which costs vast, vast sums of money and can take decades) if, as soon as the new drug is done, anyone can come and just copy the formula? I'm not pro-patents on
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by nudge 16y ago
"a programming language that be exciting" makes me want to recommend some pirate-based language, but I don't know one unfortunately.
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by nudge 16y ago
Google's advantage is that people use it to find things they want, including things they want to buy. A user who is searching for "hiking boots", for example, is valuable to an advertiser because they are actively seeking information to mak
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Ask HN: How can I get better at design?
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by nudge 16y ago
It's natural to be paranoid about such things, but you can overcome it. It is extremely unlikely that someone is just waiting for a good idea to copy (and that yours is the one they will pounce on). And even if you don't tell people, they'l
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by nudge 16y ago
Why not put the idea out there and ask for help in building it?
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by nudge 16y ago
Maybe he's declaring the project finished early so as to avoid the upcoming pi/tau bloodshed :-)
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by nudge 16y ago
"the time when" is used here to mean "the period in a person's life" rather than "the period in history".
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by nudge 16y ago
Bespin by Mozilla Labs
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by nudge 16y ago
It is entirely sensible not to go ahead with a startup if you're not sure about whether and how it would be a successful business. You'll never know for sure, but it makes sense to have a good idea of whether you have a market, for example,
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by nudge 16y ago
What in your life would you pay for, that does not exist? What do you know others will pay for, that does not exist? What is your unique intersection of talents, interests and experiences, that might allow you to find a new angle on somethi
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by nudge 16y ago
This is the main draw for me. Compared to Python, other languages (well, some) seem to require you to do so many things that just seem... unnecessary. I couldn't believe all the junk Java required of me when I took a stab at it. It's like b
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by nudge 16y ago
Reverse-weasel is my new favourite concept.
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by nudge 16y ago
Your 'maybe it's just me' is a good example of what is often lacking in the 37signals writings. I haven't read rework, but Getting Real is exactly like this article describes: locally, even widely locally, good advice, presented with a pres
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by nudge 16y ago
You're considering abandoning ship when there's a real chance of earning $30m plus? Why? You're trading an uncertain amount of money for nil. You can always start your new company after the sale completes or falls through.
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by nudge 16y ago
There are advantages and disadvantages to throwing in your lot with a closed system like the App Store. I wouldn't agree that either closed or open systems are likely to dominate the other in the future: as long as enough people value eithe
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by nudge 16y ago
You can get some decent information on that kind of thing on Crunchbase. For example, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dropbox You might want to differentiate between those that have plenty of cash from investment, and those that are pro
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by nudge 16y ago
"Because I don't really need to work on things I sometimes forget that I have assignments to do, and that resulted in me only having one of the three exams I was supposed to this spring, because I missed two hand-ins." Danger! I got some gr
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by nudge 16y ago
I don't know of one myself but it is a great idea. How would you have an external app access your private sales numbers?
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by nudge 16y ago
That sounds pretty interesting. Care to share the link? Any plans to turn it into a way for others to run their own sealed bid auctions?
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by nudge 16y ago
1/3) Auto repair / servicing. The internet has helped consumers in all kinds of markets - retail and travel, perhaps most obviously - compare equivalent goods to ensure they are getting a fair price and good service. I would love for this t
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by nudge 16y ago
I really don't think there are any very convincing reasons, if you are competent already with php+frameworks. Perhaps Heroku for easy deployment? I haven't used it myself but I gather it makes life easy. The question to ask yourself is whet
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by nudge 16y ago
Great question. I have no answers, but some thoughts. It depends a lot on the job being offered. Soulless job boards are decent when you're looking for fairly fungible workers, but if you're looking for employee #7 at your startup, no way.
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by nudge 16y ago
It's a very complex thing for people to have to go through, organizing a wedding, so anything you could do to simplify the whole process would help. Most websites do this by aggregating useful information, but there are still ways to do thi
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by nudge 16y ago
What's with the sense of humour failure? Do you actually think I was proposing what I wrote as a serious business idea? Anyway, well done for sucking the fun out of it. If you weren't amused you could have just ignored it.

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