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by padobson 14y ago
Oh, darn. A useless Google product is ignoring a highly profitable industry. Next they won't let oil companies use Google Wave.
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by padobson 14y ago
Pages 16-30 covers Robert's decision fo the individual mandate - and it's a good one. Upholding the mandate as a tax under congress's ability to tax, and not upholding it under the commerce clause (and basically saying the government is all
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by padobson 14y ago
Curation of social media is becoming a big problem that only occured within the last few years. Trying to solve it algorithmically with plus ones and likes and upvotes seems to work when the content is centered around a specific topic, but
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by padobson 14y ago
I'm typing this using on my ASUS Transform Prime using the keyboard dock, with the Nightly Build APK of the latest Firefox browser My initial reaction is that its its incredibly smooth and responsive - something I have found lacking from ot
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by padobson 14y ago
It's a tough problem, but it's going to need more than just 3 engineers in a garage. The type of project you're describing requires domain expertise - lots of domain expertise. It's not just about solving the problem from a technical standp
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Adversarial Customer Relationships and the NBA Finals(pdobson.com)
1 points by padobson 14y ago|0 comments
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by padobson 14y ago
I went through this same though process - and then came to HN to refresh the page to see if an article went up about it.
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by padobson 14y ago
Reasons why Android sucks: OEM's installing crapware, no unified hardware strategy, lots of crappy apps Reasons why iOS sucks: App store monopoly, crappy memory management, no hardware freedom, read-only devices That's really it. If you're
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by padobson 14y ago
If we're going to be moderate about this, the source code should need to be public and open sourced after the term of the patent expires.
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by padobson 14y ago
There's a reason why we all aspire to be Rock Stars in our respective crafts and why the entrepreneur in us wants to hire the Rock Star. Give me a business analyst who knows his marketplace inside and out. Who can break down the value propo
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by padobson 14y ago
Apple's supply chains operate on a 6-day turnaround. That means that a MBP that just arrived in the warehouse today will be shipped to a customer no later than a week from today. That is one of Apple's greatest strengths, and having that st
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by padobson 14y ago
If Xeon Phi is going to run linux out of the box, then that's Intel basically declaring that they want this card to be supported by the opensource community from day one, correct? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that the Xeon Ph
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by padobson 14y ago
Potential Investor: "I loved your pitch, and I think your business model is great, but in going over your projected financials, I see you're planning on taking a $4,000/mo salary from day one. Don't you think you should have a little more s
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by padobson 14y ago
Futuretoob.com I was going to build TV apps to get in on the coming disruption of television. Still waiting to see where TV goes. Droplounge.com A content aggregator for stuff in you Dropbox. Basically a way for digital creatives to share t
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by padobson 14y ago
This is the crux of the entire issue, crystalized perfectly. If you are going to carry multiple product lines, then why would their features converge? I see no reason to get into the closed vs open debate - this is Apple we're talking about
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New Macbook Pros Declared Unfixable (Soldered RAM, FTW)(ifixit.org)
6 points by padobson 14y ago|2 comments
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by padobson 14y ago
The biggest problem I see in these comments and in this post is that the assumption that the skills described exist in a vacuum. Product guys can only ever be product guys. Engineers can only be engineers. Business men can only be business
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by padobson 14y ago
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_Uni... Did you want published evidence of the structure of the government, or my personal conclusions? If you don't believe the federal government is far and away more powerful and
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by padobson 14y ago
Your school board, county supervisor, and state governor are flacid, neutered versions of their virile predecessors of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of them spend most of their time wrangling federal money. And your representative and se
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by padobson 14y ago
I wouldn't remove them, but I'd certainly want to invert the power structure. Make me dictator for a day, and I'd change the whole tax system so that the local govt gets 30% of your income and th e federal gets 1%. The military and entitlem
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by padobson 14y ago
As far as when Ubuntu will be back at Best Buy here in the United States, or "When at Best Buy down the road?" Kenyon said, "We're working on it and I'm confident we're going to get there." A better question is whether Best Buy will still
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by padobson 14y ago
I'd like to see it too.
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by padobson 14y ago
You have a single president, a federal senate, a federal army, a federal police, a powerful federal intelligence agency, and many institutions at the federal level. This one sentence does an excellent job of summing up our failures as a n
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by padobson 14y ago
The most interesting numbers to me: $30,957,952 Sheryl Sandberg, COO 0.089% Sheryl Sandberg The second most important person at Facebook takes most of their compensation in cash - with her stock in the company being worth roughly 3 yrs
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by padobson 14y ago
Sorry, your operating system is not supported just yet. The Chrome Web Store is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. Why don't you send yourself a reminder to try it out later? Silly me for using Chrome on ICS.
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by padobson 14y ago
I love this piece. The Verge has become the philistine's Rolling Stone. It has all the pretentiousness, and none of the cultural value. Everytime I read something on the Verge, I can't help but feel like there's an air of timeless importanc
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by padobson 14y ago
"That’s because by being able to put a high supply of precious metals on the market, they might very well depress prices significantly, which would harm their investment return." They should consult with the diamond industry on how to keep
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by padobson 15y ago
Tablets are read-only. People are buying this because they love consuming info on their tablet, but they can't create it. I'm typing this on my transformer prime right now and I'd be done already if i just booted up my laptop. Still, this i
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by padobson 15y ago
The money line: You want to know what's weird? Hiding who you are just to have the company of people you don't even like. That's weird. I was an athlete in high school, so early on I hung out with the athletes. Those in that group were no
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by padobson 15y ago
Doesn't work in Chrome Beta for ICS. That's a shame, because this doodle screams for touch interaction.

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