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by paul 17y ago
You just want to world to recognize you as "having merit" and give you money? You want to be successful, but are unwilling to make any sort of effort? Create something remarkable and people with money will find you.
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by paul 17y ago
No, it's stupid because a 10 line program isn't the least bit representative.
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by paul 17y ago
He's benchmarking based off of a 10 line PHP program and then extrapolating that this is why HPHP is needed?
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If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good.(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
265 points by paul 17y ago|78 comments
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by paul 17y ago
This seems like some of the better advice here. In general, most common investment advice is bad because it understates risk (e.g. telling people that the stock market will perform well over the long term). The truth is that it's difficult
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by paul 17y ago
I think it's worth noting that this title is a fabrication, not an actual quote. What he actually said is interesting, but wouldn't get as much traffic or angry comments: "When I got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of
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by paul 17y ago
This "sixth sense" exists to some extent, but it's a little dangerous to believe in it because a lot people will pretend to have it, meaning that you'll need a sixth sense about sixth senses in order to actually rely on it without getting d
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by paul 17y ago
Do you have a particular link? Googling returns a lot of different things.
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by paul 17y ago
If you eat like Dr Furhman recommends, I guarantee you will lose weight and keep it off, assuming you stick to the plan. It's difficult to get enough calories eating only whole fruits and vegetables (vegetable oil and corn syrup aren't vege
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by paul 17y ago
Pre-Twitter. In some ways that makes it better in my mind.
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by paul 17y ago
They estimate the costs of downtime, but do they estimate the cost of having bad systems?
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by paul 17y ago
I'm not aware of any good books on investing, other than Taleb. (which isn't to say there aren't any, just that the ones I've started to read aren't very impressive)
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by paul 17y ago
Agreed. "The Game" was so amusing that I bought "Rules of the Game", but it doesn't have much substance.
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by paul 17y ago
Wishful thinking by whom? I have no stake in this. Android has momentum -- it's good and getting better and bigger faster than the others. It will be the Dos/Windows of the mobile world (except more open).
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by paul 17y ago
What's the banking equivalent of interest? My checking account pays something like 0.002%. I keep my money there for security and convenience, just like my Gmail.
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by paul 17y ago
If the answer were obvious, the prediction wouldn't be interesting :) That said, I think this is like the early PC market -- many platforms, but most (Commodore, Atari, etc) won't survive because they lack purpose. RIM, Nokia etc will switc
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by paul 17y ago
Do you keep your money in a bank, or under your mattress? I think you're underestimating the security of Google's servers and overestimating the security of your own computer.
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by paul 17y ago
It would be nice if they said how much money they need and what their expenses are. I also wonder if they could work with a recognized non-profit in order to make gifts tax-deductible (e.g. give them money to EFF, then EFF funds wikileaks).
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by paul 17y ago
In addition to being somewhat trollish, this article is inaccurate. The change doesn't make everything public -- the settings vary by type of info and also I think it tries to preserve customizations (I'm not completely sure how that aspect
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by paul 17y ago
Here's a test pad: http://etherpad.com/FQMBcRK9x2
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by paul 17y ago
If only we could somehow bury coal...
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Paul Buchheit: Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
57 points by paul 17y ago|9 comments
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by paul 17y ago
In person he claimed to have liked my talk :) I'm not sure if anyone understood, but the "winging it" was supposed to be a metaphor for startups themselves. You can never be truly prepared.
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Paul Buchheit: Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. "Hacking"(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
233 points by paul 17y ago|35 comments
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by paul 17y ago
Many things would be different if Gmail were started today -- not all of them good :)
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by paul 17y ago
That seems unlikely to me. The "submarine" essay is a good one, but it has caused people here to overestimate the cleverness of PR people. It's better to think more in terms of the press being lazy.
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by paul 17y ago
Just to be clear, Gmail was _not_ written with GWT.
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by paul 17y ago
Those numbers look wrong to me. It's unlikely that they did their series-A at such a low valuation.
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by paul 17y ago
That's like saying that Walmart's business is cash registers. If I could aquire either Google's search business, or their ad business, I would take search, no question. The ad part could be rebuilt on search, but the opposite is not true.
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by paul 17y ago
This is a very interesting observation. It might be amusing if PG rewrote some of his more controversial essays in the second style, then made both versions available. Think of it as "skinning". Since the discovery version was written befor

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