paul

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931.
by paul 19y ago
Exactly. IP can be good, but that's no reason mix up the language. I've added an update clarifying this.
932.
by paul 19y ago
Nope, I left town on the 26th. Also, I never got off at the Kendall station.
933.
by paul 19y ago
Actually, the talk was two weeks ago, so you might still be crazy. Sorry :(
934.
by paul 19y ago
When you take a photograph of someone, you are stealing their soul. Photography would be more accurately termed "soul piracy". It's the same way with music. :)
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Paul Buchheit: The first thing that you need to understand about humans(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
34 points by paul 19y ago|8 comments
936.
by paul 19y ago
Thanks Fred, I'm glad that it's working well for you. (though obviously it's mostly due to the hard work of a lot of people who aren't me -- Gmail is a big project and I don't even work there anymore)
937.
by paul 19y ago
Procrastination works well for me. Instead of not buying stuff, I just put it off until later, repeatedly. In some ways, having money actually makes it easier to not accumulate stuff, because you don't feel as pressured by "good deals".
938.
by paul 19y ago
You haven't launched your startup yet, but in 20 months you will be financially set from its sale?
939.
by paul 19y ago
What can you do with freedom?
940.
The Dilbert Blog: The Secret - Is success socially contagious?(dilbertblog.typepad.com)
21 points by paul 19y ago|3 comments
941.
by paul 19y ago
Also see http://e7code.org/
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e7: a new Lisp dialect inspired by Python(e7code.org)
22 points by paul 19y ago|5 comments
943.
The Dilbert Blog: Career Advice(dilbertblog.typepad.com)
7 points by paul 19y ago|0 comments
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The Secret...to talking to customers before you have a product -- or even a company(foundread.com)
30 points by paul 19y ago|5 comments
945.
by paul 19y ago
So mosaic, for example, was just a fad?
946.
by paul 19y ago
Silicon has been around for billions of years. Forming it into microprocessors is just a fad.
947.
by paul 19y ago
What does it mean to invent a product? Adwords is just a name. The actual system was built and rebuilt and improved many times. Eric did do a lot to make it a success though -- he's part of the reason why Google makes so much more money tha
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The Dilbert Blog: How to Be Creative(dilbertblog.typepad.com)
4 points by paul 19y ago|1 comments
949.
by paul 19y ago
Nope. Also, it's not a clone in any meaningful sense.
950.
by paul 19y ago
Why does the number of calls make it non-scalable? Google search does thousands of RPCs and it seems to scale ok.
951.
by paul 19y ago
Which "arcane bullshit" do you have in mind? People talk a lot about browser incompatibilities, but the most serious ones are no longer real (nobody uses NS4) and the others are mostly covered by libraries such as jQuery. (though it is true
952.
by paul 19y ago
Who wanted Game Neverending? (I'm sure a few people, but not as many as Flickr presumably)
953.
by paul 19y ago
What he refers to as "market" is a lot of what I think of as "product". Really, how great is your product if nobody wants it? And how great is your team if they don't adapt whatever they are doing to build what people want? I can imagine a
954.
The Dilbert Blog: Champagne Moments (the slow success of Dilbert)(dilbertblog.typepad.com)
19 points by paul 19y ago|1 comments
955.
by paul 19y ago
Sounds about right :)
956.
by paul 19y ago
Rhino JS is well integrated with the JVM, so it's easy to call back and forth between Java and JS. You basically have access to everything Java has. JS doesn't have an equivalent to "synchronized", but it could easily be added as a function
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blog.pmarca.com: Film of the week: Startup.com(blog.pmarca.com)
6 points by paul 19y ago|1 comments
958.
by paul 19y ago
Like I said, it's about controlling downside. The downside of losing the lottery is that you lose a dollar. The downside of losing at russian roulette is that you die. It's a mistake to only consider expected value. Risk is something that
959.
by paul 19y ago
Trivial problems can have surprising depth. http://worldandi.misto.cz/_MAIL_/feynman.html "Feynman finally broke the depression cycle in a typically Feynmanesque way. He challenged himself to describe in equations the wobbling movement o
960.
by paul 19y ago
That's a good formulation as well. I wrote it the way I did in part because I'm also trying to defend "bad" ideas.

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