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by pclark 14y ago
Getting to profitability isn't as noteworthy (from a startup POV) as raising an A-round from working 4 days a week.
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by pclark 14y ago
If I were an investor and someone said to me "We are only going to work 4 days a week since we can do 5 days work in 4." I'd challenge with "so why don't you do 6 days work in 5 days?" I am mostly playing devils advocate: I think having a 4
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by pclark 14y ago
I paid for Photoshop 6, and then CS1 and CS3. I'll happily pay $29/mo (and even $49/mo) for the Creative Suite. I think that a lot of people under estimate the power of Photoshop and the other applications -- there is no alternative becau
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by pclark 14y ago
Academia, Teaching, Charities & Not for profit organisations all improve society and you wouldn't do any of those if you wanted to be rich.
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Valve handbook for new employees(dl.dropbox.com)
10 points by pclark 15y ago|0 comments
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by pclark 15y ago
I am baffled as to what your service does. Can you elaborate?
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Taking Privacy Seriously(everyme.com)
17 points by pclark 15y ago|7 comments
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by pclark 15y ago
I'm a designer and if I were hiring these blog posts are the best portfolio I can think of. I'd like to see more commentary, but these are a great idea. someone needs to make this a "aaS" business to hire designers or he hired.
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by pclark 15y ago
it was Moki.TV before this product. love these guys.
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by pclark 15y ago
and give me an API to query if a user likes the right click override setting off and on. "Gravatar for right click settings."
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by pclark 15y ago
they really should save this kind of preference to their database so that it follows the user across other sessions and machines too. and then add a setting in their account preferences to opt back in to the right hand click lightbox.
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by pclark 15y ago
I feel like this is a stupid question, but what is wrong with having your password be something like "p4ssw0rd"? eg: a dictionary word where a few of the letters are switched for numbers, and maybe even a symbol at the end ("p4ssw0rd$") are
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by pclark 15y ago
I've been beta testing Everyme for a few months, and I am a huge fan of the founders too ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3539676 ) Everyme makes perfect sense - I regularly encounter "status updates" (be they links, updates, or photos
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by pclark 15y ago
He just went to a party. He didn't have rolodex of investors or anything.
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by pclark 15y ago
This has been played out in a huge war game in 2002 involving Lt General Paul Van Riper and your assumptions are correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
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by pclark 15y ago
Instagram is a real business. There is more than one way to skin a cat.
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by pclark 15y ago
No. Running and maintaining Instagram probably comfortably costs in the six figures range with 30mm users. Operations at scale require venture capital funding. If Instagram were paid for, the user base would be a fraction - and more importa
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by pclark 15y ago
Hacker News has this - click the "Ask" button on the header
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English: Out with the long(economist.com)
3 points by pclark 15y ago|0 comments
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by pclark 15y ago
I would buy this if I could pay via any means except PayPal.
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by pclark 15y ago
You missed his most famous role: host of QI.
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Foxconn Plans New Iowa Plant, Will Hire 10% Of State’s Population - TechCrunch(m.techcrunch.com)
5 points by pclark 15y ago|0 comments
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by pclark 15y ago
cards do not flip on ipad
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by pclark 15y ago
this website is basically impossible to read. http://cl.ly/FNFX
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by pclark 15y ago
I would have a check box next to the add comment button that says "this is a nice comment" and if someone posts without ticking that box, redirect them to a page on civility. If nothing else it'd be interesting to see if people tick it and
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by pclark 15y ago
These companies are the only way anyone buys insurance in England. Fantastic businesses that make tons of money.
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by pclark 15y ago
This chart illustrates the exact opposite of Zynga shareholders losing something: https://twitter.com/#!/nabeel/status/182821510493384704 and also Zynga is under a lot of pressure to diversify into other markets, just like every other bus
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by pclark 15y ago
Firstly they didn't pay $180mm for a drawing game, they paid $180mm for a company of 40 skilled employees, a back catalogue of web games (Draw Something was first a web game, that was ported to mobile. Imagine what that team can apply to th
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Draw Something Changes the Game Quickly for Omgpop(nytimes.com)
61 points by pclark 15y ago|10 comments
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by pclark 15y ago
It is very difficult to collect animal samples from such great depths - the pressure difference. It is one of the reasons as to why giant squids are so mysterious.

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