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by pge 15y ago
I'll add one point from my perspective as a partner at a venture capital firm. The viewpoint that is expressed in the post - that a meeting with someone that I'm not going to fund is considered a waste of my time - is incorrect. Do not forg
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by pge 15y ago
Submarines (submerged) are not visible by satellite. Satellites also orbit (reconaissance satellites would rarely be geosynchronous), so even if they could see submarines, they would only see them when their courses intersected.
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by pge 15y ago
This b-school case study strangely appears to ignore the customers. User and customers are different things for these companies. Mint found a way early on to sell the data it had to financial services companies that wanted to target use
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by pge 15y ago
you're not alone:) I thought Google+ had found a new front man...
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by pge 15y ago
One of the problems here (which I've heard is common to most universities) is the use of student evaluations to evaluate professors. That creates a very unfortunate incentive for profs to try to please their students. Not all students value
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by pge 15y ago
This post is a great post to remind entrepreneurs that getting funding is not a success. I often discuss with companies coming to us looking for funding that things change when they get money. You now have shareholders with expectations and
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by pge 15y ago
The analysis here assumes (explicitly) that everyone would rather not work than work. While that is an easy assumption to make, I tend to believe that all things being equal, most people prefer to be productive than unproductive. JK Galbrai
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by pge 15y ago
And, the best headline for Hacker News is a headline about hacking Hacker News Headlines :) way to put the research to good use...
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by pge 15y ago
One note for designers about color blindness - the "strong contrast" green dots (with one red one) example has essentially no contrast for those of us (~1 in 10 males) who are red-green color blind. All the dots appeared the same color unti
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by pge 16y ago
To complain that programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity is to imply that other professions are paid in proportion to their productivity. That is very rarely the case. Sales, perhaps, is the only area where there is a
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by pge 16y ago
The article answers its own question. It's hard because it's a commodity business. Customer acquisition costs eat up all the margin. Trying to differentiate the product costs money which would result in raising prices, which results in losi
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by pge 16y ago
The Little Schemer book is also a deceptively deep introduction that is a good preparation for On Lisp. If you work your way through it, you'll really understand functions that make functions, which is a good foundation before diving into O
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by pge 16y ago
Gnome 3 is great...if you have compatible graphics processing. Ubuntu (and Gnome for that matter) are facing an interesting challenge there. Do you try to take Windows head on and assume your target customer is running new hardware? or do y
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by pge 16y ago
What's most interesting to me here is that this is a plan for building a user base, not a customer base. Mint's customers (i.e. the people that provided revenue to Mint) were the financial services companies that paid to pitch products
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by pge 16y ago
"Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference" -Mark Twain
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by pge 16y ago
I'm reminded of the Ali G "Ice Cream Glove" routine, in which he markets an idea to a number of investors (including Donald Trump). It's a great parody of VC pitches, particularly the "market sizing" (I use that term loosely) - "I googled '
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by pge 16y ago
"Pretty much everything we do is some form of expression of who we are. This is even true of things like programming language choice." The real question is whether there is a correlation between clothes and programming language choice. Do
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by pge 16y ago
There is an argument to be made that the shift to hybrid cars opens the door for a lot of engine design variations that did not work in the past. In a normal car, the engine drives the wheels directly which puts a lot of constraints on eng
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by pge 16y ago
It matters because when your applicant pool does not approximately reflect the distributions of the target demographic along any dimension, it suggests that you are not reaching the group of candidates you would like to. The qualified cand
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by pge 16y ago
We (a mid-sized tech VC firm) recently did an associate search as well. We posted the job listing publicly (e.g., LinkedIn) and got almost 200 resumes. Of those, fewer than 5% were women. And we are a firm that has more women than most (up
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by pge 16y ago
What is fascinating to me is how quickly dropbox spread outside the HN demographic. My 70 year old mother, who was as far from a techical user as one could be, asked me in early 2009 if I used dropbox so she could share some photos with me.
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by pge 16y ago
One of the music theory things it took me a while to understand is why different major keys matter. In an idealized world, one can start a scale on any frequency and move up in whole and half steps (WWHWWWH) and have a scale. So why talk
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Can worry, work, and divorce be healthy?(theatlantic.com)
2 points by pge 16y ago|0 comments
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by pge 16y ago
I have to disagree - your assessment would suggest that at the end he was more fit than the vast majority of people that try to be fit, and that his teacher was the best in the world. My point was simply that he did not have a frame of refe
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by pge 16y ago
would you take coding advice from someone that couldn't write "hello world" in C? Then don't take fitness advice from someone that, by his own admission, could only squat 40 lbs before he wrote the article...
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by pge 16y ago
If you find this interesting, Chouinard's story of the history of patagonia, "Let my people go surfing," is a quick and interesting read on how he built patagonia, while trying to stick to his beliefs about the environment.
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by pge 16y ago
Dell tried this with the LatitudeON feature which shipped in several variations on Latitude laptops. In their version, turning the ARM OS on automatically hibernated the Windows OS. In any case, for some reason, it has not caught on (Dell
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Treating super bowl winners and science fair winners differently(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by pge 16y ago|0 comments
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by pge 16y ago
yes and no - different bucks have different costs. Every dollar you spend is an investment, so you should be asking what return you're going to get for it. For example, if I add another developer, how much value will be created by the ext
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by pge 16y ago
I've always looked at this a little differently - There are only two sources of cash for a startup, customers and investors. Every dollar you spend has to come from one or the other. The more of your dollars that come from customers, the le

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