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by portman 15y ago
No wonder Crockford is so smart. HE LIVES IN THE FUTURE! /* jsdev.c Douglas Crockford 2012-01-05 Committed 2012-01-04T15:19:34-08:00
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by portman 15y ago
I'm disappointed HN! There is a lot of pontificating, but not much science here. It takes all of 2 minutes to try this experiment yourself (plus ~8 minutes for the download). 1. Download chromium http://chromium-browser-source.commondatast
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by portman 15y ago
My wife uses Siri several times per day to add events to our shared family calendar. And I have to say, even as an Android zealot: I'm jealous. It's a far superior interface for entering calendar events. She can say things like: "Harper has
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by portman 15y ago
1. I've had this setup at home for 6+ years, and 80% of the people who walk into our home end up doing the same thing within weeks. It's shocking how few people realize that this is possible. Amazon cordless phone listings for all phones th
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by portman 15y ago
For me, the killer Google lockin is autocomplete-with-suggest in Chrome. I've come to completely rely on Google suggest as I type search queries into my Chrome address bar. I find that particularly when looking up API calls, I don't even ne
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Innovation Stagnation (by David Brooks)(nytimes.com)
8 points by portman 15y ago|0 comments
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by portman 15y ago
>> a browser with several tabs open I almost never have "several" tabs open. It's usually ~15 tabs on my main browser (Chrome), and often more than 30. And also an additional 5 tabs in Firefox, Safari, and several versions of IE.
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by portman 15y ago
The investors of a VC fund are known as "Limited Partners" or LPs. They put up the money but do not select the investments, sit on the boards of portfolio companies, or generally do anything except collect their money at the end of the fund
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by portman 15y ago
>> Founders cashing out is a big red flag. No, it's not. Palihapitiya agreed that there should be a secondary component to the financing. When a company is "shooting for the moon" and has a chance at a >$1B exit, investors w
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by portman 15y ago
Same. But I know others (like my brother, a student) who use it a ton. They can keep selling the Kindle3 with keyboard for those who want it.
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by portman 15y ago
Counting the amount of money your customers pay you as "revenue" is not a bullshit metric. Amazon books revenue when someone orders a product, even if that product is "fulfilled by" a different merchant behind the scenes. Some people think
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by portman 15y ago
No, in 2010 they spent $263M on customer acquisition, and only $233M on everything else (rent, servers, employees, bonuses). [1] [1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1490281/0001047469110...
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by portman 15y ago
James Gleick's new book "The Information" devotes an entire chapter to the fascinating story of Ada Byron. I've read thoroughly about her life (we did, after all, name our youngest daughter after her) but nothing makes her genius come to li
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by portman 15y ago
I think people upvote it for the conversation. People want to discuss Gruber, and since he doesn't have comments on his blog, they come to HN.
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by portman 15y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Civilisation-Kenneth-Clark/dp/07195684... http://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Technology-Social-Change-Whit... http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Atlas-Ancient-History-Hist/dp/... http://www.amazon.com/New-Penguin-Atlas-M
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by portman 15y ago
"Technological progress should cause increasing economic inequality " Does that mean you are unfazed by growing inequality, and view it as an unavoidable byproduct of progress? Or do you believe economic inequality is a negative externalit
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by portman 15y ago
The penetration rate between HDTVs and PCs are close. But just because there is a PC in the home, doesn't mean the kid can use it to learn (i.e. it may be a single PC for the whole family to use). 2010 HDTV US home penetration: 65% [1] 2006
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by portman 15y ago
patella = kneecap
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by portman 15y ago
Not sure what "already did a redesign" means. This was actually first released in 2009 [1] and then updated mid-year during 2010 [2]. I use it every day, and it has not substantially changed since last summer. [1] http://firstlook.blogs.ny
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by portman 15y ago
In my personal experience, there's a growing trend of developers working remotely from wherever they want. As that trend becomes more mainstream, I would expect regional differences in developers' salaries to shrink. So I don't think the po
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by portman 15y ago
Silicon Valley Bank ADP Payroll
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by portman 15y ago
It comes later, in the weeks leading up to the actual offering.
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by portman 15y ago
>> In my experience, there is one lead person who does fundraising, by contacting investors, setting up meetings, preparing the slides, etc That's not my experience at all. Almost all the pitches that I've been involved with (either
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by portman 15y ago
I found it interesting that Scalia, who is the most conservative/religious member of the Court, not only voted with the majority but even wrote the opinion. My guess is that as a father of 9 kids and a grand-father of even more, he's seen f
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by portman 15y ago
"Who pitches investors" should probably be checkboxes, not radio buttons.
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Bet HN: Yet Another Set of iOS5 Predictions, with odds(blog.jointhecompany.com)
2 points by portman 15y ago|0 comments
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by portman 15y ago
I think a more "Apple-y" design choice than full-scale widgets will be "active icons". There would be an API for an application to update its icon. The canonical example would be that the weather app could actually show the weather as its i
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by portman 15y ago
No, my first name is actually "Portman".
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by portman 15y ago
It's intended to be a portmanteau of Group + Coupon, pronounced \ˈgrüˌpän I've had an affinity for portmanteaus ever since I was 10, when I saw "portmanteau" in Through the Looking Glass and thought Lewis Carrol was talking about me. So I t
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by portman 15y ago
Genuine question for raganwald: you consistently capitalize it as GroupOn, even though the press and the company itself capitalize it as Groupon. I know you're a careful, deliberate and consistent writer, so this is clearly intentional. Any

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