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by prgmatic 16y ago
Well, it WAS written by a psychiatrist.
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by prgmatic 16y ago
I think the fact that we're seeing a lot of articles, stories, and publications revolving around the thoughts of college becoming useless and the importance of starting businesses says something about the way our culture is changing, and pe
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by prgmatic 16y ago
Epic!
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by prgmatic 16y ago
I think the social-media meets brick and mortar environment you predict is going to happen one way or another whether it's FB or someone else.
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by prgmatic 17y ago
Frankly, it all makes business sense. Apple's decisions today are all part of their strategy to increase the pie, increase their piece of the pie, and create new pies. People are analyzing the shit out of Steve Job's decisions as of late, b
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by prgmatic 17y ago
This is why I F *ING love hackers.
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by prgmatic 17y ago
You're better off finding a skilled developer who also does design rather than vice-versa -- it will be easier for you to judge his design skills (which are his secondary) right off the bat from his work samples than it will be to judge his
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by prgmatic 17y ago
I really like the idea, I could see this becoming a platform that would quickly get acquired by a large news organization.
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by prgmatic 17y ago
I agree - you seem like a smart cat, best of luck with YC.
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by prgmatic 17y ago
Did this guy toss in the subheading "The Magic Bullet Secret To Getting 17 million followers in 3 hours!" in order to pull in some search engine traffic on that phrase?
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by prgmatic 17y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience and giving us some useful insight. Just based on your whole approach to the process and dealing with the rejection, I think you will be fine with or without the YC experience. best of luck
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by prgmatic 17y ago
I think that physics class was the highlight of our freshman year :)
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by prgmatic 17y ago
I agree on the lack of rigor, but I think this was intentionally written this way. I think one of their goals is to disrupt the reader's assumptions on what comprises a business.
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by prgmatic 17y ago
Yup! I think most people are in the same boat. My original intention was "OK, if my 2 cents about this book motivates someone to go out and buy it, I guess Amazon could share a few cents with me" but now I see that this lumps my review into
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by prgmatic 17y ago
This is true. The last thing I want to do is offend the community. I would use your disclaimer suggestion, but the few dollars that my Amazon link would generate is not worth offending HN readers. Getting feedback, creating discussions, and
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by prgmatic 17y ago
Jfornear, my review was well intentioned. But I've removed the link anyway.
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by prgmatic 17y ago
Wow, did not think people would get offended by that. Amazon link has been removed :)
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by prgmatic 17y ago
Would love to here what others thought about the book as well.
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Just finished reading Rework by 37signals, here’s what I think(narekk.com)
14 points by prgmatic 17y ago|22 comments
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by prgmatic 17y ago
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by prgmatic 17y ago
I think the sheer number of helpful responses this post has received indicate the absolute value in the Hacker News community. If you are reading this or have commented here, I respect you -- me and you are a part of a great community. In r
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by prgmatic 17y ago
Hahaha, thank you for posting this! It's fun going back and reading journalists' predictions.
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by prgmatic 17y ago
This is rediculous, I'm just glad to see that this has resurfaced and people are taking notice.
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by prgmatic 17y ago
Great stuff man. I recommend you change the sample copy that you used to something more relevant (i.e. programming/web dev related) so your google ads are more relevant.
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by prgmatic 17y ago
Certainly being a web entrepreneur is considered "not following the herd", but within the "not following the herd" there is also two paths, and one is indeed another herd. I love his philosophy, do not follow the herd. Do your own thing.