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by pshin45 13y ago
> Dilbert started out as just one of many get-rich schemes I was willing to try. When it started to look as if it might be a success, my passion for cartooning increased because I realized it could be my golden ticket. In hindsight, it
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Somehow Quora actually made quality scale(pandodaily.com)
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I'd been following Dorsey's career for a while and had read up a lot on how he founded Twitter and Square. Then I read Steve Jobs' official biography, and I started to realize how much of what Dorsey does and says is influenc
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by pshin45 13y ago
> Dorsey’s story evolved over the years. He would tell Vanity Fair that the idea for Twitter went back to 1984, when he was only 8 years old. A “60 Minutes” segment reported that Dorsey founded Twitter because he “was fascinated by trai
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by pshin45 13y ago
Moved to San Francisco two weeks ago (Mission District), decided to go with Sonic.net and have been very satisfied thus far. Getting 16 down 1 up for $40/month, great customer service (always with a human being) and no long fixed-term
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by pshin45 13y ago
I just recently moved to San Francisco, and for the "Housing" section, I highly recommend mentioning "Padmapper" (web app & mobile app) to quickly navigate all the different Airbnb and Craigslist listings in one plac
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Silicon Valley Dreamin'(indiegogo.com)
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I find it fascinating that, with YC and HN, PG has essentially created a "business school for hackers" that is free, open to anyone, and makes it faster and easier for any hacker to gain a solid understanding of business and marke
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Chilling Ad Shows How Easy It Is to Steal Your Online Identity(mashable.com)
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Silicon Valley is ‘functionally illiterate’ at marketing(ventureburn.com)
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Reminds me a lot of this classic scene from the TV show "Arrested Development": http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xinzdo_it-ain-t-easy-being-...
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by pshin45 13y ago
Are you sure that's the reason you were banned? "Refreshing the 'new' page too quickly" does not seem like legitimate grounds for banning to me...
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On GPAs and Brainteasers: New Insights From Google On Recruiting and Hiring(linkedin.com)
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From the parent's Onion article link from Jan 2001: > During the 40-minute speech, Bush also promised to bring an end to the severe war drought that plagued the nation under Clinton, assuring citizens that the U.S. will engage in a
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by pshin45 13y ago
I wouldn't have been surprised if this was an Onion article headline. I hope Kim Jong Un also comes out voicing his support for PRISM/drones, and the circle will be complete. It's quite sad actually, I can't even enjoy t
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by pshin45 13y ago
I've found that's true for almost all naming and branding. If you have to try to improve the name of a company/product/job, it probably wasn't a very good company/product/job to begin with OR the name is o
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NFC Stands For “Nobody Fucking Cares” And Apple Gets That(m.techcrunch.com)
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by pshin45 13y ago
There's a famous line from the 2008 Batman film "The Dark Knight" in which Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred Pennyworth is trying to explain to Bruce and help him understand the Joker, his new sadistic and unpredictable archenemy: "Some men aren
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by pshin45 13y ago
OP reminds me of something PG once wrote: http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html The best startup ideas seem at first like bad ideas. I've written about this before: if a good idea were obviously good, someone else would already have done i
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by pshin45 13y ago
Brings to mind the saying I first heard way back in elementary school - "What's right is not always popular and what's popular is not always right." When you're "right", you become Steve Jobs. When you're actually wrong, you end up being Ki
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by pshin45 13y ago
> Seems to me like a somewhat empty bag of words. And the "dismissive and snarky comment voted to the top" trend continues...
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by pshin45 13y ago
(Mistakenly) thinking that I've overslept.
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by pshin45 13y ago
Brings to mind a great quote by Mother Teresa: " In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. " Likewise, unless you have the clout and badassery of a Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, or Sebastian Thrun, it's u
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by pshin45 13y ago
Unless you're a total hater, this is an amazing achievement no matter how you look at it. I just have one concern, however. Like most people on HN, I have a ton of respect for PG i.e. how smart he is, his willingness to share his knowledge
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Airbnb could squander billions fighting every landlord in the world(qz.com)
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I agree that baseball is easily the most "rigorously constrained game" there is, but I don't think that's reason to dismiss the use of more/better metrics in assessing startup founders and teams. The same argument you make was once used to
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by pshin45 13y ago
It's both surprising and alarming to me how many VCs cite "emotion" (rather than logic) as a main if not primary factor in their decision to fund a startup or not. I'd venture (no pun intended) to say that this is the root cause of much of
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by pshin45 13y ago
Is it a good thing or a bad thing that Y Combinator's two biggest home run successes - Airbnb and Dropbox - both did not seem to fit Y Combinator's typical selection criteria at the time? Yes, the Airbnb founders have always been "relentles
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by pshin45 13y ago
Marissa Mayer's actions since becoming CEO remind me a lot of Steve Jobs' after returning to Apple - First, get rid of the stragglers and people who don't believe in your vision. MM did this by ending remote work at Yahoo, and Steve Jobs di
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by pshin45 13y ago
> Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing. Temperament really is everything, and investing and/or gambling brings out the worst in peop

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