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by qq66 11y ago
It's not necessarily bad business or bad practice to launch a company before the technology is ready, and to use a more conventional, cheaper substitute in the interim. I remember reading about a company that offered automated translat
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by qq66 11y ago
The Feds go after people who just walk away with the money. They do not, and should not, go after people who fail to achieve the objective -- that would defeat the point of crowdfunding.
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by qq66 11y ago
This is important because many users, especially the elderly, do not have the physical ability to press hard on the screen.
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by qq66 11y ago
What creates the requirement to send data to multiple analytics services? Wouldn't you want to send it to one capture and analytics service and then funnel that into whatever line-of-business applications you need?
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by qq66 11y ago
The large tech companies benefit from a thriving tech ecosystem: companies using these tools are much more likely to become partners or acquisition targets than they are to become direct zero-sum competitors.
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by qq66 11y ago
Open plan offices are not always about cost. Microsoft has famously had private offices forever, but many younger employees have indicated that they would prefer semi-shared space. I agree that the "football field" plan has no red
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by qq66 11y ago
> "We didn't even know [he was a member] because he was using an email that was not descriptive, and he was not using his real name," Cakarel says. This implies that the company looks through their subscriber rolls for fam
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by qq66 11y ago
Most of the commercial value of art is in its scarcity, regardless of its reproducibility. Even without Star Trek replicators, I've seen replica paintings made in Russia and China which I could not distinguish from the original if both
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by qq66 11y ago
I would really like to see some of the responses from successful applicants. I emailed a few of them, and unfortunately they said that the responses are destroyed after selecting the winners, perhaps one of the winners could try to recreate
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by qq66 11y ago
I do know that both smartphones and feature phones can turn on while "off," if you set an alarm. However I doubt that they ping cell towers when off, as I've left them off for weeks/months with little battery drain.
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by qq66 11y ago
If you want examples of irrational sentences they are sadly not hard to find: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/107830/
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by qq66 11y ago
Making a Twitter minus the scaling and network effects is like playing basketball minus dribbling or shooting.
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by qq66 11y ago
There is a long tradition in all democracies of people volunteering their time to support candidates, whether that's collecting signatures, holding signs, or developing software. Volunteering is not a meaningful locus of campaign finan
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by qq66 11y ago
I would argue that the third motive is one that does not generate as much American philanthropy as it should. Events like the French Revolution usually seem more imminent in hindsight than they did at the time.
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by qq66 11y ago
Gamblers as a whole lose money, but casinos still exist.
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by qq66 11y ago
Unfortunately, the most rushed-to-market self-driving car can ruin trust in them for everyone, which would cost many lives. This is where regulation is critically important to make sure that any self-driving cars allowed to be commercially
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by qq66 11y ago
In most cases, you learn more with a great teacher than you do by yourself, and teaching is a different skill than performing. Even Tom Brady has a quarterbacks coach, who couldn't throw the ball like he can, but can still offer constr
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by qq66 11y ago
Does Google owe Amazon a spot in its search results? Does Apple owe Amazon the right to not be blocked in Safari?
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by qq66 11y ago
Which 24 people would you have chosen?
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by qq66 11y ago
On the flip side of this, I ran a startup that absolutely could not have existed without targeted Web advertising. Our first product was an add-in for collaborating on PowerPoint presentations, and we were able to economically target ads to
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by qq66 11y ago
I saw someone with a really neat camera. It was an Olympus lens + sensor in a package that was hardly bigger than a camera lens, which wirelessly talked to a smartphone for image display and controls. A much smaller add-on than an entire mi
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by qq66 11y ago
In 2005, my friends Dave and Adam built a pizza button in our dorm, it actually used the modem to send a fax to a local pizza place because that's all they had. Pushing the button ordered a cheese, but there were two auxiliary buttons
563.
by qq66 11y ago
The reason that top salespeople make so much money is that they're pretty much fungible across industry (they can sell basically anything to anyone), so there is a lot of competition for top salespeople. In industries where profit marg
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by qq66 11y ago
For audio production, iMaschine is a fantastic app and the main reason I stay with iOS. In fact, the $5 app was so good that I ended up buying the $200 Maschine hardware controller + desktop software for the seamless integration: create a t
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by qq66 11y ago
I think that's the expectation, as it is with Facebook updates -- that most people who see your post will ignore it, but they will be generally aware of it in case they do feel like reading it.
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by qq66 11y ago
Well, if you're planning to provide value for only 5 years, then it's not a failure to shut your doors after 5 years. One example of this is the technology consulting firms that help companies maintain and transition off old techn
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by qq66 11y ago
People face investment risk all the time, but medallions are a case of a city setting explicit expectations when selling the medallions and then changing the terms of the deal post facto. Chipotle devoured a huge chunk of the fast food mark
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by qq66 11y ago
If you're using it as an emergency phone, do you really need to install apps? Apple has taken the position that the older phones are not worth the trouble it takes to support them. The numbers seem to bear out this decision -- most in-
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by qq66 11y ago
Well, if you're blocking a site's ad, the site probably doesn't want you as a repeat visitor.
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by qq66 11y ago
Well, I do believe that a work can become so important that it shouldn't be copyrighted anymore. The most notable example is Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, which is a national artifact more important than

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