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by sabat 16y ago
This is blowing my mind. Do I understand this right? There are people living in the forests of Brazil that have no idea about the modern world?!
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by sabat 16y ago
Or you can change. Now. It's not only possible, it's not really that hard.
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by sabat 16y ago
Much better. Calling the customer back? That would be magic.
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by sabat 16y ago
It's funny how when you get here (I'm 47) you realize what a bunch of BS all the age complaints are. You appreciate life so much more, and -- speaking for myself -- are as full of energy and ideas as ever.
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by sabat 16y ago
Andrew reads HN, so he'll probably see well-wishes we leave here. Get well soon, Andrew!
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by sabat 16y ago
Yeah -- something along the lines of "create something of value, and then never stop working on ways to make money from it until you hit on something that works well." Not just "create value and the money will come."
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by sabat 16y ago
Guy, bless his heart, often preaches voodoo. His quote essentially means that you don't need to worry about where the revenue will come from -- just create something cool and the money will get to you somehow. They're saying: BS. Start a bu
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by sabat 16y ago
Me too. Hope: Google's dark fiber, Verizon's fios, WiMax providers. Actually I have a fantasy in which Google becomes an ISP. I'm not sure why it doesn't. It has the cash and the corporate friends, and it certainly could help make its own (
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by sabat 16y ago
The world is full of smart people doing all kinds of smart things. Thats smart. That's.
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by sabat 16y ago
all of these things could be simplified and improved if the state were not such a behemoth I'm skeptical of that. And since most states are in the same financial mess as CA, only on smaller scales, the argument that splitting the state up
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by sabat 16y ago
The real point this guy has is: don't wait for the best idea possible -- just pick something that's promising and start. You probably won't end up doing what you start with anyway, but it's better than just spinning your wheels waiting for
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by sabat 16y ago
It truly is a matter of taste. The fact that you write something one way in Perl and a different way in Ruby mostly boils down to preference. Metaprogramming in Perl? True metaprogramming?
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by sabat 16y ago
I'm rooting for all competition; I don't have any reason to believe that telcos would be any less corrupt than cable companies. But if we had a choice between multiple wireless providers, multiple cable providers, and multiple telcos, we
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by sabat 16y ago
Time Machine: replaced with CrashPlan Why not use both (as I do)? Local backup is faster; remote backup is ostensibly safer from disaster. Oh, and Time Machine is invaluable if you're upgrading your boot drive or are surrendering your Mac
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by sabat 16y ago
I love this site, thanks for posting this. Added to daily reading.
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by sabat 16y ago
Why I didn't stick with Perl (although if you did that's OK with me): - I discovered that a more modern language allowed me to do more with less, more elegantly - Rails - metaprogramming - fun
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by sabat 16y ago
I'm skeptical about this guy's argument. It leaves out one critical fact: Jobs' personality. He lives for his work. When he was kicked out of Apple (in the '80s) it was the most miserable time of his life. He doesn't want to be a VC or a pl
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by sabat 16y ago
They've taken everything that made people lose months of their lives to WoW and condensed it They've taken one aspect of WoW, the one everyone talks about and the single most addictive quality -- I agree. But people stay with WoW for more
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by sabat 16y ago
Some people say it's a bubble. I'm thinking/hoping it's more on the lines of a Renaissance. At least some of those companies have actually turned a profit and stand a chance of maintaining one. I have my doubts about Groupon's and Zynga's
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by sabat 16y ago
Care to share details of (early) success? Are you getting signups? How are you promoting the site?
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by sabat 16y ago
I'm kind of kidding, but Ruby lets you do things more elegantly than you can in Perl, and with less verbosity (hence the Java comment). It's really a syntax issue that I'm talking about, but it matters a lot for readability and language usa
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by sabat 16y ago
One reason I can imagine that you wouldn't feel rich: because it feels unstable. If you're afraid you're going to lose it all at any moment, you just feel momentarily lucky.
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by sabat 16y ago
I rarely enjoy 37 Signals posts, but I heartily agree with Jason Z. (new guy?). There's so much negativism on the net in general; everyone seems threatened by everyone else. And you find it here, too, a place where you'd expect to find noth
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by sabat 16y ago
I'm an old Perl hacker but do most of my work in Ruby these days -- and love it. I'll always have a soft spot for Perl, and will never forget how it helped build the Internet. But to me, Ruby makes Perl look like Java.
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by sabat 16y ago
Surely one of the most unimpressive, boring people in technology. Her distinction: she was in the right place at the right time.
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by sabat 16y ago
Sounds like they're mixing up Free Trial with Sign Up Now. Free Trial: I want to try this and I'll pay if I like it. Sign Up Now: I already like it and want to start immediately.
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by sabat 16y ago
"You've Got a Friend Request"? "You've Got a Twitter DM"?
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by sabat 16y ago
It's a rare employee who is not expendable. Tim Cook is not that employee.
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by sabat 16y ago
It's just investing in the executives. Actually investing in company operations means spending money to get things, not giving away money. Giving Tim Cook a ton of money doesn't actually get Apple anything. He could quit tomorrow and Apple
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by sabat 16y ago
I object to any executive making $59 million of the stockholder's money. It either goes back to the stockholders or is reinvested into company operations.

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