sdizdar

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by sdizdar 15y ago
Yes video game violence develop a shitty moral compass. So does Mein Kampf. So should we start banning books which we think develop a shitty moral compass?
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by sdizdar 15y ago
I have this weird vision that apps (and apps stores) are just a temporary solution for current lack of fast wireless connectivity and not so strong CPUs in mobile phones. I believe that in 3 years from now, apps will be so passée...
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by sdizdar 15y ago
But just imagine that they can implement something even cooler: I can actually see menus of these pizza places with prices - and information whether they are open or closed? Really...
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by sdizdar 15y ago
I thought 4sq is an East Coast thing... Seriously, I really would like to know how many active users are on 4sq. Is there any data about it?
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With executive pay, rich pull away from rest of America(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by sdizdar 15y ago|0 comments
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Google Gets An Absurd Patent For Its "Google Doodles" (Mar 2011 - old)(businessinsider.com)
4 points by sdizdar 15y ago|2 comments
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by sdizdar 15y ago
In majority of corporations responsibility and accountability ends somewhere between VP and CEO.
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Ask HN: Who is Looking for a Co-Founder? (June 2011)
11 points by sdizdar 15y ago|8 comments
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by sdizdar 15y ago
Sometimes, when you think somebody is your director competitor, they are actually not competitors in eyes of your customers or users. It is important to determine whether your users or customers think this company is your direct competitor
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Looking for the right excuse(sethgodin.typepad.com)
1 points by sdizdar 15y ago|0 comments
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by sdizdar 15y ago
Isn't idea guy actually domain expert which understand certain problem in a area like nobody else? She or he could be a medial doctor, maybe veterinarian, maybe small business owner, maybe cook, etc. Idea guy does not necessary need to be b
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by sdizdar 15y ago
For software companies (and probably to all other industries which hire 'knowledge workers'), it should be very important to give enough of vacation time to their employees (developers). For me that is no brainier, but unfortunately, very f
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Do newly funded startups offer salaries which are comparable to market rate?(answers.onstartups.com)
2 points by sdizdar 15y ago|0 comments
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by sdizdar 15y ago
Actually, VMware is more like Palm - they started something disruptive and defined the market, but somehow lost the edge (Cloud Foundry is two years after Heroku, four years after Amazon, etc).
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by sdizdar 15y ago
It is also important to mention prediction regarding prices of real estate (which also influence rent). For example, prices of real estate in Japan are still falling down - nearly 20 years of constant decline [1]. There were articles in 200
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Worse Than China? U.S. Government Wants To Censor Search Engines And Browsers(act.demandprogress.org)
14 points by sdizdar 15y ago|3 comments
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by sdizdar 15y ago
Interesting. I was always under impression that Jawaharlal Nehru's reforms (pretty much socialism) were the key. His policies and reforms were key in establishing India education system. Without him and his reforms there will be no path for
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Largest Ever True Color Photo of the Night Sky(media.skysurvey.org)
6 points by sdizdar 15y ago|0 comments
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by sdizdar 15y ago
Maybe if Comcast goes bankrupt and gets replaced with set of small companies. Otherwise, I doubt it is in business interest for large cable and teleco companies to increase bandwidth. Profit and increasing bandwidth don't go together when y
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USA #1 depressing stats(businessinsider.com)
5 points by sdizdar 15y ago|0 comments
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by sdizdar 15y ago
Could it be that Tumblr handles are actually owned by Tumblr, thus it is Tumblr which was "infringing on trademark" and needed to act on Demand Letter? I would love if you or somebody else with more legal knowledge than me (which is not har
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by sdizdar 15y ago
I understand frustration but Zephoria is trademarked from 2002. http://www.trademarkia.com/zephoria-78132833.html So my question is following: when trademark should be enforced and when not? If a company X is an internet consulting compan
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by sdizdar 15y ago
Amazing... One thing I would like to point that even though people claim that systems such as Dropbox are "simple" it is really not so simple to implement. Just ensuring that Windows piece does not mess up your computer (eat all your CPU,
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by sdizdar 16y ago
Of course, simplistic mirroring solutions will have these problems. However, the right mirroring solution for syncing information (documents, presentations, etc.), should provide auditing, providence of created documents, and rewind for al
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by sdizdar 16y ago
100% agree. We are developing service which tries to solve some of these problems, so I'll do a shameless plug here. One way to address these kind of problems is to use cloudHQ to synchronize your Google Docs with SugarSync (clickable: ht
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Who are the best chess players in the tech startup and entrepreneur community?(quora.com)
1 points by sdizdar 16y ago|0 comments
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by sdizdar 16y ago
The problem with credentials you get from some universities (even elite ones) is that they are of much less value than you paid for it. It like buying house in San Francisco Sunset district ("elite" town) for 2M and saying it is a great dea
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I think that education is continuous. We are trying to squeeze all learning, all education, and all wisdom in first 25 years of life. That is just wrong.
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by sdizdar 16y ago
When you become profitable, it easy to optimize/fix CPU usage and speed (or at least it is not disruptive for your entire product) - it very hard to fix scalability part (including optimizing for memory usage).
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by sdizdar 16y ago
So it is ok to have show on cable TV where people shoot animals for fun (or our politicians doing that) and but we are disgusted of killing animal for food and protect the crops. This is good very PR move because it hits the center of hypoc

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