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   The Seeds of [Apple's] Success (1982)(time.com)

   2 points by staunch 12y ago|0 comments
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   by staunch 12y ago

   The Matrix, Gladiator, Gattaca, Event Horizon, Lord of The Rings, Cleopatra, Spartacus, American History X, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Eastern Promises, Spy Game, 12 Monkeys, Ace Ventura, History of The World, Start The Revol
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   by staunch 12y ago

   The main difference in your example is talking about the code instead of talking about the person.
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   by staunch 12y ago

   BOOM
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   by staunch 12y ago

   He has also discussed it on stage at least a few times.
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   by staunch 12y ago

   Elon Musk has joked that one day he will merge the work of Tesla and SpaceX into an electric jet. I'm hoping we'll end up with electric-powered Star Trek shuttlpods with Falcon-derrived takeoff-landing thrusters.
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   by staunch 12y ago

   > "I don’t feel like there are any serious vulnerabilities in the business." No one in technology should ever find themselves uttering these words. It's like asking for it. If the tech world remains relatively unchanged
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   by staunch 12y ago

   Roman legionaries also disliked being being forced to eat barley and meat, but in lieu of wheat. A lot of it must be to do with taste and quality, but also a desire to not eat like a poor person or barbarian.
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   by staunch 12y ago

   A notification from Slack, a service you use, is not unsolicited commercial email of any kind. From the Wikipedia link: > It [CAN-SPAM Act] exempts "transactional or relationship messages."
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    by staunch 12y ago

    The best part of their reusable rocket project is how incremental the progress has been. I'm not sure I would have appreciated the difficulty of what they're doing as much without these failures.
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    Mark Zuckerberg AMA on Facebook(facebook.com)

    1 points by staunch 12y ago|0 comments
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    by staunch 12y ago

    You've figured it out. Most people interpret defensiveness as an absolute sign that you're a jerk and that you're wrong. It doesn't matter if you're arguing in favor of the laws of physics, if you sound defensive, y
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    by staunch 12y ago

    They should have made the QR codes bigger, so it would be easier for your car to read them while you're driving down the street.
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    by staunch 12y ago

    It's correct to say that in Japan one should not tip. It's not correct to say that it's considered offensive. To seriously offend some Japanese people you'll have to do something crazy like stick your chopsticks straight
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    by staunch 12y ago

    Have you ever actually experienced this or are you repeating the same myth? No one will be offended unless you're some kind of jerk about it. "Do as the Romans do" is always the correct behavior, but in this case the potentia
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    by staunch 12y ago

    There's no truth to the idea that it is considered offensive in anyway.
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    by staunch 12y ago

    The company tanked after having elected to raise $20M over 5 rounds, for what should have been a very profitable lifestyle business. The lesson is not to raise VC money for a business where it does not make sense.
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    by staunch 12y ago

    > “I don’t want a back door,” Rogers, the director of the nation’s top electronic spy agency, said during a speech at Princeton University, using a tech industry term for covert measures to bypass device security. “I want a front door.
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    by staunch 12y ago

    Google used to be a simple search service.
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    by staunch 12y ago

    Apple was saved through the creation of a series of world-changing products. Yahoo doesn't even seem to have creating breakthrough products as a goal. They have no excuse for not making something people want.
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    by staunch 12y ago

    If you haven't already read them, Sam Harris' Free Will and Moral Landscape are totally worth reading. http://www.amazon.com/dp/1451683405 http://www.amazon.com/dp/143917122X
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    by staunch 12y ago

    I grew up around a lot of friendly country weed growers, but I cannot believe how many of my old friends are in the business now. California Weed Rush.
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    by staunch 12y ago

    You absolutely can become consistently productive. It probably requires changing your behavior, at least it did for me. Here's my personal list: 1. Keep a very regular and healthy sleep schedule. 2. Setup a nice and clean working envir
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    by staunch 12y ago

    This baby belongs to them cloners. What you got here is a Kamino Saberdart.
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    by staunch 12y ago

    I found myself wishing this was a screencast.
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    The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare (2014)(rollingstone.com)

    3 points by staunch 12y ago|1 comments
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    Otoy aims to enable developers to create cool VR imagery(venturebeat.com)

    1 points by staunch 12y ago|0 comments
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    by staunch 12y ago

    > Setting the barrier to democratic participation at "learn to code..." means that that isn't really a democratic system at all. As opposed to paying for 8 years of law school and getting elected using the money of spec
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    by staunch 12y ago

    I think you nailed the real problem, which is that people have become so quick to write off anyone who ruffles their feathers at all. Drew Houston describes the HN feedback he received for Dropbox as all the motivation he needed to keep goi
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    by staunch 12y ago

    I've found that I can get excited about almost any project, because they're all challenging in interesting ways. But there's something markedly different about working on a project that you would choose to work on even if you