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by sutro 17y ago
That is possible. It is also possible that Apple would have thrived in different ways. There would likely be no iPod and no iPhone. Jobs would likely not be the legend that he is today, though of course he would still be in the history book
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by sutro 17y ago
Be, while an innovative OS in its day for sure, is more interesting to me as a business story. Most people don't realize how close BeOS came to becoming Mac OS X. They had the inside track on the deal, and their OS was technically superior
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by sutro 17y ago
Homer: Stupid driving test at the stupid DMV where stupid Patty and stupid Selma work! Sometimes I think God is teasing me...just like he teased Moses in the desert. Marge: Tested, Homer! God tested Moses. And try to be nice to my siste
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by sutro 17y ago
It would seem that cocaine dealers are starting to engage in Steve Blank's oft-heralded customer development process.
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Who will teach me to write/code? The page, the page, that eternal blankness...(writersdojo.org)
1 points by sutro 17y ago|0 comments
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by sutro 17y ago
Mr Vembu, sir, you are an inspiration.
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What was the cargo ship, Arctic Sea, transporting, and why was it hijacked?(atimes.com)
55 points by sutro 17y ago|19 comments
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by sutro 17y ago
when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create. Inspiring. And antithetical to his recent actions, which are surely more destructive than creati
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The Unreal Engine: Building the Empire State Building with Playing Cards(kotaku.com)
32 points by sutro 17y ago|7 comments
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by sutro 17y ago
Your question brought to mind Hemingway's Nobel acceptance speech: Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he
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by sutro 17y ago
Hacker Dojo is like sex? This must be the kind of sex one has with a roomful of 20-year-old "ninjas" obsessively typing the acronyms PG, HN, YC, DHH, and RoR into their MacBook Pros. As Paris Hilton would say, that's hot.
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by sutro 17y ago
You have provided some excellent information here for people interested in getting a job at Google. You seem like a friendly, bright, and helpful person. So I say this with respect for you and for your own benefit. You must never, under any
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by sutro 17y ago
Way to go, nutpuncher!
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by sutro 17y ago
whytheauthorofwhytherearenogirlshasnogame.blogspot.com
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by sutro 17y ago
Amazing that Sony loses $300 per unit on the highest priced Playstation.
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by sutro 17y ago
Impossible is nothing.
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by sutro 17y ago
Bum wines. Usually Cisco RED. http://www.bumwine.com/
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by sutro 17y ago
And it especially helps when your business partners are relentless insects who spread very efficiently and feast on the blood of people's sleeping children. Which VC firm are you referring to?
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by sutro 17y ago
Dear bloggers who begin rants with the word Dear : Please stop.
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by sutro 17y ago
You had me at "steaming pile of MFC GUI."
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by sutro 17y ago
Friendly tip: when picking someone up, don't lead with your left (or right) testicle. If things go well, those can be introduced at a later time.
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by sutro 17y ago
Shadowstats puts the current unemployment rate at over 20%: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data . We don't yet know which is worse. The worst of the current downturn may be yet to come.
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by sutro 17y ago
Hey Sgrove, did you read the guideline that recommends flagging items you find inappropriate rather than complaining about them in the comments? Because your patronizing quotation of selectively applied guidelines added very little positive
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by sutro 17y ago
Sam Hart, whoever you are, you rock. Like any number of other software development techniques, this one has some applicability in some situations, but the superlatives and the dogma with which it is foisted upon the world is unwarranted and
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by sutro 17y ago
Contrarian, concise, convincing. Wonderful writing.
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by sutro 17y ago
PG, just outsource the entire selection process to Mechanical Turk. It could be an experiment similar to that proposed in the finance classic "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" in which a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a stock page out-
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by sutro 17y ago
Haven't read your blog, but I did read your reply to me on this site yesterday. I'm sure your blog is a literary masterpiece if it makes liberal use of the term "nutpunch."
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by sutro 17y ago
Nice interview, nutpuncher!
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by sutro 17y ago
You probably don't have time to comment on Hacker News threads when there are so many moving parts of your industry-leading decades-old business that you need to go attend to. Unless you're not speaking from a position of comparable experie
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by sutro 17y ago
I have always preferred "Lifestyle" to "Trojan." Wait, what were we talking about?

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