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by visakanv 12y ago
Some of my favorites: http://bellroy.com/slim-your-wallet/ https://www.leesa.com/ http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil/ Stuff I use or have used: https://www.hipchat.com&#x
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It's pretty, but that's about it, really. Didn't really make me feel like learning more.
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When Facebook started out they didn't say very much about what they did, too: http://stradegyadvertising.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/th...
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Oh, fair enough. I think that's a function of large audiences– the larger an audience gets, the more it allows puns, jokes, etc to rise to the top– and the more incentive there is to be thoughtlessly controversial, and the more incenti
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Oh, yes, absolutely. To refine that statement a little– I don't mean that people won't want iPhones and Macbooks and Apple Watches. The latest Macbook looks so amazing, I totally want one! What I mean is that if two products were
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Also after a while MySpace got really laggy and spammy, which was frustrating!
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This might seem sneaky but some people do this by literally having conversations with themselves, using multiple IDs. Sleazy, but hey, if the conversation is great, I'd be more tempted to join in.
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> The author here calls youtube an ftp site, and in doing so ignores what set youtube apart. Great point. Very often people when people don't understand a business, or dislike it, it seems that they reduce it to its superficial comp
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Same with Amazon, Shopify and other growing businesses, no? Which then begs the question of "what is a real business". In my book, as long as there are customers who are paying money and they're happy with the results, you&#x
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This comment reminds me of book pirates stealing books from England [1] and publishing them in the US (which the English had been previously doing to the French): > Some (U.S. publishers) sent agents to England with orders to grab volume
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I think one of the big lessons about prediction is– avoid dramatic predictions that something is NOT or NEVER going to happen (Internet, iPhones), and avoid predicting that something WILL totally change the world (Segways). Better to be cau
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I'm interested in your perspective but some of the things you say feel a little weird to me: "folks from Facebook wandering outside their confines", "rest of the internet", "complete cesspool", "compl
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Yeah. That's the classic thing to be said about all failed predictions, isn't it? They're all rigorously accurate... within the wrong models. Relatively harmless when we're armchair theorists wondering if the Apple Watch
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I'm always interested in conversation and in supporting people trying to have good conversation. Some hopefully constructive thoughts: There's nothing about the landing page that makes me want to sign up. Could you show me an exam
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Yeah. I remember when I used to use MySpace and Facebook simultaneously, thinking FB was kinda interesting but I much preferred MySpace (because music). Not only do things change dramatically, it's so easy to forget how things were bef
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I used to love Quora, but lately I've found it really hard to enjoy. There's a lot of crappy content. I heard they're trying to change this somehow, I'll wait to see. There are some subreddits that are pretty great: &#x2
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Yeah, mine too. I was also thinking about how... if you've ever been invited to a rich-person's event, like a glitzy fashion show or something (I got a media invite for one once), there's all sorts of free drinks and food and
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> "Let me break it down: YouTube and other video hosting sites have made it easy to pirate stuff on the web (which is where piracy started), but they shouldn’t be positioned as some revolutionary business. It’s a silly, little busin
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YouTube is not a real business (2006)(calacanis.com)
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How then do you justify the idea that "Mandarin should be the dominant language"? Is it simply because Singapore has a Chinese majority in its population? Are you aware that the majority of Chinese in Singapore didn't actuall
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I'm not sure if you noticed my question so I'll ask it again: > As for communication, most other countries have a single dominating language. In Singapore, Mandarin should be the dominate language, but the government has interv
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> As for communication, most other countries have a single dominating language. In Singapore, Mandarin should be the dominate language, but the government has intervened to give each language an equal footing. It just doesn't work.
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Could you give me examples of places where things are natural (as opposed to artificial), and where people have an easy time communicating? Just curious about the spectrum.
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He also puts a lot of effort into the photos he posts on Facebook, which are remarkably well-composed: https://www.facebook.com/leehsienloong
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His son Li Hongyi was a product manager at Google: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/hongyi-li/30/832/161
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> How did Minister Balakrishnan even find the time to dabble with hardware and programming? These top civil servants are very, very busy! He blogs quite a bit about it here: http://vivian.balakrishnan.sg/
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> McDonald's is a "real estate company" I actually like the "McDonald's is a software company" lens– the idea being that they have miles of code describing how humans are to interact with one another, how to
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Yep, the problem with "fast food comedy" is that once you reward it, everybody wants to do it– and then it drives out all the more invested, technical conversations. We can do the G+ jokes on Reddit. Getting to substance requires
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We're all benefactors of this process. We're having this exchange on the Internet, with people all around the world. We use ATMs, escalators. Check out this video by Hugh Herr about bionics and watch how artificial limbs give peop
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Yep! I find that it has very philosophical implications for me. Prior to learning about Everything Is A Remix, I would agonize over how to create great work, great writing. I've since come to terms with the fact that everything is inde

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