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Apple's habit of killing off technologies before they're dead is inconvenient(theatlantic.com)
3 points by vwoolf 14y ago|2 comments
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by vwoolf 14y ago
Read Tom Wolfe's novel The Bonfire of the Vanities if you want a great example of the legal process portrayed in fiction.
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Southern Europe’s Small-Business Problem: Too Many Workers at Small Firms(slate.com)
35 points by vwoolf 14y ago|33 comments
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by vwoolf 14y ago
Lying is a business model for too many businesses; I'm reminded of Go Daddy's wholly-owned subsidiary, Standard Tactics, and how the latter would register expired domains, while Go Daddy would volunteer to "negotiate" with itself (see the w
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Red Sex, Blue Sex: Why do so many evangelical teen-agers become pregnant?(newyorker.com)
21 points by vwoolf 14y ago|2 comments
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How cheap should books be? (theatlantic.com)
6 points by vwoolf 15y ago|0 comments
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Culture makes companies hard to turn around(theatlantic.com)
1 points by vwoolf 15y ago|0 comments
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by vwoolf 15y ago
Schools should do nothing: Facebook is outside their purview, despite their belief that their purview is everything. Parents should "do" whatever they would normally do in communicating with or disciplining their children.
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Where Starbucks Went Wrong in Its Coffee Pricing(slate.com)
10 points by vwoolf 15y ago|26 comments
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by vwoolf 15y ago
She's not precisely on point, but if you're curious start by reading danah boyd's work: http://www.danah.org/papers/ . The stuff at the top mostly deals with teenagers, but her older papers deal with online communities in general. Again:
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The Book Behind the Book(philip.greenspun.com)
1 points by vwoolf 15y ago|0 comments
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by vwoolf 15y ago
If you're interested in another tech writer's book experience, check out Philip Greenspun's "The Book Behind the Book": http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/dead-trees/story .
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Never a dull moment -- on knife technology(theatlantic.com)
2 points by vwoolf 15y ago|0 comments
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by vwoolf 15y ago
If you're interested in inexpensive but very good knives without some of the social superiority complexes attached, see the Atlantic's article "Never a Dull Moment": http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/04/never-a-... . The si
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Why the cheapest maple syrup is the best(theatlantic.com)
164 points by vwoolf 15y ago|54 comments
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by vwoolf 15y ago
I would imagine people should want to know that birth order can have profound effects on their personality and disposition: then they can try to actively counteract or encourage those tendencies. What you're not aware of, you can't change
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by vwoolf 15y ago
Agreed. Especially because these replies so seldom make an argument: they rarely say, "this shouldn't be on Hacker News for well-considered reasons x, y, and z." They (usually) just make assumptions about what should or shouldn't be on HN.
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by vwoolf 15y ago
I'm fairly confident most people could do most things if they really wanted to, but it seems like most people don't. This is partially a function of time—no one has the time to do everything in the world—but I do wonder about the people who