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by willarson 19y ago
His point about cross-polination of fields leading to innovation is also made extensively by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his two books "Flow" and "Creativity". I'd highly recommend them to anyone who is interested in the process of creativit
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by willarson 19y ago
This article makes a point about not needing a great idea to start your startup upon. This is a point that PG also makes a lot, but it still seems really important to me. I tend to think that the lower the barrier to entry, the more interes
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by willarson 19y ago
I wonder what the mindset is of someone who duplicates--exactly--not only the functionality, but everything down to the layout and color scheme. It doesn't seem that this kind of venture is going to penetrate very far, especially outside of
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by willarson 19y ago
I think the articles real focus is avoidance of bad partners, not that partners are bad. Somewhat ironically, the people I want to partner with have very similar skills to my own (programming, design, etc), rather than trying to find compl
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by willarson 19y ago
While the article certainly emphasizes that the non-technical board was a detriment to the company, I think that the fundamental problem is revealed in the quote We completely failed to execute. Their product didn't work well, and this pr
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by willarson 19y ago
I am fairly certain that it is possible to determine country by IP. I have seen this done before in several cases: some products with encryption are illegal to "export", and thus restrict the IPs that can access them. Also, I have seen the
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by willarson 19y ago
If they are intent on supporting OS X, it seems quite likely that support for Linux will be technically feasible. Originally I was really bewildered by the MS decision to mimic Flash, but they really have done a pretty decent job with the .
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by willarson 19y ago
My understanding of the DMCA is that as long as sites promptly remove copyrighted materials they are not in violation of the law. Rather than arguments about "information wanting to be free", I think we'll see a lot of obtuse arguments abou