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by xiaoma 9y ago
In China, it's Google who doesn't have a chance. Their search, email, and app store are all blocked. There's no reason to think they'd have any more success as a car company.
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It's pretty bad if you're the kind of person who picks up a new side project each month.
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That's true. To go a bit further, most people aren't even charged, let alone sentenced. There are two problems with the ongoing expansion of US criminal code. One is the world-leading incarceration rate. The second and often ignor
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> "And the examples tend to the arcane, like importing food, not activities most people engage in." Another common one is people borrowing parents from their parents to make a down payment on a house. Lots of people do it, bu
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That's a good point. However it's also worthwhile to consider that you are a criminal and so is pretty much every single adult US citizen. The massive expansion in criminal code over the past 50 years has ensured that crime is v
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An even better metric is someone who publicly makes investments. An excellent non-VC example of this is David Gardener of the The Motley Fool, who publicly announced his stock purchases and rationale before making them. He bought AOL in 199
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Yes. It reminds me of DHH's loud proclamation that Facebook was not worth $33B. He'd have gotten a great return if he'd just bought some of their stock at that price instead of this: > "Oh, well, but maybe Facebook
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The best strategy for a given business is a different question from what is a good strategy for egulators or society. This was repeatedly emphasized, both in Zero to One and in the many interviews supporting its launch. This blog post quote
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> "This limits diversity because there can no longer be an auntie selling tiny packets of whatever for $1 from a cart. Centralization also gave rise to food type quotas, so if there are three chicken rice shops in one area you may n
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It's more than that. JavaScript is so ubiquitous for any sort of web programming that it's often not even mentioned in job reqs or courses. Instead of JS, its often Node, React, Angular, or other JS-based stacks that are the focus
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This list is ridiculous. JavaScript is not #7. I'm not sure what Tiobe's methodology is but it's clearly disconnected from the reality of 2017.
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The genius behind Google's Browser (2009)(webcache.googleusercontent.com)
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> "Nobody in the last 5-10 years cared about writing Desktop apps before Electron came along, there's basically zero money in it," Have you ever heard of League of Legends? It's a desktop application made in that tim
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I definitely agree with some of these points—like the round mouse and the G4 cube—but it's kind of hard to take a comment seriously when it includes the word "trashintosh".
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The question is, "How did he get Windows 10 for free on a custom machine?"
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> "I know of absolutely no service which failed because it couldn't scale." Zooomr did. They came out of nowhere in 2006 and were a real threat to Flickr. They had AJAX-powered editss, geotagging, various other unique fe
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He made the web browser. That's completely changed the way I get my news, do my shopping, learn about things and communicate with people. I'm happy with those changes. Do you feel the impact of the browser has been a net negative?
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Unfortunately I wasn't selected, which is why I've asked here. I know I had some poor focuses in the past (e.g. trying to do a collaboration with an offline business in my industry to bootstrap an online one) and I'm trying t
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I was wondering what the acceptance rates were for this MOOC. I understand it's difficult to deal with large numbers of applicants and that it's just not feasible to give every single applicant personalized feedback. From the othe
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I see there's now an update form in the MOOC now. It has four fields—metric, value, growth and notes. Are there any pages on the site offering guidance on how to get the most out of the MOOC? In what cases should the primary metric be
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Here are three I like: https://www.quicksprout.com/university/ (free) https://moz.com/blog/category/whiteboard-friday (free) http://tractionbook.com/ (chapters 1-3 are free)
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It was 20 years ago, in 1997.
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All three papers mentioned were published in 1905, also known as his Annus Mirabilis . The one that won him the Nobel Prize was received in March, before he'd even finished his thesis (on a different topic). The work itself was done p
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Regardless of the century, the credential is not the defining characteristic of science.
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> "Lookup Musk on Wikipedia and you'll find that he has a BSc. only, and he started a PhD only to quit after a few weeks to pursue his business endeavors." Three of the most important scientific papers in modern history—u
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> "a few weeks ago, we wrapped up the first six-week run." > "We put a lot of work into this course, and while we didn’t use any developer or product team time on it, we tied up our marketing resources for several mont
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If you read the legend, you would see that jQuery is color-coded under the "possibilities" category. This seems reasonable. There is a ton of work out there that requires familiarity with jQuery but it's not foundational or t
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> "Then there are publications about anything and everything. There is no topic." It's a blog. In this case the topic is the author. That was really common in when that one was started and I enjoy that kind of blog over o
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This is a neat project. One thing that might make it more immediately clear would be an "show example" button that randomly loads one of those three links. I probably would have just left the blank page and forgotten about it if I
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I'm not sure about the difficulty of interfacing with Nim, but I've heard nothing but good things about the Lazarus IDE. It has visual layout tools, it compiles quickly and executables are reasonably small. http://www.l

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