billirvine

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by billirvine 10y ago
Sure. But it's only part of it. And Kleese considers solitude the be distraction that the creative process also needs.
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by billirvine 10y ago
To clarify; I'm referring to smallish startups with less than 15 people. If I were to count the number of times that chance encounters in the kitchen, lounge, common area, etc. resulted in ideas that dramatically improved the product,
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by billirvine 10y ago
As a founder of startups, I take a bit of exception to the tonality. Yes, lots of inexperienced founders/leaders drink deep of the open office koolaid and do it wrong. But doing it right (allowing flexibility, having private spots, etc
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Show HN: HashBot, augmented twitter feed (web beta)(web.hashbotapp.com)
6 points by billirvine 12y ago|0 comments
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NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy Our Economy(businessinsider.com)
3 points by billirvine 13y ago|1 comments
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by billirvine 13y ago
It's a trap! WhoIS shows a private domain registration through GoDaddy, and the site now shows a Plesk default page. This was probably not the site for an official Silicon Valley Alliance.
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by billirvine 13y ago
The iOS 7 examples look like something My Little Pony puked up in a general configuration of something similar to Windows Phone 8. Maybe Bronies are the target market?
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by billirvine 13y ago
> I hate it when I hear people who have probably never coded > in their lives, saying how easy it is to build something... I believe, in this case, the author was using a rather effective technique typically called "sarcasm."
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by billirvine 13y ago
People are inherently biased. It's impossible for any person to read news and not inject their own personal tendencies into a summary they write.
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by billirvine 13y ago
Summly's help desk: https://summly.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/761930-what... Launch coverage: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/01/summly-app-nick-daloisio-vi... http://gigaom.com/2012/10/31/summly-wants-to-make-news-summa... http
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by billirvine 14y ago
> I find your reaction fascinating Ooo fun, -4 on the Karma for that comment. My comment was not related to porn so much as to the obvious link-bait and predictable "0_o pron!" pile-on. Smells faintly of Reddit with a soft lingering bou
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by billirvine 14y ago
Alas, Hacker News - - - I knew ye well. (poor subject for this site)
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by billirvine 14y ago
With abuse apparently rampant in "crowd based" efforts, can we trust their trust? Especially if this enables them to scale beyond their "50 million downloads" to the point where they become a target of those looking to cause mischief? Imagi
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Web Of Trust lands $1.3m in funding to make the web a safer place(thenextweb.com)
2 points by billirvine 14y ago|1 comments
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by billirvine 14y ago
I for one welcome our new Pyschohistory overlords.
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All hail the prediction machines(bbc.com)
2 points by billirvine 14y ago|2 comments
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Meet the wondrous, magnificent kinetic beasts of the fascinating Theo Jansen(itsnicethat.com)
1 points by billirvine 14y ago|0 comments
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by billirvine 14y ago
Next time, you can be first. I've long had "issues" with the madness that tech startup culture inspires. MVP should be IVP, where as IPV = Initial Viable Product. If one really learns "lean" methodology, MVP really is IVP, but no one seems
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by billirvine 14y ago
> First off, this isn't a pivot. They're expanding their service Apparently the users felt differently. From the feedback and reviews, the users saw a different direction -- not an expansion.
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by billirvine 14y ago
There's no way to know that, is there? And with impression-based advertising, if you're blocking ads on sites you visit, you're blocking the income needed to pay the bills.
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by billirvine 14y ago
"Limits" in terms of advertising are relative and often moving targets. As a new product or service, it's hard to get noticed without testing where a certain limit may be. GoDaddy -- loathed by many, but not by most -- would not be the larg
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by billirvine 14y ago
I blame the insane culture springing up around inaccurate and ill-conceived interpretations of the lean startup methodology. Many young entrepreneurs and early-stage startups seem entrenched in a mindset that they must be pivoting or iterat
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by billirvine 14y ago
Hi Chris... "Fleeing TV" -- indeed, a shift is being observed. However, the medium exists because of advertising. Also, the audience segment that time-shifts is not yet at a critical mass, though rising. And, live event TV (sports) is still
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by billirvine 14y ago
A one-line drive-by snipe. HN has indeed fallen low of late.
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by billirvine 14y ago
The idea of micro-payments for online content and services has been around since Softbank Services Group failed at it in 1995 with $10 million tossed at the problem. And it's a suggestion that shows limited awareness of the enterprise costs
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by billirvine 14y ago
Except that, your opinion can't be substantiated. How did advertising substantially discourage people from engaging with television? There were times when a major portion of the country was all watching I Love Lucy at the same time. I just
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by billirvine 14y ago
> I'm paying for my bandwidth Publishers pay for bandwidth also. And as a publisher, if I go over my 6,000 GB/month (which I have), I pay more. Very few home users are metered.
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by billirvine 14y ago
> And what about the blind guy who uses Lynx to surf? Or the non-blind guy? Men of straw need not apply. What about the struggling blogger (Brand Friedman?) unable to sustain his important and vital efforts on donations alone, who must
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by billirvine 14y ago
> Advertising ruins every communication medium Bull. Without the revenue of advertising, you'd not have the live broadcast of the activities of Apollo 11 on the moon. I could cite dozens (if not thousands) of important events of which t
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by billirvine 14y ago
Yeah? You just made the conscious decision to use the paid property they purchased (bandwidth) to deliver you content that came at some expense. If the content is worth your time, the only revenue model available to sustain the content is n

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