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by ccc3 8mo ago
I don't think that's exactly true of dot com and '08. In both cases the developing bubbles were identified and widely discussed in the years prior to the burst. The surprise in '08 was not that there was a bubble in real
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by ccc3 1y ago
Mass. Electric cars are much heavier. F=ma.
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by ccc3 3y ago
This is a pessimistic, anti-progress perspective. As you point out, there are plenty of other problems in the recycling chain. But this is a small step in the right direction. And the investment here is pretty small too. $1.2m probably cove
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by ccc3 4y ago
Talk about burying the lede
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Building a Business That Doesn’t Bury the Humans at its Core(designmind.frogdesign.com)
2 points by ccc3 14y ago|0 comments
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by ccc3 14y ago
I think that comment actually misses Susan Cain's point entirely. Here's a quote from Ms. Cain: "Shyness and introversion are not the same thing. Shy people fear negative judgment, while introverts simply prefer less stimulation; shyness i
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by ccc3 15y ago
This was an interesting point in the context of comparing YC to a large company: Comparing himself to an air-traffic controller, Graham says much of his time is spend making introductions and helping the YC community solve problems within
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Matt Mullenweg: On the Evolution of Investing(ma.tt)
102 points by ccc3 15y ago|14 comments
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by ccc3 15y ago
At some point in the article he states: Evolution simply could never have anticipated... Evolution, by definition, doesn't anticipate anything. It's disappointing to see a university professor writing on evolution who seemingly doesn't ev
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by ccc3 15y ago
Can we please drop this hyperbolic platitude that "ideas are worthless." You need to have ideas. That's how you decide what to do. In the case that the author describes, your ideas will help you decide what type of "smart nerds" you need to
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by ccc3 15y ago
A couple of comments: And if cars are receiving 20 times more actual use, that would imply that there would be 20 times less cars sold Actually, no it wouldn't. If cars are getting 20 times more use they will wear out much more quickly th
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by ccc3 15y ago
It's interesting to look at these renderings in the context of the story from a couple of days ago about working out at the office ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3314922 ). Treadmills in a conference room are certainly better than si
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by ccc3 15y ago
If the author were writing in the late 60's he could have titled a similar piece: Why GM will never feel threatened by Toyota
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by ccc3 15y ago
FYI, this is one of those "classic blog posts." It was originally posted in 2005 when many of his points hadn't yet been repeated to death.
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by ccc3 15y ago
At the risk of sounding overly snarky, I don't think that GM's leadership is in any position to make recommendations on how to run a car company Despite the general level of incompetence among GM's leadership there were a few smart people
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Charlie Rose Interviews Paul Graham [video](techcrunch.com)
2 points by ccc3 15y ago|1 comments
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by ccc3 15y ago
I have a friend who owns a company that makes manufacturing equipment. I've often heard him say, usually in frustration, that if you make something in America you will eventually get sued. Sadly, it looks like his observation now extends to
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by ccc3 16y ago
Knowing the business. If we ask a bunch of questions and they have the answers at their fingertips because they understand the domain really well, that's a good sign. An old boss of mine is a design judge for a student engineering competi
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by ccc3 16y ago
Very nice work! I'm seeing a bug in the drawing demo on the front page. I can draw the first line and it works as expected, but if I release the mouse and try to draw a second line it's not working correctly. It doesn't show the shape that
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by ccc3 16y ago
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/24/74521/
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by ccc3 16y ago
A few points: - Apple is pushing the boundaries of minimalism with their industrial design (to absurd levels in cases like the control-free iPod Shuffle). This is not necessarily better design, but it is the currently fashionable design. I
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by ccc3 16y ago
To blindly give your faith to someone because of who they are? Read my comment again. I never blindly gave him faith. I was pointing out that he's a well-known expert in this field, which is relevant when evaluating the substance of his a
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by ccc3 16y ago
OP jumped to an unsubstantiated conclusion Unsubstantiated? The OP is Don Norman ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Norman ) and he's speaking from experience. The fact that he has more experience in this branch of design than pretty m
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by ccc3 16y ago
He's not creepy, just honest There's a certain branch of honesty that's intensely creepy. It happens when someone is oblivious to the emotions of the people around them, and it's generally characterized by consistently being far too blunt
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by ccc3 16y ago
From a high level it's easy to look at a device or a system and say "All these options are making this really hard. This thing should do less." But less is just a direction, and it's only useful to go that way until you can't do something y
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by ccc3 16y ago
The author's examples are not relevant to the argument. If you're just trying to design something that is, on its face, beautiful, there are obviously many viable styles besides modernism. The goal of web design is different from the goal o
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by ccc3 16y ago
This article is bullshit. His main line of argument is the same criticism that's consistently leveled at Tesla: that it's too expensive to be a big seller. This is obvious. Batteries are still in their early days as the primary energy sourc
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by ccc3 16y ago
He concludes his post by saying: Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything. The only way that's true is if you consider success to be binary. Either you succeed or you fail. But level of success is important in terms of economic value
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by ccc3 16y ago
This post is just plain wrong. Obviously it's tempting to get caught up in ideas and ignore execution, but saying ideas are flat-out worthless is simply being ignorant of history. A few examples: - Creating an assembly line to mass produce
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by ccc3 16y ago
Facebook is doing more than just taking away something from their users, they're being downright dishonest. Until recently Facebook's pitch to users was that it was a way to connect with people that you actually know. They were deliberately

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