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by hugacow 15y ago
I never said it was a coincidence that Apple was hugely successful. But, those at Apple that made it what it is would not appreciate so many attributing so much to Jobs. I doubt it makes his family feel comfortable either. "they just coinci
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by hugacow 15y ago
Modified the wording a little bit. Hopefully now it won't offend anyone?
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by hugacow 15y ago
"In 1982, Steve Jobs was forced out of the Lisa project,[2] so he joined the Macintosh project instead." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa
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by hugacow 15y ago
I like to think he had mowed grass. That is what a common man does in the U.S., and it would be a sign of his humanity. I also like to think he just wore the shoes because he was sick, in pain, and he needed a comfortable pair of shoes.
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by hugacow 15y ago
He was a great man. But, he wasn't perfect. He basically took credit for Woz's creation, backed the losing Lisa (and prior to that the Apple III) rather than the Mac and jumped ship to the Mac when the Lisa tanked. The OS X technology was w
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by hugacow 15y ago
"What's the weather for today?" Who is going to say all of that? That one was just lazy. It should be just "Weather". Also, why didn't they make you have to say "Computer" before everything? That would have been so awesome.
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by hugacow 15y ago
"The barber shaves only those men in town who do not shave themselves. Who shaves the barber?"
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HN has become just another Slashdot
3 points by hugacow 15y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Convince me that you have what it takes to be successful in a startup.
1 points by hugacow 15y ago|1 comments
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by hugacow 15y ago
I got one, and the only thing I'm worried about is that the touchscreen might be lame like the Nook Color's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiHH6mdH0WU I don't have any reason to believe it is, except that I heard it was the same manufact
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by hugacow 15y ago
Bulldonkey. Javascript on client side will continue for the foreseeable future which means those developers would want to use the same language to do server-side. Just because it hasn't taken hold, doesn't mean it won't.
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by hugacow 15y ago
Developers using many major frameworks/languages don't need to quote a single or even a set of "gods" of the framework/language to back up their point. This is one of the problems in Rails, imo. Everything is still about following celebriti
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by hugacow 15y ago
I think at any point in time, the answer is the one that is a combination of the following (1) it makes the most sense to you, (2) it is maintainable/it is widely used (or has the potential to be, if you are willing to take the risk of some
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by hugacow 15y ago
The world does not need more Zuckerbergs.
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by hugacow 15y ago
That was only one study. Another study said it is $10 under. And none of it takes into account people purchasing apps, the $29 covers, etc. The bigger risk to their bottom line would be the SNL episode newscast that disses the Fire. Apple m
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by hugacow 15y ago
Wow, this is a huge fail. It should have started with graphs based on studies of major customers that tried to make the switch and failed and why on the first 20 pages, but instead it starts off by naming the leaders in the space that use N
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by hugacow 15y ago
Rails 3.x jumped the shark. It is getting too complicated for anyone new to come on easily. This is the reason that Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc. will fail, too- complexity. I'm not a PhP guy, but it isn't hard to see why it is still wildly
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by hugacow 15y ago
"This kind of shit lands on Craigslist so often that it makes you wonder what they actually teach at business schools." Other than "business", they teach confidence, which for the most part is what wannabe entrepreneurs lack. Unfortunately,
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by hugacow 15y ago
Only if you relocate to Seattle.
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by hugacow 15y ago
I can't see how doing a startup in Canada in general is a good idea. Policies there are a lot more restrictive than the states. It's a great place to visit, though.
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by hugacow 15y ago
Apple made their big money in the past 10 years really because of the combination of content available and style. People still want style, but the style market is already owned by Apple. Apple doesn't own everyone, because not everyone can
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by hugacow 15y ago
I bought a $29.99 Kindle Fire Zip Sleeve, which is easily at least $10 in profit to Amazon. Unlike iPad owners, Kindle customers buy covers, so I'm probably not in the minority, even if it is a relatively cheap device. When ours comes in, I
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by hugacow 15y ago
One word: vaporware.
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by hugacow 15y ago
The problem to me is that the technical parts of a tech startup are usually more than 50% of the company. Maybe it is even 90%. You write the blog post and pose as if you had something. What did you have really? If getting this guy was crit
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Defining the Berkeley antisocket(uncyclopedia.wikia.com)
1 points by hugacow 15y ago|0 comments
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by hugacow 15y ago
I used to be that worried about things on HN. I'm not anymore and I think the best way to get to that point is to periodically kill off your user by changing the password to gobbledegook and then creating a new user the next time you want t
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by hugacow 15y ago
Good advice, but imo too often in the world of tech entrepreneurs there is the justification that all that is needed is a good idea/good leadership and that money is not important. Now really- what good is there in someone missing out on th
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by hugacow 15y ago
I just signed up days ago and they only required email. I guess I got lucky.
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by hugacow 15y ago
Tech resume layout: Name (larger and/or bolder than the rest, but not so large that it looks pompous) Contact info, typically including email+cell(optionally+website/IM/linked in or whatever, but don't list more than one email/cell/networki
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by hugacow 15y ago
Agree that FB should not be trying to make things more complicated. Simplicity and the large number of users they had were their two strong points. Now one of those is starting to go.

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