justincpollard

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by justincpollard 6y ago
> And that's a good thing for the article author too, because it gives them the chance to see if they're a fit for the job and could learn the required skills even if they don't have them now. I think you're right on
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by justincpollard 6y ago
My main takeaway from this article is that the author wasn't necessarily frustrated with spending 12 hours to prepare a 1-hour long presentation - though this does seem like a big ask - but was more frustrated that they didn't eve
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by justincpollard 12y ago
I don't think what you've written is exactly true. At least some of the rental property in San Francisco is rent controlled (possibly a lot of it if you believe this site: http://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol.html ). If
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by justincpollard 12y ago
One of the nice things about Vanguard is that the fee structure is much less than 1-3% for many of their funds. I invest with them in some of their index funds and pay no more than 0.4% in fees; usually much less than that.
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by justincpollard 12y ago
Building the "vanilla post and search rental platform" first reminds me of a strategy I've read elsewhere: spend time working in the industry you hope to disrupt. There is no substitute for real world experience when research
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by justincpollard 12y ago
"The proper solution is to make it very easy to strike down bad patents ..." isn't this exactly what the author is trying to do? The author states that he uses StackExchange to "respond to requests for prior art that inv
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by justincpollard 12y ago
Rather than asking "Why don't designers take Android seriously?" I'd ask "Why don't companies take Android seriously?" Once a company decides to take Android seriously, it isn't all that difficult to
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by justincpollard 13y ago
I've just downloaded the Holification Nation Instagram client. It's nice, but the icons are very grainy. They may not have included xxhdpi assets, which is unfortunate; that oversight tarnishes what would have been a really nice a
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by justincpollard 13y ago
If there's a shortage of doctors we could increase the supply or examine whether we need fully trained doctors for certain more basic services in the first place. There are plenty of beneficial/ necessary medical procedures that d
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by justincpollard 13y ago
I know you're just providing a hypothetical example, but I think it's common for services provided by doctors or a hospital emergency room to cost quite a bit more than $100; in many cases an order of magnitude more. At the end of
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by justincpollard 13y ago
These types of of writings are often hard to come by, but they always provide a refreshing taste of an often hidden part of entrepreneurship.
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by justincpollard 14y ago
We rarely hear of the hard times before an entrepreneur/ company hits it big. It's all smiles at that point. Andy's blog series is a real gem.
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by justincpollard 14y ago
Whether or not voting is a system to avoid violence and conflict or create accountability, it's dominated by a system that allows for those outcomes (assuming they are binary) and a third: a better candidate is elected to the position. As
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by justincpollard 14y ago
Isn't this generally what investors look for in a market? Something large enough that even a small share can earn a handsome return? I wouldn't judge Dwight on that statement alone; Ms. Zuckerberg just needed something juicy for her audienc
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by justincpollard 14y ago
I've actually enjoyed the first two episodes (half watching while programming); they're are quite entertaining! I think it's a bit unfair to judge the overarching merits of the personalities depicted just yet because we haven't gotten to kn
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by justincpollard 14y ago
An important topic, Andy! Related: if you're motivated (positively) enough to work that extensively, that's a gift unto itself. Take a step back and think about working just 8 hours a day at anything. How would you feel if that's something
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by justincpollard 14y ago
It's not clear to me whether the process you describe would infringe. It seems to me that if the component server returns only a data object with all scripting instructions provided by the host computer, this patent would not be infringed.
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by justincpollard 14y ago
I'm no scripting historian, but I believe the relevant date from which to judge this patent's validity is 4/12/2000, the date of the provisional application from which this patent was born. As of that date, were these types of embedded comp
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by justincpollard 14y ago
"But once a user has signed up, make sure you take them by the hand along the funnel." A few weeks ago, Danielle Morrill of Refer.ly, blogged about a her company's new user onboarding process ( http://bit.ly/QZ9cxt ). She was apprehensive a
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by justincpollard 14y ago
A preliminary injunction requires the fulfillment of 4 requirements: 1) the plaintiff will likely succeed in proving infringement, 2) the plaintiff will likely suffer irreparable harm without an injunction, 3) "the balance of equities tips
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Appeals Court Overturns Sales Ban on Samsung Galaxy Nexus(macrumors.com)
4 points by justincpollard 14y ago|1 comments
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by justincpollard 14y ago
I read things a bit differently; the assumption is that the product experiences 30% customer growth per year (around 2.2% growth per month) and loses 10% of those <i>new customers</i> per month. I think you may have read it
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by justincpollard 14y ago
Posner's positions, and the frank and open manner with which he expresses them, are a much needed breath of fresh air from a legal system that is all too esoteric. Especially with regard to patents. Though not directly related to the positi
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by justincpollard 14y ago
True innovation protects itself in most cases, depending upon the ease with which a third party can copy it. In general, the threshold for what constitutes innovation in software is much to low. The certain of Apple's patents in its case ag
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by justincpollard 14y ago
So now textbook authors are forced to license their books in such a manner? Or is this a choice that certain authors can make? If it's the former, financial incentives for textbook authors have fallen precipitously. So, the question is, who
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by justincpollard 14y ago
This article was written to express findings of one study ("two days running usability tests") with specific products ("websites that sell financial products like life cover, funeral policies, and annuities") for a specific target market ("
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by justincpollard 14y ago
I think that "in-person usability testing" refers to the process of actually watching a user use a product. I agree with you that these aren't general truths, but I don't see where the author said that; the author said that these are "gener
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by justincpollard 14y ago
These guys are going to make a real splash! I went to EDC in Vegas this year and used an App just like this. Kind of a hassle though because I had to DL it to my phone and then delete it later. Web apps would have made a lot more sense. I w