mbyrne

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by mbyrne 7y ago
A hose is not very elegant and should be removed. It would look much cleaner to have the gasoline just squirt into the car's open gas tank. Possibly with some LEDs around the gas pump's flush-mounted nozzle to create sparkles in t
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by mbyrne 13y ago
History says no. He was never able to build a great business with the fashionable blouses he designed. He never was able to scale his refrigerator company beyond the customer discovery phase and sold the patent to Electrolux... Google these
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by mbyrne 13y ago
I prefer mine Open.
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by mbyrne 13y ago
How is that an Easter Egg?
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by mbyrne 14y ago
You're all wrong. It's pretty clear they had to obfuscate what she really wrote so no one could use it to "hack into the mainframe," on advice from their lawyers to avoid liability.
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by mbyrne 14y ago
Funny, but this post and article feel like keyword spam to me...
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by mbyrne 14y ago
Horrible horrible linkbait. Here's the deep analysis from the article: "And as more people join Google+, more will follow, and in the end maybe Kevin Rose was worth $1 billion dollars."
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by mbyrne 14y ago
The G4 was a commercial flop, but arguably a great product, not that I am looking for an argument about it..
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by mbyrne 14y ago
okay, first I have to say I appreciate the point you make, about taking something and making it your own. I think you actually makes a better and more subtle point than the original quote itself does and it is not something in the linked po
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by mbyrne 14y ago
uh. Stealing in wrong. Why would you advocate stealing? Are you using the word "steal" when you mean something else? Why not just use the right words? I mean there is inspiration, copying, using, implementing, following, quoting, learning f
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by mbyrne 15y ago
How is this not brilliant? Like Hollywood that created the studio system and theater chains, and Music Labels that created radio promotion and recorded music sales, Y Combinator has created the cookie cutter vertical for this century's hot
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by mbyrne 15y ago
Even Better: Dharmesh Shah's Startup Lessons From 17 Hard-Hitting Quotes In "Moneyball" http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/76799/Startup-Lessons-F...
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by mbyrne 15y ago
The Apple logo, designed by Rob Janoff in 1977, is based on the Fibonacci series. As interpreted by @barcelosthiago
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As wonderful as insane the Apple’s logo design (gold3nratio.tumblr.com)
5 points by mbyrne 15y ago|1 comments
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by mbyrne 15y ago
Soooo refreshing to see a competitive feature comparison chart where the company posting the feature match ups doesn't have ALL green check boxes (and the competitors are "missing" features, of course.)
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by mbyrne 15y ago
My karma: 160 Account created 552 days ago nmongo's karma: 678 Account created 1 day ago.
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by mbyrne 15y ago
Question for the article author: Could you explain why "piracy" is not also a nonsense metaphor? Piracy is an act of robbery and/or criminal violence at sea. It feels like 99% of arguments are between people who haven't clearly defined th
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by mbyrne 15y ago
I believe the correct equation is: Appsumo + Crate - $25 = 10gb lifetime account!
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by mbyrne 15y ago
Criticism about price from people who aren't actually customers is worthless, particularly because you don't even know who your customer is. You'll find out when you launch something. Price is also a way to pick your customers. You want to
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by mbyrne 15y ago
If you say No Child Left Behind pushed teachers to teach to a test (easy) rather than teaching critical thinking, etc. (hard) and then you say No Child Left Behind failed to deliver any statistically significant impact on test scores, aren'
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by mbyrne 15y ago
"Disgruntled" is a straight up ad hominem attack that doesn't address whether or not what the person says is true or not.
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by mbyrne 15y ago
In what way? Steve Jobs is mentioned in literally every paragraph of the article.
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by mbyrne 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing%27s_Shocking okay, maybe something is.
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by mbyrne 15y ago
In 1964 he predicted the concept of ape slave labor which was the basis of the plot of the novel "La planète des singes" (Planet of the Apes) by Pierre Boulle printed in 1963.
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by mbyrne 15y ago
Isn't a fresnel lens really just an non-idealized boundary layer too? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_lens
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by mbyrne 15y ago
Thought this might be of interest to some. Descriptive text: Each fall, CS50 offers a number of seminars on topics related to or beyond the scope of the course, some of which are meant to empower students with practical skills (e.g., How to
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Harvard Computer Science Seminar Videos for CS50(manual.cs50.net)
2 points by mbyrne 15y ago|1 comments
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by mbyrne 15y ago
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by mbyrne 15y ago
side note: losvedir, if you actually are interested in Cambridge Coffee Shops for startups, check out http://hcombine.com/22/hcombine-start-up-coffee-shops/
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by mbyrne 15y ago
I enjoy my work. Problem solved.

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