mikx

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by mikx 15y ago
The only time i would stop using turntable would be if there were commercials.
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by mikx 15y ago
Blaming technology isn't going to change the fact that journalism is still broken. Folks like John Gruber and Matt Drudge make a ton of revenue by serving their readers. They have simpler technology than everything stated in this article.
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by mikx 15y ago
The skills are critical for any front-end designer, not just the ones in startups. Companies that embrace skilled designers as their culture compete much better than others.
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by mikx 15y ago
I've watched my friends work hard in basement for months when they were forming a band. All they got from that work was the chance to play for tips at a local bar. There are a lot of designers who are passionate and have amazing potential,
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by mikx 15y ago
Building apps for the iOS marketplace is "spec" work. I'm working for free until someone decides to purchase my app. Bootstrapping a startup is "spec" work. No one is paying founders anything. It's a choice to do "spec" work, no one is fo
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by mikx 15y ago
What an amazing corporate culture, dogs, toys, babies, moms, young and old.
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by mikx 15y ago
Hitler was a vegetarian
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by mikx 16y ago
The kinect and MS is going to play an interesting role in NUI. The surface 2 is also still on the way. It's exciting to see that MS still innovates.
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by mikx 16y ago
I sometimes worry too about a substitute good for humans, but I believe that many entrepreneurs will exploit the abundance of unemployment to fuel their visions. This reoccurring pattern of a labor market becoming liquid and transitioning h
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by mikx 16y ago
Creative destruction is a sign of great progress. There was a time when America was almost all factory workers and a time before that when America was mostly farmers. While it is scary to be in the middle of a shifting trend in with a mass
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by mikx 16y ago
I would like to see a survey on how many people actually WANT to be founders based on race/sex compared to the percentage of the population that ARE. This article assumes that every profession needs to match the distribution of the overall
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by mikx 16y ago
In this article, it says that the majority of founders in SV are immigrants: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/10/28/west.immigration/index...
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by mikx 16y ago
You're out of your mind if you think that a pair of hippies could build the world's biggest tech company. It's always an uphill battle no matter who you are. The world isn't fair; disregard it and startup anyways.