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by pbrown 17y ago
I hope you don't think I was ridiculing you. Believe it or not, I actually upmodded your original post because provided an alternative point of view. I may disagree with it, but it takes two sides to have a decent conversation.
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by pbrown 17y ago
I take exception to most of this statement. My story: At 25 years old, I took every penny I had in savings (about $300k) and started a company. I "created" 7 well-paying jobs. I put every single penny I had into my company. I had "major med
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by pbrown 18y ago
Considering you signed up to post this gushing post, you wouldn't happen to work for them would you?
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by pbrown 18y ago
Tangent: "Startup founders are mostly hackers, and hackers are much more constrained by gentlemen's agreements than regulations. If they shake your hand on a promise, they'll keep it. But show them a lock and their first thought is how to p
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by pbrown 18y ago
"i can understand her optimism, but how are they going to take market share away from google?" That's what everyone said about Apple before Jobs came back too. It's amazing how an energized, focused leader with an "outside" perspective can
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by pbrown 18y ago
I'd be curious to know if pg and gang do exit surveys to find out what founders thought was valuable and what they thought could be done different/better.
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by pbrown 18y ago
The keyword is "incoming": "Twitter and Bell have agreed that Bell customers on the company's text messaging bundles will be able to receive unlimited incoming Twitter SMS messages at no extra charge."
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Conceptual Designs You Wish Existed(creativecloseup.com)
29 points by pbrown 18y ago|11 comments
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$250,000 bounty for Conficker creator(tgdaily.com)
2 points by pbrown 18y ago|0 comments
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by pbrown 18y ago
Fair enough. I apologize. No more political comments from me.
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by pbrown 18y ago
Just wanted to throw something out there as food for thought/discussion starter. In my opinion, the current argument that people demand free content and will not pay seems to me to be a lot like early Internet (even pre-internet BBS) users
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by pbrown 18y ago
This post was down-modded so far I shouldn't even respond, but I'm going to anyway. While you seem to blame Republicans for every thing that ails you, keep in mind that the "loosened regulations" on mortgage lending which is what caused thi
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by pbrown 18y ago
IMHO, the best thing they could do was keep this thing secret while they figured out a way to solve the problem. Not that I think the whole problem was fixed, but this specific problem was fixed. Had the general public been aware, the probl
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by pbrown 18y ago
There are and they are quite popular here in Alaska, where the "cooling off" of heated water is obviously quite a challenge. Problem is they are not widely adopted because of the very high initial cost of purchase. They do eventually pay fo
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by pbrown 18y ago
Maybe instead of an asterisk we could use orange names.
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Airlines testing biofuels(tgdaily.com)
1 points by pbrown 18y ago|0 comments
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by pbrown 18y ago
That's awesome. Problem is I use Chrome, or I'd jump on it in a heartbeat. Thanks though.
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by pbrown 18y ago
I agree. I'm in Alaska, so I'm pretty much behind everybody. I'm usually posting while you all are asleep. I'm screwed.
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by pbrown 18y ago
As a recent "idiot" (sarcasm) who has read HN for over a year now, and just signed up to participate, I have a thought. I chose to reply to this particular post of yours with my thought, because you're orange, so maybe I'll get noticed (al
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by pbrown 18y ago
On the contrary, I would (be calculating enough). I typically won't make a comment to a thread that is over two hours old, because shelf-life on here is so short, and because I don't think many people will see it, unless it's a super-active
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by pbrown 18y ago
Counterpoint: I read the thread to which you refer, and while I didn't agree necessarily with some of what you said, or some of what the others said, it was insightful to me to see both sides of the argument spelled out in more detail. I th
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by pbrown 18y ago
I have to agree that the "orange names" are ripe for potential abuse. As someone who has read HN for over a year now, and just signed up to actively participate, the "orange names" somehow feels like encouragement for me to not participate.
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by pbrown 18y ago
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works were responsible for some of the most innovative aircraft designs from WWII. These were the 14 rules put in place at the birth of the Skunk Works. Looking past the military stuff, some of them are quite applica
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Lockheed Martin Skunk Works 14 Rules of Operation (1943)(lockheedmartin.com)
44 points by pbrown 18y ago|7 comments
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by pbrown 18y ago
I started with post-it notes, but kept losing them too. Now I use Freemind, and have a really big whiteboard (of the manual variety) on the wall in my office. You mentioned you're having a problem with big apps. I'm the same way. At the ris
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by pbrown 18y ago
As someone who lives in Interior Alaska, I feel your pain. So, to take a cue from you and one from another comment on here: Wouldn't it be great to have a shovel that 1.) Had "wings" on it, similar to a snowplow, that you could fold out to
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Ask HN: P2P Wireless
2 points by pbrown 18y ago|1 comments
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by pbrown 18y ago
One thing I noticed that I think is really cool is that the first bid starts the auction clock. Not sure if the other "big boys" do that, because I don't use them, but great idea nonetheless. Something else I noticed though is that in the s
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by pbrown 18y ago
That made my day.
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by pbrown 18y ago
The problem with that logic is, if you don't work and have to rely on someone else to feed you, that means I have to work twice as hard to feed my family and now feed you. There's something wrong when 30% (soon to be 50%) of the population

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