rgr

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by rgr 17y ago
If I were designing html5 I would have removed a bunch of redundant tags instead of adding new ones.
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by rgr 17y ago
I like Pandora a lot but a couple of months ago I switched to last.fm because it gave me more variety. Maybe it's time to check out Pandora again -- though last.fm is still 100% free.
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by rgr 17y ago
I'm cool with both.
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by rgr 17y ago
I think you just summarized the theory of blub, but with more compassion to the blub.
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by rgr 18y ago
I worry about people using the work 'hacker' so broadly that it becomes meaningless. Is a football player a hacker because he's 'hacking' his body to optimize the actions that would lead to a touchdown? Please let's stick to 'hacker' as a p
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by rgr 18y ago
You can't ignore growth though. In many cases it's much more important than current active users. A product with 1mil active users and a 10x growth rate is much more valuable than a product with 5mil users and a 2x growth rate. The same cal
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by rgr 18y ago
Can you recommend any sources for learning CAD modeling?
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Ask HN: How does one prototype a physical product?
36 points by rgr 18y ago|24 comments
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by rgr 18y ago
He didn't say that criticism of Israel is anti-semitism. He just said 'No Politics. No anti-semitism.' I agree with him that HN should have no politics and no anti semitism or any racism for that matter. Don't you?
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by rgr 18y ago
All new business plans are risky. Dependencies on 3rd parties add risk, but if the potential rewards are big enough the risk is worth taking.
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by rgr 18y ago
I agree with Paul's point, but it seems like the flip side of the equation is that most startups these days don't have the kind of big exits that internet giants like Amazon, Ebay, Yahoo and Google had (or even the mass market penetration t
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by rgr 18y ago
How so? I fail to see your reasoning. Are you suggesting Facebook is going to die in the foreseeable future?
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by rgr 18y ago
Smart money seems to be in great scarcity these days. Those so called smart Wall St firms are the first to line up for tax dollar handouts. Those firms that should be in chapter 11 right now for their stupidity are the ones you and I are
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by rgr 18y ago
I don't get your reasoning. He and his cofounders built a product that people wanted. The product spread mostly virally by word of mouth. This is the classic definition of succeeding by one's efforts, not privilege. How does an allegedly el
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by rgr 18y ago
Are you suggesting that Facebook isn't successful?
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by rgr 18y ago
This observation is childish at best, and it smells of jealousy.
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by rgr 18y ago
The incubator is the new meta-startup. Instead of putting all your eggs in one basket, you spread them over multiple startups to maximize the probability of scoring big. And you don't have to the dirty work involved in running a product com
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by rgr 18y ago
This essay is just silly. It makes it sound as if our generation is the first to invent entrepreneurship. Millions of our parents' generation own their own businesses. Entrepreneurship isn't a new discovery. My dad started a software compan
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by rgr 18y ago
And I thought the democrats were the good guys... Now I really don't know whom to vote for. Wall St will get rich, but the political system has gone bankrupt.
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by rgr 18y ago
Buffet mentions a crisis of confidence in the markets as a reason for the bailout. But what is the cost to society of the loss of confidence in the government? What will happen to people's faith in our political system if this bill passes d
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by rgr 18y ago
I'm a fan of YC and I don't need convincing that YC provides great value to a young startup -- more than the 6% equity it takes. However, I just don't believe that PG & co are capable of separating the potential winners from the losers