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by viking 14y ago
Yes, the founders benefit a lot from keeping their identity small. Their identity should not be as a CEO, CTO, programmer, marketer, non-technical, etc. A founder need to have a flexible identity and learn as needed. However, the flip side
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Sony Playstation 4 set to kill used-game market.(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by viking 14y ago|0 comments
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by viking 15y ago
For me multiple desktop managers (KDE, gnome etc) is not a problem since Gnome 3 has become very competitive to Max OS X. The bigger problem is XOrg and it's constant tearing problem during video playback. People spend way too much time pla
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by viking 15y ago
I agree, sleep functions still don't work on my hardware and gnome 3 is unfortunately designed to make shutdown inconvenient. Another problem you did not mention is tearing during video playback. Desktop computers are heavily used for watch
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by viking 15y ago
It would be more interesting, but a simple test like this doesn't demonstrate much. A benchmark testsuite with a few algorithms or data processing patterns common to a domain would be more helpful.
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by viking 15y ago
I agree. High-traffic websites are running on many of these frameworks. As long as several companies have scaled the frameworks in question, it's better to just choose the one that makes you more productive. When building a company it's als
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by viking 15y ago
It's an interesting, but trivial test. The Rails numbers are incorrect and irrelevant now though because it's using an outdated Ruby version, 1.9.3 is now the gold standard, and outdated Rails version.
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by viking 15y ago
There seems to be a good supply of legislators that are willing to take donations for laws that benefits special interests at the expense of the many. If this legislative problem persists I believe there are only three ways of fighting back
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by viking 15y ago
I suggest creating a list of special interest groups (strong pro- or anti-) paired with websites supporting their view that is a potential SOPA target. This list could be used by activists to inform each of these organizations of the risk t
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30-story building built in 15 days (video)(youtube.com)
1 points by viking 15y ago|0 comments
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by viking 15y ago
The main problem is that the Google representative incorrectly presented the offer as a partnership with Mocality. This is clearly fraud as the Google representative is using the business owners trust in Mocality to sell a competitors produ
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by viking 15y ago
There are many types of art that was created in large quantities for fun or sale to the common man like beautifully painted furniture, tree carving, jewelry, painted rooms and paintings etc. I think it's a false dichotomy to classify art ba
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by viking 15y ago
I will believe that Godaddy is opposing the legislation when they demand that the exception for Godaddy is removed from the legislative text. An email is cheap, especially one stating that they don't like "the current form".
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by viking 15y ago
All FounderLY videos are actually published on youtube ( http://www.youtube.com/founderlikeyou ), www.FounderLY.com, and iTunes ( http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/founderly/id432029291 ) as well as multiple other channels.
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by viking 15y ago
Great and insightful comment! However, I think most "assholes" has an justification of their behavior that they find sufficient. If the person thinks the greatness and contribution of their work is somehow dependent on the antisocial behavi
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“Marry the problem not the solution.” Interview of Dan Greenberg at ShareThrough(founderly.com)
8 points by viking 15y ago|0 comments
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Adam Archer interview(founderly.com)
8 points by viking 15y ago|0 comments
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by viking 15y ago
“Be arrogant enough to get in the ring and naïve enough to think you can win after you feel that first punch.” (Go to 1:53 in the video) - Rich Aberman, WePay Founder
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Interview with Rich Aberman of WePay(founderly.com)
31 points by viking 15y ago|4 comments
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by viking 15y ago
Thank you! I am happy to hear that. We're hoping these stories can be interesting and informative not only to founders, but for a general audience. And who knows, maybe you will be a founder someday?
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by viking 15y ago
Go to 4:17 in the video to hear why Steve Blank thinks founders are artists.
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Steve Blank says "Founders are artists." (go to 4:17 in video)(founderly.com)
9 points by viking 15y ago|6 comments