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by xcombinator 16y ago
When a company gets a lot of market, they want to differentiate their products so people stop using the standard and gets locked into their "standard slightly modified". No no no, It is not an MP3 player(anyone could make an MP3 player), is
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by xcombinator 16y ago
I agree. Maybe we need a hierarchical system that is dynamic. We need to organize information and in the real world we are constrained, but with computers we are not. E.g if I need to organize my books, I could move it only to a given posit
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by xcombinator 16y ago
And they control the medium too. If Craig gets the answers right they just can cut this part of the film. They could manufacture whatever they want just editing and putting answers out of context. The modern version of Cardinal Richelieu: "
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by xcombinator 16y ago
Linux is getting better each year, Android is getting better each year. But MS is getting better each year too, like Apple. The main difference is that MS and Apple improve he overall user experience while Linux and Android center themselve
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by xcombinator 16y ago
Of course you have been trained, but what about the fun factor? I mean people love to fit, insert things into other things and feel they fit. Kids feel good when they insert a cube block inside the square hole. USB cables and Apple batterie
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by xcombinator 16y ago
"You make a good point but as I thought on it for a while I came up with this question: Do kids want to be the same kind of adults as their parents?" My opinion is yes: They want cars and motorcycles, and houses, and be respected, find frie
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by xcombinator 16y ago
He is not.If you think he is the misinformed person is you. You can inform yourself.Search for DRDOS.Search for windows trademark issues,lindows, you know what? they were an entire line of windows branded products before MS, MS destroyed th
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by xcombinator 16y ago
I think this article misses the point. He is taking a position as "non-engineer" and stated its goals as clear as water: He considers engineers superfluous(ludicrously overstaffed) but will consider himself indispensable. He tries to justif
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by xcombinator 16y ago
I think he is not proposing anything substantially new. Collecting data before formulating your hypothesis is the norm, not the exception. First you see an object fall and them you wonder why. The same applies to birds flying, wood afloat,
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by xcombinator 16y ago
I like to change the defaults. When you use to read green on black instead of black over white, or change the font size you realize that the designer only though in one size, and one colour. PDFs are perfect at only one layout, and font siz
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by xcombinator 16y ago
I check the "many people" rule too. But sports, acting and science is big enough to find good places to stay. In my experience in the electronics sector, everybody wants to do "robots" and "lasers", so you really have to compete with a lot
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by xcombinator 16y ago
Wow, that's the kind of relationship when you finally get rid of, you feel like in heaven. I prefer the "boring" healthy relationships.
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by xcombinator 16y ago
I think this man doesn't get it, as a "former executive" he thinks anything in live is money. People write apps for iPhones because they dream to do what they love without working for the man. Of course it is only a remote possibility, but
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by xcombinator 16y ago
If you bet on it, you will lose. That is the MS PR statement, witch is completely BS. Open source have a lot more people looking at the code and using a proven Unix security model.
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by xcombinator 16y ago
I never thought that way, interesting.Thanks
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by xcombinator 17y ago
A lot of people believe in alternative medicine with a more scientific method that you think: They try it and it works for them, is not superstition. I have news for you: electromagnetic radiation causes cancer and is able to kill you and k
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by xcombinator 17y ago
It is a complex issue. I read and watched videos and went to a lot of seminars on psicology of productivity. "Read The Power of full engagement"(This is the best book you can read ever!!) and create rituals. I like investigating new technol
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by xcombinator 17y ago
In my experience people prefer the "I think" when you are unsure of what you say, and to be clear when you know what you are talking about. Odds are that a person that never ever say "I think" believes that his opinions are 100% right, witc
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Agreed. Also the geek people that "study" or "learn" this stuff are the best in the world. They not only do what is needed, but know the reason too, witch many "naturals" don't do(they just are this way). It takes a lot of work and practice
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by xcombinator 17y ago
True, I have learn programming and experience disassembling programs, and is really really difficult to understand how a program work just this way. If the program has millions of lines of code it is nearly impossible. Patents are a contrac
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Yeah, the intelligent thing is to surrender and give more power and money to the robber. If people with weapons assault you in Somalia, give them millions of dollars and make it stronger, so they can kill more and assault more people. If so
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by xcombinator 17y ago
I love so much when people "believe" something, test it, doesn't work,the market fails, and repeat it because they are right. Apple let's devs to code in low level(Objective C).IMO is the single factor that makes it so powerful(if you want
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by xcombinator 17y ago
And you think the average people think it is OK to destroy the life of one person just because he downloaded-imported cartoons? I don't think so. I consider this material "obscene", I don't like it, but this man has the right to have it. Th
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by xcombinator 17y ago
That's right, something I admire about British people is that they created a lot of sports like boxing and football in witch they put rules over something people were already doing so they could control it. If people want to fight,or compet
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by xcombinator 17y ago
to err is human, but to persevere is diabolical. errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum. Seneca To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. "Cujusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Exactly , I'm just furious about the buzz thing, so I wanted to send a feedback email to them, but... seems like there is no one there. Seems like a bunch of geeks with autism that fail to understand that what they do in people's mail affec
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by xcombinator 17y ago
"I remember comparing it with other searches early on, and it wasn't that different" It wasn't that different? For me it was just radically different: ALtavista->Advanced search->"car AND red AND 200 AND horsepower" You had been red
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by xcombinator 17y ago
In my opinion, we males have a tendency to think that the important part of the message is the logic part, the "what we say", in this case being "I would never buy my wife-to-be a diamond". Women have the tendency to look more at the emotio
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by xcombinator 17y ago
So what? I love dancing and took classes and was the only male in a class of more than 30 women. I didn't tell them "you have a gender problem". I accepted that in a free world nobody should force anybody else to do what they don't want to
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Spot on. Also when you design something, it is much cheaper to include future extensions on it so all the molds, CNC programs...are the same and you don't have to redesign your product and your production process. This redesign is not only

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