Aug 1, 2007
What if Verizon, and AT&T, and Comcast, and half a dozen other huge broadband ISPs suddenly cut deals with some search company other than Google and your ISP-supplied browser and homepage no longer give such prominence to Google? How different are the search results these days from one engine to another? Not very different.

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Aug 1, 2007
Abbreviations might be good.
Removing Accidental Complexity is better.
Providing Useful Abstractions is best of all.
Reginald Braithwaite. But abstraction is difficult.pdf

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Jul 31, 2007
You could implement the Twitter user interface using the API. Compare it to Apple, who reserves for itself and a few partners, under terms we don’t know, the right to develop rich apps for the iPhone.

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Jul 30, 2007
The Novice has been the focus of an alarming amount of attention in the computer field. It is not just that the preferred user is unskilled, it is that the whole field in its application rewards novices and punishes experts.

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Jul 29, 2007
Being profitable too soon gives investors, rightly or wrongly, an idea of what the margins are on the business, as opposed to what they could be in some perfect world. As a result, it takes a mighty force for them to not start wading in with discounted present value worksheets, and the like, thus hammering your valuation and generally making funding much more complicated (and equity consuming) than if you were wildly unprofitable.
Paul Kedrosky on gaming VCs. But is it making something people want?

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Jul 29, 2007
The only way to stay alive is work on something you like. If you do not, you are slowly making yourself weaker.

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Jul 29, 2007
Centuries are sometimes accorded exaggerated value; this was an innings far more significant, both in quality and importance to his team, than Tendulkar’s last two hundreds.

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Jul 29, 2007
Christopher Walken in Weapon Of Choice by Fatboy Slim

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Jul 28, 2007
You spend so much time checking off what you’ll do that you never do anything.
Jason Calcanis declares facebook bankruptcy

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Jul 28, 2007
I was actually planning to merge CK for a while. The code didn’t faze me. [But] Con was fixated on one single workload, and argued against people who reported problems.

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