david927

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My understanding of the argument for the iPad is: we (technical guys/early adopters) don't want one, but it's not for us, it's for the mass market. The diffusion of innovation is well studied. (Read …

I'm unsure of what you're asking. If you want to find a job with a startup, there's http://startuply.com If you want to find a co-founder, there's an HN spreadsheet here: http://CofounderGoogleDocs…

Brilliant. Thank you.

He found out that it's not a "financial black hole" in any sense of the word. The opposite, it's an OPEC-killer: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/03/17/how_iraqi_o... …

I love it! Jetzt geht's los!

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I love it. This is exactly what I've been looking for. But I don't own anything Apple. Is there an alternative coming, such as a web-based version? I'll pay.

happy birthday, rms!

How is yours?! When was it born?

I'm surprised to that the discussion here is only about how Gottam came to his results, although that's fair game and I agree with you. But there is learning here, too. My mother is a psychologist an…

And if you know C++ and would like to beat these guys for world domination in a co-founder role, contact me. My email is in my profile.

Put your email in your profile or contact me.

I'm not comfortable with a room (or more) of hackers going through it at this point. If anyone is interested, my email is in my profile. Edit: When it goes into public beta, I'll be sure to post it he…

That was a thought, but I'd rather find someone interested enough to look under the hood and give me more concrete feedback.

Honestly, here's what I want I know it sounds crazy, but what if I had that? Who should I talk to? What should be my next step?

I recently saw a post on Hacker News, where somebody created a [find-a-cofounder] spreadsheet. ... Literally 99% of the rows read something like this: "I am a business guy/entrepreneur/mba/profession…

high degrees of corruption"? The US is #19 on the list: http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/... "low degree of political freedom"? #20 in Freedom of the Press http://www…

PPP says essentially to "divide by the cost of a BigMac." A BigMac might cost more in Europe, but they don't eat them. It's silly. The result of PPP is that it makes the poorest states in the US app…

Consider the fact that if you intersect the US's population with its per capita income you get #10: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin... If you sample 100 households and…

I think that's a pretty astute assessment, but you mentioned the unspeakable: that America has become Second World. You'll be down-voted to oblivion out of an emotional reaction, but your analysis is…

Don't be fooled, that's just tax code for "development work". What they have in real R&D is a black hole.

We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are …

I think it does. If you look at the lives of a lot of artists (and a lot of scientists throughout history!), it seems that a great many of them had miserable lives because of this tortured search for…

So was Picasso. If you can't separate the artist from the art, you won't enjoy much. This essay actually betrays a vulnerability; it reveals a Heiligenstadt Testament-like calling. I, for one, am im…

Malcolm Gladwell states in Outliers that there's really no correlation between high IQ and performance. After a certain IQ, I think it's 120, the rest is about emotional maturity and how deeply your …

Thanks!

A friend of mine, Paul, did this in Zurich back in 2002. He saw that the Migros grocery franchise was giving 10x points for a week, some products were giving 10x points and his credit card was giving…

Email me (or better yet, put some sort of contact in your profile). I'd like to talk to you about something.