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mbyrne

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About mbyrne

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    Comment #21971488

    A hose is not very elegant and should be removed. It would look much cleaner to have the gasoline just squirt into the car's open gas tank. Possibly with some LEDs around the gas p…

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    Comment #6280948

    History says no. He was never able to build a great business with the fashionable blouses he designed. He never was able to scale his refrigerator company beyond the customer disco…

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    Comment #6102786

    I prefer mine Open.

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    Comment #5949711

    How is that an Easter Egg?

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    Comment #4048851

    You're all wrong. It's pretty clear they had to obfuscate what she really wrote so no one could use it to "hack into the mainframe," on advice from their lawyers to avoid liability…

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    Comment #4002710

    Funny, but this post and article feel like keyword spam to me...

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    Comment #3878576

    Horrible horrible linkbait. Here's the deep analysis from the article: "And as more people join Google+, more will follow, and in the end maybe Kevin Rose was worth $1 billion doll…

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    Comment #3754587

    The G4 was a commercial flop, but arguably a great product, not that I am looking for an argument about it..

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    Comment #3753805

    okay, first I have to say I appreciate the point you make, about taking something and making it your own. I think you actually makes a better and more subtle point than the origina…

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    Comment #3753233

    uh. Stealing in wrong. Why would you advocate stealing? Are you using the word "steal" when you mean something else? Why not just use the right words? I mean there is inspiration, …

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    Comment #3701616

    How is this not brilliant? Like Hollywood that created the studio system and theater chains, and Music Labels that created radio promotion and recorded music sales, Y Combinator ha…

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    Comment #3557871

    Even Better: Dharmesh Shah's Startup Lessons From 17 Hard-Hitting Quotes In "Moneyball" http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/76799/Startup-Lessons-F...

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    Comment #3299805

    The Apple logo, designed by Rob Janoff in 1977, is based on the Fibonacci series. As interpreted by @barcelosthiago

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    Comment #3233975

    Soooo refreshing to see a competitive feature comparison chart where the company posting the feature match ups doesn't have ALL green check boxes (and the competitors are "missing"…

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    Comment #3207444

    My karma: 160 Account created 552 days ago nmongo's karma: 678 Account created 1 day ago.

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    Comment #3195917

    Question for the article author: Could you explain why "piracy" is not also a nonsense metaphor? Piracy is an act of robbery and/or criminal violence at sea. It feels like 99% of a…

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    Comment #3122152

    I believe the correct equation is: Appsumo + Crate - $25 = 10gb lifetime account!

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    Comment #3117132

    Criticism about price from people who aren't actually customers is worthless, particularly because you don't even know who your customer is. You'll find out when you launch somethi…

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    Comment #3117061

    If you say No Child Left Behind pushed teachers to teach to a test (easy) rather than teaching critical thinking, etc. (hard) and then you say No Child Left Behind failed to delive…

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    Comment #3102876

    "Disgruntled" is a straight up ad hominem attack that doesn't address whether or not what the person says is true or not.

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    Comment #3080921

    In what way? Steve Jobs is mentioned in literally every paragraph of the article.

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    Comment #3021686

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing%27s_Shocking okay, maybe something is.

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    Comment #2954759

    In 1964 he predicted the concept of ape slave labor which was the basis of the plot of the novel "La planète des singes" (Planet of the Apes) by Pierre Boulle printed in 1963.