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12 years agodiscuss

For a business...it was $300 cheaper to install Comcast with TV than without as of Oct 2013. I pay $2/month for TV but got free install and I can cancel TV in a year. It seems to me they need another mouth to feed.

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13 years agodiscuss

Look, a product guy is nontechnical and often gets credit for greenlighing a solution he'd never have thought of. Was Jobs the ultimate product guy?

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13 years agodiscuss

Sure - did we discredit him? Is sharing credit with one guy discrediting another?

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13 years agodiscuss

What's the goal of a startup? The unscalable stuff works if the goal is to be a real business that provides real revenue.

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13 years agodiscuss

Haven't read it - but I bought it, thanks.

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13 years agodiscuss

I mostly agree, I was trying to keep it contemporary.

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13 years agodiscuss

zing. (and yeah, you don't read the damn things cover to cover. Except for my bondage and my freedom.)

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13 years agodiscuss

And FYI - this was a list made for AEs to be able to talk to engineers more quickly and fluently.

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13 years agodiscuss

So but for you, the folks that read Hacker News would have been fooled by my ruse.

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13 years agodiscuss

Good point:

IT depends on what you do. I made it for salespeople initially, based on books I'd become familiar with.

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13 years agodiscuss

Yeah, I liked a lot of books, I made this list based on what I was familiar with.

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13 years agodiscuss

I sure wish I was this clever.

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13 years agodiscuss

That is solid.

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13 years agodiscuss

Cool- I'll get those books.

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13 years agodiscuss

Thanks. It seems we will need to do a second post.

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Submissions

Why Distributed Teams OutPerform Their Office-Bound Counterparts

Kickstarter Is (Sorta) Debt – A Bolt Case Study

How to Make a Great Hire in Under 10 Hours

There Is No that

Jobs Never Coded. Did He Get Too Much Credit?

Actually readable philosophy book list.

The Imperfect Craft

The Pomodoro Technique is Bullshit.

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