With regard to corporate newsletters and the like, I would be inclined to agree.
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The article here though does seem to show that a more focused newsletter can still be quite useful/valuable:
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The article here though does seem to show that a more focused newsletter can still be quite useful/valuable:
If we assume he's awake 16 hours of the day, at 48 breaks a day, that's only 3 breaks an hour. With 10-15 pushups taking a minute or less to do, that's only 5 minutes or so an hour.
For someone who possesses a great deal of drive in the rest of his life, this does not seem impossible.
Apple bought Placebase in July it seems.
(Also, nearly unreadable as grey text on black background. Thank goodness for http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/)
Newton / Cube / Lisa / Pippin / 20th Anniversary Mac
And if there were competing offers or options available to EB, all the more likely that they weren't picked up on the cheap.
I found myself agreeing with this statement strongly.
Just imagine the true "green revolution" that could be brought about with a few hundred more nuclear plants in the US alone.
I don't read it as people being insulted but more so that they see meta discussions as distracting from the more valuable function of HN.
Also, this topic reminded me of this post:
"Meta is a social problem, period. It's applicable to everything you do in life."
(Source: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001282.html)
(http://online.barrons.com/article/SB124907975033998015.html)
And to summarize, still lots of smoke in the distance regarding the One Tablet to Rule Them All, but little heat as of yet.