It was pretty exciting at the time because while I could see the potential, there was a huge amount of design and implementation work to be done in order to make something useable and scalable.

当时，这件事令人兴奋，因为虽然我察觉到了其潜力，但是还需要完成大量的设计和实现工作才能使功能灵活可用。

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Maybe we do a little shading of the truth in order to make a buck. Maybe we overvalue something or maybe we just don't tell somebody what's wrong with it when we're selling it to them.

也许我们会做一些什么去掩盖真理而只是为了赚钱，也许我们会过分看重某些东西，抑或者我们只是在我们卖东西给别人的时候故意隐瞒了一些货物的瑕疵。

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The insight is an intuitive one—threatening someone to convince him not to attack you is much more likely to work than threatening him in order to make him give up something he cares about.

这是一种非常直观的感受—与其威逼某人让他放弃他所在乎的东西，还不如威慑他让他不要攻击你，这似乎会是更有效的方法。

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On the other hand, said the IISL, it is not always necessary to actually own something in order to make money from it, as long as you have both the legal right and the practical ability to do so.

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We made the decision to allow group members to add others to the group in order to make the product simple, and because it resembles something we all understand: adding one of your contacts to an email thread.

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We do get plenty of description on commands though, with some pretty thorough response tables and examples of "anchor text" -- something that the automated assistant tries to pluck from your ramblings in order to make sense of them.

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