And when that happens, they fix their problems, replace bottlenecks with scalable components, and (in most cases) move on to the next thing.

在这种时候，他们就解决问题、用适当的组件替换瓶颈，然后(大部分情况下)接下去做下一件事情。

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This isn't the next fad. The naive popular narrative that "every generation has their thing" and that climate is ours - that we're the "Facebook generation" - simply does not hold.

愚蠢的大众叙事说每一代人都有他们的问题，而气候变化是我们的，说我们是“Facebook 世代”，这些都错了。

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Start asking them about feelings and the next thing you'll see is their credit-card receipt for a one-way ticket to Rio.

一旦问到他们情感方面的事情，接下来你就会发现他们飞往里约热内卢单程票的信用卡收据。

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I ended up in the newspaper the next day for having argued that they are way off on their investment opportunities because oil is such a volatile thing.

结果第二天的报纸就报导,我提出,他们在投资的选择上错得离谱,因为石油是易变的。

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It looks like those not able to get their own one-of-a-kind Ben Heck creation could soon be able to get their hands on the next best thing, as Ben (whose work on Engadget can be found here) has now lent some of his considerable talents to the forthcoming Gameport handheld, which promises to let you get your old school emulation fix with no questions asked.

ENGADGET: Ben Heck lends his hand to emulation-friendly Gameport handheld

Convinced that its success had come by focusing on engineering, the company continued to invest in each of these lines of business as if they each had to be the next big thing in their category, instead of turning these devices into a platform on which consumers could build their lives and on which digital partners could create and deliver new value.

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Hartz also advises them to remember that people who have enjoyed success as Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are always looking for the next big thing and they enjoy helping the next generation along where their know-how matters.

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