GBond

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by GBond 12y ago
So you are arguing that this is larger hardware growth play here... and it is all about race?
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Let's Call It 'Apple Privilege'(theawl.com)
5 points by GBond 12y ago|2 comments
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Example of Twitter's new profile page design(twitter.com)
1 points by GBond 13y ago|2 comments
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by GBond 13y ago
My memory may be deceiving me but I recall the founder of DynDNS posted in the HN comments on his reasoning of taking outside money and shifting the biz model after initial growth via bootstrapping. Hopefully someone else recalls and links
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by GBond 13y ago
http://gochargenow.com/locker.html
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by GBond 13y ago
Great NY Noodle Town
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by GBond 13y ago
Does Mike Judge and his co-creator visit HN for research as well? He would get tons of material.
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by GBond 13y ago
There is this hole-in-the-wall looking place in NYC chinatown that serves Chinese comfort food meal. It closes real late and remains affordable while serving great meals. It is frequented by Michelin star rated restaurant chefs (of all cuis
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Why the zebra has stripes(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by GBond 13y ago|0 comments
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by GBond 13y ago
> but the stock I bought from them was turned into wastepaper through some mechanism that I don't understand. Sounds complicated. Most likely they hired an expert to make it happen.
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by GBond 13y ago
Even so, KS was never about an exchange of equity for money (other platforms will fill this need like Angelist Invest). KS exchanges ownership in a project's human-level vision (and sometimes a early release of the product) for a donat
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by GBond 13y ago
And PHP... infinite cred for scaling PHP.
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by GBond 13y ago
> The fact of the matter is that you're aren't pre-buying the Rift on a rational basis. You've been convinced by clever marketing to shoulder risk for a company because it seems cool and feels good. This is the point that
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by GBond 13y ago
The real shame is not that the backers didn't a get a financial payout ('tho they should). The real shame is how Oculus' most passionate enthusiasts got burnt. They were in it for the shared vision but got a tough lesson in c
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by GBond 13y ago
> And I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition. The Kickstarter angle is interesting. I'd be peeved as well if I was a supporter and this happened. Aren't KS Project
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by GBond 13y ago
startup idea: invent a way to signal humor/sarcasm on the internet
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by GBond 13y ago
Must be spy-humor. Kinda like how some ex-gov't coworkers of Snowden assumed he wore an EFF t-shirt ironically.
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by GBond 13y ago
From the context of this, it sounds like this QUANTUM system has impacted way more than the reported 100,000 computers around the world.
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by GBond 13y ago
Agree. The "starts at $399" had me sold but I only learned that from the video. It's a huge differentiator and should be the headline of the site.
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Bill and Melinda Gates Aren’t Leaving Their Kids Billions(wired.com)
1 points by GBond 13y ago|0 comments
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by GBond 13y ago
hold on.. there's a developer console somewhere in the webapp? I don't see it and would love to use it. Am I missing something?
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by GBond 13y ago
Really cool. A killer feature would be the ability to test against past years tourney's actual results.
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by GBond 13y ago
I saw no harm in the post. Thanks for sharing. IMO, the criticisms are unfounded and just another example of the HN's community recent penchant to hate on anything and everything.
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Google Glass-wearing woman posts video of alleged S.F. bar attack(latimes.com)
3 points by GBond 13y ago|0 comments
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by GBond 13y ago
few more to add: Flash installation detection by using a flash redirect to a flash only site. IE vs Netscape detection. Disable right-click > view source to prevent others from stealing your l33t code. pop-up ads on top of hundreds of ot
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by GBond 13y ago
Lack of downvote button for stories. BTW, the negative commentors need to work on building up their "humor" skill XP.
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by GBond 13y ago
His last tweet was in 2010 so there is room for both interpretations
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by GBond 13y ago
so #1 tip should really be: move to Canada
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by GBond 13y ago
I use wikinvest.com for tracking investments and assets.
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by GBond 13y ago
This is because a programmer's contribution to the "20M profit" is not easily quantifiable and measurable being that he is mostly likely part of a team working on a feature that is a part of a whole. However a lawyer who wins

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