JVIDEL

40 ms·

331.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
TBH I don't know I was certain this charade was going to explode in 2008/9 but it didn't and it even got bigger. A guy I know mentioned the only thing that's going to pop this bubble is the Fed raising interest rates, which are near zero. T
332.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
Market-speak is cyclical, buzzwords come and go the moment it becomes too overused and washed-up. Remember when everything had to be "interactive"? What about "multimedia"? you just can't buy a toaster that isn't multimedia! "Pivot" is alre
333.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
When I meet with investors all they talk about is traction and traffic. If you have enough there are no more meeting, no calls, no demos. You get funded, no questions asked. IE is no longer 90% of the market, but it's still the biggest brow
334.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
Over THERE, also Chrome is the leading browser in Latin America, but how big are those markets?
335.
Which are the best Django apps for Gamification?
1 points by JVIDEL 14y ago|2 comments
336.
Why isn't Canonical using Android?
6 points by JVIDEL 14y ago|5 comments
337.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
Ever seen the average user for Pinterest's? do you picture a +40-yr old woman mailing some devs because the page she's looking at didn't load? They don't bother, just leave and never come back, simple as that. Just like IE users don't bothe
338.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
How do you go from a 4" screen to a 7" screen?
339.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
IE market share has been going down for years, but it's still more or less 70% That means that by not supporting IE you don't get 70% of the market. Early adopters come and go, but "hockey stick" growth like the one Pinterest got? that come
340.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
COLOR got $41MM for having an all-star team, not because their investors could see the future... In any case it shows that not only money isn't everything, but that whole "invest in the team" mantra is flawed as well, just look at Instagram
341.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
Regular people can't see software, they really can't: for them it's a bunch of crazy numbers and letters, and incredibly boring too which is why media like movies do a montage with meaningless 3D objects and not actual code. That's also the
342.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
Like the UI layout, but as others are saying it's not easier on the eyes: try to make the background more dark, not monokai-dark but not this retina-burning white either...
343.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
What do you expect when half the VCs say they invest using "their gut"? as if "feeling" a company is going to be successful is a valid metric. In any case if you fail more than once it's obvious your gut isn't very precise and you should us
344.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
Nowhere in the article I see anything about the mental disorders of criminals, psychopaths and sociopaths who can be very entrepreneurial but also very low on ethics. There are two kinds of criminals: the ones that do it because they were d
345.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
Dude if you are working at Google and _not_ getting paid then the industry would be about to collapse... I think you got a couple of things wrong and that's assuming this was about making an easy million off some code. It is not, the proble
346.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
OK I meant when it started
347.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
And the sad part is that recruiters are going to keep talking crap about "motivation" and how gamification makes working "fun". Pay up: there's an actual deficit of coders in the market, know why? because years ago people who were grade-A m
348.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
webOS is good on paper: I got one and while the UI is perfect there are far too many bugs and slowdowns.
349.
by JVIDEL 14y ago
The Metro UI is really good, but it's too little, too late, or at least that's what sales numbers are showing: WP7 can't make a dent in the market, which BTW Android is zerg-rushing.
350.
by JVIDEL 15y ago
I don't want to sound like an ass but from experience I can say that's because the founder read somewhere that X framework is "kwel" and the hottest thing right now so they gotta have it. But the end-user doesn't cares, case in point: Groov
351.
by JVIDEL 15y ago
Naming the best possible cases is not a good defense, I could cite how much money bankers made with CDOs and yet that didn't stop the economy from collapsing. All those cases could have been just as successful in any other platform, or even
352.
by JVIDEL 15y ago
Since when is getting what you were promised the same than a VC ROI model? VCs expect as much as possible, they want to hit jackpot. I give $100 for a watch so I expect said watch, not a Rolex! And getting jack shit is the exact opposite of
353.
by JVIDEL 15y ago
Don't know about this project, but the problem with kickstarter is that once you back a project is no longer your money, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's right there on their TOS: they are not responsible for the project, nor t
354.
by JVIDEL 15y ago
The first thing you have to do to understand why bubbles happen is to stop believing everyone in it is being 100% rational. The reality is that for most investors the vague notion that they might be missing a great opportunity far outweight
355.
by JVIDEL 15y ago
HBO was born with Cable, it was disruptive back then because TV in those days was boring, dull, repetitive and way too family-friendly. They don't "understand" the internet, just like TV channels of old didn't understand that not everybody
356.
by JVIDEL 15y ago
Just another trick like the "hovering" russian helicopter... The matrix didn't go BSOD when Crysis launched, it wont go because of a reverse stream of water...
357.
by JVIDEL 15y ago
I really don't see why this is a surprise: unlike many other projects this one shows a more or less finished product that works as advertised, not a "idea on paper" or pie-in-the-sky, and you can get the watch by backing the project, a win-
358.
by JVIDEL 15y ago
Just how were they applying this idea? how did they get around the regional strategies of the retailers? How did they manage to ship to countries like the BRIC and others in the developing world which have overzealous custom policies regard
359.
by JVIDEL 15y ago
I been at both sides of the table, had every idiot out there with TNFB ("the next facebook") ask me to sign a poorly written NDA before sharing their half-asses ideas. But it stops being funny when you consider how much it would suck to get
360.
by JVIDEL 15y ago
Funny, nowhere in the article I see a mention of the widening income gap (more like a canyon these days) that means most of YGens wont be able to afford the same "luxuries" than their parents had. In fact most will struggle to keep their pl

More ›