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by SurfScore 13y ago
This is definitely for enterprise and school purchases. We have an educational app, Kodable, and a huge number of our users are still on iPad 2s. When you buy in volume, that extra $100 goes a long way, and, for better or worse, schools and
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by SurfScore 13y ago
The thing I kept thinking when I was reading this was pedigree, pedigree, pedigree. Brown grad, University of Chicago, met at Harvard Summer School. Invested in a YC company already. One works at Stripe. This is quite the resume for two peo
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by SurfScore 13y ago
People keep talking about the rising prices, but what is being done? What CAN be done? Its supply and demand. San Francisco will always be expensive because it is a desirable location for certain groups of high-earning people. Being "p
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I guess pg chose to pursue YC instead of that kickass goatee...
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by SurfScore 13y ago
From Ycombinator's "What We Do" page: One concrete consequence is that Y Combinator funding lets you sell early, if you want to. It can sometimes make sense to sell yourself when you're small for a few million, rather t
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by SurfScore 13y ago
The biggest issue with single founders isn't what most people think. Its not about getting more work done, or that you can't physically output as much code as two people. Most startups spend lots of "wasted" time going t
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by SurfScore 13y ago
So apparently the app works because you can access someone's facebook page with the URL www.facebook.com/"#". With the number being the numbered profile they are. Its curious, however, that Zuck is actually number 4 (www
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by SurfScore 13y ago
For kindergarten-2nd grade (5-8) I'd also recommend Kodable if you have an iPad. It simplifies programming concepts into a fun and interactive world where you have to guide a little fuzz ball through colored mazes. It teaches sequence,
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by SurfScore 13y ago
He matured as he got older, as Woz said. Getting forced out of Apple was a pretty humbling experience. His time at NeXT and Pixar helped as well. And just plain getting older...
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Tolerance is great, but safety should always be the primary concern. A significant amount of homeless people are homeless, sadly, because of mental conditions. I'm not saying that most homeless people are going to attack you in the str
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I've lived all over the country, and I've never seen such a big divide between two groups (wealthy tech and everyone else) as I have in the Bay Area. The last time I was there, I realized why most of the protests for economic refo
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I think you're right, but I don't think the breakdown is as drastic as 99%. Traction is most important by a wide margin, because it proves that you're doing something right. This is a capitalist society where the market dicta
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Life-saving transplant denied, health insurance canceled over 26-cent shortfall(nj.com)
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by SurfScore 13y ago
This man's got spunk! Get him to Silicon Valley with some venture capital and he'll make waves.
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by SurfScore 13y ago
From the "Philosophy" section of ycombinator.com/about (the whole section is relevant really): One concrete consequence is that Y Combinator funding lets you sell early, if you want to. It can sometimes make sense to sell yo
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by SurfScore 13y ago
How did I know it would be the Steve Jobs article
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Ask HN: What is the most upvoted story ever on HN?
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by SurfScore 13y ago
The Tom Hanks movie "The Terminal" seems rather relevant here.
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Is there a way to access from a NAS or other network share? I see options for network stream but its rather cryptic.
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I'm talking weird glitches like a nib gets corrupted and I've made enough changes to matter but haven't committed anything yet
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Dropbox revert to previous versions has saved my ass multiple times when something goes wrong in Xcode that I can't undo.
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Nothing in life worth doing is
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Fucking hard
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by SurfScore 13y ago
They need to have better procedures in situations like this. A woman at night being approached by a bunch of men? The cons of staying are far greater than anything that could justify it. Sadly these situations happen so late that once the a
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Elon Musk put his last $3 million into Tesla to make payroll a few years ago.
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Talk to your friends/colleagues and find a good lawyer to talk to about this. The legal situation could be all over the map depending on your employment contract. Taxes are usually done after the fact. I.e you get a 1099-MISC from ea
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by SurfScore 13y ago
These two are nowhere near the same. Assange leaked information that actually put people's lives in danger. He directly named operatives undercover in places with governments that wouldn't think twice about chopping their heads of
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Certain people are going to like iOS 7 and certain people aren't. Its been that way with every single work of art since the beginning of time. Trying to "make" someone see the beauty in something they instinctively dislike is
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I was referring to the original DRM decision as being too greedy when they made it (before the backlash). Companies institute DRM to decrease piracy, which increases their bottom line. The effectiveness of DRM is a totally different subject
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I don't get the negative response to this. They made a mistake (admittedly being too greedy), and now they're correcting it. People didn't like the DRM, SO THEY TOOK IT OUT! Get over holding a grudge; the Xbox has a lot of ve

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