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by SurfScore 13y ago
It's a shame that the App Store is becoming this commercialized. One of the best things about it in the early days was the fact that indie games could get noticed internationally. Sure we get games like Infinity Blade but indie developers g
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Did any OMGPOP employees have stock options vesting still from the acquisition, or was it all cash? If they did have stock options, did they immediately vest upon termination or did they lose them?
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by SurfScore 13y ago
So how does this work for paid apps? If you sell your app for 2.99 and you're paying 1.20 an install, aren't you making money? I know I'm missing something here because otherwise anyone could pay for infinite installs and make infinite mone
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I completely agree on most things in school being useless, especially homework. However, I don't know of a single career path one can take where they never have to do boring, monotonous, or simply annoying things to succeed. CEOs have to ha
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by SurfScore 13y ago
This is why big companies get slow and bloated. Behavior like this only happens when people are in it for the money and don't really care about what they're building.
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Bose is amazing for longevity. I'm still using a set my parents gave me when I left for college that they had for 10 years at least before that. They still sell the same model in stores today!
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Battery technology has been the primary bottleneck for technological advancement for awhile now, especially on mobile.
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I love the comments on the Yahoo page complaining about new technology. You just KNOW these are people that got turned on to Yahoo in the 90s and have been using it for 'Internet' ever since.
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Steve Jobs capped many of the teams in Cupertino(minimalmac.com)
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Marc Andreessen explained the use of those metrics on Rap Genius: “As someone who was in the room as an observer at the Groupon board when the decision to use these metrics was made, I think Groupon was honestly trying to provide additional
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Andrew Mason founded an enormously popular company that went public and generated hundreds of millions in revenue. Regardless of any other issues anyone might have with him or Groupon, you don't get to that point (especially after the dot-
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I think there is some validity to this, but a lot of it is, for lack of a better word, inconsiderate. Not all startups will IPO, even the successful ones. Founders are left with a choice; sell the company and be rewarded for the 40 years of
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I think this is more a product of selective reporting than it is lack of reporting. Angry birds was something like Rovio's 52nd game when they were on the verge of bankruptcy. If you've ever really read into most of these stories, there's a
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Where does this place "education" companies like ClassDojo and Code Academy? The author says education companies don't experience consumer-product level growth but both of them have definitely done that. Is that because they are more "consu
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Probably legal reasons why he won't. Most companies make it a policy not to comment on ongoing litigation. Usually nothing good comes of it. Although there are exceptions...
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by SurfScore 13y ago
This is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever seen at the top of Hacker News. It's true, some people are just lazy, but the "author" you refer to is Jason Freedman. He's a successful YC founder who probably busts his ass harder than 99% of
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I disagree. Investors often have a much more personal relationship with the founder. They made a bet on YOU. Your boss may or may not even care about you or whether you work there. More importantly, you might not give a rats ass what your b
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by SurfScore 13y ago
If true, its nice to see that Microsoft actually cares about what gamers want. They could easily force players into some crazy DRM, and while it would piss off a lot of people and the interwebs would explode, they would probably make more m
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Could this have anything to do with the fact that abundant displays of wealth (I.e. a mansion) are frowned upon by some in the Valley? I honestly have no idea, but you hear stories about tech millionaires living modest lives in SV all the t
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Once you reach a certain point money simply doesn't matter. They mentioned Groupon: Andrew Mason knew that whatever happened he was never going to have to worry about money again. When you have that luxury, you go with your heart, and it us
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I get that it's good to know these things, but is putting something at the top of a highly trafficked website, which will inevitably lead to a ton more traffic, gonna make getting it back up any easier? I guess it depends on the problem, ma
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Is this only a problem on Android phones? The screenshot he shows of the text is clearly Android. I would wonder how this would be possible on a non-jailbroken iOS device if Path wasn't left running all night.
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Would you consider the IK12 Start Fund an investment in other startups? Or is that just more of a general investment?
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I'd vote for Wildcat
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I'm more concerned about what large feline they will name 10.9 after. Do they even have any left? OS X 10.9 - House Cat FTW
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by SurfScore 13y ago
A lot of people don't mention this, but being smart (and more importantly knowing that you're smart) at an early age can have a HUGE negative effect on your development. This obviously doesn't happen always, but when you're a kid that kno
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Only took them 2 years...
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by SurfScore 13y ago
The thing is that the instead of it being real estate with maybe 1,000 tenants, its a service that has hundreds of millions of users. Facebook has over a billion. I don't know if anyone has had the power to shut off access to that many peop
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by SurfScore 13y ago
I don't like this trend with services being shut down by the big guys in the industry. You see what happened with AppGratis, and now this. I understand the whole TOS violation thing, but when a big company can shut down a successful start
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by SurfScore 13y ago
Definitely need a mod to do something about this. Put a 2012 in the title or get rid of it entirely. It smells like a troll to me.

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