Timothee

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by Timothee 16y ago
In 2010, I got accepted and kicked out of Y Combinator, lost my cofounders, and raised $1.5M from A-list investors Sounds like it was more "our team was accepted even though they had no idea what I was up to, I subsequently lost my cofoun
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by Timothee 16y ago
There's a lot of assumptions in that question: 1. that programmers are paid less than business analysts and project managers, and 2. that "programming is much more difficult than creating documentation or even creating Gantt chart and askin
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by Timothee 16y ago
Directly from Apple both times, ~6 months apart from each other. Note that this extra software was pre-installed and on the Mac OS install DVD, not coming as a separate box/DVD. It would have been very easy to miss it and, again, I don't co
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by Timothee 16y ago
That was my first thought as well. Though I remembered that my MacBook came with a pack of games and OmniOutliner, and my wife's with Quicken. Sure, it's not really bloatware and more like freebies, but it's good to remember that Macs don't
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by Timothee 16y ago
Other trick to make the other person feel special when getting a phone call: pick up the phone and, after identifying who it is, say "hold on, I need to get rid of someone on the other line", put on mute for a few seconds and come back.
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by Timothee 16y ago
Keep in mind that two of the co-founders are Dave Morin and Shawn Fanning. The former likely made many millions (real and paper money I'd think) as manager for the Facebook platform/Facebook Connect, the latter made many millions from Napst
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by Timothee 16y ago
One thing it can buy is time, and consequently leverage. At Demo Day, the investors will know that all the startups have some cash to last after YC, so that they don't have to rush on the first investor that comes along which should transla
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by Timothee 16y ago
I'm surprised google isn't doing speech recognition and translating these for us too. I'd think the problem is that you're piling up two technologies known for being very approximate and the results would be likely to be pretty far off to
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by Timothee 16y ago
Am I the only one who finds this a little bit of bad taste? "Social Media Blocked In Your Country? Email Keeps The News Flowing" This sounds like an infomercial about how to start a revolution in three easy steps. I'm sure they're well-in
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by Timothee 16y ago
The sibling thread of my comment seems to imply this is proper grammar. And, English not being my mother tongue, I won't disagree. (and I'll be happy to be corrected) However, it doesn't sound quite proper to me and I haven't heard it befor
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by Timothee 16y ago
It's not a Ponzi scheme though, is it? It might be a scam, but for it to be a Ponzi scheme, the developers would need to use the money they get from the first publishers to, say, buy the apps they've developed to show it gets great returns
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by Timothee 16y ago
I smell sarcasm in your comment. But the point is that yes, I expect Google/Gmail to understand that when I'm marking an email as "Spam" or "Not Spam" by clicking the buttons they put there, similar emails should be flagged (or not) accor
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by Timothee 16y ago
I can't remember getting false negative but I'm started to get more and more false positive for spam with Gmail unfortunately. All emails from LinkedIn, my alumni association and recently Facebook go to spam, even after clicking "Not spam"
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by Timothee 16y ago
I could see that as a good page to redirect to in your hosts file for distracting sites like HN, reddit et al.
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by Timothee 16y ago
Quick review: first thing I noticed is that not all graphics are "Retina"-ready and it shows; their use of the UITabBar is pretty bad IMHO (tapping an icon never switches to a tab but flips or slide to a different UIView; some navigation is
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by Timothee 16y ago
I think it's a very interesting project. I've been very interested in things that combine hardware with smart phones, since the Apple keynote that showed the first authorized hardware "extensions". (though since then, I've been disappointed
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by Timothee 16y ago
I'm not sure that's such an absurd question, depending on the CEO and the intern. I can right away think of one intern I've worked with that I would really like to work with later on, and I've worked with one CEO that I would never want to
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by Timothee 16y ago
I was promptly disqualified for unspecified reasons. In my experience, most teachers really don't like smart-asses. Devil's advocate will say that the accelerations you submitted your imaginary passengers were way too strong. My story in
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by Timothee 16y ago
I would really like to know… do you think your figures are realistic? (let's say compared to what other employees of successful companies may have made in the past, for which I have no info. e.g. Google, eBay, etc.) Warning: the following w
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by Timothee 16y ago
Prey actually does it as part of their reports on stolen laptops: http://preyproject.com/ Probably not with PhotoBooth though :)
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by Timothee 16y ago
"everyone in the room, their phones ring as part of the prototype, and literally people would applaud that, saying that was amazing." It's actually a funny thing: you can do a bunch* of stuff with software but when you start doing things th
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by Timothee 16y ago
That reminds me of a Flash calendar/todo application that had a super successful "sign up for out beta" demo a few years ago. Unfortunately the name completely escapes me. Basically they had made a video demo of what the product would be, t
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by Timothee 16y ago
I've had the same problem with the recently-released browser RockMelt: I can't help but reading it as "rock-me-it". Which, I admit, doesn't mean anything, while "dolt" is a word. (does RockMelt mean anything though?)
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by Timothee 16y ago
It might be for some legal reasons until there is an official statement on the matter. In a similar way that journalists always have to say "allegedly" when talking a case that hasn't been closed. (IANAL obviously, neither a journalist)
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by Timothee 16y ago
On Google Finance, some links (that I haven't studied in details) seemed to say that indeed Borders had a lot of debt. "As Borders Group Inc. asks publishers for leniency on paying bills, the bookstore chain has been in discussions with res
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by Timothee 16y ago
I think the problem is when you drop all your ideas for over-thinking them too fast. I know exactly how the OP feels: I get an idea, start thinking about what would be needed to make it work, throw some stuff together and see that it could
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by Timothee 16y ago
Regarding #1, for some people, the opposite happens: because the idea is out there, executing becomes less important. So YMMV. I personally feel that one part of executing is indeed to get validation on the idea itself. By discussing it, on
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by Timothee 16y ago
"Borders is trading at 86 cents a share and has a market cap of 62 million dollars. It has around 700 locations valuing them at less than $100,000 per store" That's a pretty shocking figure if you ask me. It's hard to believe when you hear
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by Timothee 16y ago
I think that HIG and default UI libraries are great to give the default app a consistent and decent look and UX. It makes it possible for anyone to write an app that behaves and looks at a good enough level. But, unique interfaces that stra
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by Timothee 16y ago
(disclaimer: I've never had or used a TiVo so maybe I'm missing something) I don't really see why Apple would be interested in TiVo? TiVo allows you to record content and watch it whenever you feel like it. It gives you control on the sched

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