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by akrymski 11y ago
Twitter's valuation is down to $19B, which is what Facebook paid for WhatsApp. I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook would make a bid for Twitter at this price, even though FB+Insta combo seems to be killing them. I can't beli
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Original AirBnB Pitch Deck [pdf](arenavc.com)
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by akrymski 11y ago
AirBnB is really two businesses in one: 1. A Hotel disruptor - letting people crash on your couch or empty bedroom. This is the original idea as per pitch deck. 2. Holiday Rental / VRBO / HomesAway competitor - renting out an ent
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by akrymski 11y ago
This exactly. VRBO and HomesAway are the businesses that AirBnB is really competing with, and they've been going for ages. Hotels are for shorter stays, and generally are quite price competitive with AirBnB when staying short term an
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by akrymski 11y ago
With all these government contracts, they must be making a lot of money already, why do they need to raise so much?
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by akrymski 11y ago
Except that TVs are commodities compared to channels. They didn't want to commoditise their own business.
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by akrymski 12y ago
Most definitely. It's kinda like technical analysis in stock markets - it works because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy, people vote with their wallets. At the end of the day consumers don't really know what they want befor
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by akrymski 12y ago
"Unlimited" should be banned from advertising slogans. It's like an "all you can eat" buffet that kicks out the customers that eat too much. It's a trick that companies employ because nobody reads their TOCs
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by akrymski 12y ago
Of course. Just like Buffett gets deals that others (even with billions) simply can't get. Reputation matters much more than your investment thesis.
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by akrymski 12y ago
Yes and no - our lives would be much easier if we could just assume that every user runs a WebKit fork. From testing to development, it would be enable devs to push apps to the limit without testing across multiple platforms. And I'm
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by akrymski 12y ago
Great thanks!
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by akrymski 12y ago
I suggest you take a look at the stats for the number of billionaires in the world over the past 10-20 years. Most likely that chart is very much correlated to house prices in prime areas. http://www.wsws.org/asset/571
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by akrymski 12y ago
Awesome! Is there a way to create a new conversation?
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by akrymski 12y ago
One super simple framework is https://github.com/techlayer/espresso.js/ It's a bastard child of React and Backbone.
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by akrymski 12y ago
I do mean within a mobile browser. We have a pretty large app inside Cordova, and I've yet to get stuck where there's something I can't recreate. Would be interesting to see an example where a mobile browser falls short.
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by akrymski 12y ago
What most apps need can be done by listening to touch events instead of scroll events. Eg hiding the top bar when user started scrolling down and so on. I can't even think of an app that has a parallax effect. If your app is required t
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by akrymski 12y ago
How so? Which feature of the UITableView can not be replicated in JS? I'm struggle to think of one. Swipe left/right to remove rows in a table can be done with touch events. What am I missing?
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by akrymski 12y ago
I think simply moving any function that takes more than 10ms to a web worker is enough frankly.
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by akrymski 12y ago
I can't help but feel that all this energy would be better spent on improving webkit itself (such as running JS in a separate thread to the UI)
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by akrymski 12y ago
what's wrong with -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch? doing scrolling in js is so last year.
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by akrymski 12y ago
I've been thinking about this as well yesterday, but to be honest I'm not sure where the benefits are. In theory the browser is doing the rendering in a separate thread anyway, i.e. CSS layout and things like scrolling are handle
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by akrymski 12y ago
I agree 100%. This completely defeats the point of web technologies - you must as well write C# and use Xamarin. I don't want to learn yet another HTML-type spec plus a CSS fork. The whole point was to use web technologies: JS + HT
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How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web(arstechnica.com)
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ARM Unveils New Processor for Smartphones(wsj.com)
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by akrymski 12y ago
I'm not saying they will rollover and die tomorrow. I think it's enough for them to start growing at a lower rate than the current 30% for the stock to take a hit. iPhone 6 mini - sure I see that. But it wont be much of an impro
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by akrymski 12y ago
Indeed, how many people in the world are rich enough to buy an Apple product with its associated high margin? A billion? That's about how many iOS devices Apple sold to date. Can it keep growing at 30% a year? I think it will simpl
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by akrymski 12y ago
A slimmer iPhone requires a substantial breakthrough in physics and technology in general. So far improves have been incremental, but as with Moore's Law - we've reached the limit on thinness - current generation of components do
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by akrymski 12y ago
Having bought the iPhone 6, I have to say I miss the size of iPhone 5, being able to use it with one hand, being less slippery, and the sturdy design. Many months passed by and I still miss it - this has never happened before. I won't
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by akrymski 12y ago
Now if only Facebook did the same, I could finally use Safari without switching to iPad mode!
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by akrymski 12y ago
And yet the truly successful people have gotten to where they are by sticking to their beliefs: - Warren Buffet has always believed that companies should be valued based on their profits, not their share price performance. Thus he didn&#x2

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