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by alaskamiller 8y ago
It's really simple: iBook became MacBook then derived MacBook Air, a thinner version iPod derived iPod Mini, a smaller version Ergo iPad Mini is smaller than the iPad while iPad Air is thinner than the iPad
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
Grew up in Silicon Valley: 1998-2002 High school, Barista, Subways, $7/hr 2003-2007 USMC, $25k/yr 2007-2008 Apple, knowledge manager, $50k/yr 2008-2009 Gawker, BusinessInsider, writer, $30k/yr 2010-2011 SF startup, marke
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
I have a place right next to the factory road outlet for about 3 years and have been counting output. Since then I've also worked at an office park nearby where Tesla booked up the empty park next to us to use for holding staging. That
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
This is one of those no-shit responses, parroted over and over again. At the end of the day, Pepsi and Coca-Cola sells you sugar water. McDonald's and Burger King get the same meat form the same vendor trucks. You charge a credit card
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
Good insight but way too old. In the 00's we already knew Facebook was the new cocaine. Us being the 20 somethings that spent all our lives online creating content in the UGC web 2.0 days. Everyone wanted to try it. Cool if you had it.
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
Fundamentals still the same from the Spoonrocket days. $15/hr to pay the drivers. 3 to 5 trips an hour. Avg ticket is $16, and the platforms (P, U, D) take a third. What's changed? Consumers changed. People are paying $6 for deliv
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
A building is meant to last for awhile. Say it's 20 years. $180MM / (20 yrs x 1800 people) = $5000/yr/person Is that unreasonable?
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
Apple doesn't care about Tesla. Apple will buy Juul. It's a drop-in team of industrial designers, QA testers, and fabricators that's identified the next viable physical platform.
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
The placement companies are getting $150/hr, which is about going rate for dev agencies here in the valley. You just get the 60% cut. Some other routes to take: Management. You get 2 or 3 other remote guys and bill at $200/hr then
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
Isn't it awesome that he's making good on a promise to take care of the business to then pass it on to the next CEO? What if it's an 8 yr old African child right now looking up to code Swift 4 on YouTube?
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
Your pedantry is annoying. "PERSON DID THING on the belief" is a literary turn of phrase.
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
Hubble is going the Warby Parker or Dollar Shave Club route, by vertically integrating manufacturing and branding. This is just ecommerce automation in a niche vertical. Here, they draw in buyers, they stock inventory, and they fulfill. May
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
Yes, you can write down a thought. Whether that gets to be a sentence or not is another story. Yes, you can write out an idea. Whether that gets to be a page or not is another story. Yes, you can write out a book. Whether that gets publishe
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
Your extrapolation process is off. MacBooks as work computers being handed out is an aberration. Has been since the 80's, 90's, and 00's.
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
Lol calm down. Shopify is SaaS product that's like Wix + Stripe, it's growth is driven by the personality cults that made use of Facebook ad networks to convince others that they can make millions dropshipping or printing tshirts.
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
Shopify uses Stripe to process payments because they don't want to be responsible for it.
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
What a world we live in, where a company can operate however it would like. Using up public roads and sidewalks, relying on 911 when things go awry, and pushing all the responsibilities to the community. Things sure sound funny either way.
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
Not really. They call him Mister (先生) as an honorific. In chinese culture, that's what you call the big boss.
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
It's just Yelp Elite program run amok.
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by alaskamiller 9y ago
At high level, maybe. But poker is really about process and discipline. Playing poker to create income is a grind. You sit there for up to 5 hours and do math on odds and make decisions, hand after hand. Every now and then you utilize bluff
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by alaskamiller 9y ago
A me-too product in a crowded field. Based on other comments below it appears to be a rebrand of a prior acquire, Turnstyle Analytics in this case. Also, it's pretty clear based on these early comments that HN has a bunch of people th
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by alaskamiller 9y ago
Whether intentionally or unintentionally you're demonstrating the concept of privilege that some people are making efforts to point out. You want to play the game that you want because you believe yourself to be a rational, intelligent
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by alaskamiller 9y ago
You're being silly. > Tomorrow someone could launch a fully peer to peer version of the software that runs in distributed fashion across all devices it gets installed upon Yeah, that already exists. It's called the phone app. Y
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by alaskamiller 9y ago
1. David Foster Wallace is commenting how one has to do the work to manage stress and bias. That's the truth, you work for it. You running away the stress by deferring it to someone else to handle (the delivery person or the warehouse
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by alaskamiller 9y ago
Nope. Now the point of snapchat is to binge watch videos of other people. Snapchat sells ads the same way the media company does. So their KPI is time spent, like how a broadcast company determines ad rates. Their strategy is to detach the
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by alaskamiller 9y ago
By next year the watch will be the controller for AR Kit apps on A10x devices.
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by alaskamiller 9y ago
Have an email? Would like to connect regarding ARKit
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by alaskamiller 9y ago
It means they're gonna end up building open source WeChat, who already have the features for what these guys are saying is the future. So messaging apps was at first pure conversations. Then they started exposing webviews. Now webviews
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by alaskamiller 9y ago
The Mac is Steve's baby. The i in iMac means internet. Back in early 2000s, the prevailing silicon valley view is that the internet is and will forever be the greatest thing ever. The iPod was already a success. Adding a phone to it is
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by alaskamiller 9y ago
$100 million for two dozen bets (plus management fees) to catch 300MM MAU that yields $100k ad slot inventories. 2000 placement a year to break even. 4000 to double ROI. TWC has skin in the game to explore a new channel. Snap has skin the g

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