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by amirmc 13y ago
My browser doesn't do that so there's really no need for a TV to do that.
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by amirmc 13y ago
If we don't start building (and pushing for) more distributed/decentralised systems then this is the future we can expect more of. Aside from this, why should my TV need to dial home at all?
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by amirmc 13y ago
What couples think like this? I understand the reasoning but none of my friends who get married concern themselves with such tokens. For people who do think of marriage this way (more of a contract), they can't afford (or don't va
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by amirmc 13y ago
What sustains the price is primarily the restricted supply which is tightly controlled. The long (and impressive) marketing campaign was only one part of the strategy.
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by amirmc 13y ago
For company culture at that. I can see why. "... he thinks about hiring and company culture better than anyone else I know." Via http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-kat-yuri-patrick-and-eli...
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "This is what happens when a bunch of MBAs and Non Engienering Produxt/UX snake oils salesmen play around too much time and money." That's uncalled for. Engineering teams are just as capable of wasting time, money
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by amirmc 13y ago
It's sufficiently well-veiled that I don't see the link to Apple at all. I don't know the detailed history you're referring to but if you're determined to see things through this lens then everything this author w
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by amirmc 13y ago
It's not always about stable growth, either. Sometimes you need to drip feed your customers new tech and possibilities lest you spook them with weird and wonderful things that they were not expecting (with the negative consequence th
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "Personally I think the fading out of negatively scored comments is one of the best design choices PG ever made for the site. I once told him that, and he expressed surprise and said he never sees it. (The admin version of the so
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "I find it sad that we'll have to always consider that particular scenario from now on." People have had to consider that scenario for pretty much any business. Especially fledgling companies, as they might get bough
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by amirmc 13y ago
Being able to send a message to your machines to say "delete everything and overwrite with lots of zeros" doesn't seem to be in conflict with not knowing exactly where the specific disks are in real life.
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by amirmc 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification and for your efforts to increase transparency. They are much appreciated :)
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by amirmc 13y ago
Since we're speculating, it's possible that it's not YC doing that but rather the YC alumni collectively flagging negative stories. It doesn't even need to be a conspiracy since there are so many alums that they're
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by amirmc 13y ago
Reading this, I'm pretty sure I can apply it to adult contexts too. Think about all the cases in organisations where 'values' are touted but the behaviour of people tells you how you really get ahead. Everything here is usefu
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by amirmc 13y ago
CEOs and other high-level execs do take board positions in other companies, so the time commitment is not unusual. Admittedly, they're not usually startup execs.
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "Sure, but valuation is probably the biggest one." No, it's really not. If someone offered me a sky-high valuation but demanded 15 board seats I would be pretty foolish to blindly accept. I'd have just given up c
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by amirmc 13y ago
For those claiming that Marc is acting in his own self interest, well of course he is. You should also bear in mind that he's advising his own portfolio to be highly skeptical of such deals. What he's getting at in (imho) a rath
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "... why are the valuations still sky high?" It's a tactic to get the company into the 'no-shop' stage of a deal, where they've agreed (and probably signed legal paperwork) to say that they won't ta
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by amirmc 13y ago
Would have to be unique garbage, such that de-duping isn't possible.
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by amirmc 13y ago
Mobile has shown the need for new systems of dealing with identity, application management and sync. Essentially, you need 'cloud services' to get the most out of mobile but anything you buy into is typically hampered in some way
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by amirmc 13y ago
It's not undeserved if a product you really liked is effectively deadpooled. It's possible to be both happy for the team that made it but also lament the thing you lost. That people are commenting more on the latter, tells me that
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Google-owned Nest halts sales of its Protect fire alarm(bbc.co.uk)
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by amirmc 13y ago
I think Startups doing impressive things at scale will help with this. For example, Whatsapp serving 500M people with code written/maintained by <50 engineers is an impressive story. What did they do differently? The post-hoc storie
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by amirmc 13y ago
You can skip to the photo collage to get a better look at it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jfE...
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by amirmc 13y ago
If so, I predict a demo with an iPad and a Piano app (playing soft and hard notes).
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by amirmc 13y ago
Every functional programmer I've met has pointed things like this out to me. As well the ability to reason about smaller code-bases.
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by amirmc 13y ago
That seems like flawed reasoning. It'd be better to teach kids to be reasonable human beings irrespective of the medium of communication. If kids want to be destructive to one another, they will be (people can be just as cruel over FB
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by amirmc 13y ago
As well as Real World OCaml (linked in the OP), there are also a number of tutorials/exercises at http://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/ The most visited of these pages is 99 problems: http://ocaml.org&
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by amirmc 13y ago
I guess we're taking different viewpoints on this. I'm considering the ability of a new player to protect and exploit their invention (defensive), whereas you're thinking of an existing player using the same system to preven
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by amirmc 13y ago
Please also remember that a backup is only as good as the restore process. If you've never had cause to test that your restore process works as intended then you're still vulnerable. PS: I admit that while I keep backups, I'

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