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by aresant 10y ago
Patrick @ Stripe just shared via Twitter that he sent original idea for stripe to patio11. To which patio11 perfectly replied that note had gotten stuck in his spam folder :) https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/774
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Live from Apple's iPhone 7 and Apple Watch(live.theverge.com)
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by aresant 10y ago
"14 year old CLAIMS to have rejected $30m offer for startup that has yet to launch. But can't share details because of an NDA." is the actual story. And a follow on story a few weeks later is that he would "accept $50m&q
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by aresant 10y ago
Sourced from /r/oculus on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/50vst9/vr_on_steam_gr...
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VR on steam grew 0.06% in july and 0.02% in august(store.steampowered.com)
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by aresant 10y ago
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by aresant 10y ago
His "Can I live without my precious possessions?" answer is the most engineering LOL thing I've read all day: "Pile up my crap. Anytime I need something in the pile, take it out of the pile and save it for later. Monitor
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by aresant 10y ago
Vice did a fun piece on this family a few years back that - on location - captures the environment they survived in -> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68
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by aresant 10y ago
There are dozens of load boards and DAT has the largest by a huge multiplier - what's cargomatic doing substantially differently?
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by aresant 10y ago
Updated! Learned something today, thanks
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by aresant 10y ago
Travis Kalanick made an succinct observation on ridesharing's future yesterday: "If we are not tied for first [in autonomous vehicle rollout], then the person who is in first. . . rolls out a ride-sharing network that is far cheap
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Pokemon GO and Interactive Dynamic Video (Dynamic AR)(youtube.com)
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by aresant 10y ago
The TL;DR of how Zuck wants to build FB's future w/his quotes: 1) "Connectivity, so getting everyone in the world on the Internet." 2) "The next one is AI. I think that that's just going to unlock so much poten
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by aresant 10y ago
"Between 11% and 37% of California students scored at or above the next grade level . . . of their current grade level. The percentages tend to be higher for students in the older grades." It's a pipe dream to believe that th
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by aresant 10y ago
Quick game vid -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bi_c47t-R8 Detailed game vid -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrwJdDzpb_w
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by aresant 10y ago
Interesting that the first supporting paragraph on the "turmoil" this is causing is Tony Fadell & Bill Maris leaving. IMO Those are red herrings: 1) Fadell was extremely unpopular at the time of his departure after several mi
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by aresant 10y ago
This pretty well mirror's PG's assessment of startups: "Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work a
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by aresant 10y ago
Fascinating product, sorry for story formatting comment but I think you missed an h4 for "You’re gathering a lot of information on user behavior. Have you noticed any trends?"
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by aresant 10y ago
Mind boggling - the guy has nice working animations going back to 2009 http://metroid2remake.blogspot.com/p/about-project.html?m=1 Incredible perseverance to ship it after close to a decade of work!
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by aresant 10y ago
Facebook is not trying to build a premium VR business w/margins akin to Apple, that would be completely inverse to their business strategy. Facebook is much more akin to Google than to Apple because Facebook & Google's primary
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by aresant 10y ago
FB's hardware strategy is confusing. Oculus was their first, real consumer hardware release and effort. The rollout was amateur hour between delays, customer service, etc, but that's forgivable and understandable at some level for
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by aresant 10y ago
"The drivers who don’t completely depend on their work with Uber to pay their bills — a group that makes up about half of the company’s workforce — depress full-time workers’ wages." I bet this creates a larger defensive moat than
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by aresant 10y ago
This article makes it sound like Google frittered away $1b on the "X" lab last quarter. X lab includes self driving car, Goog Glass, Project Tango (editorializing here but Tango is badass!), more crazier bets (1) Ok, some crazy st
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by aresant 10y ago
EDIT - Whoops non-paywall didn't pick up - click top result: https://www.google.com/search?q=Facebook+Posts+Strong+Profit...
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by aresant 10y ago
I'm going to counter the "math" in this thread Let's take the example of Nick eg: "Nick Merz knows how tough it can be. He’s a 41-year-old product designer at Apple Inc. whose wife also works there, and says they co
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by aresant 10y ago
I've always considered Job's advertising campaign - "Here's to the Crazy Ones" - which announced his return and Apple's new direction to be such a masterpiece because it was so PERSONAL to Jobs. A recognition o
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Consumer Reports: Tesla Should Turn Off 'Unproven' Autopilot(investors.com)
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by aresant 10y ago
Valve was formed in September of 1996 to create Half Life. After two years of grueling, insane focus they managed to push out Half Life on November 19, 1998. After four more years of growing into their shoes they launched Steam in 2002. If
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by aresant 10y ago
I wrote this on a previously buried thread: Naming their system "autopilot" goes beyond the marketing dept overstepping and into the territory of irresponsibility. The "average" definition of autopilot per Wikipedia is &
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by aresant 10y ago
Most DB Cooper references I've read consider him to be some cross between a folk-hero and lovable-rogue due to the audacity of his crime, lack of harm to civilians, and the idea that he might have actually gotten away with it. But fasc

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