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by aresant 11y ago
I inferred this a little differently In his quote about the iMac* I think the strategy is essentially laid bare that they expect the top end to continue to drive appeal by being powerful and cutting edge - letting consumers continue to driv
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by aresant 11y ago
Along that same thread, Ballmer was also in the middle of a Stanford MBA and he was heavily recruited by Gates himself. (1) Guy didn't exactly fall into MSFT by accident, and in fact MSFT was no where near an incumbent, their revenue m
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by aresant 11y ago
>First time playing dorf >Make a nice, tidy fort, everything is going great >Out of booze and it’s winter >”Oh well, the farm’s still working” >suddenly >”Urist McFarmer has gone berserk!” >and, soon after >”New migr
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by aresant 11y ago
Classic TechCrunch. * Watch the Washington Post feed, notice the article trending in tech "Obama, Bill Gates to lead major effort to spur spending on climate research" * Change to a more tech-friendly, less politicized title &quot
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by aresant 11y ago
You make a good top level point that I think most would agree with - successful terror plots degrade our freedom because we fearfululy grant our government more power. But to broadly call spying apparatus ineffective and incompetent weakens
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Jet.com raises another $350M(recode.net)
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by aresant 11y ago
This is the inevitable fate of all lead gen IMO - Google - between Adwords and analytics - has absolute visibility into the cost per lead metrics and, in many cases, backend close rates for every search category in the world.
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Dell ships laptops with rouge root CA(reddit.com)
1 points by aresant 11y ago|1 comments
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by aresant 11y ago
Very cool! Quick note on Kevin's article, I'm getting a 404 on the link titled "bottom of the slide." w/link to: http://macro.ycombinator.com/images/ddaytips/ddaytips.034.jp...
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In-N-Out sues startup DoorDash, says burger delivery is a trademark violation(arstechnica.com)
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by aresant 11y ago
I researched playground before writing my comment and stand by it. their current investments are in wifi hardware, social connectivity, and brain-based neural networks. (1) Going from buying 6 very specific hardware robotics companies to a
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by aresant 11y ago
I've seen this movie before. Andy is a visionary. He left Apple to found Danger which was one of the "genesis" products that led to the smartphone era. (1) He made the next huge leap with Android and almost failed until Googl
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by aresant 11y ago
In legal / medicine / accounting / other fields there are annual license requirements for continued education. Obviously these fields move slower than tech but would be fascinating to see what could be put together to broadly
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by aresant 11y ago
I started off my career at 19 years old building custom 468x80 pixel web banners back in 2000. I found customers on EBAY (yes, literally EBAY's web section) and charged $9.95 a pop which was a fraction of the big agency rate. I would p
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by aresant 11y ago
The lack of factual scrutiny for such potentially life-changing technology is a shame on both ends of this story. I mean there are 2 Theranos centers smack in the middle of SV (Palo Alto and Redwood City) - the WSJ's exposé centered la
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by aresant 11y ago
The article author qualifies himself pretty well - he has broken multiple stories about Mission and was the first journalist to ever ride their prototype.
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by aresant 11y ago
If you are interested in moebius start with his amazing collaboration with jodorowsky "the incal" - art and story are incredibly rich and unique scifi.
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by aresant 11y ago
Interesting that this important line was omitted from the LATimes article: “Despite the problems, [CONSUMER REPORTS] data show that Tesla owner satisfaction is still very high: Ninety-seven percent of owners said they would definitely buy t
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by aresant 11y ago
A very cool idea @ the high level, but one fatal flaw: "At the end of each day you will fill out a short survey with a few questions evaluating the effects of the pills." Self-reporting is an unsuitable mechanism to draw out scien
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by aresant 11y ago
Slightly off-topic but we're in the middle of building an iOS / Android SDK / library to drive improved location services. Does anybody have any solid resources on SDK marketing directly to iOS and Android developers? We&#x27
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Awesome Activity Recognition for Android(pathsense.com)
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by aresant 11y ago
I love this idea. Not sure if this is driving your thinking but this would open a desperately needed alternative to Academia if you can scale this idea as successfully as you've scaled startups. I've watched my genius brother-in-l
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by aresant 11y ago
I agree that Apple overdesigns too, but the DIRECT competition of the Surface Book is the Apple page I referenced.
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by aresant 11y ago
Wow, this page is a mess - here's an element based breakdown of the switching elements in their presentation: MSFT: - nav 1 - nav 2 - header with what sounds like a call to action, but no button to buy? - hero image with text overlaid
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by aresant 11y ago
Why fake followers? Social proof of course, one of the core tenants of getting a potential customer to trust you.(1) Faking followers to create the impression of social proof / trustworthiness should, of course, be regulated since it&#
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by aresant 11y ago
If you missed the live stream they just posted it here: http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx The gull-wing-in-a-tight-space starts at ~18 mins in
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“Picture yourself as a stereotypical male”(mitadmissions.org)
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by aresant 11y ago
In USA the story is the ad! Welcome to the future after we've all installed Ad Blockers.
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by aresant 11y ago
The GearVR never had these issues, what they shipped was way more polished than DK2. As for DK2, have you tried .7 release yet? They completely removed the "extend my desktop" piece you had issues with. It's way less fungible
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by aresant 11y ago
I bought the original Gear VR with very limited expectations and was surprised how well it worked. The reason it works so well is the GearVR platform is comprised effectively of three things: a) Lenses to make for comfortable, adjustable vi

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