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by boucher 16y ago
Though, $200,000 on a $2 million raise is a bit high for break up fee I think.
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by boucher 16y ago
Not that much. Term sheets aren't binding, so the fact that it wasn't signed is pretty much just decoration in this story.
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by boucher 16y ago
This is pretty cool. Glad to see people making good use of what we put out there.
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by boucher 16y ago
You seem to confusing facts with claims on a blog written by a third party. It's not hard to believe Web.app (the process which runs home screen apps) uses UIWebView or a close cousin, but neither you nor Gruber (or anyone on this site) has
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by boucher 16y ago
2) They didn't release it, one imagines, because it is hardware specific, and originally written for x86 not ARM.
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by boucher 16y ago
His point is that HomeScreen web apps (for lack of a better term) are fundamentally exactly as secure as MobileSafari. Even a technical argument is somewhat hard to fathom, since it should be a trivially simple thing to enable, but given th
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by boucher 16y ago
The design is headed in a good direction but there are definitely quite a few little things like this that could be improved. The top bar can still be fixed position at the top without requiring an enormous minimum width. Similarly, the ide
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by boucher 16y ago
This is somewhat unfortunate, as it means you can't sustain notes.
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by boucher 16y ago
I'm curious, why do you need to make a distinction? Is there some other feature of CS that depends on it? Certainly 'for key, value of array' could be implemented with numerical keys. If using just 'for value of dict' is allowed that would
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by boucher 16y ago
Of course this is a silly statement. If 100% of Apple developers decided to join a union in an attempt to collectively bargain, of course Apple would negotiate. If 1% join, of course they won't. Where the tipping point lies is an open quest
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by boucher 16y ago
Well, GWT still deals heavily with HTML, CSS, and the DOM. It does offer certain abstractions that many frameworks do not. Both projects are certainly targeting a similar (but not completely identical) market. I'm not quite sure what you me
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by boucher 16y ago
Who says we aren't still team members? We just didn't help write the blog post.
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by boucher 16y ago
There's a fairly practical reason to ask for a breakup fee in a smaller acquisition (or even VC round): the legal costs of these events are significant for a small company. Generating Series A paperwork, or acquisition paperwork, could easi
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by boucher 16y ago
I'd argue that this isn't really that dissimilar from most simple template engines. It's basically substituting class names for placeholder syntax, though with a bit less flexibility for things like repetitions or conditionals. Though I'd a
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by boucher 16y ago
Absolutely. Along with the standard, "talk to a lawyer" advice, it's worth noting a few things: 1) Virtually every major technology company includes intellectual property assignment agreements in the paperwork they require new hires to sign
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by boucher 16y ago
This seems like a fairly uninformed view of the Zuckerberg story. In the end, Facebook settled those claims for huge amounts of money (and only were able to because they in fact had huge amounts of money).
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by boucher 16y ago
This argument is often advanced by people against automatic updates, but I would suggest that its such a small minority of situations and people that its not worth considering unless you operate in a very specific niche.
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by boucher 16y ago
You don't need to be based in the US to hire an attorney in the US. No one in my company has ever met our lawyer in person, and he did quite a bit of work for us.
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by boucher 16y ago
Look behind you, we're already building them. Not everything needs to work in every old browser.
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by boucher 16y ago
This is the argument everyone pushes, but it's not true. Yes, JavaScript is slower than Objective-C. No, it doesn't matter in most cases. Speed of almost all consumer apps is measured in user time, not in ms, and you can achieve top notch p
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by boucher 16y ago
I think there are only a handful of people in the world who truly understand what building something on the level of complexity of a 280 Slides or GMail in jQuery really is. And I think even those people would agree that they'd be better of
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by boucher 16y ago
New Twitter is really the example to look at here (and they aren't the first). New Twitter doesn't have unique pages anymore for tweets, and everything is happening in a single page. But each of those tweets also has a real HTML version gen
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by boucher 16y ago
The security concern is essentially a red herring, for reasons you've already identified. The code running on your server is guaranteed to be yours. That fact doesn't change. Equally unchanged is that you can expect anything from the client
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by boucher 16y ago
I think that policies very significantly from place to place, and even from field to field. I know that at USC, the policy is favorable to students in most fields ( http://policies.usc.edu/policies/intellectualproperty040301.... ). Software
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by boucher 16y ago
What people are pointing out is that nobody outside of this batch in Y Combinator has seen the paperwork, so nobody can actually verify that there isn't something hidden or sketchy present. I trust Paul implicitly, and I suspect most YC Fou
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by boucher 16y ago
For whatever its worth, plenty of people in this gig don't abuse caffeine and often don't have any at all. I rarely have more than one coffee a day, and often have none. I don't drink energy drinks or soda (except perhaps when out to eat).
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by boucher 16y ago
Actually, even that isn't true. If a company were to take this money, and then never raise another round, they would simply have to pay the debt back, I'm guessing at a fairly modest interest rate.
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by boucher 16y ago
But, they'll still need to buy another iPhone. They're basically going to convince a bunch of their best customers to pay twice for the same product.
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by boucher 16y ago
In what way do they appear to be firesales?
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by boucher 16y ago
Nope.

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