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by cnaut 12y ago
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
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by cnaut 12y ago
Makes me think of this video "The Life and Death of Javascript " which brings what the future could be like with asm.js: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by cnaut 12y ago
I had my own office at Microsoft and so did most people on my team.
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by cnaut 12y ago
courserank was bootstrapped and acquired by chegg
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by cnaut 12y ago
You can see them as abstractions of AWS in some ways. An average consumer wouldn't go through the trouble of dealing with AWS to backup their files and even for developers heroku provides a nice level of abstraction
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by cnaut 13y ago
A big part of investment is pattern recognition. Of course they try to understand what people are doing but that only gets you so far. Ideally, you would want to be able to learn from your previous decisions and improve on your process. If
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by cnaut 13y ago
Probably to build internal tools. A lot of VCs firms are trying to apply more data to their investment decisions and that requires internal tools to handle it all. Also makes sense given the qualifications they are asking for.
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by cnaut 13y ago
Doing this helped me start my startup while working full time and eventually feel confident enough to quit my job and work full time on my startup
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by cnaut 13y ago
I think it is more than just connecting supply and demand with a great UX. The UX is actually creating demand. With taxis, Uber has created a whole new market of people who use uber but didn't use taxies before. I see a similar thing h
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by cnaut 13y ago
I can't tell if the algorithm used for placing tiles is less sophisticated or if removing the numbers makes me a better player.
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by cnaut 13y ago
Attent by Seriosity has an interesting solution to this: http://www.seriosity.com/attent.html . They create a scarce currency that companies use internally to send messages.
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by cnaut 13y ago
Yes, this definitely makes sense. I'm just surprised that this is consistent across all those dimensions when almost nothing else is.
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by cnaut 13y ago
Interesting that the only pattern that was consistent across gender, race, and economic status was this: "Despite being in the labor force a greater percentage of weeks, individuals held fewer jobs from ages 23 to 26 than they did from
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by cnaut 13y ago
This is the CueCat done right! Technology is similar but their is a clear use case.
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by cnaut 13y ago
it should have been weaker than it was
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by cnaut 13y ago
One of the biggest reasons that native apps are getting more usage than mobile web apps is the existence of an app store. There is no central distribution center for web apps making discovery difficult. The process of getting a mobile web a
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by cnaut 13y ago
I'm guessing threshold which would be huge if the rumors are true. It would combine a lot of the OS cores for desktop, phone, and xbox to allow developers to write once and run across Microsoft devices. http://www.digitaltre
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Amazon joins the living room gaming brawl with its $99 Fire TV and a
1 points by cnaut 13y ago|0 comments
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by cnaut 13y ago
I can definitely see Google merging Chrome OS with Android
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by cnaut 13y ago
Is branding the biggest reason for hosting your own git server?
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by cnaut 13y ago
I think all the methods listed by mc_hammer are great but nothing beats talking with your target customers and figuring out whether what you are building is a real problem. I will admit this is a lot easier for a B2B startup than a consumer
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by cnaut 13y ago
Google is eating Microsoft's lunch
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by cnaut 14y ago
You are right, I misread the pricing the first time. The prices are basically the same now
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by cnaut 14y ago
Office 365 is much cheaper now - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/compare-plans.aspx?...
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by cnaut 14y ago
I also do this to scroll the page at the same time.
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by cnaut 14y ago
There are engineers in New York and some remote engineers
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The Considerate App - making you and your smartphone more considerate (play.google.com)
2 points by cnaut 14y ago|0 comments
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by cnaut 16y ago
Awesome! I have been using this for a while now and it really lets you look deep at your tweets and understand their individual impact as well as notice patterns in your tweets.
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Give your elevator pitch on Virgin Atlantic Flights(mashable.com)
4 points by cnaut 18y ago|0 comments
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by cnaut 18y ago
Corporate venture arms like this tend to be too conservative and not willing to take risks.

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