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Elon Musk announces secret Model S battery swap feature.(twitter.com)
10 points by colinplamondon 13y ago|2 comments
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
I don't see it making much of a difference- if you've proven out your product in a reasonable private beta, your public numbers shouldn't be surprising. You go live, you see a big spike, then after a week your metrics go back to normal. No
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
That's not how civil disobedience usually works- there's generally some kind of punishment, and the person taking part in the disobedience takes on some risk. Here, though, the punishment was so utterly, utterly disgustingly disproportionat
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
How much money was at stake here? How many actual employees? It sounds like it was you, a friend, and his dad trying out a startup that didn't work, from the way the post was written.
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
There was a great video on this by Microsoft Research- basically, you have to get the lag down to 1ms for it to feel like you're really writing or moving a physical object. The iPhone 5 is 23ms according to a quick Google. http://www.theve
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
Someone that just spent $600 on a new tablet is probably gonna be just fine spending a few hours getting used to a new keyboard.
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Wired's Review of the Microsoft Surface(wired.com)
96 points by colinplamondon 14y ago|56 comments
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Dick Costolo (Twitter CEO) on Charlie Rose(charlierose.com)
3 points by colinplamondon 14y ago|0 comments
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
Haha, well played!
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
They're now Top 200 Grossing on iPad- seems like they managed to trip their way into one hell of a marketing strategy. 1) Bitch about not making enough money because you boned your conversion funnel. 2) Get an article written about how you
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
Because their stock has dropped?
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
Compare Android to Windows Phone, Android tablets to the Surface, and the Lumia to the Galaxy Nexus. Google and their partners could have taken the high road and created their own take on what a touch screen phone OS is, but instead they to
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
There's only two great accelerators- YC and Techstars. The falloff after that is ENORMOUS, even just going to #3, #4, and #5. If you go out of the top 5 accelerators, you're dealing with everyone who wasn't good enough to get into a respect
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
If it takes much longer, it's probably because it's a company that should be raising, or that the company failed to properly prime interest prior to fundraising. Once you begin fundraising, it's extremely, extremely bad for the process to d
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
That really doesn't stand out in the App Store listings- the detail work is all to emphasize the 512x512 version that doesn't matter. The only color is in the middle keyhole, which isn't particularly visible at the smaller resolution. The o
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
We tend not to bomb our own cities.
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
I completely missed that, actually- good call!
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
To me, 16GB of RAM instead of 8GB of RAM on a super thin, light, laptop is a pretty big upgrade. I used to be on a maxed out 17", happily switched to a maxed out 11", and am now beyond psyched to get my maxed 15".
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
Correct. Where "high quality" is pegged to apps like Tweetbot or Instagram, it's not currently possible to make webkit-based apps that are equally performant. Even examples of "web with native wrapper" apps, like Facebook and OkCupid, are d
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
Sorry, that was phrased dickishly! Definitely hit me up if I can ever be of help.
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by colinplamondon 14y ago
This is a horrifically dumb article. If you care about the first day, you didn't launch a startup, you launched a project . Submitting an article to Hacker News isn't a launch strategy, it's showing off a cute project you did. A startup is
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by colinplamondon 15y ago
Do you really think your first paragraph adds to the conversation?
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Extended Elon Musk Talk: Why Make Life Multiplanetary? How? (1hr)(youtube.com)
2 points by colinplamondon 15y ago|0 comments
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Fiplab's Mixergy Interview ($30k/month bootstrapped from internship income)(mixergy.com)
7 points by colinplamondon 15y ago|1 comments
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by colinplamondon 15y ago
I doubt you got ripped off, given that most people have never heard of you.
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by colinplamondon 15y ago
No worries, my company runs into the analytics problem you're solving all the time, so I totally knew what you were talking about :)
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by colinplamondon 15y ago
What was the company from Office Hours doing Analytics as a Platform? Even if the guy couldn't explain it on stage, it sounds awesome , definite pain point we see, and I'd love to sign up for it.
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by colinplamondon 15y ago
A race-selected accelerator is filtering based on race first, then on quality. It's not business investment, it's social entrepreneurship. Step 1) Throw out 87% of applications randomly. Step 2) Select based on quality. Step 3) Profit? Comp
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by colinplamondon 15y ago
It's not surprising NewMe didn't get coverage. Taking part in a race-selected accelerator, instead of a quality-selected accelerator, reflects badly. "If their product is so good, why couldn't they get into YC or TechStars?".
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by colinplamondon 15y ago
TARP isn't our 'future debt', it has already turned a profit.

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