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by davidbalbert 15y ago
I've been thinking the same thing ever since this story broke. I don't think bidding mathematical constants says anything about whether or not google was taking the auction seriously.
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
I am the author :). It's possible I didn't make my point as clearly as I could have in my post though. Also re: phone prices, I agree with you. I think the pundits were wrong and pre-judged Apple's path to success on little evidence. I thin
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
No they're not failing over all at all. They're just failing at web stuff (which they keep trying at). I wouldn't change a thing with their hardware business, and as a result I wouldn't change apple.com. I would change me.com though, becaus
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
Yeah, I guess there are a few small leaps in the first two points there. The connection I was trying to make was that Apple's taking it's experience with things they understand (desktop apps, marketing to professionals, making beautiful thi
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
I don't think these situations are parallels. Clones were a bad idea because they diluted Apple's brand and cut way into their margins (Apple is a hardware company and makes money from that). As for cheap phones, Apple now sells the 3GS for
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
My point wasn't that less professional looking websites succeed over more professional looking sites. It's Apple's focus on professional content (the select few) vs amateur content (all of us). I didn't mean to use amateur in a derogative s
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Apple is professional, the web is amateur(dave.is)
148 points by davidbalbert 15y ago|58 comments
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
I've always wanted a search engine that is optimized for searching for code embedded in web pages. AFAIK google code search isn't really an option because it only searches through code, not through blog posts, stack overflow, and other page
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NerdNearby: See all the social stuff (instagram, 4sq, etc) going on near you(techcrunch.com)
9 points by davidbalbert 15y ago|2 comments
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
Often times you are behind a firewall and this isn't a viable option. It's also easier to remember a domain name rather than an IP address.
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
Well significant debt complicates everything, but assuming you don't have any debt, necessity is the mother of invention. If your livelihood depends on you learning something, you will probably learn it much faster and better.
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
Totally forgot about this point. Starting up right out of college is great because you know how to live like a college student :).
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
Perhaps I was overly strong, but my point was that whatever you're learning at your job, you'll learn it faster if you're starting your own company. I worked a few jobs right out of college and I learned some stuff that I think is applicabl
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When should you start a startup?(dave.is)
31 points by davidbalbert 16y ago|42 comments
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
Series A + 2 to 3 people is way earlier than I thought. I would like to have someone to take care of all this paperwork for me though... :) How did you find yours? Was he a friend before hand?
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
With embedded browser views (a la webkit), this is actually pretty doable.
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
I love it. Don't know why I didn't think of this. nicholasbs started riffing off of this idea and I have some good ideas. I still think a more general list is probably worth it, but I'm going to start by building this :)
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
For which category?
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Ask HN: Good app ideas to learn a new platform
10 points by davidbalbert 16y ago|13 comments
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Engineers Recruit Engineers With Hackruiter (YC S10)(techcrunch.com)
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
Cool! Would love to hear any thoughts and suggestions you have along the way.
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
We'll try to make it relevant. It's still evolving in our heads now. Probably a combination of programming meetups, hackathons, and possibly a cool party or two. Depends on what people want to hear about. Going to try to swing more towards
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
Hopefully both :). In reality, I just needed to make the headline more concise.
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
There's also a twitter account for more up to the minute things: twitter.com/linkedlistnyc
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Show HN: We made LinkedList NYC. A weekly newsletter for New York hackers.(linkedlistnyc.org)
49 points by davidbalbert 16y ago|18 comments
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
To be honest, I kind of like the tone of Techcrunch. The fact that many of the writers on Techcrunch have their own voice makes Techcrunch more fun to read than other tech blogs. If you're looking to build a competing startup news blog, I t
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
The same thing happened to me on Delta/North West last winter: I missed my flight and booked a new one without telling customer service. Seems pretty par for the course overall. The difference is I was able to apply what I had spent on the
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
I see how this might look a bit ironic ;). The reason we're shutting down HireHive and launching something new is precisely because of what we've learned in the past 8 months working in the hiring space. The only way to find out if there's
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
I definitely agree that 50/50 is nowhere near a hard and fast rule. The split depends on how long the company has been around, how much progress has already been made, etc. The larger point I was trying to get across is the discrepancy betw
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by davidbalbert 16y ago
I think business plan may have not been the right words to use there. Feel free to replace it with "user acquisition strategy" or something like that. At the end of the day if you're making something that people want, you aught to be able t

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