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by djloche 12y ago
So far Pebble has raised $375k from angels, plus a $15M Series A (per Crunchbase). If they hadn't had any outside investors, I would definitely agree with you, but the VCs/Angels that invested in Pebble have to be loving the fundi
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by djloche 12y ago
The best is someone that knows exactly how capable they are in the moment - and how to reach beyond that when needed.
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The new Mad Max film is supposedly nearly all practical effects.
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It appears that they didn't take into account the very common wide-yet-short laptop screen format in their 'responsive' design process.
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by djloche 12y ago
Automate the matching, then the conversations, then the meet-up schedule. TinderPro could be a paid service built on top that has you swipe left/right for x pictures and then takes it from there and does all the rest of the legwork. Yo
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by djloche 12y ago
My original comment was worded poorly. Left side blur should be on initial load if the referring url is not from the same site, not every time you open an annotation.
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by djloche 12y ago
I think the thing to do might be to detect if the page was loaded with the annotation open, then fuzz background. Otherwise, you know what you're looking at and explicitly clicked the open annotation button. It's great that the si
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The big thing is that they let you use it for free, get hooked, and then when your team is all in on using it, paying the $60/user per year is worth the upgrade. They made their base product good enough that you don't need the ful
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by djloche 12y ago
the regulations are meaningless with the current state of regulatory capture. The Democratic and Republican parties in the united states appear to be united together in this corruption.
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by djloche 12y ago
The end goal is the sustainable colony. The only way to get there is to have low-cost, routine surface to orbit launches. That is what SpaceX is working on now, that is their current goal. I'm unsure of how you consider what they'
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by djloche 12y ago
If you believe in and want to invest in the SpaceX venture, you'd probably want to be investing in a basket of SpaceX related material suppliers.
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by djloche 12y ago
If you have a problem with the NSA partnering with your government, you should petition your government to stop partnering with the NSA. If the EU has sold you out, get your country to leave the EU. If your country politicians have sold you
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by djloche 12y ago
>"This has the potential to be really devastating" First - Devastating for who? If the most powerful brands in the USA are incorrectly perceived as being uncorrupted, would it benefit society if the truth reveals their corrupti
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They don't have to be 'IPO good', they just have to be forced to IPO through technicalities, right?
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by djloche 12y ago
The other sibling comments touch on it, but I think the key takeaway is that they're still working with their intended hardware, with their intended hardware supplier. With a GearVR today, or the 1.0 consumer edition Rift in the future
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by djloche 12y ago
If you watched his presentation earlier this year, you would understand that the partnership and gaining credibility with samsung is crucial in getting them to allow Oculus code/customizations on standard hardware. This is a good faith
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by djloche 12y ago
A smart airline would flag few people that do this and put them in a high-touch queue where the airline confirms if they intend to stay on for the final leg of the flight. If no, the airline modifies the passenger's flight details and
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by djloche 12y ago
This is an excellent modern example of the tenacity of humanity.
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I stopped reading The Verge when the editorial shift happened as well. The Verge was an interesting experiment. What happens when core employees leave the big company and start their own? >"..."The AOL Way", a 58-page long
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by djloche 12y ago
This is not a China fearing NK. This is China using an unaffiliated hacking group to hurt a Japanese company. A small dose of payback for the conquests of the 20th century.
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I wish I were an insider so I could see the breakdown of how longtail their business is. What was the largest contributing business' amount for the day? I got an email from Square because I bought chocolate at a coffee shop via square.
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by djloche 12y ago
Specifically because PayPal has incentives for people to link their bank accounts. If you have someone's login for PayPal, you may have access to their checking bank account.
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A great comparison is the patio11 story about the expensive engagement ring vs extended honeymoon. If you can see what your clients care about, you can provide much greater value to those client (and have them write what seems like a ridicu
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by djloche 12y ago
Not to make this any less impressive, but doesn't the latest versions of Photoshop have these types of features built in?
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eg. cubicle, meaning, there is no physical door to shut that when it is shut it means Do Not Disturb.
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The internet is like electricity - you can live without it, but due it the prevalent use of it, you will not be part of modern society/culture and be at a significant disadvantage in terms of economic impact vs those who use it.
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( Uber v Lift v (other competitors in this space) ) v Existing Taxi industry. There are billions of dollars in play here, and this isn't the anywhere close to the first time people are fighting dirty.
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This is exactly what Google needs - in order for their vision of the future to happen people need to have far better connections on average than they do now. When Google Fiber enters a market, everyone wins - even if you don't switch
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by djloche 12y ago
I learned to read at about the same age as your kid. Make sure you place the same value on math and programming as you do reading such that your kid sees it as something important and fun. Maybe lead by example and play math-based games eve
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I would argue that providing the book content for free as a website will sell more books vs only having the for-sale version. Especially with a niche like this, until you're an established author that people will just buy because it wa

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