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by dkrich 14y ago
Right, any computer with square icons arranged in a table format must have originated from the Newton. How could anybody have figured out to put icons into rows and columns? But seriously, Palm had an SDK and a phone with a touch interface
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by dkrich 14y ago
Interesting, because I see this from exactly the opposite side. Apple hardly needs a billion dollars, but I don't think this does anything to strengthen their image or their power in the marketplace, but I do believe it emboldens people who
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by dkrich 14y ago
What did Samsung do that is shady, that Apple itself didn't? Apple was the first to market with the most-polished device, but all one has to do is look at the old Palm Pilot to know that they completely ripped off the design and layout. Who
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by dkrich 14y ago
So one out of four have no business model? Interesting.
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by dkrich 14y ago
Heh, you guys are hilarious. Bring up disagreements about the BS funding train in this echo-chamber and get downvoted to hell as if that makes the statements any less valid. Hahahahaha, downvote away.
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by dkrich 14y ago
And if I take away your 4 rounds of funding have I changed the viability of your product in the market place? Conversely if I fund you, does that in any way validate your product? Nope. Paying customers do that I'm afraid. To suggest that a
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by dkrich 14y ago
I disagree with that analogy. A medal is, in and of itself, the award you are seeking to win. Yes, there may be an intermediary goal involved, swimming 200 meters faster than anybody else, or having an invention that is viewed as the most i
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by dkrich 14y ago
I think this is just thiel putting his money where his mouth is. Anybody who has followed him knows it's no secret that he's spoken out against companies solving small problems and has even implied facebook to be squarely in that camp.
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by dkrich 14y ago
Obviously when I speak about the keyboard, I'm referring to text-based communication. If you need to drag-and-drop, I've found a mouse to work quite well. With those two tools I can do just about everything my current hardware will allow ve
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by dkrich 14y ago
Agreed. There just isn't a more effective tool for communicating instructions to a computer than a keyboard, and I don't think it's really close. To say that the keyboard is "a crutch to the past" is in my view no different than saying that
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by dkrich 14y ago
I think you're kind of missing the point. He didn't just send a six-pack of beer, but rather he sent a six-pack of beer with his own product. I don't think getting food delivered to their offices is going to help your pitch for a new way to
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by dkrich 14y ago
That's a great example of the power of demonstration. Showing someone what your product can do, as opposed to what it will do is about 10,000x more powerful. However, this sort of begs the question, if you already have a successful product,
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by dkrich 14y ago
That's not revenue. It's a donation. That's a pretty big difference. I know the counterargument will be that people are paying to use the service. That's like saying people who fund a project on Kickstarter are paying for the product. They
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by dkrich 14y ago
I appreciate the response, but that doesn't really answer the question of what the service provides that Facebook or Twitter doesn't. Are ads in and of themselves really a huge problem? I don't find myself often annoyed by them. Now if ther
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by dkrich 14y ago
I'm not really sure what the purpose of this service is. Could somebody please explain? I'm not trying to be a dick. I myself wouldn't pay to use Facebook minus the ads. I barely use it as it is. I only pay for things that provide me with s
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by dkrich 14y ago
I sat next to a guy on the bus today who made me realize that if somebody can invent a breath mint that lasts for 24 hours our society will be much better off. And that picture alone in an advertisement could sell a couple million.
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by dkrich 14y ago
The article is being discussed, and certainly the words that constitute the article are fair game. I use profanity all the time. I love it. I go to the bar to hear casual assessments riddled with profanity. I come to HN to read serious disc
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by dkrich 14y ago
Did you read the OP's comment or that Wikipedia article? That has nothing to do with what he asked which was whether corporate emails were considered private. You're citing a case about trespassing by somebody who already had access to the
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by dkrich 14y ago
Most definitely private. The only exception is if you haven't taken reasonable actions to keep it private (ie, if you had posted it publicly).
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by dkrich 14y ago
I'm not debating the merits of raising cash. Most companies and businesses have to do it when starting out. The part that I (and I'm assuming the OP) find puzzling is the part about "climbing to the top of the hill overlooking the city and
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by dkrich 14y ago
I never understand why funding seems to be the end goal either. To me, apart perhaps from some vindication of your idea, the happiness people experience when funded almost shows a lack of vision.
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by dkrich 14y ago
"Apple/Google might buy the Olympics rights and put it in iTunes/Play." Are you sure that's better than the current model? You have to be very careful about listening to customers, because what people say they will pay for is quite differen
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by dkrich 14y ago
I live in the outskirts of DC and the other day at a light at a shopping center in the burbs I saw a Burger King delivery car. It was branded and everything. I have to say I didn't understand the economics of it.
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by dkrich 14y ago
That's not a monopoly. That's exclusivity. NBC had to bid against other major networks for the rights to cover the Olympics.
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by dkrich 14y ago
Just a thought- NBC is a for-profit company. Because of that they are able to pay hundreds of millions for the rights to cover the Olympics. Because of that, they want the largest viewership. That occurs during primetime. If the tv industry
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by dkrich 14y ago
"This is the very definition of disruption." Is that a fact? My interpretation of the Christensen version of disruption (which I'm told is pretty much official since he wrote the book on it- literally) is when a company offers a minimal ver
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by dkrich 14y ago
I'm aware of what a stream is. Are you familiar with the Netflix, some may call it "rental" model? Apparently they let you "borrow" movies, I'm told for days at a time. Apparently you have to have a continuous internet connection to "stream
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by dkrich 14y ago
This seems to go back-and-forth and I'm not quite ready to crown the streaming model king just yet. What happens when you have gigabit ethernet and a tablet that can hold 80 days worth of movies? Do you stream them or just download them ins
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by dkrich 14y ago
How is this a disruption? Seems to me that they are building out their own fiber optic network to go toe-to-toe with the best-in-class internet/cable products on the market at a price point that doesn't really seem any better.
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by dkrich 14y ago
As I wrote before, this is a doomed company. They spend cash like they make a lot of it, but in reality lose hundreds of millions. Mark my words, whatever day-to-day fluctuations occur over the next 6 months to a year, Zynga will be swallow

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