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by dlevine 9y ago
It's interesting to see this sort of perspective. I would like to see more of it. I'm not 52, but I'm in my late 30s and as an engineer who works at startups, I find myself unable/uninterested in doing the things I did i
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by dlevine 9y ago
VESA was just a hack on top of ISA that allowed one or two cards to run faster. PCI was the first real improvement over ISA.
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by dlevine 10y ago
I'm running a Phenom II 1055T (x6). It actually seems to be ok for pretty much everything, including gaming at 1440p (I've upgraded the GPU 3 times and am currently running a GTX 1070, 16GB of RAM, and an SSD). Not bad for a syste
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by dlevine 10y ago
Having worked for a couple of startups that raised large Series B rounds early on without much traction to show, I agree with this analysis 100%. In both cases, the round was raised because the founders were charismatic serial entrepreneurs
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by dlevine 10y ago
And not only did they sell more Macs, their average selling price per Mac was up significantly. Probably due in part to pent up demand for the higher-end Macbook Pros, but since the touchbar models are significantly more expensive, likely d
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by dlevine 10y ago
should be "RWC Levchin Prize" (the reddit article is also incorrect).
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by dlevine 10y ago
I've used 1 27" 1440p monitor for quite a while. When combined with a laptop display, it gives me plenty of screen real estate. I typically split the 1440p display into 4 tiles (1280x720) using SizeUp. Recently, I've been usi
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by dlevine 10y ago
With that said, I'm guessing that the current cost estimates are based on a Model S, which is a much larger car than either a Prius or Civic. The Model 3 will most likely have significantly better range per kwh than the Model S, reduci
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by dlevine 10y ago
It's of note that this post was written by Jean-Louis Gassee, former executive at Apple and creator of BeOS.
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by dlevine 10y ago
The Garmin Vivoactive HR (which supports their app platform, has GPS and optical HR) was on sale for $170 on Black Friday. It periodically will go on sale for this price.
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by dlevine 10y ago
I've played them all with emulators (and on my original NES when I was a kid), but I'm still irrationally excited about this.
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by dlevine 10y ago
The Razer Blade Pro is 17.3in and 7.8lbs, so probably most people who aren't looking for a luggable workstation or high-end gaming rig. The Razer Blade is fairly compelling, although it isn't cheap (over $2000 if you want the vers
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by dlevine 10y ago
To be fair, if you need these ports, it is easy to get a hub that provides them: https://www.amazon.com/HyperDrive-Through-Charging-MacBook-C... And over the next several years, it is likely that people will switch to USB-C
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by dlevine 10y ago
Congrats to the Hipmunk team! I've been using Hipmunk since the beginning, and have found it to be a pleasant way to search for flights. They obviously care a lot about creating a good experience for the customer, which is a lot more t
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by dlevine 10y ago
I believe that they were responsible for delivering the Exploding Kittens Kickstarter.
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by dlevine 10y ago
I played a lot when Pokemon first came out. But it slowly lost its hold - I found myself gradually playing less and less, and I've pretty much stopped. I think the problem is that there isn't much keeping people around other than
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by dlevine 10y ago
This seems like a pretty interesting device. I'm an avid runner, and my option is either to wear a clunky GPS device or to carry my smartphone and pair it to a lighter-weight and sleeker device. This basically enables both use cases wi
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by dlevine 10y ago
I sometimes start crying midway through a meditation (I do mostly Goenka-style mindfulness meditation). At this point, I just sort of see it as normal.
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by dlevine 10y ago
This isn't talking about 15-30 minutes of meditation. It's talking about 2+ week retreats. Having been on a couple 10-day retreats, I've experienced what I can only describe as significantly altered states of consciousness (a
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by dlevine 10y ago
I set a lot of kitchen timers and alarms. I also use it to play music. It seems to work pretty well for my use cases. With alarms and timers, the accuracy is about 100%. With music, it's maybe 70%.
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by dlevine 11y ago
I'm running a P2715Q in 1440p HiDPI (pixel doubled) mode. Works pretty well on a 15" Macbook Pro, and it looks a lot better than my old 27" 1440p screen running at native resolution. Plus, the nice thing relative to the 5K di
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by dlevine 11y ago
I buy most of my books on Kindle (like probably 90-95%). This includes a ton of indie books that are only available (or predominantly available) in electronic form. The only books I buy in print are books by major publishers, which are now
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by dlevine 11y ago
For anyone interested in this, I would recommend checking out The Water Knife (fiction) and Cadillac Desert (non-fiction).
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by dlevine 11y ago
Does the tax treatment change if you exercise > 90 days after leaving? From what I understand, options may be treated as NQSOs rather than ISOs if exercised >90 days after the employee leaves. (source: http://blog.samaltman
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by dlevine 11y ago
Also, the GMA series of graphics chips were actually integrated into the motherboard rather than the CPU. By going with processor graphics, Intel has managed to reduce by at least one the number of chips that goes into a system, allowing fo
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by dlevine 12y ago
I'm curious to see how they do this. It doesn't appear that any of Blackberry's recent models have been a hit with consumers or enterprise. John Chen does seem like the most level-headed exec in Blackberry's revolving do
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by dlevine 12y ago
Congrats (so far)! The truth is that the route to a successful startup is often circuitous, and takes a lot of unexpected detours. I bet that a lot of the experiences you had along the way have made you stronger, shrewder, and better able t
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by dlevine 12y ago
Good summary of stock options, but it leaves out some critical points. Namely that the amount of tax you pay depends a lot on when (and if) you choose to exercise your options. In order to get the best tax treatment, you have to own the sha
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by dlevine 12y ago
My question has always been how accurate these calorie counts are. I always get a burrito bowl with no sour cream, which allegedly comes out to 655 calories. But I'm not entirely sure how accurate that is - I usually have to tell the p
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by dlevine 12y ago
I was having a bit of RSI pain before I got my first mechanical keyboard about 4 years ago, and nothing since then. With that said, enough other factors changed that I can't really attribute it to mechanical keyboards. As for the keybo

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