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by dstein 16y ago
Watson's voice isn't menacing enough.
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by dstein 16y ago
Watch it happen. Tablets cost considerably less than desktop computers. There is nothing preventing you from being able to plug a second monitor and a mouse into a tablet and use it exactly the same way that you use a laptop and a desktop
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by dstein 16y ago
There will be no desktop market. That's the disruption.
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by dstein 16y ago
Technology-wise I see absolutely nothing preventing Apple from being able to port and merge OSX and iOS down the road. And if Nvidia's ARM chips work out it looks like tablets might just be able to replace laptops. Imagine a MacBook Air wi
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by dstein 16y ago
Although technically it's an API rather than a language, I am going to make an effort to learn WebGL. The Chrome Experiments ( http://www.chromeexperiments.com/webgl/?f=webgl ) are simply mindblowing. I have always had interest in 3D prog
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by dstein 16y ago
You cheated. Do it without the fancy schmancy lists.
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by dstein 16y ago
This is ridiculously awesome. I have had a lot of fun hacking the google translate API before, but this wraps everything up in a sweet interface. But it's too bad that Google is strapping everybody down to their services like this. The Go
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by dstein 16y ago
I'm no fan of Oracle and Java either, my bet is on mobile-web (JS/HTML5). Microsoft technologies are a dead-end in the context of mobile/cloud technologies. It would be impossible to argue that Microsoft is going to win iOS and Amazon AWS
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by dstein 16y ago
If so, how do I convince people that I'm platform/language agnostic? Simple, code some personal projects in another platform/language. The sooner the better, because .Net along with most Microsoft technologies are a dead-end. Most start
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by dstein 16y ago
When AOL merged with Time-Warner they kinda traded half of their wealth with eachother. AOL's half turned out to be worthless.
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by dstein 16y ago
This will bomb really badly. I am simply in awe at how far ahead of the competition Apple remains after all these years. I would have thought eventually the smartphone and especially the mp3 player market would've normalized by now but Ap
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by dstein 16y ago
That's a good thing!
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by dstein 16y ago
Applying is free and can't hurt. But if you get rejected just remember that YC seems to use a kind of mold to decide if a company fits with their program. YC typically does not invest in pure technology or software companies (the kinds of
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by dstein 16y ago
However, with open source, I can almost always get some support. One bad side effect of the FOSS movement is that customers are now conditioned to expect that open source software literally means free software including free support, free
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by dstein 16y ago
Getting rejected by YC was the best thing to happen to my startup and to improve my motivation.
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by dstein 16y ago
I don't know. But after using a MBP touchpad and now the external one they started selling a while ago, I quite simply will never be physically able switch to a PC ever again.
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by dstein 16y ago
Hi I'm selling a productivity boosting technology called "internet blackout", it will improve your company's output by about 3-4 fold while this technology is turned on.
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by dstein 16y ago
I read that most insomniacs are people who go to bed when they aren’t sleepy. When I began reading I assumed this was coming from a person who has not really suffered insomnia. Real insomnia (chronic sleep deprivation) is very hard to de
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by dstein 16y ago
But if it's in Detroit what are your chances of getting out of the city with the money?
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by dstein 16y ago
I have to wonder if the whole thing was just a big political maneuver to make the Conservative Party look good right before calling an election.
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by dstein 16y ago
I get the feeling Google is using the same strategy Microsoft used against Apple in the late 1980's. They seem to want to create a market of shovelware in an effort to simply damage Apple's marketshare rather than creating truly unique pro
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by dstein 16y ago
I thought Starbucks had simply reversed the process. They appear to open a coffee shop on every corner (sometimes several on the same corner) and just close the ones that don't do well.
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by dstein 16y ago
I applied and then rejected them.
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by dstein 16y ago
The thing that bothers me about Qwiki is their "technology" is just a smoke and mirrors reproduction of things we see in the movies when a robot or A.I. talks to the characters. It's made to look and sound like A.I. except what they're doi
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by dstein 16y ago
The problem: People generally prefer not to read. In Mac OS I have keymapped Option-S assigned to the built-in text-to-speech on the fly, so anytime there's text on any page that I want read back to me I can quickly do so with a keystrok
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by dstein 16y ago
Just because you use technology doesn't mean you're inventing it. Very few startups would qualify as truly innovative, and disruptive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology
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by dstein 16y ago
What I'm tired about reading are these startups who actually have invented no technology whatsoever, being called innovative technology companies. Qwiki didn't invent the Text-to-Speech system they're using. And they didn't create any of t
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by dstein 16y ago
he is not attempting to make a counterargument... he is simply very irritated Sounds like he'll fit right in with most of the Internet.
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by dstein 16y ago
There might be room for a new strictly programming related HN-style news/discussion site. HN has a lot of non-tech, and reddit/r/programming is very low-quality.
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by dstein 16y ago
Talent acquisition sounds like a polite way of saying you no longer believe in your startup's business plan. That's a bigger question than any terms they offer. From what I understand 3 million per founder is the going rate, so just do th

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