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by dstein 15y ago
When I go down the list I can only think of a few YC startups that have done well by following these ideas (dropbox, heroku). The leaders in the categories listed are not YC companies, and the big hits that YC did have were in categories n
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by dstein 15y ago
If you're not working on something similar to what the employer is working on, it's not a problem. Depends on the contract you sign. A lot of employers demand their employees automatically sign over all invention rights (past and
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by dstein 15y ago
I find the idea of bringing a personal project into the office and having a committee decide whether I own it or not, to be rather distasteful. The obvious course of action is for developers to universally stop signing over their rights wil
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by dstein 15y ago
Orwell would have called this situation getting "ungoogled".
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by dstein 15y ago
If you want to use a war analogy, Google isn't really fighting a 6 front war at all. They're sitting comfortably in their search advertising castle, and playing guerrilla warfare everywhere else. Google is attacking Apple/Facebook/Microsof
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by dstein 15y ago
A frankensolution like that would in no way be superior to using canvas.
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by dstein 15y ago
That would be nice if you could embed SVG as background images.
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by dstein 15y ago
I see no reason why you couldn't use canvas to generate icons as data URI's. Each icon could then be represented as a set of canvas drawing instructions, that could be pre-rendered, scaled for different devices/uses, cached, etc. I think
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by dstein 15y ago
Ya it looks like the "augmented reality" part was faked. The angle of the video never quite matched up with where he was holding it either. In any case it's still a nice proof of concept.
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by dstein 15y ago
You're comparing apples to oranges. New programming languages are great, but it's a very different problem domain than web UI interfaces.
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by dstein 15y ago
Unfortunately there's no way to downvote articles, so I usually just click the flag link under TC headlines.
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by dstein 15y ago
What's the right direction?
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by dstein 15y ago
You can experiment with box2djs separately at https://github.com/HBehrens/box2d.js There are a few other javascript ports of box2d floating around, but this one seems the newest. It's fun stuff, and I can get well over 100 fps in a 640x4
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by dstein 15y ago
"I'm in your network.. stealing your ideas..."
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by dstein 15y ago
You're not in the real world yet, and coding an iphone app for fun and you're whining about being burned out? C'mon.
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by dstein 15y ago
I've always thought the Volt sounded way over-engineered. Why bother with a fancy hybrid engine rather than concentrating on making a lightweight, affordable all-electric car? The simple approach is always going to win. Zenncars.com was
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by dstein 15y ago
Also whenever a job post says "competitive salary" that can usually be interpreted as saying "average salary". Even jobs with below average salaries use that bullet point.
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by dstein 15y ago
What if Ray Kurzweil is right, and by the 2050's transhumanist technologies become sufficient for us to live healthy lives indefinitely? Having the technology to live forever won't help you if you die of a heart attack before it exists.
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by dstein 15y ago
I was thinking the same. Even with all the bad press, Groupon will still do their IPO, the underwriters and VC's will still unload their shares at a hefty profit. The implosion won't happen until after the smart money is out.
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by dstein 15y ago
Human beings aren't a good source of biofuels.
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by dstein 15y ago
There is a legitimate option not being presented. Only show the points when they're +/- 5 or more. What I don't like about the voting is the first few votes tend to tip the balance quickly. But regardless, without displaying the votes the
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by dstein 15y ago
He's using the low valuation of real tech companies (like Cisco) to argue the absurd value of social networking websites isn't out of whack. I don't agree with this logic at all. Although Groupon and Facebook are websites, they are really
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by dstein 15y ago
Using a CDN that you don't control to host your javascript is a bad idea. Don't do it. Not only is it adding another dependency, you are cross-site scripting yourself and probably adding latency to your site due to the added cost of anoth
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by dstein 15y ago
I've been enjoying the Discovery channel's "Through the Wormhole" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1513168/ ). They cover a lot of the latest theories of the universe, time, physics etc, in an accessible way.
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by dstein 15y ago
a16z's reputation among top-tier hires is worth more to them than their gains from I really doubt anyone's reputation is worth more than 6 billion dollars.
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by dstein 15y ago
Simply the irony of people using geek-worthy computers for socializing.
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by dstein 15y ago
I take back my earlier thoughts about the deal -- Skype sounds like a perfect match for Microsoft.
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by dstein 15y ago
A lot of people are buying Macbook Pro's these days, and all I see them ever do is use them to read Facebook.
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by dstein 15y ago
What comes to my mind is how Five Guys is hugely disrupting McDonald's and fast food chains with a simple menu of premium burgers, fries, soft drinks, and that's it. And Chipotle (coincidentally owned by McD I think), who make really good
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by dstein 15y ago
How long until pg starts up FoodCombinator to help restaurant entrepreneurs disrupt the food industry?

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