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by gammatrigono 8y ago
They made way more than $350 million off the Touch ID platform. Caring about sunk costs is a great way to not be Apple.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Can't imagine it would be worth the investor liability/risk for a couple $k.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4209168 So, literally copying previous top comments on old posts is now a popular thing?
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
This is the saddest thing I've seen all year, easily worse than any gore video. I can't believe this is real.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
The Pacific Ocean has a way of destroying dreams that few today have experienced. I'm rooting for TOC to succeed, but I'm not optimistic.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Step 0) is be an Intel or AMD. Nobody else has the money to do what you're talking about.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
You can do this with a rooted Kindle: https://lifehacker.com/add-weather-and-google-calendar-infor...
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Ok.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
This isn't a developer level design decision. This is executive level.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
The idea is that the fake account is known to be you by only a few people that you chose.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
I hate these blurred lines.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Doesn't seem like it would be possible given the substrate material.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
You read it?
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Can one person really handle development, feature improvement, security, system management, customer service, marketing, and sales by themselves? For some services, yes, but in a field like cloud storage you simply have to beat Dropbox et a
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
... it sure seems that way.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
If they did that, nobody would bother looking at replacing their perfect laptop with next year's model. This kills Apple's profit model.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Will the Mac Mini Pro also be designed with insufficiently derated capacitors, shitty ribbon cables that short out, crappy thermal dissipation structures, and a shitty no-fix warranty just like every other post-2010 Apple product?
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
This is why investing is a thing for people at almost all levels. People with reasonable wealth but limited appetite for risk and effort can simply (through equity purchase) pay other people to be entrepreneurs for them, and both parties sh
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Trying to compete against Dropbox/AWS/Box as a lone developer is like trying to build an international airline when all you have is a paper plane. Complaining about venture-backed companies beating you makes it seem like you aren&
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Maybe you do. You might not think they're connections, but the people you interact with online for sure constitute connections and/or people you can share your product or service with.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Hopefully.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-authorizes-spacex-provide-b... Residential service filing probably (!) appears on the priority list after launching the 4-12,000 satellites into LEO.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Everyone knows what you're implying when you bring up Theranos in a thread about Tesla.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Do we actually have anything better?
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Theranos never had a real product or sales and was a fraud from the beginning of institutional investment. Comparing them to Tesla is pointless and has been done to death.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
When you're paid to find errors in software, you point out every conceivable bug you can see.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Probably related to his use of Windows early on at home and at Zip2, PayPal, etc.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Misread "TLD" as "domain." Whoops.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
Pine64 is pretty well known.
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by gammatrigono 8y ago
This must be sarcasm.

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