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by grinich 14y ago
Sure, but it's clear at this point that Marco knows how to ship and does it well.
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by grinich 14y ago
"There’s no master plan. I wanted Instapaper to exist, so I made it. Five years later, I wanted The Magazine to exist, so I made that. I don’t know how to save journalism, but I’m also not qualified to. I’m not a journalist and I don’t k
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by grinich 14y ago
The pivot. It used to be called, ‘the fuck-up.’ That's so refreshing to hear these days.
784.
by grinich 14y ago
Temper tantrums only feel good if people are watching you.
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by grinich 14y ago
Well, maybe. Alex works at Stripe. And wrote about having a browser API for payments. http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/one-click-signups-and-purchasing
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by grinich 14y ago
Surprised Stripe isn't on here ;)
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by grinich 14y ago
People said a lot of similar things before the iPhone launched. I agree that this is just incremental improvement that actually already exists some places, but it seems like Simple is the first "bank" that deeply understands both software a
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by grinich 14y ago
Ah, thanks.
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by grinich 14y ago
“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end (which you can never afford to lose) with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” - Jim Collins That's a gr
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by grinich 14y ago
It's a side project by a couple of guys with full-time jobs, written in an experimental Lisp dialect and running on a single machine.
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by grinich 14y ago
Buy the best, cry once.
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by grinich 14y ago
I think my favorite reading of "Oh, the Places You'll Go" is the Burning Man version. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahv_1IS7SiE
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by grinich 14y ago
And hence, worth a 1% acquisition.
794.
by grinich 14y ago
Markov models work well for almost every genre-- recompositions of classical or modal jazz tunes are particularly awesome.
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by grinich 14y ago
to me, this nicely portrays the difference between sv and ny.
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by grinich 14y ago
It's insurance. What he's saying is that the company is fragile right now, and any blip could very seriously harm their growth. The fundraising is a direct response to that risk analysis. Otherwise, they would probably raise money later for
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by grinich 14y ago
Why did you decide to run your own presale rather than go through Kickstarter?
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by grinich 14y ago
The consequences of an attacker getting access to my Dropbox are less grave than an attacker accessing my email account. Can you be specific as to why? If you use Dropbox for personal information, I'd assume it would be similar.
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by grinich 14y ago
Depends on the problem. Factoring into primes seems to be the canonical example.
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by grinich 14y ago
Actually, the back of this design is much closer to an early iPhone prototype that was recently uncovered in some court proceedings. [1] Looks like they've ditched the extruded enclosure, but maybe the segmented back plate lives on. [2] [1]
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by grinich 14y ago
Interesting connection: The Point was founded by Andrew Mason before he started Groupon. http://www.thepoint.com/doc/about
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What is it like to be a young person (10 to 18 years old) now?(quora.com)
6 points by grinich 14y ago|2 comments
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by grinich 14y ago
There's no freemium model when you're building rocket ships.
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by grinich 15y ago
Text is high bandwidth, but videos are much better for communicating emotion.
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by grinich 15y ago
Given that email is vital to you, why did you expect you wouldn't pay for it?
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by grinich 15y ago
Yes.
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by grinich 15y ago
It's really nice if you're on a friend's computer and want to copy a file to your own Dropbox account.
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by grinich 15y ago
What's wrong with that? What do you use?
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by grinich 15y ago
What's your next project?
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by grinich 15y ago
Actually, I think the rule is >500 investors, you have to publicly disclose financials a la Sarbanes–Oxley Act. Different than being a publicly traded company.

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