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by jarek 11y ago
Also note that Apple wasn't just "PC guys" at the time of iPhone introduction, they had fairly high-profile experience building portable devices through the iPods. Google first bought a software team and then partnered with H
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by jarek 11y ago
Well, that's true. But I'd say inventing a brand-new safety-critical technology - as much as it's possible and desirable - doesn't usually go in the "simplified things" column.
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by jarek 11y ago
Air conditioning brings up a good point: a new entrant can simplify for an MVP by limiting sales locations, possibly implicitly. For instance one can probably sell quite a lot of cars in California without a heating system, then once they&#
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by jarek 11y ago
Read back in the Monday Note archives and you will see he's quite the fan of most Apple things
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by jarek 11y ago
> Terrible example. When the iPhone launched, it could make calls and send messages extremely reliably. Unless you were holding it wrong ;) > Copy/paste wasn't a core part of that functionality. So, what complex car function
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by jarek 11y ago
> My prediction is that Apple will make all the user facing software and buy all the rest. That's actually a very interesting point in light of the Foxconn comment - it seems to make a lot of sense for Apple to get the car hardware
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by jarek 11y ago
> incentivized to make the engine and car platform as simple as possible The question at core of the post is: how simple is possible? When iPhone launched it didn't have copy and paste. That was fine because you can iterate on softw
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by jarek 11y ago
The HTTP people thought the same thing about AOL.
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by jarek 11y ago
Yes. My first verdict: outlawing files and having VC land come up with a replacement product with better UX. Then HTTP.
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by jarek 11y ago
Sure, but ve55 said "trivial", not "interesting" or "worth the time." It just means that you value your data and its ownership a certain way and your time a certain way. Also note that a for-profit company will
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by jarek 11y ago
I, for one, think that reinventing the wheel is a totally great idea and that we should have more npms and less apts
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by jarek 11y ago
Yeah, nothing about IRC is intrinsically difficult . There's some things that are much easier on Slack, like archive search, but how many people actually use that? If you tell people something is hard to use, they'll believe you.
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by jarek 11y ago
Though it should be noted that in such a system the bigger/stronger/more active party still has an advantage as they are more likely to have experience and resources to go to courts. E.g., poor people are unlikely to take a payday
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by jarek 11y ago
"Real names, but not real titles, those are too real-world for us"
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by jarek 11y ago
Far from the first time - they used them to try to settle a banking dispute with Iceland once!
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by jarek 11y ago
Very long start-up times on many plant types, particularly coal and nuclear. (I think on order of days for coal? And nuclear is shut only for maintenance.) You see hydro and gas being used as peakers since they can vary their output much qu
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by jarek 11y ago
> Billing is purely on energy consumption. This is not the case in many jurisdictions, and sometimes varies within a jurisdiction. In British Columbia, my summer electric bills were regularly more than 50% constant fees. In England, prov
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by jarek 11y ago
Yes. Right now this submission is 15 hours old, in position 25 with 1065 points and 313 comments. In position 24 is a submission from 15 hours ago with 131 points and 22 comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1046667
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by jarek 11y ago
You say "lying", I say "exploring a few different angles on communication" /s
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by jarek 11y ago
It must have been heavily flagged. It's been lower than it should have been from the start. Admittedly the title of the submission isn't great so - if I'm being charitable - it's because users flagged based on title only
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by jarek 11y ago
Lowering costs by ripping competitors' HTML, CSS, and copy
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by jarek 11y ago
On Slack the channel owner will form a hierarchy too, if it's less problematic it's because Slack is usually used in a professional setting where flaming is generally frowned upon. You see these kind of issues pop up on the easy-t
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by jarek 11y ago
Talking to Your Neighbour as a Service? Asking People You Trust for Recommendations as a Service? I'm not sure there's a VC-growth business to be had in there exactly. I mean, Airbnb kinda tried to the latter by getting you to add
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by jarek 11y ago
Quite probably not more than all the "lose on every sale, make it up on volume" shenanigans VC land does with VC money. Personally I am getting to a point where I would be thrilled with even a "grad student" setup: three
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by jarek 11y ago
There's always Supybot which runs basically anywhere :)
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by jarek 11y ago
Replacing RSS with walled-gardens solutions from Internet Bigcos is another example. In general I agree that ease-of-use is a big factor. Having said that, I was witness to decidedly non-technical teens in a mid-size town quite happily usin
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by jarek 11y ago
Everything old on IRC is new again. I read an article about Slack that praised their speed of integrating feedback and iterating with the following example: "the Slack team quickly identified small changes that had a big impact: Within
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by jarek 11y ago
I would say you're just blinded because that's the argument you were brought up with
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by jarek 11y ago
The English word "vegetarian" was formed in 19th century from a Latin-via-French word combined with a Latin-via-French suffix. Not quite as Old English as "meat"...
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by jarek 11y ago
> Many people are blinded to the detriments of their surroundings because it's all they know. Exactly same argument can be used against Western-style cornucopia-of-false-choices stores, or anything else at all for that matter.

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