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by jedc 14y ago
I'm pretty sure there's no "invisible line on the ground". From what I've read, the route simply needs to be mapped at a higher resolution than most roads have been mapped before.
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by jedc 14y ago
> Hire people - not MBAs or PhDs Completely agree. (Full disclosure, I have an MBA) I really like the way Hunter Walk put it in his essay here: http://www.hunterwalk.com/2011/12/its-fine-to-get-mba-but-do... "It's fine to get an MBA,
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by jedc 14y ago
IIRC, the law states that if your card has a Chip/Pin, you have to use it. It basically ignores the case of swipe cards. Generally I've found that swipe almost always works, it's just that most people don't know that it does. (And you hav
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by jedc 14y ago
Amazon probably seemed like a ridiculous name when they started out... why would you name an online bookstore after a South American river? But I think they've done okay. Though this only really works if you're doing something orthogonal t
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by jedc 14y ago
Wow, they are really hard to find. I found them on Crunchbase, but with no URL. The only way I found their site was through the Treehouse funding announcement on TechCrunch. Social+Capital might be a great VC, but they really need to work
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by jedc 14y ago
The masses of millions of small businesses selling goods/services not appropriate for late-night infomercials or who didn't even have the funds to produce/air infomercials.
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by jedc 14y ago
And their acquisition of Rapportive fits in this context, too. (Great tools to help individuals in their business ops/comms.)
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by jedc 14y ago
It's not just Android. It's Android, iOS, and BlackBerry. http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
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by jedc 14y ago
People get hacked and/or locked out of accounts surprisingly often. A good (and tech-savvy friend) was recently hacked, and managed to get thousands of dollars transferred before found it. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, if you have a Gmail accoun
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by jedc 14y ago
A friend of mine worked in the aerospace industry in California. It's apparently pretty standard there to work a 9/9/80 schedule. 9 hours a day, for 9 days over two weeks. It means that everyone gets a three-day weekend every other week.
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by jedc 15y ago
When did Hotspots.io launch? Did they ever broadly launch? I hadn't heard of them and couldn't find anything except news on the acquisition.
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by jedc 15y ago
http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
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by jedc 15y ago
Here's a link that might be helpful: http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
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by jedc 15y ago
Here's a link that might be helpful: http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
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by jedc 15y ago
Serious privacy implications, but as someone who doesn't do well connecting names and faces... absolutely a MUST-HAVE app!
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by jedc 15y ago
True. But while I'd like to see some third-party auto-updates, I don't want to see all of them. This is the balance that needs to be struck.
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by jedc 15y ago
Part of me wants this, too. But the other part of me hates it when a majority of my Facebook timeline is just updates from apps, games, and other crap that get automatically shared. This is a delicate balance.
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by jedc 15y ago
But it doesn't look like it's a new product at all; it's just a prototype they want to test in public.
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by jedc 15y ago
Apple can test new phones and new phone prototypes pretty easily. Hardware can be hidden in new cases, software can just not be shown to other people. Google tested self-driving cars for quite a while; it was only when the NYTimes was abou
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Interesting Google Search feature - [founders of songkick](google.co.uk)
2 points by jedc 15y ago|0 comments
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by jedc 15y ago
I find it fascinating that AgileDiagnosis went through YC, and then six months later through RockHealth. Would any of the founders mind commenting on how/why they chose this path?
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by jedc 15y ago
+1 to this. While the premise was a bit ridiculous, it was definitely a "hacker" movie.
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by jedc 15y ago
Not for me. Do you have Javascript turned off?
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by jedc 15y ago
Unfortunately don't have an "end" key on my MacBook Pro!
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by jedc 15y ago
The worst thing you can do if you implement infinite scroll?: Put key navigation links in your footer. Facebook does this right now and it seriously pisses me off. Though in Facebook's case they do eventually stop loading more updates s
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YC Demo Day Session 3: Crowdtilt, Flypad, Carsabi, Anyperk, TiKL, Dealupa(techcrunch.com)
47 points by jedc 15y ago|4 comments
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by jedc 15y ago
I can only imagine they're a YC startup, based on the people I see active there after I registered. (PG, JL, other YC partners) With Demo Day today, things are picking up PR-wise. :)
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by jedc 15y ago
And those that don't can just go back into the system again, too. Positives all around. The "buttons" part is even more clever, in that they're building a real ecosystem that doesn't center on cash. Also, I can see this working incredibly
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by jedc 15y ago
When I wrote that I didn't mean it in a strict accounting sense, but in a holistic sense. ie, I don't see PG and Jessica buying a yacht with their YC earnings, but I can see them plowing the earnings back into the program. :)
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by jedc 15y ago
That rivals the Heroku for the biggest YC exit so far! (Heroku was ~$212million) OMGPOP would slot in at #2. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF9... This likely means YC gets about $3-5million out of the deal, fu

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