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by jnovek 16y ago
I think the competitor they're addressing in this case is tossing up a forum and calling that support. A competitor is not always another business.
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by jnovek 16y ago
I don't know much about Yuri, but I've never met anyone who regretted taking money from Ron Conway/SV Angel. He's one of the nicest and most founder-friendly investors in the valley.
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by jnovek 16y ago
$15k to 20k will probably get two to three founders four months the bay area when you consider additional expenditures such as moving, equipment, business costs, etc. Some YC founders are lucky enough to have savings or family to fall back
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by jnovek 16y ago
It might be easy to do in a spreadsheet, but that doesn't mean it's easy to do in a politically realistic way.
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by jnovek 16y ago
Not to mention buy out every Groupon clone in a market that they're not already in.
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by jnovek 16y ago
I hope to God that they fix Unity by then -- my non-technical spouse loved Ubuntu netbook edition, but ultimately dumped Linux when 10.10 came along because Unity just had too many problems.
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by jnovek 16y ago
On the downside, I think you'll be disappointed with the bicycling situation in SF. Yes there are bike lanes, but it seems like automobile drivers are hellbent on murdering all bicyclists. On the upside, if you like the outdoors, there are
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by jnovek 16y ago
OK, you guys both win.
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by jnovek 16y ago
It depends on what you like. I spent my entire life until I was 27 in the frigidity of Northern Minnesota. After that, I rather enjoy the fact that nearly every day in Austin is a t-shirt day.
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We're not based in the valley.(seeinginteractive.com)
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by jnovek 16y ago
"but I could also launch a competitor to them if I felt so inclined." Do you have the experience to make the card-reader hardware? The iOS software? Do you have the cash to have the device produced for sale? Perhaps you do have all those
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by jnovek 16y ago
"With a funky web app, at least your friends and family might understand it and think it's cool." Perhaps if you're in college, or keeping up your day job. But none of my friends or family thought it was "cool" when I quit my day job after
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by jnovek 16y ago
"Why can't great hackers indulge in pointless experiments in scalability without suffering the ridicule of their peers?" There's nothing wrong with that, but you shouldn't do it with your startup. Optimization is inherently limiting -- you
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by jnovek 16y ago
It's extra annoying that this was referred to as the "nerd ideology" by Mr. Lanier. Anyone with even a cursory understanding of geek culture knows that while it advocates institutional transparency, it also advocates personal privacy.
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by jnovek 16y ago
Why are we down on Skype for their first outage in three years? My cable internet, electricity and cell phone service all fail more frequently than that. Once in three years seems pretty damn reliable to me, especially considering that I
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by jnovek 16y ago
Something that I think a lot of people don't realize about YC is that it's not very fun. Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of great YC memories, but the pressure was enormous. We had yet to raise and so we were operating on shoestring. My
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by jnovek 16y ago
Google isn't Apple. Google is experiment driven. Similar advice several years ago might have been, "Google needs to stay they hell away from E-Mail! They're a search company." I don't think it "costs" Google anything to have many projec
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by jnovek 16y ago
It's not at all clear to me why they have to choose. ChromeOS seems to me like an experiment completely unrelated to Android -- "Can we use computers without any desktop software at all?" Like any technological stretch it's highly likely
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by jnovek 16y ago
I'm saying that I believe her problem to be a unique consequence of her very unusual social situation. It's not a problem that most women have. Incidentally, how do you think a man would be treated if he finished his degree at Stanford Bus
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by jnovek 16y ago
A Stanford graduate working as a VC is hardly a representative of an "average" woman. It may be hard for HN readers to imagine b/c so many of us are city dwellers, but there are parts of the US where it is still socially unacceptable for w
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by jnovek 16y ago
"other investors jumping in raising the valuation of companies and thus the salary of engineers" That was one of the symptoms of the dot-com bubble. "He does not give any reason why he thinks this current trend is unsustainable" Fred doesn'
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by jnovek 16y ago
I believe that the author was implying that Steve Jobs carefully chose data to support an argument when other data would have better suited the comparison that he as making. Disagreements about whether he was trying to conceal his choice i
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by jnovek 16y ago
"I've been in the "build->launch->move to next project" loop for some time." You seemed to have missed the "guilt everyone you know into using your product" phase. I've met very few startup founders that didn't fight tooth-and-nail
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by jnovek 16y ago
"My big reason on this one is the low number of apps bought per phone compared to the iPhone." I actually use a Nexus One while my wife uses an iPhone. I confess that I like the Nexus One for the reason that the original poster mentions --
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by jnovek 16y ago
"A tempest in a teapot" is an argument that has no bearing on how events will actually play out. Fragmentation is just a conversation for geeks. My sister is going to buy an Android phone because it's cheap and pretty good. It doesn't mat
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by jnovek 16y ago
That's not true. It is beyond the resources of most mobile developers to go after the "long tail" of mobile platforms -- that's why I said "feasibly".
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by jnovek 16y ago
"Everyone else purchased the iOS product" seems to imply it.
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by jnovek 16y ago
This whole discussion about fragmentation is a tempest in a teapot. The fact is, people are buying lots of Android handsets. If you've used the Android Market, you'll know that there are lots of apps. The apps in Market may not be as nice
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by jnovek 16y ago
If only "savvy users who want to tinker and operate outside a prescribed set of use cases" want to use Android devices, why are Android and iPhone neck-and-neck in sales figures?
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by jnovek 16y ago
My money's on that this lens is a Cooke Triplet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooke_triplet which was (and is) a fairly neutral lens design. There is some astigmatic aberration as well as vignetting visible in the photos provided, but it's

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