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by lbacaj 7y ago
To me Amazon feels far more predatory than the other tech giants. I read the arguments being made on HN about this all being fair game but it’s really not ok, none of it is. 1. Amazon takes from open source just as much if not more than any
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I am 100% with you on the ads model, I think the internet would be a better place without all of the unnecessary tracking and crazyness used to make ads more effective. I love the trend toward premium versions of things that are ads free, i
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Technically speaking the way Podcasts work is a fascinating thing. Most on HN May be familiar with this already but Podcasts are completely open and a creator simply publishes an RSS that they then provide to a podcast App such as iTunes so
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Nice, good find.
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Totally agree with PG on this. This isn’t the first time he says this obviously and has put a lot of thought into this. The quote I really like from him on this topic is: “A startup worrying about competitors is like a fat guy smoking a cig
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Thank you for that, early with everything so will optimize as I get the feedback.
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I’m sorry but none of those devices had a CPU in them, the H1 chip in these is actually a CPU.. it’s not satire I mean it’s like saying phones have existed since the 1970s when the iPhone came out...
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I really believe the AirPods are an amazing New platform.. I think people are far more on the go lately and so the AirPods are a perfect way to consume content, that isn’t just music and I do believe the big rise in Podcast consumption is v
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Other headphones don’t necessarily have a CPU in them.
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Absolutely and the tech is there but likely a battery issue.
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I really believe the AirPods are an amazing New platform.. I think people are far more on the go lately and so the AirPods are a perfect way to consume content, that isn’t just music. It started as a silly joke that everyone made fun of but
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Makes sense thanks for that feedback.
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Anecdotally a developer friend of mine strongly suspects, most people, are like him and not actually using these home speakers very much. I’ve been working on a an Audio App that reads any articles to you for iOS/Android and planned to
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Amen. I think your story is important and why I think we should be pushing people more to this sort of arrangement. Even VCs will never give you a penny without first quitting your job, but honestly some of the seed stuff I don’t see why on
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Highly recommend Steph’s blog post, she puts it much better than I ever could. Totally agree that could kill the idea of doing both. At times employers have made folks sign very strict contracts, most though would not stand up in courts as
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Love the calculator, it’s very useful. In my view it has never been easier to build a technology business than today. The public cloud makes it so you can start small or free and scale as needed and almost everything has been open sourced.
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Shameless self promotional plug, if you would like to listen to any of these essays on the go, some of them seem long for me to read in on one sitting. You can do so using a new App I built that uses some beautiful sounding Machine Learning
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Well, it’s a side project right now but I hear you.. I am trying hard to making sure to comment on things that are relevant and trying to add value with a little self promotion sprinkled in and I’m sorry about that but the feedback has been
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Thanks for trying it and for the feedback.
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by lbacaj 8y ago
You are correct but I obviously disagree on not mature enough for production, I’m in production with paying users. :)
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Give it a shot before you knock it, Flutter uses its own Native rendering engine written in C++. It is very fast and responsive.
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I do plan on adding social logins but it’s incredibly expensive to run ML and NLP models in the cloud so I end up charging after 30 articles per month.
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by lbacaj 8y ago
While I like react Native, in my opinion Flutter from Google is proving to be far more superior as a cross platform app development technology. The apps are incredibly fast, feel far more native, and are actually fairly easy to build. I wen
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I used to be the idea guy no one likes. I always had these Grand ideas that I would rattle off to friends and colleagues. We would go and white board them out. We would eat lunch over them and discuss them, point by point by point. In the e
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by lbacaj 8y ago
One is not option though right? That one is and has always been on the table is my understanding. The options are two and three and I also live in NYC and I would have voted for 2. It makes no sense what’s happened with this thing, while Am
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by lbacaj 8y ago
While “momo” May be a hoax there are videos with adults in them embedded within these cartoon videos.. that was just the first result I got when I googled, while there may be a ton of fake news these days these mashups I have seen myself ..
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I’m going to say something that will likely get me downvoted like crazy here on HN, to salvage some karma let me first say that I love the first amendment and free speech. Now, as a parent I am absolutely disgusted that there was recently d
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Honestly using Amazon is like tip toeing around a lion to get something valuable. Knowing that at any moment they could wake up and and absolutely swallow you whole. If you use their cloud products, ala Netflix, they may decide to compete w
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Mom, is that you? lol, appreciate that, thank you for trying it.
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Sorry about that, tried to hit as many devices as possible. Cross platform App development turns out to be really hard, especially the behavior on different devices.

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